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T “Building any gaming facility so close to ones that already exist is a losing bet for New York,” said John Ravitz, the executive vice president of The Business Council of Westchester.

“Allowing a developer to get a gaming license so close to Yonkers would essentially cannibalize an already-successful business.”

The Orange County Partnership, a not-forprofit economic development agency based in Goshen, issued a statement saying that the Westchester-based opposition to casino development in Orange County is about protecting the Rooney family’s business.

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he skyline of New Rochelle is likely to change dramatically in the coming decades under what the mayor called the single most ambitious development project in the city’s history.

Mayor Noam Bramson, a Democrat, said the architectural design of new developments will serve as the best advertisement that the city’s economy is thriving. “It’ll be an image that is recognized throughout the region,” he said.

The City Council on Oct. 7 chose a master developer to oversee two development clusters in the city’s downtown in an effort to send a holistic jolt to the downtown infrastructure that will include mixed-use developments and vertical growth in the city’s skyline.

RDRXR, a development partnership between Long Island companies RXR Realty LLC and Renaissance Downtowns, set an ambitious timeline of having shovels in the ground within 18 to 24 months. Partnership representatives told the City Council it planned to open a project office and would work with existing business owners and community stakeholders before finalizing its overarching plan.

Brandon Palanker, vice president of marketing and public affairs, told elected officials the partnership would use its “crowdsourced placemaking” process to gather input from residents and build consensus.

He said as master developer, the partnership was not looking to replace existing buildings and oust current businesses but spark projects that would encourage them to build up as well.

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Houlihan Lawrence Realtors, from left, Tianying Xu, Elizabeth Nunan and Lesli Hammerschmidt outside a Chappaqua home listed for sale at nearly $6.5 million. Photo by John Golden

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Westchester officials don’t want Orange County casinos approved

BY LEIF SKODNICK lskodnick@westfairinc.com NOBODY PUTS YONKERS IN A CORNER. That’s the message local legislators and business advocates delivered at a press conference at the Empire City Casino in Yonkers on Oct. 8, arguing that the pending license applications to put casinos in Orange County would result in local jobs and funding for education being lost.

Empire City Casino generates close to $300 million per year in funds that go toward education and provides jobs to 1,400 residents of the Bronx and Westchester.

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Forging a China link for Westchester’s luxury homes market

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lizabeth Nunan brought some cultural preconceptions with her in July when she visited China for the first time for her Westchester real estate company. As vice president of global business development at Houlihan Lawrence, she traveled to the Chinese mainland with two sales associates from Houlihan Lawrence’s Scarsdale and Armonk offices for whom the visit was a homecoming and a near-homecoming.

“We as a company have just started to put much more marketing efforts into attracting some high-end Chinese consumers” to Westchester’s luxury residential market, Nunan said.

China is the fastest-growing source of international clients for residential real estate in the U.S., according to the National Association of Realtors, accounting for 16 percent of buyers here in a one-year period from 2013 through this year’s first quarter. Drawn to some of the nation’s highest-priced markets, Chinese consumers accounted for $22 billion in nationwide sales, or 24 percent of the $92.2 billion in total sales to international buyers for the year. In the prior year, Chinese buyers accounted for $12.8 billion in sales, or 19 percent of the $68.2 billion in real estate purchases by international clients.

In Shanghai, Nunan and her Houlihan Lawrence colleagues, Tianying Xu and Lesli Hammerschmidt, attended the Luxury Portfolio Immersion Conference, a threeday event designed to give professionals in the luxury homes market a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and traditions that might affect the choices in real estate made by wealthy Chinese. Xu is a native of China, where she earned a degree in civil engineering. Hammerschmidt, the daughter of a U.S. Agriculture Department official, was raised in Taiwan and Hong Kong, where she worked for a decade as an international relocation consultant.

The conference was sponsored by Luxury Portfolio International, a global network of more than 500 affiliated real estate firms that includes Houlihan Lawrence. A division of Chicago-based Reliance Relocation Services Inc., Luxury Portfolio on its website markets

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more than 25,000 high-end homes, with an average price of about $2.6 million, to more than 3 million high-net-worth visitors annually. Nunan said Houlihan Lawrence joined the network about nine years ago.

In Shanghai, Nunan and her colleagues met with executives at Juwai — its Chinese name translates as “home overseas” — a Chinabased company started by two Australians whose 3-year-old real estate portal, Juwai. com, has become a leading site for Chinese buyers searching for international real estate.

Nunan said the Juwai site has 1.5 million views per month.

LuxuryPortfolio.com receives all Houlihan Lawrence listings of properties in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties priced at $1 million and higher. In a new marketing venture that began in April for the Rye Brook-based company, those listings then are posted on Juwai.com to directly reach prospective Chinese buyers.

“That’s kind of a new thing for us to test,” Nunan said. “It’s a win-win for us, because it gives our sellers and our properties global exposure.”

Nunan learned some new things about those targeted Chinese consumers at the conference.

“I kind of went with the assumption that they would be interested in condo living” in the U.S., coming from a nation of crowded cities where, as she observed on her trip, “There are just high-rises everywhere.” But from statistics presented at the conference, “I learned that I was wrong.” Among recent Chinese buyers in the U.S. market, 70 percent preferred detached single-family homes, according to the 2014 report by the National Association of Realtors cited by Nunan. Only 12 percent of Chinese buyers here bought condos or apartments, according to the NAR report, which profiled international home-buying activity in the U.S. from April 2013 to March 2014.

“We have the suburbs, so it’s a different way of life than they’re used to,” Nunan said.

“Many people like that, that they’re different.”

The NAR survey found that 46 percent of Chinese buyers preferred suburban homes, while 37 percent chose central city or urban residences.

Nunan said Chinese companies at the conference inquired about EB-5 visas, a U.S.

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From Shanghai, the Houlihan Lawrence team flew to Xi’an in northwest China, one of the country’s oldest cities. Xi’an will be the focus of Houlihan Lawrence’s initial marketing efforts in China.

Houlihan Lawrence has a familiar link to the ancient Chinese city in Tