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Developer Joseph Cotter speaks at the Game Changers event in Rye.

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Lowey, small businesses call for Export-Import Bank renewal

BY LEIF SKODNICK lskodnick@westfairinc.com SMALL BUSINESSES LIKE ELMSFORD’S MAGNETIC ANALYSIS are paying rapt attention to the debate over the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Magnetic Analysis is a manufacturer of test equipment primarily used in the automotive and energy industries to test for defects in metal tubes, pipes, and bars using electromagnetic

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principals. It exports its products all over the world — especially as much of the metalworking industry has left the United States.

“We export products to just about every part of the world — the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, India, and China,” said Thomas Ganallo, the vice president and chief financial officer of Magnetic Analysis.

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BY LEIF SKODNICK lskodnick@westfairinc.com

he White Plains Board of Education has concerns about the FrenchAmerican School of New York’s proposal to build a campus on the site of the former Ridgeway Country Club, and opponents think those concerns could be a death knell for the project.

In a letter sent to White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach and the members of the White Plains Common Council and obtained by the Business Journal, the school board relayed worries over the impact of increased traffic from FASNY on the safety of students at White Plains High School. The correspondence was signed by all seven Board of Education members and interim superintendent Timothy P. Connors.

“It is the unanimous opinion of the White Plains Board of Education that…the increased traffic resulting from the location of the main entrance to the proposed consolidated French American School on either North Street or Bryant Avenue would have a profoundly negative and disruptive effect on the operations of White Plains High School and the safety and welfare of our students, their families and our staff,” the letter said.

Opponents of the project hope that the Board of Education’s letter will effectively end the possibility of the French-American School redeveloping the former golf course property.

“The letter speaks for itself,” said John Sheehan, the president of the Gedney Association, a neighborhood group that opposes the FASNY project. “I think this application (by FASNY for a special permit) is history.”

In a press release, FASNY said, “The Board’s letter sent yesterday to the White Plains Common Council stating that it is opposed to the North Street access driveway to the school showed a lack of substantive analysis of FASNY’s driveway and student FASNY, page 6

Pleasantville couple leads the way in brain injury litigation

BY LEIF SKODNICK lskodnick@westfairinc.com

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ou have to have a good brain to be a good lawyer, but it takes more than a good brain to be a good brain-injury lawyer.

In Pleasantville, partners at De Caro and Kaplen L.L.P., have built one of the nation’s top practices in the area of brain injury law, and it’s not something the firm’s husband-and-wife team necessarily set out to do.

But as Michael Kaplen and Shana De Caro embarked on their legal careers and focused their practice on representing plaintiffs in personal injury cases, they found that few lawyers had expertise in representing patients with traumatic brain injuries.

“It’s a very complex field,” said De Caro, who is chairperson of the traumatic brain litigation group of the American Association for Justice, an industry group representing trial attorneys. “On top of the legal aspect, there’s the medical aspect as well, so you have the complexity of law combined with the complexity of the field of neurology.”

In the course of their practice, they found that clients who had been injured had healed well to outward appearances, but as time went on, evidence of brain injuries that would require long-term care crept out.

“They went back to work and they had a whole host of different problems that weren’t apparent until they started to use their brains,” said Kaplen, who teaches a course in brain injury law at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. “They couldn’t do the normal day-to-day things. This is an injury that you can’t see just by looking at someone.”

Often, persons with traumatic brain injuries face issues in their daily lives that Kaplen says are overlooked — issues regarding insurance coverage, access to care and housing and civil rights.

“It’s not only what you think of with cognitive functions,” De Caro said. “They

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have memory issues. But they often also have emotional issues that interfere with their relationships with their families and co-workers. There are all kinds of things that affect people’s functioning on a dayto-day basis.”

In addition to representing clients, De Caro and Kaplen also consult with other attorneys in cases where clients have suffered traumatic brain injuries — cases ranging from domestic violence to car accidents to the current class-action litigation pitting the National Football League against its former players.

In domestic violence cases, matrimonial attorneys often don’t have a deep understanding of brain injuries, Kaplen said. “But if they had a client who was a victim of domestic violence, 90 percent of those victims have a traumatic brain injury.”

And in domestic violence victims, De Caro said, “Ninety percent of the injuries are from the neck up.”

When people suffer injuries in vehicle accidents, they often suffer brain injuries, but according to Kaplen, the average lawyer isn’t prepared to represent them.

In one case, Kaplen and De Caro represented three girls who were on a trip sponsored by a church to Pennsylvania.

When the driver fell asleep, the van they were riding in rolled over. The mothers of the girls noticed that “something was off,” they were staring into space and the girls were acting abnormally.

“The girls had a type of epilepsy caused by trauma … and they got comprehensive treatment at NYU,” Kaplen said. “They received the treatment they needed and graduated from great universities. The settlement we obtained for them, multiple millions of dollars, paid for their treatment, paid for their educations and has set money aside if they need it for further care.”

The partners are constantly adding to their knowledge base, teaching and advocating for victims of traumatic brain injury.

“The public gets the impression that this is something that only happens on a football field,” De Caro said. “But you can slip and fall and hit your head and have a

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traumatic brain injury. You can be in a car wreck and have a traumatic brain injury.”

With the NFL concussion litigation having raised awareness about traumatic brain injuries, Kaplen and De Caro have consulted on the case.

Recently, De Caro and Kaplen wrote an opinion piece for The National Law Journal, arguing that the second proposed settlement in the case should be rejected because it was insufficient to satisfy the claims of all the class members.

“This latest proposal purports to generously provide financial stability for players with traumatic brain injury, but a closer look reveals a systematic design to exclude most players from participation and to reduce payments to the small group who meet arbitrary criteria,” the pair wrote in the July 21 piece. “It imposes unfair and illogical restrictions on the categories of compensable injuries and requires NFL participation for excessively long periods.”

Players are suing the NFL arguing that the league knew or should have known

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that playing professional football leads to neurological trauma and concealed that knowledge from players.

“The underpinnings of this lawsuit were the deliberate, long-standing NFL misrepresentations concerning the known health risks associated with concussions,” they wrote. “This proposal changes nothing. The court has an obligation to protect all class members. Any settlement that fails to should be rejected as fundamentally unfair and contrary to the best interests of the majority of class members.”

From day one, effort has been the key to success for De Caro and Kaplen.

“You really have to be willing to devote the time and energy, because this is an area of medicine — forget about the legal aspect — that is developing every day,” De Caro said.

“You have to really care about your client as a whole human being and not just about the particular case. You have to be willing to devote that much time and attention to it.”

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EPA rejects most of $511M Tappan Zee loan Environmental groups applaud as state plans appeal

BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

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ost of a $511 million loan from a clean water fund for the construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge was rejected by the federal government, raising new questions about how New York state will fund the $3.9 billion twin-span bridge.

The Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to state agencies Sept. 16 saying that all but $29.1 million of the loans would be disqualified because the funds would be used mostly for construction-related work rather than conservation and water-quality projects.

“New York’s request presents a unique circumstance that is unprecedented in the context of the (Clean Water State Revolving Fund); no other state has made a request of this type or magnitude,” Joan Leary Matthews, the director of the EPA’s Region II clean water division, said in the letter.

A state agency, Environmental Facilities Corp., or EFC, approved the no- and lowinterest loans in June, despite outcries from

some conservation groups that called the loans a misuse of money reserved for cleanwater projects. The loans were sought for 12 projects and the EPA rejected seven of them.

The state can contest the EPA’s ruling within 30 days after the decision. Jon Sorensen, director of public information for the EFC, said the agency would file an appeal.

“While this loan is not integral to the overall bridge construction, the projects identified here will clearly provide significant benefits for the Hudson River Estuary,” he said in a statement. “EPA Region II is simply wrong in its assessment.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, announced the loans earlier this year and celebrated them as a low-cost option for funding the bridge. The EPA’s decision quickly became a talking point for the campaign of Rob Astorino, the Republican running against Cuomo in the November gubernatorial election.

Ed Cox, the state Republican Party chairman, said Cuomo “raided clean water funds to pay for a bridge.” Astorino released a statement calling the funding “dubious,”

also bringing up the governor’s alleged interference in an ethics commission he later disbanded prematurely.

“Slowly but surely, all the myths of the Cuomo administration are being exposed to sunlight,” he said.

Paul Gallay, president of the environmental group Riverkeeper, previously told members of the press that legal action would have been inevitable if the loans went through.

“Riverkpeer said this loan wouldn’t pass federal review and sure enough, the EPA has struck almost all of it down,” he said in a statement. “Good for them. Now, the state needs to take the half-billion dollars it tried to loan to itself for the bridge and spend it properly — on the state’s wastewater infrastructure.”

Although the state has received a $1.6 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the majority of funding remains elusive for the bridge construction.

Some local elected representatives have said they fear the bridge toll, will need to increase by as much as triple the current $5 rate to fund the project cost and interest.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day, a Republican, has said inflating the toll by that much could affect commerce by discouraging shoppers on the Westchester County side of the river from crossing into Rockland County.

State and federal officials have not yet publicly disclosed any studies to estimate what the toll would be. There are no planned increases this year or next, according to the state Thruway Authority.

The agency, which will own and operate the new bridge, saw its bond rating reduced last year by Moody’s Investors Service, which said the authority might not raise its tolls quickly enough to pay for the replacement bridge.

The rejected loans in total would have saved the state $17 million over three years when compared to traditional bonds, according to figures presented by the state this summer. Both major local business advocacy groups, the Westchester County Association and The Business Council of Westchester, had supported the loans partly because they were expected to keep future tolls down.

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Hearing on pipeline expansion draws labor, opposition groups

BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

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he crowd at the Cortlandt Manor community center Sept. 15 was reminiscent of the audience of a wedding that neither side approves of — two very different families only separated by the aisle down the middle.

On one side were residents opposed to the planned expansion of a natural gas pipeline that runs near nuclear power plant Indian Point — many of them wearing red T-shirts with white lettering on their backs that said “Our lives are on the line.” On the other side were loud, sign-waving union members with orange T-shirts and blue lettering. On their backs were the words “Our jobs are on the line.”

Peekskill Mayor Frank Catalina, a Republican, was among a procession of elected officials who stepped to the podium to discuss the pipeline. Catalina, who was critical of the expansion, said he took offense to the notion that opposing the expansion meant critics were “anti-union.”

“We are for unions, we are for jobs, we are for projects but we are also for safety,” he said.

At the end of Catalina’s comments, as was the case for the entire evening, the opposition and union groups jockeyed for the loudest response. Applause, cheering and whistles by the anti-expansion group met with boos, jeers and hisses from the union members.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, heard comments from members of the public on the environmental impacts of the planned expansion of the Algonquin Gas Transmission line, which runs through New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Critical residents say the environmental analysis isn’t comprehensive enough and comes with a slew of safety concerns. Labor groups say the expansion will bring as many as 300 part-time construction jobs to the region.

Several hundred people attended the hearing, held on a basketball court in the community center. Outside of the center prior to the hearing, opposition and labor groups held dueling picketing rallies.

Texas-based Spectra Energy Partners L.P. is looking to rebuild and expand the Algonquin pipeline, which has run through Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties since 1953. The existing pipes have a 26-inch

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diameter, but the company wants to replace the pipes with 42-inch diameter pipes that will use a quarter more pressure to transport natural gas through the region.

Tom Rily, a Cortlandt Manor resident and member of Laborers International Union of North America Local 60, said union members knew the project was necessary from working on and repairing the existing pipeline.

“We know what a 50-year-old pipe looks like,” he said. “It’s either got to be done now or 10 years from now.”

The current pipe predates the construction of Indian Point in Buchanan in the 1950s, and opposition groups said the standards of safety have since changed. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which regulates nuclear power plants in the country, is expected to ask Indian Point’s owner to update its safety analyses if the pipeline expansion is approved. The opposition groups say the NRC should weigh in on the safety concerns before FERC approves the expansion.

The existing pipeline runs 1,127 miles and carries 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas mined out of the Marcellus Shale daily. The proposed expansion would build 20.1 miles of new pipeline in Connecticut and New York,

including a 0.7-mile crossing of the Hudson River in Rockland County. New compressor stations would also be built (current stations exist in Stony Point and Southeast).

Marylee Hanley, Spectra’s director of stakeholder outreach, said in a phone interview that the project would utilize existing rights of way and company-owned land while addressing a power need in the New England region by increasing the amount of gas the pipeline pumps by 13 percent. “The (Algonquin) project is the most immediate solution for the region and would have an immediate impact on prices,” she said.

The pipeline would run near schools in the Hendrick Hudson school district in the hamlet of Verplanck. Superintendent Joseph E. Hochreiter said FERC should review alternate routes for the pipeline. He noted that the pipeline was one of several energy projects planned for the area — the recently approved energy lines that will run from Canada to New York City being the latest.

“We ask how much more can one small community accommodate?” the superintendent said.

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Developers see progress and obstacles in Westchester market

BY LEIF SKODNICK lskodnick@westfairinc.com

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eal estate developers are finding it easier to get projects done in Westchester County, but the county still places unnecessary obstacles in their way, panelists at an event hosted by the Business Journal said.

Some of Westchester County’s most influential real estate developers gathered to speak at Gamechangers, a discussion presented Wednesday by the Business Journal and hosted at the Wainwright House in Rye. “I think the economy has improved a little bit, which helps our profit,” said Martin Ginsburg of Ginsburg Development Cos., which redeveloped the former Otis Elevator factory in Yonkers. “We’re finally starting several new projects in Westchester County with a significant focus on the Hudson river, with developments on the riverfront in Ossining and Yonkers.”

Co-moderated by Paul Senecal of United Services Co. and Elizabeth Bracken-Thompson, partner at Thompson and Bender, Ginsburg was joined on the panel by Westchester County Industrial Development Agency Executive Director Jim Coleman, founder and president of Natural Resources Joseph Cotter, and Rella Fogliano of MacQuesten Construction.

According to Coleman, county government is actively trying to remove obstacles to development and push tax breaks and other incentives to move projects along by lowering costs.

“In the last 10 years, the IDA was very focused on helping the developers’ tenants reduce costs for renovation buildout,” Coleman said. “We need to help our developers help get their buildings market-ready by reducing costs and encouraging developers to make that investment.”

Asked what she thought the biggest advancement in her business had been in the last year, Rella Cogliano replied, “The second phase of Heritage Homes (a public housing project). We were able to craft financing that was totally out of the box, and phase two in New Rochelle meant the demolition of two of the existing obsolete buildings. It’s very exciting for us, and I can see the impact it’s made in the community of New Rochelle.”

Cogliano’s business has focused on the building of affordable housing, but she thinks the citizens of Westchester need to re-think what “affordable housing” means.

“What we need to do is educate people in Westchester,” she said. “Here in

Westchester County people automatically think Section 8, and that’s not the same as affordable housing. The type of affordable housing we build in Westchester County is really for people with middle incomes.”

“Section 8” is a colloquial term for housing payment assistance provided to low-income families by the government under the Housing Act of 1937.

“The ‘nimby-ism’ is as high as anywhere in the U.S., except maybe Northern California,” said Joseph Cotter, regarding the obstacles to developing an affordable housing stock. Down the road, Cotter said the lack of supply of affordable housing would be a problem for Westchester.

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Cotter said he wished the county government had more control over zoning, noting “I think we have a very broken process.”

Ginsburg, a proponent of developing the Hudson Riverfront, eventually would like to see more cooperation between municipalities down the road.

“Parochialism and the lack of connectivity between neighboring towns is a major obstacle,” he said, noting that elsewhere in the country, counties have amalgamated to provide better public services to citizens. “One town doesn’t talk to the other. Westchester County lacks communication and connectivity and it makes it difficult to get visionary projects done.”

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busing plans and appeared based on conjecture rather than facts.”

FASNY’s statement noted that the board of education “offered no comments on traffic or any other issue during the entire threeyear State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) proceeding conducted by the Common Council.”

Sheehan doesn’t think the Common Council will go against the recommendation of the White Plains Board of Education.

“They are charged with the safety of our children,” Sheehan said. “They said North Street and Bryant Avenue were unsafe, and the Common Council said Ridgeway was unsafe. Everyone is gratified the school board made a serious, in-depth inquiry.”

An original traffic management plan, filed as part of a draft environmental impact statement in 2012, was revised twice in 2013 in response to concern over traffic patterns.

According to the revision, 75 percent of the school’s students would have been required to participate in a mandatory busing program aimed at lowering traffic.

FASNY also reduced the number of students it hoped to accommodate from 1,200 to 950 and moved the planned entrance to the campus directly across from the entrance to White Plains High School on North Street.

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that FASNY’s traffic mitigation proposals don’t actually remediate the problems with the original plans, but would actually create larger problems for the White Plains public schools.

“It has also been our experience that there are undesirable, unexpected consequences from FASNY’s proposed ‘mandatory’ busing policy,” the letter said. “Even under the best of weather conditions, such programs are difficult to enforce, and over time, compliance fades.”

The French-American School’s statement said the school met with representatives of the school district several times and made a full presentation to the board Sept. 23, 2013, during which the traffic plan was discussed. The statement said, “The Board of Education’s letter to the city also demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the busing plan that is an integral part of the overall traffic mitigation plan for the school.”

The roughly $60-70 million project would consolidate the French-American School’s three campuses currently located in Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, and Larchmont into a single site for 950 students.

Residents in the neighborhood surrounding the former Ridgeway Country Club have been opposed to FASNY’s plan to build a school campus near the golf course’s former clubhouse. Under FASNY’s plan, the remainder of the golf course property would be turned into a conservancy.

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ish Oct. 1 if Congress does not approve measures reauthorizing it before then. A ninemonth reauthorization of the bank passed the House of Representatives Sept. 17 by a vote of 319-108 as part of a continuing resolution to fund the federal government. The Senate was expected to put the reauthorization of the bank to a vote on Sept. 18, after press time.

Businesses across the country rely on the Export-Import Bank to provide purchase insurance, loan guarantees and other forms of funding to conduct business abroad.

Gannalo told the Business Journal that Magnetic Analysis has benefitted from Export-Import Bank loan guarantees to foreign purchasers of the firm’s testing products since 2010.

“We’ve put ourselves in a position to sell products to these areas,” Ganallo said.

The guarantees, he said, “enabled us to be competitive with our pricing and be able to produce a product that has a long lead time and is very expensive in terms of manufacturing and fabrication.

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the industrial marketplace, and we have many potential customers in that market,” said Frank Matheis, the director of corporate communications for Mount Kiscobased Curtis Instruments, which manufactures drive systems for electric vehicles for export.

One of the Export-Import Bank’s major programs is to insure an exporting company against payment defaults by purchasers abroad. “Through the Export-Import Bank, we receive insurance on our receivables, which creates in us the trust and confidence and the mitigation of risk that we need to proceed into that market,” Matheis said.

Rep. Nita Lowey, a Democrat, stressed the economic effect the bank on Westchester County.

“This really is an important issue for our local economy,” said Lowey, who represents parts of Westchester and Rockland, on a conference call with reporters and local business executives. “It’s critical in assisting U.S. products reach overseas markets.

This not only supports thousands of middleclass jobs, it helps ensure U.S. manufacturing remains competitive with other countries.”

Lowey co-sponsored the Protecting American Jobs and Exports Act, which was introduced June 24 and has been referred

to the House Financial Services Committee.

The chairman of that committee, Rep. Jeb School of New York Hensarling,French-American a Republican from Texas, is one of the most outspoken opponents of the Export-Import Bank.

Hensarling argues that the ExportImport Bank benefits big businesses and banks that have political clout at the expense of smaller businesses and working Americans.

“Overwhelmingly — and indisputably — it’s some of the largest, richest, most politically-connected corporations in the world — like Boeing, General Electric, Bechtel and Caterpillar,” Hensarling said in an opening statement to a June 25 Financial Services Commitee hearingk. “In fact, in 2013, over half of Ex-Im’s financing went to a handful of Fortune 500 companies.”

Lowey, however, said that the ExportImport Bank helps those companies maintain American jobs too.

“There are 59 other export credit agencies that help support foreign companies export to new markets,” Lowey said. “All of our companies…they are competing with other companies that are being helped, so in order to be competitive, in order for us to compete, it really does help that all of these companies create and maintain U.S. jobs.”

Since 2007, the Export-Import Bank has Project insured or financed $136 million worthSite of Figure 1.0-2 purchases from 22 companies in New York’s 17th Congressional District, which Lowey represents. That $136 million in support resulted in $2 billion dollars of products being exported from the district, according to data provided by the Export-Import Bank.

“If you look at the numbers, over the past five years the Ex-Im bank has assisted in financing more than $188 billion in U.S. exports and supported 1.2 million American jobs across the country,” Lowey said. “We must ensure that businesses in the lower Hudson Valley have the services they need to access foreign markets.”

Matheis noted it was a global marketplace. “And if we say we’re not going to take a slice of the emerging markets, our balance of trade will suffer and we will forego opportunities to the Chinese and European competitors,” he said.

Matheis and small businesses like Curtis Instruments think opponents of the ExportImport Bank’s reauthorization need to see the bigger picture.

“We’ll lose the opportunities on the local basis,” he said. “If our industries aren’t globally competitive, they’re not locally competitive, either.”

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Regeneron in its announcement of the FDA’s Sept. 15 decision said diabetic retinopathy is a common complication of diabetes, causing damage to the retina, which may lead to poor vision and vision loss. Diabetic macular edema, or DME, is swelling of the macula, the part of the retina responsible for central, fine vision.

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In the announcement from Regeneron, Dr. George D. Yancopoulos, the company’s chief scientific officer and president of Regeneron Laboratories, said, “There are no FDA-approved medicines for diabetic retinopathy and we look forward to working closely with the FDA to potentially bring Eylea to these patients as soon as possible.” He said the company plans to submit a supplemental biologics license application — which allows interstate commerce of the FDAapproved drug — for diabetic retinopathy in patients with DME later this year.

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The Exchange totals 1.6 million square feet of space.

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“The proximity to the train makes this the perfect residence for daily commuters,” Shaw said in a press release. “We are excited to bring a fresh face to this great town and provide residents the option of easy, contemporary living.”

The partners’ affiliated companies, Granoff Architects in Greenwich and JCS Construction Group Inc., a general contractor in Stamford, will manage the design and construction of the project. Construction is set to begin in early 2015 and be completed in the last quarter of 2015.

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Built on a vacant industrial site that adjoins the city’s Riverfront Green Park, the new 4.4-acre park on Peekskill’s Hudson River waterfront includes a shoreline boardwalk, a pedestrian footbridge, docks for kayaks and small watercraft, a gazebo and trellis, and a trail for jogging, biking, walking and other outdoor activities.

Scenic Hudson purchased the Peekskill Landing property in 1998 with a vision to turn one of the earliest industrial sites in Peekskill into a public park “that also provides benefits to the city’s economy,”

Scenic Hudson senior vice president Steve Rosenberg said in a press release. “Scenic Hudson’s mission focuses on creating new places where people can connect with the Hudson and enjoy all it has to offer.

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A Scenic Hudson spokesman said the city and Scenic Hudson partnered for 15 years on the project, which encountered and was delayed by a “complex web” of state and federal regulations and funding gaps.

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Peekskill Landing is the first phase of the city’s $8.3 million waterfront parkland redevelopment.

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Scenic Hudson’s Rosenberg noted that waterfront parks such as Peekskill’s “help drive the Hudson Valley’s $4.7 billion tourism industry, but also promote a quality of life that brings businesses and jobs to the region.”

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andlords and private developers applying for building permits in downtown Yonkers will be required to comply with the city’s year-old green development standards for construction projects as of Oct. 1, Mayor Mike Spano recently announced.

The city’s new enforcement of a city code requirement adopted by the Yonkers City Council in late 2011 as part of a downtown rezoning plan to encourage mixeduse redevelopment is part of the mayor’s Yonkers Green City Initiative, which Spano has said could save Yonkers taxpayers $20 million in energy costs over 10 years.

The downtown rezoning plan was developed during the administration of former Yonkers Mayor Philip Amicone. The Spano administration in 2012 brought together a work group of city staff, building industry professionals and civic and environmental leaders to prepare the standards detailed in the city’s green development workbook.

City officials have scheduled information sessions this month on the recently updated green standards — which previously were required only for city-owned buildings — at Riverfront Library on Larkin Plaza. Sessions on Sept. 23 from noon to 1 p.m. and from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The green building standards are required only for new construction or work on existing structures in the downtown area that require a building permit. One-familyand two-family dwellings in the downtown area are exempt.

The City Council last year adopted an ordinance that mandates energy-efficient building designs for city-owned properties but stops short of requiring the same standards for private owners and developers throughout Yonkers. Rather, the ordinance states that city officials “should encourage” the use of green building standards for private projects.

Developers outside the downtown area are required by the 2013 law to file a green buildings survey checklist with their site plan applications for commercial projects of more than 15,000 square feet and housing developments of more than 25 units. For those developers, though, Yonkers officials have stressed that compliance with the green standards is “purely voluntary.”

In an email to the Business Journal, Christina Gilmartin, the mayor’s communications director, said that the downtown rezoning “increased the development potential of downtown by around 3 million square feet. The green building program was approved as a way to mitigate environmental impacts and reduce strains on overburdened

infrastructure.”

Spano in a press release said the new green standards “will mean healthier buildings, better air quality and lower energy costs. Sustainability is a smart way to improve quality of life while attracting the next generation of Yonkers residents and businesses who are looking for healthier, more vibrant communities.”

Brad Tito, Yonkers director of sustainability, in a press release noted that twothirds of the city’s measured greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings. “The

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The city’s Green Policy Task Force in 2009 developed a green building law that applied to most new construction and substantially rehabilitated buildings in Yonkers. The law was passed by a Democrat-controlled City Council, but was vetoed by the Republican mayor, Amicone, who called it “unenforceable and in fact illegal.”

“I’m very excited about it,” Terry Joshi,

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ne of the hoped-for goals of any post or campaign is for it to go viral.

By going viral, it can potentially reach millions of people and garner amazing results.

A recent example is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which raised money for the nonprofit ALS Association to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. According to the ALSA website, it has received donations from more than 3 million people, exceeding $100 million, a 3,500 percent increase over the same time period last year. Although these are amazing numbers, what is equally amazing is that this “campaign,” which

has received over 10 million online mentions, was not started or promoted by the ALS association. It allegedly began in the professional golfing community with a video of a golfer dumping a bucket of ice water on his head and issuing a challenge.

So, what are the key characteristics of this campaign that made it so successful?

It was fun (well, kind-of), easily doable and repeatable, original, could provide free promotion or publicity and was for a good cause. But these factors don’t explain why this campaign went viral while so many others do not. One common characteristic of all viral campaigns is their dependence on word of mouth.

I keep wondering why people like Bill Gates and other celebrities would want a video of themselves being doused with ice water. Perhaps this is a key indicator of the type of behavior that a successful viral campaign requires. Why would he do it? To demonstrate his support for ALS research?

He could do that with a check. For the publicity? He doesn’t need it. Maybe it’s as simple as it’s just a quick, simple and fun way of generating positive attention for both him and a good cause. (If this was actually the case, you would think all the members of Congress would be rushing to have ice water poured on them.)

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Since the ice bucket campaign did not start as a wave, something was needed as the stimulus. I think it was a combination of all the factors mentioned above with no one factor by itself being sufficiently strong or enduring to create such a strong reaction.

Creating a viral post is kind of an extension of what social media is all about: providing a platform for people to communicate as both individuals and as members of any number of groups. What sets the viral post apart is its ability to reach many people and have them reach many of their friends and contacts, in essence creating an expanding wave of proponents.

Whether it is for a good cause such as ALS research or for the — tacit — promotion of a product or service, the wave characteristics are the same. However, in the case of the latter it must include great content that is usually very original or informative and that people will closely scrutinize and want to share. And persuading people to share is the key element.

On your own, you cannot make any of your content go viral — that’s something only your readers can do. Nor can you plan for it to go viral. You can only lay the groundwork by continuously addressing those key elements — including originality and consistent content directed toward your target audience that provides the possibility of your post going viral.

So the answer to how to make your posts go viral is actually quite complicated.

Most importantly, you need an audience that is sufficiently impressed and motivated to share your content with others in sufficient numbers to form an enticing wave that others want to join. And this content is dependent upon many other factors, including your groundwork from prior posts, its appeal and the breadth of your social media presence.

Bruce Newman is vice president at The Productivity Institute L.L.C. and a regular contributor to the Business Journal. He specializes in content creation and digital marketing. He can be reached at bnewman@prodinst.com.

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It’s not about how much it costs your company to make a product or service; it’s about how much the market will pay and how your company’s product or service stands out.

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ACCESS. ADVOCACY.

Westchester County Association

ACTION.

VISIONARIES

TO BE HONORED AT WCA’S FALL LEADERSHIP DINNER

The Westchester County Association is honored to recognize outstanding individuals in the community. First, because people who think out-ofthe-box or make a lasting impact on others deserve to be celebrated; second, because passionate leadership, creative thinking, and invention are a source of inspiration to all.

ON NOVEMBER 20, at the WCA’s Fall Leadership Dinner, four such individuals will be honored for their exceptional achievements in their respective industries, and for having a positive impact on the Westchester business community, and the regional economy.

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WILLIAM CUDDY

Executive Vice President, CBRE, for his leadership in the Westchester real state community and for his vision as chairman of the BLUEPRINT for Westchester, the WCA’s aggressive campaign to revitalize Westchester’s economy. Bill has forged strong collaboration between Westchester’s business, real estate, academic, and urban communities. He also has achieved remarkable success as a broker and consultant in corporate and institutional real estate for 31 years.

LAURA FORESE, M.D., M.P.H.

President, New York Presbyterian Healthcare System, Group Senior Vice President, New York Presbyterian Hospital, for her role in expanding the innovative health system’s outstanding healthcare delivery network into Westchester County.

She serves as group senior vice president and chief operating officer of New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, where she has oversight for three hospitals with more than 1,200 beds.

ROBERT GLAZER, CEO, ENT and Allergy Associates, for his leadership in

healthcare administration and the strategic growth of ENT and Allergy Associates over the last 17 years from eight clinical sites and 12 physicians to an organization with 50 physicians and 800+ employees in 41 offices throughout New York and New Jersey, including seven offices and 29 physicians in Westchester County.

STEVEN SAFYER, M.D. President and CEO, Montefiore Health System,

for his foresight and leadership in guiding Montefiore to become a nationally-recognized center of clinical excellence that is breaking new ground in research, training the next generation of healthcare leaders, and delivering science-driven, patient-centered care to the region and for expanding his medical center’s footprint in Westchester County.

“It is our pleasure to say ‘thank you’ to those who work tirelessly at promoting innovation and positive economic development in Westchester County and the region,” says Marissa Brett, WCA president. “We look forward to celebrating their significant achievements, and honoring their leadership and positive contributions to Westchester County’s economic vitality. Join us!”

Bassett is credited with leading the charge to “save hundreds of jobs by taking on China and demonstrating the greatness of American business,” Ms. Macy writes.

Bassett has appeared on CSPAN2’s “Booknotes” program, “PBS NewsHour,” and “The Colbert Report,” and has been interviewed by other leading national media outlets. Under his leadership, Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co. sales have increased from $38 million in 1983 when Bassett joined the company, to more than $84 million today. With nearly 700 employees working at plants in Virginia and North Carolina, Bassett believes that no one can outperform the American worker when they have the right leadership, training, and the best equipment.

He will share his “Five Principles You Need To Compete in the Global Marketplace,” illuminating them with entertaining and eye-opening anecdotes, guaranteed to make Westchester business leaders think long and hard about improving their position on the world’s stage.

The 2014 Fall Leadership Dinner will take place Thursday, November 20, 5:30 to 9 pm at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown.

Once again, we expect the event to sell out, so register today! [Early Bird Special $275 members; $325 future members, ends October 9.]

For more information, to register or to become a sponsor, please contact Laura Montopoli at lmontopoli@westchester.org or 914.948.6444.

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The WCA is thrilled to announce that John D. Bassett, III, Chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company in Galax, Virginia—and the subject of the New York Times bestseller, “Factory Man” by Beth Macy—has accepted the WCA’s invitation to be the keynote speaker at the Annual Fall Leadership Dinner on Thursday, November 20, 2014.

innovate

DINNER KEYNOTER JOHN BASSETT, TO SPEAK ABOUT STAYING COMPETITIVE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

WCA to Convene Westchester’s Leading Researchers After the WCA’s groundbreaking conference, Health Tech ’14: Fueling Innovation in Westchester, the nation took notice of Westchester County’s potential as a new hub for innovation and scientific discovery. One of the county’s own leading edge researchers, David Putrino, director of telemedicine and virtual rehabilitation at the Burke Medical Research Institute, offered to keep the momentum going by joining the WCA in launching a new networking group for the county’s top scientists and researchers, called Innovate Westchester.

“The advances in Westchester are astounding,” said Putrino. “From telehealth, to biotech, integrated health, mobile health, biomedical research, and more, there’s so much going on in Westchester. I’m pleased to be a part of starting the first collaborative forum for the innovation community, where everyone can meet, share ideas, and expertise.”

The invitation-only group meets on October 2 and begins with a talk led by Putrino. For more information, contact Joelle DiNaridi at jdinardi@westchester.org or 914.948.6740.

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Friday, October 17 | 10 am to 1 pm Hilton Westchester 699 Westchester Avenue Rye Brook, NY 10573 Recruitwestchester.org WCA ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK The WCA will host several events in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 18–20, among them: Pitch Night Tuesday, November 18, 5:30 pm Women in Tech Awards Luncheon Wednesday, November 19, 11:30 am; and the WCA Leadership Dinner Thursday, November 20, 5:30 pm Westchester Marriott 670 White Plains Road Tarrytown, NY 10591

Save the Date!

HEALTH TECH ’15 The WCA will host a number of events celebrating Westchester’s Innovation Economy next May 11-15, at Health Tech ’15. Mark your calendars now!

For more information or to register for events: westchester.org or call 914.948.6444 For more information on sponsorship opportunities for upcoming events, contact Laura Montopoli, lmontopoli@westchester.org

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challenging careers

BY CATHERINE PORTMAN-LAUX

A hands-on effort to get people back in shape “Western medicine is reactive, not proactive,” says John Astrab, a physical therapist from Garrison.

A single practitioner, he says that insurance companies do not reimburse for prevention or for minor ailments that in time could become major disabilities.

“It’s mortgaging the future,” he says.

“Small problems become bigger problems. It’s shortsighted.”

With an aging population, more patients are coming to him with existing problems. “We can’t reverse significant structural things, but we can help the person. I feel rewarded when I can get someone back on the golf course or playing again with their grandchildren.”

The Route 9 office serves a number of young people with problems resulting from sports. “Years ago young people played multiple sports,” Astrab says. “It’s different now. A soccer player is in a single sport all year round. There used to be built-in periods of rest and recuperation.”

Astrab is particularly concerned about female soccer knee problems.

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“Women have inherent mechanical and hormonal differences, affecting the integrity of the knee,” he says. With swimmers he finds shoulder issues, especially of the overuse variety. Diabetes and neuropathies present their own particular challenges among the aging. One example is that diabetes slows healing, he says.

Patients are referred by doctors or are allowed by insurers to come to a therapist on their own. “New York is a direct access state. Within limits New York state insurers allow patients to go to a physical therapist without a physician’s prescription.”

Each new patient is evaluated before treatment begins.

“People have a misconception that therapy consists of hot and cold packs,” Astrab says. In addition to on-premises treatment, he teaches patients self-management so that they don’t have to continue to depend on a therapist.

Astrab smiles as he recalls the desperate woman who came to him after receiving three medical opinions, all

indicating need for knee surgery. “She was frightened of the prospect of surgery and anesthesia and was seeking to avoid it,” he says. “We had a one hundred percent good outcome.”

Astrab traces his need to heal back to his close childhood association with a cousin disabled following a traumatic birth. Raised in Continental Village in Garrison, where he still resides, he graduated from Walter Panas High School in Cortlandt Manor and went on to earn a B.A. degree from Manhattan College followed by a master’s degree in exercise science from Long Island University. A second master’s degree followed, this time in physical therapy at Mercy College.

Rounding out his education is a doctorate in physical therapy from the University of St. Augustine in Florida.

Working in a support capacity during student years, Astrab was affiliated with Pleasantville Physical Therapy and Sports Care for 15 years before joining Hudson Valley Hospital, where he was assigned to the Carolyn Lahey Pavilion in

Cold Spring.

Individual practice has its positives and negatives, Astrab says. He misses the water cooler conversation with associates, but he does his own scheduling, allowing time to intently listen to a patient’s concerns. “This is not assembly line treatment.”

To be in private practice a therapist has to have working capital and watch the overhead, Astrab says. “Payments from insurers come at a slow pace.” As a novice in private practice, he does many of the chores normally done by the front desk or the billing department.

In choosing to go it alone, Astrab had the support of his wife, Jennifer, a Yorktown teacher. They share responsibility for a son, daughter and two mixedbreed adopted dogs.

Challenging Careers focuses on the exciting and unusual business lives of Hudson Valley residents. Comments or suggestions may be emailed to Catherine Portman-Laux at cplaux@optonline.net.

Deels & Deeds — From page 9

growth at the company and the movement of additional service areas at IVI to full-time, inhouse positions, de Stefanis said. Started by the current CEO’s father, the 41-year-old company also has offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Denver.

FOUR TENANTS INK LEASES IN WHITE PLAINS Howard Properties Ltd. has brokered four deals for tenants for office leases in White Plains totaling 13,211 square feet of space. The transactions were announced by Howard E. Greenberg, founder and president of the real estate firm in White Plains.

Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. has leased 4,116 square feet of space at 711 Westchester Ave., part of the Normandy Real Estate Partners office-park portfolio.

Global Financial L.L.C. leased the entire eighth floor of 199 Main St., a 3,500-squarefoot space, Greenberg said. The company, which makes pre-settlement cash advances to plaintiffs in personal injury and other lawsuits, is relocating from 14 Mamaroneck Ave. after five years.

Meridian Global Services, which provides businesses with international valueadded tax compliance consulting and other tax and auditing services, renewed its lease for 2,962 square feet of space at 50 Main St., part of Mack-Cali Realty’s Westchester Financial Center in downtown White Plains.

Pine Brook Road Advisors L.P., a private equity investment firm with headquarters in New York City, extended and expanded its lease for 2,633 square feet at 10 Bank St., owned by Empire State Realty Trust.

• MGT Capital Investments Inc. renewed for 2,791 square feet of space at 500 Mamaroneck Ave. Broker Matthew Lisk of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant.

• I-Behavior renewed its lease for 2,716 square feet at 500 Mamaroneck Ave. in a deal brokered for the tenant by Kevin Langtry of CBRE. Also at 500 Mamaroneck Ave., Pantaenius America Ltd. signed a lease renewal for its 1,862-square-foot office. Alan Zuckerman of Zuckerman Real Estate represented the tenant. .

“It’s been an active summer for us, as our properties continue to attract new quality tenants,” said Jeffrey H. Newman, senior vice president of Empire State Realty Trust, in a press release.

DONUTS IN THE MIX IN SOMERS Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin-Robbins has signed a 15-year lease with a five-year option for a 2,400-square-foot store in the Towne Centre at Somers, according to Royal Properties Inc. in Yonkers.

Scott Meshil of Royal Properties was the sole broker in the deal. Anchored by CVS and the U.S. Post Office, the community shopping center in northern Westchester is owned by Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. Retail brokers at Royal Properties in a press release said the tenant, Somers Doughnuts Corp., has six Dunkin’ Donuts/ Baskin-Robbins locations in Westchester and Putnam counties and continues to seek locations in those markets.

SLEEPY HOLLOW GROCERY SOLD IN FORECLOSURE

‘ACTIVE SUMMER’ FOR EMPIRE STATE REALTY TRUST Empire State Realty Trust Inc., formerly Malkin Properties, recently closed on lease deals totaling more than 46,000 square feet of office space in Fairfield and Westchester counties, the company reported.

Lease deals in Westchester County were: • Edelman Financial Services L.L.C. expanded at 10 Bank St. in White Plains to 4,169 square feet from 2,514 square feet of space. Torey Walsh of Cushman & Wakefield Inc. brokered the deal for the tenant.

• Kirshenbaum, Urban & Tan L.L.P. relocated its office within 10 Bank St. and expanded to 2,429 square feet from 1,931 square feet of space.

Also at 10 Bank St., Pine Brook Road Advisors expanded its space to 2,663 square feet from 1,470 square feet.

• Mariner Investment Group L.L.C. renewed its lease for 16,296 square feet of space at 500 Mamaroneck Ave. in Harrison.

The tenant’s broker was Doug Furer of Mariner Real Estate.

Principals of GHP Office Realty in Harrison paid $351,000 for a Sleepy Hollow retail and apartment building in a foreclosure sale by Mahopac National Bank.

The 4,000-square-foot, two-story building at 94 Beekman Ave. includes a groundfloor grocery store with a long-term lease and two apartment units above, the buyer said in a press release.

The sale was handled by GHP Office Realty and Michael J. Karger of Metro Property Group L.L.C. — John Golden

Morgan Stanley finds high-net-worth individuals content

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raft of statistics from Morgan Stanley, with investment offices in Purchase, paints a picture of financial strength among the tristate region’s high-net-worth individuals with nearly nine in 10 planning to stay put.

Yet, in a region internationally known for seemingly entire towns of high-networth families, local economies were viewed less favorably than their national counterparts by 9 percentage points.

The survey said, “Despite the generally high taxes on income, property and retail purchases in the New York metropolitan region, the vast majority (89 percent) of the area’s high-net-worth investors have not changed, nor have they started the process to change, their state of residence for the purpose of reducing their tax burden.

The Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Survey found widespread confidence, saying, “Amidst continued strong performance by the U.S. stock market, 71 percent of high-net-worth investors nationally surveyed believe the U.S. economy will be the same or better 12 months from now and 87 percent nationally have a similar outlook for their local economy.

In the tristate region (New York City metropolitan area, New Jersey and Connecticut), those figures are higher with respect to the national economy (77 percent), but lower with respect to the local economy (78 percent).

Citing national data that show only 15 percent of workers have reached their planned retirement benchmarks, Morgan Stanley said, nonetheless, 82 percent of workers regionally are comfortable with their retirement plans, in keeping with a national percentage of 85 percent.

Investors are bullish on the prospects for their own investment portfolios, the survey reported. Nationally, 90 percent foresee their investments performing the same or better a year from now. That figure matches the tristate region’s 89 percent who expect their investment portfolios to be better or the same in the next 12 months. Seventy-six percent expect the overall investment climate will improve or stay the course.

“While investors clearly are feeling the benefits of two consecutive years of strong performance in U.S. equities, the debate continues over the length and durability of the current bull market and the impact and timing of higher interest rates,” said Gregory J. Fleming, president of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, in a statement. “It’s no surprise, then, that two-thirds of high-net-worth investors say they rely on a financial professional for advice and guidance.”

Of eight major geographic cohorts, the tristate region was last in investment portfolio bullishness in the Morgan Stanley survey.

The data showed 95 percent of Los Angeles investors are bullish, followed by 93 percent in Houston, Chicago and Atlanta, 92 percent in Denver and San Francisco, 90 percent in Boston and 89 percent in tristate/NewYork City area.

Regarding the regional economy, the tristate region’s 78 percent bullish rating for the next year placed it last among the survey’s reported markets. Houston was first with 96 percent bullish rating, followed by San Francisco at 91 percent, Denver and Atlanta at 90 percent, Boston at 88 percent, and Chicago and Los Angeles at 85 percent.

— Bill Fallon

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THELIST: FINE DINING LISTED ALPHABETICALLY

Name, address, telephone number Area code: 914 (unless otherwise noted) Website

42 The Restaurant

The Ritz-Carlton Westchester, 3 Renaissance Square, White Plains 10601 946-5500 • ritzcarlton.com

Bartaco

1 Willett Ave., Port Chester 10573 937-TACO •bartaco.com

The Barn at the Bedford Inn

954 Old Post Road, Bedford 10506 234-6386 • campagna-bedford.com

Campagna at the Bedford Inn

954 Old Post Road, Bedford 10506 234-6386

Cedar Street Grill

23 Cedar St., Dobbs Ferry 10522 674-0706 • cedarstreetgrillny.com

Farmer & the Fish

100 Titicus Road, North Salem 10560 617-8380 • farmerandthefish.com

Fortina

17 Maple Ave., Armonk 10504 273-0900 • fortinapizza.com

The Grill at the Bedford Inn

954 Old Post Road, Bedford 10506 234-6386

Harper's

92 Main St., Dobbs Ferry NY 10522 693-2306 • harpersonmain.com

Harvest on Hudson

1 River St., Hastings-on-Hudson 10706 478-2800 •harvesthudson.com

The Inn at Pound Ridge by Jean-Georges

258 Westchester Ave., Pound Ridge 10576 764-1400• theinnatpoundridge.com

Iron Horse of Pleasantville

20 Wheeler Ave., Pleasantville 10570 741-0717 • ironhorsepleasantville.com

La Chateau

1410 Route 35, South Salem 533-6631 • lechateauny.com

Moderne Barn

430 Bedford Road, Route 22, Armonk 10504 730-0001 • modernebarn.com

Nessa

325 N. Main St., Port Chester 10573 939-0119 • nessarestaurant.com

One Twenty One

2 Dingle Ridge Road, North Salem 10560 937-9489 • 121restaurant.com

The Parlor

14 Cedar St., Dobbs Ferry 10522 478 8200 •theparlordf.com

The Red Hat

1 Bridge St., Irvington-on-Hudson 10533 591 5888 • redhatontheriver.com

Restaurant North

386 Main St., Armonk 10504 273-8686 •restaurantnorth.com

Sapori

324 Central Ave., White Plains 10606 684-8855 • saporiofwhiteplains.com

Sonora

179 Rectory St., White Plains 10606 933-0200 • sonorarestaurant.net

Tarry Lodge

18 Mill St., Port Chester 10573 939-3111 • tarrylodge.com/restaurant.cfm

Zero Otto Nove*

55 Old Route 22, Armonk 10504 273-0089 • roberto089.com

WESTCHESTER COUNTY

WESTCHESTER COUNTY NEXT LIST: SEPTEMBER 29 ACCOUNTING

LOCAL EATERIES

Type of Cuisine

Hours of Operation

American tapas

Tues. to Thurs. 4:30-10 p.m. Fri. 4:30 p.m. to midnight and Sat. 5 p.m. to midnight. Open on Sunday and Monday for private parties events only.

Tapas

11:30 a.m. - "late," everyday

Take out, delivery, party packs, live music and gift cards.

Customized menu

Mon to Thurs. 8-10:30 a.m., 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.

Fri. 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Sat. 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. and Sun. 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.

Currently open during renovations, gift cards and private events.

Located at the Bedford Inn, an eight-room luxury inn with three restaurants and a yoga studio.

Contemporary American featuring seasonal produce

Reopening after renovations

Located at the Bedford Inn, an eight-room luxury inn with three restaurants and a yoga studio.

American grill

Locally grown produce and seafood

Italian cuisine

Reservations and private parties. Restaurant is located in The Ritz-Carlton Westchester, which contains two restaurants and 10,000 square feet of special event and meeting space.

Mon., Wed. and Thurs. 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fri. and Sat. 11:30 a.m to 10:30 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Mon. to Thurs. noon to 3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Fri. and Sat. noon to 3 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. and Sun. noon to 3 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.

Restaurant includes a bar menu and a raw bar menu.

The Purdy's Farm and Fish shop is located next to the restaurant.

Reservations are accepted.

Mon to Fri. and Sun. noon to 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m. to late and Sat. 5 p.m. to late Food cooked in wood-fired ovens, private parties and reservations.

Customized menu

Fri. and Sat. 5-10 p.m. (weather permitting)

Located at the Bedford Inn, an eight-room luxury inn with three restaurants and a yoga studio.

Farm-to-table cuisine

Mon. to Thurs. 5-10 p.m. Fri. 5-10:30 p.m. Sat., 12-3 p.m. and 5-10:30 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.

Special events, cocktail menu, beer and wine lists, uses seasonal produce from local farms when possible.

Italian cuisine

Mon. to Thurs. 11:45 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fri. 11:45 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sat. 5-11 p.m. and Sun. 4-9 p.m.

Patio dining, an outside bar, an organic vegetable and herb garden, stone fireplace, bar and lounge, sunset views and accommodations for private events.

Farm-to-table cuisine

Mon. to Fri. 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. and Sat. to Sun. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5- 10 p.m.

Valet parking only, reservations, will customize for special occasion and candlelit private dining room.

Contemporary cuisine

Tues to Fri. opens 5 p.m. and Sat. and Sun. opens at noon.

Private party room, live music on Mondays, accommodates 60 guests in restaurant, accomodates 16 guests in private room and Monday prix fixe menu.

French cuisine

American cuisine

Italian cuisine

Wed to Fri. 5:30-9 p.m. Sat. 6-9:30 p.m. and Sun. 12-3 p.m. and 4-9 p.m.

Mon. to Thurs. noon to 10 p.m. Fri. noon to 10:30 p.m.

Sat. 5-10:30 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.

Sun. to Mon. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Tues. to Thurs. 5:30-10 p.m Fri. to Sat. 5:30-11 p.m. Sun. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Reservations, gift cards, dinner and dancing nights, happy hours specials, prix fix menus, Wednesday night vegan menu, takeout option, accomodations for weddings, celebrations and corporate meetings.

Gift cards, private dining to accommodate corporate meetings, lectures and celebrations.

Reservations, gift cards and private party option.

Mon. to Thurs. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5:30-9:30 p.m. Fri. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5:30-10:30 p.m.

Sat. 5-10:30 p.m. and Sun. 5-9:30 p.m.

Lunch specials, private events, reservations.

Tues. to Thurs. noon to 4 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Fri. to Sat. noon to 4 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. Sun. noon to 3 p.m. and 49 p.m.

Restaurant offers scissors as an alternative to cutting pizza, creating a playful atmosphere.

Contemporary French

Mon. to Thurs. noon to 3 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m. Fri. noon to 3 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. Sat. 5-11 p.m. and Sun. 4:308:30 p.m.

Waterfront views, outdoor seating, private parties for social or corporate events.

Farm-to-table cuisine

Tues. to Thurs. noon to 2:30 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m. Fri. to Menu changes are reliant on local produce deliveries from regional Sat. noon to 2:30 p.m. and 5-10:30 p.m. and Sun. noon farms, private dining room to fit 45 guests, opportunity to rent the to 2:30 p.m. and 5-8:30 p.m. restaurant.

Globally inspired dishes using local produce

Italian-American

Italian cuisine

Mon.-Thurs., noon to 3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Fri. noon to 3 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. Sat. 1-4 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. and Sun. 2-9 p.m.

Reservations and private events.

Latin-influenced cuisine

Sun. 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 4:30-9 p.m. Mon. to Thurs.

4:30-9 p.m. Fri., 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 4:30-11 p.m. and Sat. 4:30-11 p.m.

Reservations, private parties, Sunday brunch, prix fixe lunch and dinner speiclals and happy hour speicals.

Italian cuisine

Italian cuisine

Mon. noon to 9 p.m. Tues. noon to 10 p.m. Wed. noon to Reservation option, curbside pickup, catering, gift card options and 10 p.m. Thurs. noon to 11 p.m. Fri., noon to 11 p.m. Sat. six private dining rooms. noon to 11 p.m. and Sun. noon to 9 p.m.

Tues. to Thurs. noon to 3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Fri. and Sat. noon to 3 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. and Sun. 1-9 p.m.

This list is a sampling of local eateries, which serve the region. If you wish your restaurant to be included on our next list, please contact Danielle Renda at drenda@wes?airinc.com.

Note: InformaBon collected from restaurant websites. * Restauant has addi-onal loca-ons.

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adeline Fletcher’s newly renovated office in downtown Newburgh occupies what was a one-story wing of the former Brutus W. Hodge Funeral Home, whose business name still hangs in faded gold letters on the red-awninged 19th century brick building next door at 13 Chambers St. Some detritus and tools of the mortuary trade remained on the premises, Fletcher said grimacing, when the organization that she leads as executive director, the Newburgh Community Land Bank, took over the property and relieved the city of one of the 300 vacant buildings it holds and on which it pays school and county property taxes.

Built around 1895 and included in the city’s East End Historic District, the fourstory Hodge building shows a representative architectural style from Newburgh’s industrial heyday on the Hudson River. It is one of the first two buildings that the 2-year-old nonprofit land bank has sold to private owners, who will restore and return the properties to the city’s tax rolls.

Fletcher said the former funeral home will be renovated for upper-floor two-bedroom apartments and first-floor commercial space. The new owner, Hudson Valley architect Jeff Wilkinson, plans to move his firm across the river from Beacon’s Main Street to Brutus Hodge’s former haunt.

From a sunny, many-windowed conference room in the land bank office, Fletcher pointed north across a vacant lot to another boarded-up commercial building on Chambers Street. Its new owner, artist John Delk, a Newburgh resident, plans to use the building as his studio-gallery, she said.

“Typically, governments are not good owners and managers of property,” said Fletcher, a Brooklyn-raised attorney who came to the newly formed land bank from Pathstone Community Improvement of Newburgh, a housing-preservation nonprofit. “It’s not their wheelhouse. It’s not where they should be.” Community land banks relieve municipalities of that role and serve to return properties to the real estate market and to commercial and residential occupancy, spurring broader community development and employment in the pro-

cess, she said.

Fletcher traced the origins of the community land bank initiative in Newburgh to the Land Use Law Center at Pace Law School in White Plains, which in late 2010 received a Ford Foundation grant “to look at Newburgh issues,” she said. That study recommended a three-pronged approach that included streamlining the city review and approval process for developers, improving city code enforcement and forming a land bank.

Pace law students examined Newburgh’s buildings registry, which listed 200 vacant buildings. Fletcher said. The students, however, identified 700 vacant buildings, or 10 percent of the city’s inventory of 7,000 buildings.

“I think it’s a similar problem that you see everywhere” in urban communities, Fletcher said, where “white flight” to suburbia and downtown-leveling urban renewal projects have left blighted neighborhoods and shuttered business districts.

At the time of the Pace initiative, no land banks existed in New York, Fletcher noted.

“It was very much a tool of the Midwest, the Rust Belt.” Instead, housing advocates in Newburgh started a housing development fund company that would qualify for state funding.

In 2011, the state Legislature adopted legislation that initially authorized the creation of 10 community land banks statewide under New York’s Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. The nonprofits were to acquire vacant, abandoned or foreclosed properties and rebuild, demolish or redesign them. The authorizing legislation, though, provided no funding for the new organizations.

The Newburgh Community Land Bank was one of the first five land banks formed in 2012. “For 18 of those 24 months” of its existence, “we had basically no money,” Fletcher said.

In 2013, the Newburgh nonprofit was awarded $2.43 million from the $13 million fund allocated by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to his Land Bank Community Revitalization Initiative. The money, which Newburgh received only last March, came from New York’s share of the $25 billion national mortgage settlement negotiated in 2012 by Schneiderman and other states’ attorneys general with the nation’s largest banks.

At an August appearance in Newburgh, Schneiderman announced a second allocation of $20 million for which Newburgh and eight other land banks around the state, from Suffolk County to Niagara County, will compete. He called land banks “a critical tool for helping communities plagued by vacant and abandoned properties recover from the housing crisis.”

According to the attorney general’s office, the statewide inventory of vacant buildings rose 27 percent in the boom-and-bust decade of 2000 to 2010.

For the fledgling Newburgh organization, “The value of that $2.43 million cannot possibly be overstated,” Fletcher said. “With this very specific funding, we’re able to be more flexible and approach things more differently than just housing development.”

“Our goal is to make it easier for development. We’re not developers.”

Reaching out to large and small developers, Fletcher said she posed the question, “’Why aren’t you in downtown Newburgh?’”

Environmental obstacles, and asbestos removal in particular, “were really the biggest barriers” cited by developers, she said.

“People were like, ‘It’s just too much risk.’

And the (Newburgh real estate) market is challenging…Right now, the market is so deeply dysfunctional.”

Rather than focus on developing single properties, “We want to remove barriers for a lot of buildings,” Fletcher said. To do that, the land bank has budgeted $75,000 for each building it acquires to cover asbestos abatement and structural stabilization costs and predevelopment expenses before selling the properties to well-vetted buyers.

“We expect to sell them to the new owner for a small fraction of that,” she said.

Fletcher said the community land bank owns about 25 properties and is scheduled to close with the city on another 11 building purchases, each priced at a nominal $1. She said Wells Fargo has donated three foreclosed properties that came with cash awards from the bank of $15,000 to $25,000 per building — “which is enough to help us batten them up.”

“Right now we have more parties interested (in buying) than we have properties,” Fletcher said. But the land bank has not rushed to dispose of those buildings. “We’d rather hold them than pass them on to bad

Madeline Fletcher outside her Newburgh Community Land Bank office

owners. We’re expecting a number of proposals from regional and national groups that actually do good work.” Among those nonprofit developers, The Community Builders Inc. is at work in Yonkers on Schoolhouse Terrace, a $63 million redevelopment project with the Yonkers Municipal Housing Authority that will create 120 apartment units for families and senior with mixed income levels on the former site of an abandoned public school.

Though the Newburgh Community Land Bank is only 2 years old, Fletcher already is envisioning its demise.

“At the end of the day, our endgame is go out of business,” she said. “We want to survive until we have a functional market.”

“Right now, we’re just trying to figure out the best way for us to make those connections” that will bring private developers to Newburgh’s historic commercial and residential blocks. “We’re also trying to enable more comprehensive community development” by hiring local contractors and employing local residents applying skills learned in job training programs. “We’re going to have a million bucks’ worth of work to do that hopefully will attract contractors.”

“If we do all those things well, in 10 years we’ll be history,” Fletcher said.

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Developers win when Operating Engineers and Employers work together

Contractors and Local 825 employees who understand their common interests deliver the best construction results by striving for greater efficiency, productivity and profitability.

An atmosphere of trust Some of the best suggestions for innovations, cost savings and cost-avoidance have come from the people who perform the work.

In an atmosphere of trust, everyone is a partner in success.

Thriving on challenge Local 825 members thrive on challenging work and employment stability that allows them to provide for their families. Contractors take pride in challenging projects, knowing they can deliver on time, on budget and above expectations.

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Building On Common Ground The Engineers Labor-Employer Cooperative (ELEC) is comprised of: International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825, Associated Construction Contractors of New Jersey, Construction Industry Council of Westchester & Hudson Valley and the Construction Contractors Labor Employers of New Jersey.

Left photo, Revel Casino Hotel; center photo, MetLife Stadium, courtesy of Skanska USA; right photo, Montclair rail station & municipal parking lot, courtesy of Prismatic Development Corporation.

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Eight companies in Hudson Valley make Inc. 5000

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ight companies in the Hudson Valley made the Inc. 5000 list, including two in Upper Nyack, and one each in Fishkill, Hopewell Junction, Monsey, Pleasant Valley, Suffern and Washingtonville.

The Inc. 5000 is a list of the 5,000 fastestgrowing private companies in the U.S., ranked by percentage revenue growth over the last three years. Inc. is a magazine and website focused on entrepreneurs.

Ranked 206th on the Inc. 5000, Novisync Solutions Inc. of Fishkill posted the largest percentage revenue growth, reporting $8.5 million in revenue in 2013, a 2,144 percent increase over the $379,610 in revenue the company pulled in during 2010. Novisync provides technical services, including cloud computing, data analytics, mobile development and social networking to businesses in the U.S. and Canada.

ToiletTree Products Inc. of Upper Nyack came in 439th on the list after growing its revenue 1,080 percent, from $284,232 in 2010 to $3.4 million in 2014. The company designs bath and personal care products for sale online and at major retailers.

Hopewell Junction-based internet retailer The RTA Store Inc. ranked 1,180th, posting $10 million in revenue in 2013. The company, which sells ready-to-assemble and preassembled kitchen cabinets, grew revenue 372 percent after posting $2.1 million in receipts in 2010.

Rockhedge Herb Farms, which grows, packs and ships culinary herbs for supermarkets and food service distributors, ranked 2,495th.

Headquartered in Pleasant Valley, the company had $5.5 million in revenue in 2013, up from $2.2 million, a three-year growth of 152 percent.

Cipher Tech Solutions Inc. in Upper Nyack was No. 2,641 on the list, growing revenue by 142 percent in a three-year period, from $1.3 million in 2010 to $3.1 million in 2013. The company develops tools for digital forensic and network operations, reverse engineering and mobile device analysis.

Cinema concession business Golden Link Inc. posted $15.8 million in revenue for 2013, a 97 percent increase from its $8 million in revenue in 2010. The Washingtonville firm, ranked 3,435th on the list, licenses promotional products and concession solutions for the international movie house market.

Vcorp Services L.L.C., which provides businesses with legal document filing services and searches, posted $7.7 million in revenue in 2013.

The Monsey-based firm came in at No. 3,507 on the list, posting a three-year revenue growth of 94 percent.

At 4,003rd on the Inc. 5000 was Everest Equity Co. Inc., based in Suffern. Its $3.1 million in 2013 revenue was a 75 percent growth over 2010. Everest Equity assists clients in obtaining customized mortgages.

— Leif Skodnick

New Rochelle hires firm to brand community

BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

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he New Rochelle City Council has hired a firm that bills its members as “community brand avengers” to brand and market the city in an effort to spark economic development.

What entices shoppers and investors in a city, town or village, and what makes one community more attractive than another is often intangible, but the city and New Rochelle Industrial Development Agency are investing $68,000 to turn those intangibles into a quantifiable report.

Nashville-based North Star Destination Strategies, which says on its website that it is “saving the world one community reputation at a time,” is at the beginning of what is expected to be a 10-month process that will include resident surveys and focus groups and will end with a brand identity guide and implementation strategy.

Ed Barlow, vice president of strategic branding for the company, said the first step is gathering information to define the character of the community. The idea is that the company is not looking to create a new

identity for a community, but rather looking to accentuate the character that is already there, he said.

“We cannot tell you to be something you are not,” he said. “We are not here to change you.”

Barlow and Lori Odom, the company’s senior project manager, visited New Rochelle this month, holding a community outreach meeting and beginning the work of getting to know the city. The studies will include surveying shoppers at other communities to get the perspective of outsiders.

Odom defined a brand as what people say about you when you’re not around; she defined branding as what you do about it. Branding the city will mean more than just designing a logo or coming up with a tagline.

“Nobody moves anywhere because they love the logo of a community, nobody chooses their college because they think Harvard has the best-looking T-shirt,” she told residents at a Sept. 9 meeting. “You’re going to these places because of their reputation.”

Councilman Shari Rackman, a Democrat, expressed concern at the Sept. 10 council meeting that input the company receives

from residents in surveys and through outreach might end up being a sounding board for complaints.

“People are very happy to be complaining,” she said. “If something’s good they’re not necessarily going to scream it out on the rooftops.”

The company representatives said they had worked with 200 communities over 14 years and take both negative and positive input to build a portrait of a municipality, though Barlow noted they wouldn’t build a brand around “something bad.”

After the research and informationgathering stage, the company will identify target demographics and suggest a brand identity that can include a logo, colors and catchphrase to use on social media and local signage. An action plan from there can include not only signage and a related website but advertisements with testimonials from local business owners (Lee’s Summit, Mo., went with a campaign around ‘yours truly’).

The city is on the cusp of several major redevelopment projects as it seeks master developers interested in two downtown “clusters.” It recently entered a memoran-

Peekskill, NY Peekskill Landing is our newest waterfront park adding to the City’s vibrant public space along the Hudson River. The next phase of waterfront park will begin this fall moving Peekskill closer to revitalizing the entire 3-miles of continuous park planned along the river. The City continues to invest in public spaces, while proposals for several major projects are being considered. Our Department of Planning and Development will help you work with local and state agencies while our Industrial Development Agency provides financial incentives.

To learn more about how we can help facilitate your business or development project, contact Jim Pinto, Economic Development Specialist, at (914)934-4215, or

dum of understanding with Manhattanbased Twining Properties to build a mixeduse development on the city’s Echo Bay. Luiz C. Aragon came in as the city’s development commissioner last year. He told residents at a Sept. 10 presentation on the branding that it was one aspect of an overall change in the city that will also include a completion of a Comprehensive Plan draft.

“I don’t think that we’re saying just going through this exercise is going to resolve all our problems and everything is going to be rosy and wonderful at the end,” he said.

“We have some very tough decisions ahead of us if we want to grow and if we want to change. …Being able to verbalize who we are and to brand ourselves is core to achieving that goal.”

Yonkers launched a six-month, $350,000 marketing campaign in the spring aimed at attracting millennials into the city. The campaign, called “Generation Yonkers” was developed by Briarcliff Manor public relations firm Thompson & Bender and included advertising in New York City metro daily newspapers and on social media platforms including Twitter.

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DOCTORS of DISTINCTION Saluting those who go beyond the diagnosis

2014

NOMINATE a DOCTOR IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: }}HUMANITARIAN AWARD: In recognition of a physician whose

project or service significantly enhanced the quality of life for people in the region, the nation, or the world. }}LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: In recognition of a physician

respected for a lifetime career in the medical profession.

}}LEADERSHIP IN MEDICAL ADVOCACY AWARD: In recognition

THIS SECOND ANNUAL AWARD PROGRAM CELEBRATES THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF FIVE PHYSICIANS IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY JUDGED BY A PANEL OF PEERS AND SCHOLARS TO BE THE MOST EXEMPLARY IN THE PROGRAM’S CATEGORIES. THIS UNIQUE AWARD PROGRAM IS SPONSORED BY ACCOUNTING AND CONSULTING FIRM CITRIN COOPERMAN, THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY BUSINESS JOURNAL, AND THE WESTCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY.

Open to nominations from the public, this is an opportunity to recognize those physicians who make an impact each and every day on people’s lives.

NOMINATIONS will be open from now until September 17. To nominate please visit westfaironline.com for instructions and nomination forms or call Holly DeBartolo at (914) 358-0743.

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of a physician who has provided exceptional leadership in the form of advocacy on behalf of the medical profession at the local, state, or national level.

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}}EXCELLENCE IN MEDICAL RESEARCH AWARD: In recognition of

a physician whose ingenuity or clinical research significantly contributed to the advancement of medical practice.

AWARD PRESENTATION A distinguished panel of judges will choose a winner in each category, all of whom will be awarded at the elegant reception and ceremony below.

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FACTS& FIGURES BANKRUPTICES MANHATTAN A Hudson Properties. P.O. Box 256, 56 E. 130 St., New York 10037. Chapter 11, voluntary. Attorney: Sadatu SalamiOyakhilome. Filed: Sept. 16. Case no.

14-12641-scc.

Conelle Construction Corp. 50 Broadway, 23rd floor, New York 10004. Chapter 7, voluntary. Attorney: Heath S. Berger. Filed: Sept. 11. Case no.

14-12591-shl.

SIGA Technologies Inc. 660 Madison Ave., Suite 1700, New York 10065.

Chapter 11, voluntary. Attorney: Stephen Karotkin. Filed: Sept. 16. Case no.

14-12623-shl.

White Plains Road Holdings L.L.C. 4636-38 White Plains Road, Bronx 10466. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by White Plains Road Holdings L.L.C. Filed: Sept. 15. Case no. 14-12610smb.

WHITE PLAINS 130 Eckerson Road L.L.C. 26 White St., Spring Valley 10977. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by 130 Eckerson Road L.L.C. Filed: Sept. 15. Case no. 1423322-rdd.

COURT CASES Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Angela Boeske.

Action: Diversity-account receivable.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Linda Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07300-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Megan Burrell. Action: Diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Sept. 15.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07464-CS.

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Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Shelly Chapman.

Action: Diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Sept.

15. Case no. 7:14-cv-07465-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Summer Creekmore. Action: Diversity-product liability. Attorneys: Mark S. Thetford and Amy Sherry Fischer. Filed: Sept. 15.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07437-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Nicole Dorsey. Action: Diversity-account receivable. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no.

7:14-cv-07318-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Carrie Dunlap. Action: Diversity-account receivable. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Keller, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10. Case no. 7:14-cv-07304-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Candace Espinoza.

Action: Diversity-account receivable.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07302-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Rachel Lynn Eilenstine. Action: Diversity-product liability. Attorney: Charles Andrew Childers, Richard R. Schlueter and Michael Brandon Smith. Filed: Sept.

12. Case no. 7:14-cv-07418-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Briana Elliot. Action: Diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Sept. 15.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07467-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Tamara Embler.

Action: Diversity-product liability. Attorney: Rachel Abrams. Filed: Sept. 15.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07344-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Nanci Fils-Aime.

Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07317-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Lynne Frey. Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no.

7:14-cv-07314-CS.

ON THE RECORD

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Carmen Garcia.

Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07303-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Maitai Garcia. Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07315-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Diana Henry. Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed Sept. 10. Case no.

7:14-cv-07307-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Alicia Hurt. Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10. Case no. 7:14-cv-07299-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Elizabeth Ide. Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07309-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Letreil Jackson. Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no.

7:14-cv-07313-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmacueticals Inc. Filed by Sharmila Jackson.

Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjoihi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07319-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Megan Johnson.

Action: Diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Thomas J. Loucks, Lina Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 17. Case no. 7:14-cv-07508-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Jennifer King. Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07310-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Kristen Korbus.

Action: Diversity-product liability.

Attorney: Karen K. Karavatos, Shannon Lukei, Daniel Stewart and Mark P. Robinson. Filed: Sept. 15. Case no.

7:14-cv-07446-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Carla Laneaux. Action: Diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael J. Johnson. Filed: Sept. 15.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07469-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Tiffany Lopez. Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07322-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Jean Love-Morris.

Action: Diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Charles H. Johnson and Jonathan R. Mencel. Filed: Sept. 15. Case no.

7:14-cv-07450-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Casey Miller. Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10. Case no. 7:14-cv-07305-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Kristi Morris. Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no.

7:14-cv-07312-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Jessica Piscionere.

Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07311-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Ashley Rhodes. Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no.

7:14-cv-07413-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Demi Sienna. Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07306-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Monica Silerio. Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no.

7:14-cv-07301-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Yana Sloutski.

Action: Diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Randall Seth Crompton and Eric D. Holland. Filed: Sept. 15. Case no.

7:14-cv-07449-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Donna Tingen.

Action: Diversity-account receivables.

Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07308-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Ashley Tranfaglia.

Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 10. Case no. 7:14-cv-07301-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Sheryl Woods. Action: Diversity-account receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no.

7:14-cv-07320-CS.

Sports Oasis Entertainment L.L.C. Filed by G&G Closed Circuit Events L.L.C. Action: Federal question. Attorney: Paul Joseph Hooten. Filed: Sept.

11. Case no. 7:14-cv-07359-VB. Sports Oasis Entertainment L.L.C. Filed by J&J Sports Productions Inc. Action: Federal question. Attorney: Paul Joseph Hooten. Filed: Sept. 11.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07355-VB. State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. Filed by Shelley Lin and Zhenyu Dai. Action: Notice of removal. Attorney: Scott Evan Agulnick. Filed: Sept. 15.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07324-VB. Stryker Corporation et al. Filed by Gasner Exantus. No action listed. Attorney: Paul Edward Asfendis. Filed: Sept. 15. Case no. 7:14-cv-07366-KMK.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Sonja Woods. Action: Diversity-action receivables. Attorneys: Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Lina Berjouhi Melidonian and Paul D. Stevens. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no.

7:14-cv-07321-CS.

Trademark Publishing In. et al.

Filed by Florence Nadler. Action: Federal question. Attorneys: Jeffery I. Carton and Kerry Ford Cunningham.

Filed: Sept. 12. Case no. 7:14-cv-07419KMK.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Carliss Wooten-Griffin. Action: Diversity-personal injury.

Attorney: Robert Walker Redick. Filed: Sept. 15. Case no. 7:14-cv-07439-CS.

DEEDS Above $1 million

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Christie Young.

Action: Diversity-personal injury. Attorney: John T. Kirtley, III. Filed: Sept.

17. Case no. 7:14-cv-07507-CS.

291-293 Main Street L.L.C., Eastchester. Seller: Nicholas Anthony Holdings L.L.C., Bronxville. Property: 291-293 Main St., Eastchester. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Sept. 16.

Caffe Isle of Capri Inc. Filed by the trustees of the National Retirement Fund. Action: E.R.I.S.A. Attorneys: Stepanie Myers Bersak and David C. Sapp, Jr. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no. 7:14-cv07364-CS.

316 W 1st Street Storage L.L.C., New York City. Seller: 316 W. First Street Corp., Bronx. Property: 316 First Street West, Mount Vernon. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed Sept. 16.

Media Collections Inc. Filed by Eli Shteinmantz. Action: Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney: Abraham Kleinman. Filed: Sept. 10. Case no. 7:14-cv07331-KMK. Metrostate Hosptality Corp. Filed by the trustees of the National Retirement Fund. Action: E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement. Attorneys: Stephanie Myers Bersak and David C. Sapp Jr. Filed: Sept. 12. Case no. 7:14-cv-07363CS. MPI Inc. Filed by Steven Immarigion.

Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorneys: Roberto Concepcion Jr. and Louis Pechman. Filed: Sept. 10. Case no. 7:14-cv-07335-VB. Prestige Organization. Filed by Investor’s Business Daily Inc. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Stacey Anne Mahoney. Filed: Sept. 16.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07408-NSR.

400 Park Avenue Associates L.L.C., Armonk. Seller: John Finnerty, et al, Rye. Property: 400 and 410 Park Ave., Rye. Amount: $3.9 million. Filed Sept. 11.

Castle Walk Development L.L.C., Hartsdale. Seller: Wen Jin, et al, Basking Ridge, N.J. Property: 7 Stonehouse Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $1.4 million.

Filed Sept. 12.

HTA-White Plains Eat L.L.C., Scottsdale, Ariz. Seller: Promed Westchester 220-230 L.L.C., New York City.

Property: 220-230 Westchester Ave., Harrison. Amount: $32 million. Filed Sept. 15.

HTA-White Plains Eat L.L.C., Scottsdale, Ariz. Seller: Promed Westchester 244 L.L.C., New York City. Property: 244 Westchester Ave., Harrison.

Amount: $32 million. Filed Sept. 15.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Richard Seney, et al, White Plains. Property: 10 City Place, 3C, White Plains. Amount: $1 million. Filed Sept. 12.

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NEWSMAKERS [PLUS AWARDS AND EVENTS] NEW COMMERCIAL DIVISION OF TRI-CREST REALTY INC. PHIL BIANCAVILLA has joined TRICREST REALTY INC., a real estate brokerage serving lower Westchester County, to head its newly formed commercial real estate division. According to principal broker, Veronica Meola, the commercial division will focus on serving owner, landlord, investor and tenant clients for properties primarily located in Eastchester and surrounding vicinities.

Prior to joining Tri-Crest Realty, Biancavilla was a career information technology executive working for companies in financial services, telecommunications and

life sciences. In 2007, he ventured out as an entrepreneur and cofounded Vantage Systems, a provider of enterprise software and professional services to midsize companies. His many years of corporate experience resulted in keen negotiation and financial analysis proficiency.

Graduating with a degree in information science from Fordham University, Biancavilla, an Eastchester resident, enjoys coaching travel softball and has a passion for sports and cars. He can be contacted at the Tri-Crest Realty office in Eastchester at 914-779-1700.

WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL TO HONOR LONGTIME CEO

WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL NAMES NEW EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR RAFAEL TORRES M.D. of Manhattan has joined WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL as medical director of emergency medicine at The Flanzer Center for Emergency and Critical Care Medicine. The two-story center at the hospital with all private-rooms opened in 2010. It is the busiest emergency department in Westchester County with approximately 55,000 visits in 2013.

After completing his undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, he earned his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine, where he received honors for academic achievement. Torres completed his residency in emergency medicine at New York Methodist

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Hospital, where he served as chief resident and was honored as Resident of the Year.

Torres comes to White Plains Hospital with extensive emergency medicine experience. Since 2009, he has served as the medical director for Citywide Mobile Response, a comprehensive ambulance service in New York City. He has also held the position of emergency department medical director at Westchester Square, the first free-standing emergency department in New York state, and St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers.

“We are very excited to welcome Dr. Torres to White Plains Hospital,” said Michael Palumbo MD, executive vice president and medical director.

“He has an outstanding reputation and understands the value of providing patients with a positive experience while they are in the hospital.”

Torres’ extensive professional development includes an training program in quality improvement, outcomes measurement and process management with the Intermountain Healthcare Institute for Health Care Delivery Research; a 15-month Clinical Quality Fellowship with the Greater New York Hospital Association/United Hospital Fund; and a three-stage training program with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Emergency Department Directors Academy. He is board-certified in emergency medicine.

CEO JON B. SCHANDLER of WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL will be honored at its annual auxiliary gala for his nearly four decades of service to the health care organization.

The event will take place at the Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $500 per person.

Schandler, joined the administrative team in 1976 as controller before being promoted to lead the institution in 1981 as president and CEO. His leadership tenure during that time drove growth of the now 121-year old hospital, expanding its clinical programs and services, growing its physician base and strengthening its position in the community as a leading advanced health care provider in the region.

“We couldn’t have picked a more fitting honoree this year to salute an individual who has led our hospital through multiple decades of growth, transformation and prosperity,” said White Plains Hospital Auxiliary Co-President Brenda Oestreich, of Scarsdale. “His reputation as a champion of quality health care in this community is well deserved and one we are very excited to be celebrating near the end of his re-

markable career.”

Schandler plans to retire in the spring of 2015. Earlier this year, it was announced that Susan Fox, current hospital president, will succeed him as both president and CEO. Initial sponsors of the celebration include White Plains Radiology, the Medical and Dental Staff of White Plains Hospital, Westchester Anesthesiologists, Garfunkel Wild P.C., Gilbane Construction Co. and A.P. Construction. For more information on tickets and sponsorships, visit givetowphospital.org/form or call 914-681-2264.

DATES

INC. NAMES DURANTE RENTALS TO 33RD ANNUAL LIST OF AMERICA’S FASTEST-GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES

PROFESSIONAL WOMEN OF PUTNAM HOSTS ITS EVENT, “IS YOUR CONTENT MARKETING KING OR COURT JESTER?” Tuesday, Sept. 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Arturo’s, 878 Route 6, Mahopac. Lisa Kaslyn, president of Prosper Communications and host of “Good Day Hudson Valley,” will show you how to slay the content dragon with smart content, curation practices and clever repurposing tips. General admission $20, members $15. For more information and to register, visit professionalwomenofputnam.com.

CELEBRATED KENYAN AUTHOR NGUGI WA THIONG’O, heralded as a possible winner of the Nobel prize in literature this year by “The Guardian,” will be featured in a one-day symposium at Manhattanville College Friday, Sept.

26, as part of the college’s Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing program annual Fall Writers’ Weekend. He will give a keynote reading from his works beginning at 7 p.m. The symposium, free of charge and open to the public, will begin at 3:30 For more information on the symposium, visit mville.edu/mfa or contact Mark Nowak, director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, 914-323 7157 or mark.nowak@ mville.edu.

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of Durante Rentals.

Founded in 2009 by three entrepreneurs, Durante Rentals is in construction equipment and tool rentals in the New York tri-state area. Its newest location is at 122 N. Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford. General contractors look to Durante for equipment needs, including excavators, skid steers, light towers, generators, compressors, forklifts, air tools, boom lifts and more.

With four locations and counting its to expand while servicing all five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Rockland County, Connecticut and New Jersey.

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“To achieve this kind of consistent growth, year after year, is a credit to the unique business and financial strategy employed by the company in one of the most difficult and competitive markets in the construction equipment rental industry,” said Christopher Jones, CFO of Durante Rentals.

Durante Rentals’ three-year growth was 191 percent. “To be mentioned in the same breath as other 2014 winners like GoPro, Tough Mudder and Bowlmor makes us appreciate the award that much more. Our goal is to make the list next year and every year thereafter,” said Anthony Durante, CEO

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INC. magazine has ranked DURANTE RENTALS No. 2098 on its 33rd annual Inc. 5000 List, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing privately owned companies. This is the second year in a row Durante Rentals has made the list, coming in at No. 1879 in 2013.

“We are extremely honored and proud to have made the Inc. 5000 list for the second year in a row. It is a true testament to the hard work and dedication exemplified by every member of our team throughout the course of the year,” said JOHN DURANTE, president of Durante Rentals.

JLL IS SPONSORING THE 19TH ANNUAL JLL GOLF CLASSIC Monday, Sept. 29, the national Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA) at the Westchester Country Club, 99 Biltmore Ave. in Rye. The firm has sponsored the JLL Golf Classic since 2007 and raised more than $3.5 million for the TSA. JLL is a professional services and investment management firm offering specialized real estate services to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying and investing in real estate. To register for the JLL Golf Classic, visit tsausa.org/give/jllgolf.html.

FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND DEGREE FOCUSING ON CREATING NEW VENTURES IN THE ARTS SECTOR PURCHASE COLLEGE will launch an MA in Entrepreneurship in the Arts — the first degree in the country that focuses exclusively on creating new entities in the arts sector. The program, which will commence next fall, will provide graduates with the skills to create arts ventures and act as entrepreneurs — along with an in-depth foundation in management and leadership skills.

“This visionary degree program will enable graduates to identify, imagine and build enterprises that will create and sustain the arts marketplace of tomorrow,” said Thomas J. Schwarz, president of Purchase College. “It will address a critical need for creative leadership in both the commercial and not-for-profit arts and culture sectors.”

Ravi Rajan, dean of the Purchase

College School of the Arts added, “The program is designed to empower the emerging generation to be leaders who will redefine the arts through innovation. It will foster a ‘meta synergy’ by equipping graduates with a unique blend of idea generation, marketing, policy, management and financial skills to apply to the creation of new entities for the arts.”

James Undercofler, professor and chair of the Purchase College Department of Arts Management and Entrepreneurship, spearheaded the design of the new program, following many years of his leading both schools and professional arts organizations.

“With its visionary leadership and world-class arts programs embedded together with a college focused on liberal education, Purchase College

is the ideal institution to offer this degree,” he said. “We anticipate that this new program will be a galvanizing force campuswide, as well as helping to redefine the arts world.”

Courses in the one-and-a-halfyear degree program will feature a core of three courses in arts entrepreneurship, plus those in leadership and management techniques, fund development and financing for the arts, digital marketing and law and the arts. Students will be guided into deep thinking about the arts and culture worlds, then create entirely new ideas, which will then be developed into their own new enterprises. The new degree program has recently received final approval from the New York State Education Department.

NEW PARTNER AT ENEA, SCANLAN & SIRIGNANO ELDER LAW attorney SARA E. MEYERS of White Plains has become a member of ENEA, SCANLAN & SIRIGNANO L.L.P., with offices in White Plains and Somers. Meyers joined the firm as an associate attorney in 2007 and has spent the past two decades protecting the rights of seniors, the disabled and their families. An authority on Medicaid and special-needs planning, her practice areas include elder law,

home health care, Medicaid planning, wills, trusts and estates and guardianships. Prior to Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, Meyers was a staff attorney at the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity and the New York Legal Assistance Group. Named to the 2013 New York Metro Super Lawyers list in Elder Law, she is a frequent lecturer for both professionals and laypersons.

She is the immediate past chair of the

Westchester County Bar Association’s Elder Law Committee and is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) elder law and trusts and estates sections. In July, Meyers began her term as the 9th Judicial District Representative to the NYSBA elder law section’s executive committee. “Sara is an invaluable member of our team and has been instrumental to Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano’s continued suc-

cess,” said elder law attorney Anthony J. Enea, the firm’s managing partner.

“For years Sara has upheld our firm’s commitment to maintaining the highest standards and achieving the best possible results for our clients. As partner, her expertise will play a key role in shaping our firm’s future.” Meyers is an editor of the Westchester County Bar Journal and the NYSBA Elder Law Section’s Elder and Special Needs Law

Journal. She received a B.A. in history from Brandeis University and her J.D. from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano concentrates its practice in elder law planning; asset protection planning; wills, trusts and estates; Medicaid applications (home care and nursing home); guardianships; nursing home negligence as well as real estate; and corporate and commercial law.

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FACTS & FIGURES Westchester Development Company L.L.C., New York City. Seller: Robert L. Smith, et al, Rye. Property: 300 Milton Road, Rye. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Sept. 10.

Below $1 million

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Richard A. Glickel, West Nyack. Property: 5 Gabriel Drive, Cortlandt. Amount: $822,956.

Filed Sept. 16.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: April D. Bowie, Peekskill. Property: 223 Ringgold St., Peekskill. Amount: $361,227. Filed Sept. 12.

15 Stewart Place L.L.C., New York City. Seller: Richard Memoli, White Plains. Property: 15 Stewart Place, 8C, White Plains. Amount: $494,000.

Filed Sept. 12.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Darren DeUrso, White Plains. Property: 372 Midland Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $406,754. Filed Sept. 11.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Co. Seller: Peter P. Rosato, Yonkers. Property: 215 Ninth St., Cortlandt. Amount: $160,288. Filed Sept. 12.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Troy Berry, White Plains. Property: 79 Moquette Row, Yonkers. Amount: $126,000. Filed Sept. 15.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Andrew Tureaud, White Plains. Property: 109 Highland Drive, Cortlandt. Amount: $596,420. Filed Sept. 10.

Westchester Properties L.L.C., Larchmont. Seller: Douglas Currey, Avon, Colo. Property: 1810 Palmer Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $610,000. Filed Sept. 12.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: John Brophy, Rye. Property: 174 Oak St., Yonkers. Amount: $317,983. Filed Sept. 11.

FORECLOSURES

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Mark Bernstein, Bronx. Property: 8 Sparta View, Ossining. Amount: $399,161. Filed Sept. 12.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Paula Mignott, White Plains. Property: 9 High Meadows Trail 171, Peekskill.

Amount: $178,500. Filed Sept. 10.

Hudson Point L.L.C., Ossining.

Seller: Dawn Elliot, Ossining. Property: 57 Ellis Place, Ossining. Amount: $70,000. Filed Sept. 12.

JAF Builders Corp., Scarsdale. Seller: Rose Maureen O’Brien, Larchmont.

Property: 169 Rockingstone Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $775,000. Filed Sept. 16.

Lagia Development Realty Corp., Bronx. Seller: Louis A. Camera Jr., Pelham Manor. Property: 132 Iden Ave., Pelham. Amount: $467,500. Filed Sept. 16.

Lamartine Properties L.L.C., Yonkers. Seller: Ruth A. Leech, et al, Yonkers. Property: 78 Lamartine Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $330,000. Filed Sept. 11.

Spirelli Electric Inc., Shrub Oak. Seller: Lex Holding Co., Cold Spring.

Property: E. Main St., Yorktown.

Amount: $30,000. Filed Sept. 12.

The DM Equities of New York L.L.C., Harriman. Seller: Giuseppe Dodardo, et al, Tarrytown. Property: 200A Sheldon Ave., Greenburgh.

Amount: $250,000. Filed Sept. 15.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Massimo DiFabio, White Plains. Property: 151 Harding Ave., White Plains. Amount: $522,606. Filed Sept. 15.

CORTLANDT MANOR, 247 Watch Hill Road. Single-family residence; 1.0 acre. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Gross Polowy L.L.C.; 25 Northpointe Parkway, Amherst. Defendant: Jo-Ann Feeney. Referee: Bernard Gordon.

Sale: Sept. 30, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $302,974.70.

CROTON ON HUDSON, 27 Woody Brook Lane. Single-family residence; 1.4 acre. Plaintiff: First National Bank of Arizona. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Knuckles, Komosinski & Elliot, 914345-3020; 565 Taxter Road, Suite 509, Elmsford. Defendant: Bruce Lachapelle. Referee: Vincent Rippa. Sale: Oct. 1, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $685,739.62.

NEW ROCHELLE, 50 Kewanee Road. Single-family residence; .24 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Gross Polowy & Orlans, 716-204-1700; P.O. Box 540, Getzville. Defendant: John Scott Smith. Referee: John Perone. Sale: Sept. 24, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $749,641.29.

NORTH SALEM, 92 Delancy Road. Single-family residence; 3.52 acre. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott;10 Bank St., White Plains. Defendant: Uriel Vergara. Referee: Joseph Goubeaud.

Sale: Sept. 24, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $806,537.83.

PEEKSKILL, 7 N. James St., Apt. 7J. Condominium; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Metlife Home Loans. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-0969-3100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore. Defendant: Heirs of the Estate of Gladys McNair.

Referee: Robert Cydher. Sale: Sept. 22, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $135,572.22.

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YONKERS, 26 Round Hill Drive.

Single-family residence; .15 acre. Plaintiff: State of New York Mortgage Agency. Plaintiff ’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway P.C., 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle.

Defendant: Clara Seda. Referee: Frank Rutigliano. Sale: Sept. 26, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $140,137.69.

YONKERS, 36 Parsons St. Singlefamily residence; .11 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway P.C., 914-6368900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle. Defendant: Mary Latorre. Referee: Thomas Gallivan.

Sale: Sept. 22, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $541,400.54.

JUDGMENTS A and B Auto Repair, Bedford Hills. $42,712 in favor of Millers Auto Parts Inc., Mount Kisco. Filed Sept. 8.

A.S.J. Landscaping Inc., Ossining. $9,391 in favor of Ossining Hardware Company Inc., Ossining. Filed Sept. 8.

Aaron Apparel Group Inc., Rye Brook. $12,940 in favor of Ports 1961 New York Incorp., New York City. Filed Sept. 9.

B and V Contracting Enterprises Inc., Yonkers. $32,236 in favor of Kass Building Enterprises Inc., New York City. Filed Sept. 8.

BTBM Corp., Yorktown Heights. $4,010 in favor of Sam Dahdal Inc., Yonkers. Filed Sept. 8.

Executive Millwork Corp., North Salem. $36,014 in favor of Main Street America Assurance Co., Keene, N.H. Filed Sept. 9.

Pedro Construction, Buchanan. $1,712 in favor of Smar Construction, Montrose. Filed Sept. 10.

Armstrong, John C., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,000 affecting property located at 46 Lawrence Ave., White Plains 10603. Filed Feb. 10.

Ayavaca, Claudio, 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 935 Orchard St., Peekskill 10566. Filed Feb. 10.

Biombo Inc., et al. Filed by Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.1 million affecting property located at 85-87 Cortlandt St., Sleepy Hollow. Filed Feb. 10.

Djentuh, Janet P., et al. Filed by Hudson City Savings Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $552,000 affecting property located at 130 Hillcrest Ave., Yonkers 10705. Filed Feb. 10.

Elliott, John W., et al. Filed by Champion Mortgage Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $230,000 affecting property located at 20 Conklin Ave., Cortlandt Manot 10567. Filed Feb. 10.

Fiakor, Sam, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $320,000 affecting property located at 188 Church St., White Plains 10601.

Filed Feb. 10.

Jefferson, Randy E., et al. Filed by Citifinancial Company DE. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $420,250 affecting property located at 7 Van Cortlandt Place, Cortlandt Manor. Filed Feb. 11.

Keane-Lore, Desiree, et al. Filed

by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $360,000 affecting property located at 6 Sunset Drive, Yorktown Heights.

Filed Feb. 10.

Topside Systems L.L.C., Mount Kisco. $28,948 in favor of Burlington Insurance Co., Burlington, N.C. Filed Sept. 9.

Lajqi, Florim, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $360,000 affecting property located at 265 Old Mamaroneck Road, White Plains 10605. Filed Feb. 10.

LIS PENDENS

Mainthow, Christy, et al. Filed by PennyMac Holdings L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $600,000 affecting property located at 82 Whippoorwill Road E., Armonk 10504. Filed Feb. 10.

Aiss, Warren, 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 80 Vila at the Woods, Unit B503, Peekskill 10566. Filed Feb. 10.

Albanese, Nicholas F. III, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $125,000 affecting property located at 51 Foxwood Circle, Mount Kisco 10549. Filed Feb. 10.

Mayfield, Brenda, et al. Filed by Residential Credit Solutions Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $390,000 affecting property located at 341 Seventh Avenue South, Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Feb. 10.

New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $123,676 affecting property located at 14 N. Second St., Cortlandt Manor 1567.

Filed Feb. 11.

To, Thanh Van, et al. Filed by Roundpoint Mortgage Servicing Corp.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $299,000 affecting property located at 30 Shore Road, Pelham 10803. Filed Feb. 10.

Nugent, Margo J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $338,371 affecting property located at 656 Hanover Place, Mount Vernon 10552. Filed Feb. 10.

MECHANIC’S LIENS

Nugent, Michael, et al. Filed by Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $469,600 affecting property located at 156 S. 14th St., Mount Vernon and 4810 Murdock Ave., Bronx 10470. Filed Feb. 10.

O’Shea, Kevin F., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $117,537 affecting property located at 23 Villa Ave., Yonkers 10704. Filed Feb. 11.

Ornstein, Donna J., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $368,000 affecting property located at 40 Lake Shore Drive, South Salem10590. Filed Feb. 11.

Palma, Suzanne M., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $112,837 affecting property located at 59 Orchard St., Eastchester 10709.

Filed Feb. 10.

Ramirez, George, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $377,000 affecting property located at 23 Leonard Place, Yonkers.

Filed Feb. 11.

Salvatto, Antwain J., 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 207 Woodworth Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed Feb. 11.

Shippy Realty Corp., et al. Filed by Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $297,500 affecting property located in Sleepy Hollow.

Filed Feb. 10.

Terry, James E., as administrator, heir at law, next of kin, and distribute of the estate of John Henry Terry, et al.

Filed by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $544,185 affecting property located at 215 S. Third Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Feb. 10.

Tesoriero, Rocco, et al. Filed by Aurora Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $999,000 affecting property located at 115 Park Lane, West Harrison 10604.

Filed Feb. 10.

Anderson Development L.L.C., as owner. $12,064 as claimed by Remcon Enterprises L.L.C. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed Sept. 12.

Leach, David, as owner. $7,247 as claimed by Philalab L.L.C. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Sept. 10.

Royce, Louis A., et al, as owner. $35,000 as claimed by NES Builders Inc., Yonkers. Property: in Cortlandt.

Filed Sept. 11.

Tauber, Jennifer, et al, as owner. $10,500 as claimed by PVS Construction L.L.C., Hopewell Junction. Property: in North Castle. Filed Sept. 12.

Wang, Tianhe, et al, as owner. $25,924 as claimed by JP Moore Home Improvements, Yonkers. Property: in Scarsdale. Filed Sept. 12.

Westchester Foundation For the Disa, Mount Kisco. $35,010 as claimed

by Kings Capital Construction Group, Mount Kisco. Property: in Mount Kisco. Filed Sept. 12.

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

Partnerships Mount Vernon Copy Center, 32 E. First St., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Carol Middleton and Delroy Edwards.

Filed May 21.

Sole Proprietorships Acoustiflute, 115 Underhill Road, Ossining 10652, c/o Katherine Saenger.

Filed May 23.

BA Diaz Mechanical, 114 Cabot Ave., Elmsford 10523, c/o Bienvenido A. Diaz. Filed May 23.

Benedicite Art, 1101 Midlane Ave., 221, Bronxville 10708, c/o Anne M. Tascio. Filed May 21.

BYKLYF, 73 Page Ave., Apt. 3, Yonkers 10704, c/o Craig Penn. Filed May 21.

FACTS & FIGURES Phoenix Engineering Services, 354 County Center Road, White Plains 10603, c/o Stephen J. Cole.

Filed May 22.

Sweet Spa, 155 Route 202, Lincolndale 10540, c/o Xiziti Wu. Filed May 23.

TekNova Computers, 188 Longvue Terrace, Yonkers 10710, c/o Jennifer Poole. Filed May 23.

The Many Shades of Green, 7 Sheridan Road, Chappaqua 10514, c/o Maxine Margo Rubin. Filed May 23.

PATENTS The following patents were issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. Automated cloud workload management in a map-reduce environment. Patent no. 8,839,260 issued to Ronald P. Doyle, Raleigh, N.C.; and David L. Kaminsky, Chapel Hill, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Automating sequential crossapplication data transfer operations. Patent no. 8,839,251 issued to Blaine H. Dolph, Western Springs, Ill.; and Robert J. Torres, Colleyville, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Managing and controlling administrator access to managed computer systems. Patent no. 8,839,400 issued to Eric Anderson, Friendswood, Texas; Christopher J. Dawson, Arlington, Va.; Leslie A. Nelson, Benson, N.C.; and Brett W. Singletary, Clayton, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Newport Bloom L.L.C., Warwick.

Seller: Masanda-Luft Properties L.L.C., Warwick. Property: in Warwick.

Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Sept. 10.

Method for discovering a security policy. Patent no. 8,839,345 issued to John L. Griffin, Arlington, Va.; Dimitrios Pendarakis, Westport, Conn.; Ronald Perez, Austin, Texas; Reiner Sailer, Scarsdale; and Enriquillo Valdez, Brooklyn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. 1076 9W L.L.C., Fort Montgomery.

Seller: Donna Dee Corp., Fort MontSelecting image or video files for gomery. Property: 1076 Route 9W, cloud storage. Patent no. 8,839,392 Highlands. Amount: $360,000. Filed issued to Al Chakra, Apex, N.C.; John Sept. 10.

A. Feller, Cary, N.C.; Trudy L. Hewitt, Cary, N.C.; and Francesco C. Schem- 116 Broadway Star L.L.C., Glen bari, Durham, N.C. Assigned to In- Cove. Seller: 129 Meserole Street L.L.C., ternational Business Machines Brooklyn. Property: in Newburgh.

Corp., Armonk.

Amount: $50,000. Filed Sept. 15.

Below $1 million

HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS

Blade center KVM distribution.

Patent no. 8,839,339 issued to Gerhard N. Buckler, Orefield, Pa.; Eric Kern, Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Johnny Nieves, Yonkers. Assigned to International Greene, Marc A., et al, as owner.

Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Lender: Jeff Bank. Property: 314 Prospect Hill Road, Cuddebackville.

Amount: $85,000. Filed Sept. 11.

Blocking television commercials and providing an archive interrogation program. Patent J.C. Builders Inc., Florida, as owner. no. 8,839,283 issued to Craig W. Fel- Lender: Libertyville Capital Group II lenstein, Shelton, Conn.; and Rick L.L.C., Montgomery. Property: 66 HickA. Hamilton, Charlottesville, Va. As- ory Lane, Minisink. Amount: $175,000. signed to International Business Filed Sept. 12.

Machines Corp., Armonk.

Pohl, Jason G., et al, Newburgh, Call stack sampling to obtain as owner. Lender: Wallkill Valley information for analyzing idle Federal Savings and Loan Assostates in a data processing sys- ciation, Wallkill. Property: 25 Saddletem. Patent no. 8,839,271 issued to back Ridge Road, Wallkill. Amount: Scott Thomas Jones, Austin, Texas; $491,200. Filed Sept. 12.

Frank Eliot Levine, Austin, Texas; and Enio Manuel Pineda,Austin, Texas. Yonnone, Lisa, New Windsor, as Assigned to International Business owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Machines Corp., Armonk.

Montgomery. Property: in New Windsor. Amount: $64,000. Filed Sept. 12.

Interdicting malicious file propagation. Patent no. 8,839,438 issued to Douglas North Franklin, Atlanta, Ga.; and Richard C. Mays, Suwanee, Ga. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Below $1 million

DEEDS

Management of copy services relationships via policies specified on resource groups. Patent no. 8,839,262 issued to Richard A. Ripberger, Tucson, Ariz. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

CSMC 2007-C1 Dolson Avenue L.L.C., Irving, Texas. Seller: Mark Specthrie, Middletown. Property: 130 and 156 Dolson Ave., Wallkill and 130138 Dolson Ave. and 144-146 Dolson Avenue Rear, Middletown. Amount: $11.5 million. Filed Sept. 11.

Above $1 million

238 Route 32 L.L.C., Central Valley. Seller: Rob Berg Enterprises Inc., Palm City, Fla. Property: in Woodbury.

Amount: $1 million. Filed Sept. 9.

132 Franklin Realty L.L.C., Poughkeepsie. Seller: PKCRV Enterprises Inc., Hyde Park. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $300,000. Filed Sept. 10.

1906 Lex Hill L.L.C., Florida. Seller: 76 West Main Street L.L.C., West Nyack. Property: 19 Lexington Hills, Unit 6, Harriman. Amount: $125,000. Filed Sept. 10.

44 Green L.L.C., Hurley. Seller: HSBC Bank USA N.A. Property: 44 Green St., Kingston 12401. Amount: $57,000.

Filed Sept. 8.

8 Carter Lane L.L.C., Monroe.

Seller: Quickway Holdings L.L.C., Monroe. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $120,000. Filed Sept. 10.

AJVJ L.L.C., Newburgh. Seller: Kyoung S. Kim, et al, Newburgh. Property: 169 N. Plank Road, Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $225,000. Filed Sept. 15.

AMJ Properties L.L.C., Milan. Seller: Half Pint Daycare Inc., Red Hook.

Property: in Red Hook. Amount: $310,000. Filed Sept. 9.

Bank of America N.A. Seller: Meghan Mossey, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 958-962 Salt Point Turnpike, Pleasant Valley 12569. Amount: $338,500. Filed Sept. 8.

Beneficial Homeowner Service Corp. Seller: Mark D. Stern, Goshen.

Property: 12 Wagner Place, Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $132,218. Filed Sept. 8.

Bobcat Road L.L.C., Wurtsboro.

Seller: Harold C. Horton Jr., et al, Cuddbackville. Property: in Deerpark.

Amount: $100,000. Filed Sept. 5.

Bobcat Road L.L.C., Wurtsboro.

Seller: Harold C. Horton, et al, Cuddebackville. Property: in Deerpark.

Amount: $35,000. Filed Sept. 5.

Brennan E. Sobiech Farms L.L.C., Warwick. Seller: Thomas Sobiech, Pine Island. Property: in Warwick.

Amount: $27,000. Filed Sept. 3.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Paul C. Brite, Newburgh. Property: 5571 Searsville Road, Pine Bush 12566. Amount: $387,842. Filed Sept. 11.

Parc Woodstock L.L.C., Ardsley.

Seller: Mildred Williams, Woodstock.

Property: 12 Overlook Drive, Woodstock. Amount: $70,000. Filed Sept. 10.

Carraine Holding Corp., Stormville.

Seller: Ralph Andrew Beisner, Hyde Park. Property: 112 Pleasant View Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Amount: $178,000. Filed Sept. 10.

HSBC Mortgage Services Inc., Brandon, Fla. Seller: Anne Johnson, Newburgh. Property: 4 Sunnybrook Circle, Lloyd 12528. Amount: $145,351.

Filed Sept. 9.

Parrotta Realty Inc., Middletown.

Seller: Xiu Chai Shi, Middletown.

Property: in Middletown. Amount: $110,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Catskill Farms Inc., Eldred. Seller: Dawson Homes Inc., Kerhonkson.

Property: in Rochester. Amount: $346,500. Filed Sept. 12.

Hubbell Inc., Margaretville. Seller: John Psomiades, et al, Astoria. Property: in Shandaken. Amount: $80,000.

Filed Sept. 11.

CV XXVIII L.L.C., Anaheim Hills, Calif. Seller: Stephen H. Derderian, Warwick. Property: 4 Amy Lane, Middletown 10941. Amount: $439,115.

Filed Sept. 15.

Hutchinson Creek Capital Corp., Norwood, N.J. Seller: Paul J. Vinci, et al, Walden. Property: 69 Main St., Walden. Amount: $40,000. Filed Sept. 8.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: John E. Bach Jr., Goshen.

Property: 38 Paddock Drive, Pine Bush 12566. Amount: $627,254. Filed Sept. 15.

Investors One Corp., Depew. Seller: Daniel H. Schutzsmith, et al, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $205,000. Filed Sept. 9.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Jean W. Isidore, et al, Brooklyn. Property: 506 Route 209, Huguenot 12746. Amount: $278,304.

Filed Sept. 4.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Paul Brite, Newburgh.

Property: 67 Jessup Switch Road, Florida 10921. Amount: $219,208. Filed Sept. 4.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Randall Coffill, Port Jervis. Property: 21 Terry Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $128,757. Filed Sept. 10.

Franklin American Mortgage Co. Seller: Michael D. Kranis, Poughkeepsie. Property: 158 Belvedere Road, Beacon 12508. Amount: $314,000.

Filed Sept. 10.

Gallo Realty, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Brad Scott, et al, Highland. Property: in Lloyd. Amount: $65,000. Filed Sept. 8.

Hani Holdings L.L.C., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 111 Van Wagner Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $95,000.

Filed Sept. 10.

Henry Terpstra and Son L.L.C., Goshen. Seller: Robert Bonnau, et al, Lehigh Acres, Fla. Property: in Wawayanda. Amount: $66,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Homestead Building Corp., Middletown. Seller: Randolph R. Rosenberg, Montgomery. Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $45,000. Filed Sept. 8.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Pamela Charles, et al, Highland Falls. Property: 53 Farrington St., Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $29,700. Filed Sept. 9.

J and M Home Building Systems Inc., Hopewell Junction. Seller: Robert N. Emig, et al, Hopewell Junction.

Property: in East Fishkill. Amount: $125,000. Filed Sept. 11.

JMSR Inc., Monroe. Seller: Omar Duqmaq, Brooklyn. Property: 91 Sprague Ave., Middletown. Amount: $60,000. Filed Sept. 10.

JRKB Properties L.L.C., Stratford, Calif. Seller: Carolyn K. Crowell, Wallkill. Property: in Shawangunk.

Amount: $137,000. Filed Sept. 12.

NAD Acquisition REO Inc., Irving, Texas. Seller: Clement S. Patti Jr., White Plains. Property: 502 Garden St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $316,088. Filed Sept. 5.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Michael J. Cerkvenik, et al, Warwick. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $465,000. Filed Sept. 10.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Scott Adler, et al, New Windsor. Property: 406 Balsam Drive, New Windsor. Amount: $319,000. Filed Sept. 15.

Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Seller: Richard J. Knight, LaGrangeville. Property: 1458 E. Noxon Road, LaGrangeville 12540. Amount: $243,500. Filed Sept. 8.

Pennings Corner L.L.C., Warwick.

Seller: Richard A. Pennings, et al, Warwick. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $200,000. Filed Sept. 9.

TGRSAR L.L.C., Warwick. Seller: Frank C. Ahearn, et al, Warwick. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $265,500.

Filed Sept. 12.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. Seller: Sarah Ramos, Goshen.

Property: 10 Sullivan Ave., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $164,538. Filed Sept. 3.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Elizabeth A. Garcia, Poughkeepsie. Property: 19 Linda Court, Poughkeepsie 12603.

Amount: $279,000. Filed Sept. 10.

The Kosah L.L.C., Monroe. Seller: Rifka Malik, Monroe. Property: 4 Paksh Place, Unit 102, Monroe. Amount: $220,000. Filed Sept. 10.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Michael J. O’Connor, Poughkeepsie. Property: 98 Tick Tock Way, Stanfordville 12581.

Amount: $322,000. Filed Sept. 10.

Village of Washingtonville, Washingtonville. Seller: Marge K. Dalnodar, Washingtonville. Property: in Washingtonville. Amount: $215,000. Filed Sept. 9.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Alan Joseph, Goshen. Property: 202 Creamery Pond Road, Sugar Loaf 10981.

Amount: $518,088. Filed Sept. 15.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Felipe Alvarez, et al, Monroe. Property: 122 Ball St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $153,216. Filed Sept. 3.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: John B. Swift III, Goshen. Property: 2745 Route 6, Slate Hill 10973. Amount: $440,074. Filed Sept. 15.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Joseph L. Canino, Kingston. Property: 2 Waring Road, Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $299,593. Filed Sept. 10.

Northern Enterprise L.L.C., Cornwallon-Hudson. Seller: Ira Cohen, Monticello. Property: in Newburgh.

Amount: $78,379. Filed Sept. 3.

Northern Enterprise NY L.L.C., Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: John E. Bach Jr., Goshen. Property: 1205 Deerfield Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $77,600. Filed Sept. 5.

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FACTS & FIGURES JUDGMENTS 511-517 North Street Inc., d.b.a. Michelangelo Pizzeria, Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

800 Numbers Free L.L.C., Warwick. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

A Class 1-S Transportation Corp., Middletown. $234 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Advantage Solutions Plus Inc., Washingtonville. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Alessia Hi-Di Inc., d.b.a. Gateway Diner of Highland, Highland. $11,306 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 11.

Bar Wizard West Inc., d.b.a. The Smith, Highland Mills. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed June 25.

Brown’s Mobile Repair Inc., Chester. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Ceasar Technical Solutions L.L.C., New Windsor. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Cherso Realty Inc., Greenwood Lake. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Craig Toth’s Golf Shop L.L.C., Walden. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Crystal Clean Facility Management L.L.C., Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Dankelmann and Associates Inc., Kingston. $133 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 11.

Elder Construction, Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Family Meat Market Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

New Windsor Bakery Inc., New Windsor. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

GCIA Inc., Highland. $5,501 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 11.

Peter Pellegrino Stable Inc., Montgomery. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Genesis Contractors Inc., Wallkill. $1,849 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 11.

Gouvis Restaurant Inc., d.b.a.

Bright Star Diner, Central Valley. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Healthcare Recovery Management Inc., Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Interiors Pro Corp., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

J and R Flowers Inc., Woodstock. $253 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany.

Filed Sept. 9.

JAS Property Management and Realty, Pine Bush. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

John Angus and Sons Siding, Otisville. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Kahn Inc., d.b.a. Kahn Realtors, Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Keystone Construction Clerks and Managers Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Mgondal Inc., Montgomery. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Mountainside Custom Homes L.L.C., Florida. $3,183 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

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Politi Electric Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Potent Potential Inc., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 25.

Brown, Timothy J., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $24,420 affecting property located at 94 Mulberry Lane, Milton 12547. Filed Sept. 10.

Cabrera, Frank A., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 4 Hanover Mews, Middletown 10940. Filed March 26.

Cappiello, Loretta, 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 75 Albany St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Sept. 8.

Carrington, Julius J. Sr., et al. Filed

by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $32,828 affecting property located at 71 Beacon St., Beacon 12508. Filed Sept. 8.

Carroll, Robert M., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $171,000 affecting property located at 3 Eleanor Drive, Holmes 12531. Filed Sept. 10.

Cascio, Jennie M., individually and as surviving spouse of Joseph Cascio, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $225,000 affecting property located at 175 Carter Road, New Hampton 10958. Filed March 26.

Coleman, Sally, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $178,500 affecting property located at 35 Beekman St., Poughkeepsie 12601.

Filed Sept. 8.

Colonna, Michael J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $132,405 affecting property located at 119 Tuckers Corners Road, Highland 12528. Filed Sept. 12.

Concepcion, Denise, et al. Filed

by PennyMac Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $238,659 affecting property located at 19 Jordan Lane, Unit 11, Middletown 10940. Filed March 28.

Conley, William J., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $204,600 affecting property located at 59 Wind Swept Path, Marlboro 12542. Filed Sept. 9.

Crozier, Kerry L., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $71,050 affecting property located at 1848 Route 32, Saugerties 12477. Filed Sept. 12.

Dashnau, Edward R., 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 2428 Bruynswick Road, Wallkill 12589. Filed Sept. 8.

Walsh, Imelda F., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 16 Cottage Ave., Dover 12594. Filed Sept. 10.

Warren, Daren, 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 285 E. Peenpack Trail, Huguenot 12746. Filed March 28.

Wimmer, Michael, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $142,785 affecting property located at 11 Capron St., Walden 12586.

Filed March 28.

Wolff, Aileen Patricia, et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $192,727 affecting property located at 8 Lake Drive, Greenwood Lake 10925. Filed March 26.

Yonnetti, Joseph, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Financial Credit Services New York Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $119,600 affecting property located at 53 Catskill Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed Sept. 12.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Brittain, Darryl A., et al, as owner. $1,640 as claimed by Floyd M. Krom Jr., Kingston. Property: 506 N. Marbletown Road, Kingston. Filed Sept. 8.

Church Hill Properties of Highland Falls NY L.L.C., as owner. $10,500 as claimed by Mid Hudson Concrete Products Inc., Cold Spring.

Property: 1610 Route 9W, Highland Falls. Filed Sept. 12.

Deedwaniya, Sharad C., et al, as owner. $16,909 as claimed by Thomas Petersen, Lake Katrine. Property: 18 Pawan Circle, Ulster. Filed Sept. 12.

River Management Development and Realty Inc., d.b.a. Associa OnCall, 117 Executive Drive, New Windsor 12553. Filed Jan. 21.

Friedman, Morris, as owner. $3,425 as claimed by Anthony Ippolito, Woodstock. Property: 60 Maverick Road, Hurley. Filed Sept. 9.

Partnerships

Khan, Salim, et al, as owner. $3,408 as claimed by Probuild Company L.L.C., Middletown. Property: 3 Roan Lane, Newburgh. Filed Sept. 8.

Nine Mall Associates L.L.C., as owner. $12,850 as claimed by Mechanical Coordinators of NY Inc., Carmel. Property: 1830 South Road, Poughkeepsie.

Filed Sept. 12.

Toth, Richard E., et al, Tuxedo, as owner. $9,108 as claimed by E. Tetz and Sons Inc., Middletown. Property: in Tuxedo. Filed Sept. 5.

Woodbury Suburban Estates Corp., as owner. $208,125 as claimed by Larghi Brothers Inc., Park Ridge, N.J. Property: in Woodbury. Filed Sept. 5.

NEW BUSINESSES

Beberts Moroccan Condiments, P.O. Box 168, Big Indian 12410, c/o Diane J. Adzema and Robert V. Attias.

Filed Sept. 12.

Create-A-Cake, 201 Highland Ave., Maybrook 12543, c/o Jessica L. Monroe and Ashley M. Schueter. Filed Jan. 22.

Goodfellas Barbershop, 19 N. Front St., New Paltz 12561, c/o Andrew J. Sairrino and Fabian A. Cruz. Filed Sept. 9.

Menke Ceramics, 93A Kyserike Road, Stone Ridge 12484, c/o Ashley A. Wheaton and Avery T. Menke. Filed Sept. 8.

Sole Proprietorships Arco Café, 3588 Main St., Stone Ridge 12484, c/o Monik Magdalena Geisel.

Filed Sept. 12.

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

NJ-now, 321 W. Saugerties Road, Saugerties 12477, c/o Howard M. Brown.

Filed Sept. 12.

Doing Business As

Oak Contracting and Design, 342 Primrose Hill Road, Rhinebeck 12572, c/o Anne Kurz. Filed Sept. 8.

Coffeemax Services Inc., d.b.a. Coffee U, 155 Acres Road, Unit 303, Monroe 10950. Filed Jan. 21.

Coffeemax Services Inc., d.b.a. Coltelli, 155 Acres Road, Unit 303, Monroe 10950. Filed Jan. 21.

Country Goods Inc., d.b.a. Ecoast Bargains, 3 Leipnik Way, Unit 102, Monroe 10950. Filed Jan. 21.

Kosher Grill of KJ Inc., d.b.a. Kosher Dippes, 15 Zenta Road, Suite 202, Monroe 10950. Filed Jan. 21.

Local Media Group Inc., d.b.a.

Pointer/View, 40 Mulberry St., Middletown 10940. Filed Jan. 21.

Local Media Group Inc., d.b.a. The Gazette, 40 Mulberry St., Middletown 10940. Filed Jan. 21.

Local Media Group Inc., d.b.a.

Times Herald-Record, 40 Mulberry St., Middletown 10940. Filed Jan. 21.

MRLS II Inc., d.b.a. Mario’s Restaurant, 430 Route 32, Highland Mills 10930. Filed Jan. 21.

PSNG Valley Brook Inc., d.b.a. Robi’s Deli, 1124 Route 94, New Windsor 12553. Filed Jan. 21.

Paffenroth Gardens, 95 Little York Road, Warwick, c/o Alexander Paffenroth. Filed Jan. 23.

Pochohantas’ Treasures, 333 Harry Wells Road, Saugerties 12447, c/o Mary Louise Liberto. Filed Sept. 12.

Rt 6 Auto Repair, 21 W. Main St., Port Jervis, c/o Said Abdallah. Filed Jan. 23.

Safe Haven Arts, 15 Ferndale Ave., Highland Mills 10930, c/o Lorraine Elizabeth Murphy. Filed Jan. 24.

Simmons-Kelly Consulting, 1478 Route 28, West Hurley 12491, c/o Imogene Simmons-Kelly. Filed Sept. 11.

Stephen’s Carpet Cleaning, 90 Fairview Ave., 1-10, Kingston 12401, c/o Stephen C. Owens Jr. Filed Sept. 12.

The Green Janitor Orange County, 188 Waters Edge, Montgomery 12549, c/o Shannon Ree Kahan. Filed Jan. 21.

We Fix U Like Home Improvement and Repair, 70 Saint John St., Goshen 10924, c/o Steven Sgambati.

Filed Jan. 22.

LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (ìLLCî) RSFG CONSULTING GROUP LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on 7/31/14 Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 113 Beekman Avenue, Mount Vernon, NY 10553.

Purpose: any lawful activity #59578 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: Old New House, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/16/2014. Office location: Westchester County. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served is to the principal business location at c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn NY 11228. Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity. #59579 Notice of Formation of Havoc Hoops, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on July 14th, 2014.

Office Location: Westchester County, NY. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Christopher Rohle, 1571 Paine Street Yorktown, NY 10598. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #59580 Notice of Formation of Trend Point, LLC filed with SSNY on 7/22/14. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 51 Old Stone Hill Rd. Pound Ridge, NY 10576. LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed #59581 Notice of formation of Killcode, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY on July 30, 2014.

The office of this LLC is located in Westchester County.

Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Secretary of State shall mail a copy of process against the LLC to 1333A North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10804. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #59582

Notice of formation of Be Kind Living LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 6/17/14. Office: Westchester Cty. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is the Principal business address: 2395 Maple Avenue, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: E-retail. #59583

45 SUN VALLEY PARTNERS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/21/2014.

Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 45 Old Post Rd., Bedford Corners, NY 10549.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59589

Raasas Restaurant LLC Art of Org filed SSNY 10/21/13.

Westchester County. SSNY Designated as agt. upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process: 1452 E. Main Street Elmsford, NY 10523. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59584

909 MUSIC LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/14/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Michael Goodman, 17 East Mountain Road, Katonah, NY 10536.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59573

JTL CONSULTING LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/06/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 122 Eagle Court, White PLains, NY 10605. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59586

Casale Affitare, LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 7/14/14. Office: Westchester Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to Bobbie Anne Flower-Cox 34 Palmer Ave. Bronxville, NY 10708.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #59574

NUTRICIOUS TROPICAL DELIGHTS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/14/2014, name changed to NUTRITIOUS TROPICAL DELIGHTS, LLC on 08/22/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Everard Rhoden, 180 Pearsall Dr., Apt. 3C, Mt. Vernon, NY 10552.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59587

Casale Noleggiare, LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 7/14/14. Office: Westchester Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to Bobbie Anne Flower-Cox 34 Palmer Ave. Bronxville, NY 10708.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #59575

1969 CENTRAL PARK AVE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/22/2014 . Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1955 Central Park Ave., Yonkers, NY 10710. Reg. Agent: Mark Fonte CO, 1955 Central Park Ave., Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59588

Notice of formation of HighPoint Electric, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on July 8, 2014. Office location: Westchester County.

The street address is: 180 East Prospect Avenue,#217, Mamaroneck, NY 10543.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process served to: Wade Langdon, 180 East Prospect Avenue,#217, Mamaroneck, NY 10543. Purpose: any lawful act. #59592 Notice of formation of Doctor House Inspections LLC. Arts. of Org. Filed with SSNY on 07/18/14. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2249 Mohansic Av., Yorktown Hts., NY 10598. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59593

EVENTS BY JESSE, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/22/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jesse Reing, 1360 Sunny Ridge Rd, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547.

Reg Agent: Jesse Reing, 1360 Sunny Ridge Rd, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Ad # 59594 #59594 ANGENEHM LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/03/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 717 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Ad # 59595 #59595 571B HERITAGE HILLS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/28/2014. Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Steinvurzel & Levy Law Group, 34 South Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Ad # 59596 #59596 Etchell Consulting LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/27/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 24 Oscaleta Rd., South Salem, NY 10590. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Ad # 59597 #59597 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Cornell Pace Development Partners LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on August 25, 2014. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Cornell Pace Development Partners LLC, Leonard Shendell, 542 Main Street, New Rochelle, New York 10801. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. Ad # 59598 #59598

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî).

Name: MacQuesten 22 South LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on August 26, 2014. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to MacQuesten 22 South LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. Ad # 59599 #59599 Notice of Formation of WOO BROTHERS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/30/14. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Moses & Singer LLP, Attn: Daniel S. Rubin, Esq., 405 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 101741299. Purpose. Any lawful act or activity. Ad # 59600 #59600 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: Unicorp International, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/19/14.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Unicorp International, 128 Fuller Road, Briarcliff Manor, New York 10510, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. 59601 #59601 Trident Professional Services, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/21/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: 233 S. Highland Ave, Ossining, NY 10562. The principal business address of the LLC is: 233 S. Highland Ave, Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #59605

Notice of Formation of Lamartine Properties LLC. Principal office Westchester County. Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to Paul Kilmartin, 876 McLean Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10704. Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on 8/19/2014. Purpose: Any lawful act(s). #59606

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Saturday Art LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) 8/14/14. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 180 Gaylor Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful act. #59613

Mudsizer, LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 8/18/14. Office: Westchester Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 1843 Palmer Ave. Larchmont, NY 10538.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #59607

Notice of Formation of Hudson Riley, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/5/14.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 700 Old Post Rd. Bedford, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59614

Notice of Formation of 175 Croton Avenue LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/4/2014. Office location: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 8 Katrina Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 , Purpose: any lawful act or activity #59608 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF umo LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 08/25/14. Office location: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 746 Mamaroneck Ave; #1315, Mamaroneck NY 10543. Purpose: any lawful act. #59610 Notice of Formation of Gilrose Pharmaceuticals, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/11/2014.

Office located in Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/ her to 125 S. Broadway, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful activity. #59611 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Danchin Art LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) 8/13/14. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 35 Church Lane, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful act. #59612

Name of LLC: Novelista Publishing, LLC. Arts of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 6/27/2014. Princ. Ofc. loc: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o 16 Minerva Place, 4C, White Plains, NY 10601, Attn.: Monica Cooper.

Purpose: Any lawful Activity #59615 Notice of formation of TGM Real Estate Group,LLC Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/14/14.Office in Westchester County.SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to:143 New Chalet Drive, Mohegan Lake NY 10547.Purpose: any lawful purpose #59616 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî).

Name: Horton Winthrop III, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on September 11, 2014. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Horton Winthrop III, LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #59617

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LEGAL NOTICES Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî).

Name: Horton Winthrop Managers III, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on September 11, 2014. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Horton Winthrop Managers III, LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #59618

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: MacQuesten Winthrop III, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on September 11, 2014. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to MacQuesten Winthrop III, LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity #59619 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Sommelier Home, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with the Secretary of Sate of New York (SSNY) on 05/15/2014.

Office in Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC: 1 Augusta Drive, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567.

Purpose: any lawful business activity #59620

Notice of Formation of SAVAGE LAW, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/29/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O THE PLLC, 400 Blinn Rd., Croton On Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: to engage in the practice of Law. #59621

Notice of Formation of 39 MIDDLE POND ROAD ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/25/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 12 Water St., #204, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59623

Notice of Formation of EVOLUTIONEAT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/23/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 17 Bonnie Briar Lane, Larchmont, NY 10538. Purpose. Any lawful act or activity. #59625

Notice of Formation of 263 SOUTH 11TH AVE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/14/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o John Caparelli, 126 Lincoln Ave., W. Harrison, NY 10604. Purpose.

Any lawful act or activity. #59627

Notice of Formation of 28 MIDDLE POND ROAD ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/25/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 12 Water St., #204, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful activities #59622

Notice of Formation of KWPCREATIVE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/26/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 72 Robert Ave., Port Chester, NY 10573. Purpose: all lawful activities #59624

Notice of Formation of 52 ELDREDGE STREET REALTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/11/14. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Frank Testa, 48 Lindy Drive, Carmel, NY 10512.

Purpose. Any lawful act or activity. #59626

Notice of formation of KIMMIMI LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/09/14. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 15 Water St New Rochelle, NY 10805. Purpose: Any lawful purpose #59628

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Notice of Formation of dogí N ñ it LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/11/14. Office Location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 23 Kings Grant Way, Briarcliff Manor, New York 10510.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59629

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Todmar Investor Group, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 28, 2014.Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and SSNY shall mail a copy of process against LLC to W. Thomas Clark, 4 Surrey Lane, North Salem, New York 10560. Purpose: Any lawful act. #59630 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Strangford Quays, Inc. d/b/a The Hole In The Wall to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 1568 Central Park Avenue Yonkers, NY 10710 #59631

FACES& PLACES

HEINEKEN USA GOES GREEN

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Heineken USA recently co-hosted a Westchester Green Business Challenge event at its White Plains headquarters.

The challenge encourages companies throughout the county to improve their office performance by going green. Jay Black, SL Green director of sustainability, and Heineken USA senior vice president of human resources Pepe Velasquez discussed how their landlord/tenant relationship helped create a green office that benefits both the environment and employees.

Photographs by James Koch Photography 1. Lianne Visser, manager, sustainability and alcohol policy, Heineken USA. 2. Colleen Griffiths, AKRF. 3. Dani Glaser, founder/CEO Green Team Spirit & Westchester Green Business Challenge.

4. Carol Ryan, 511 NY Rideshare; Marsha Gordon, president and CEO, The Business Council of Westchester; and Scott Fernqvist, special assistant to the CIO at Westchester County and program director, Westchester Green Business Challenge 5. George Oros, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino’s chief of staff, and White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach.

6. Heineken USA’s senior vice president of human resources Pepe Velasquez; Howard Landeck, International Spirits and Wine, Matthew Messer, Sunrise Solar Solutions; and Brian Nieves, Daylight Savings Company.

7. Christina Rae of Buzz Creators and Nadine Hunt-Robinson, White Plains Councilwoman.

8. Jacqueline Overton, engagement manager at Heineken USA and Joseph (Bud) Nicoletti Jr., city of White Plains.

9. Michael Shilale, Michael Shilale Architects.

All photograph identifications are from the left unless otherwise noted.

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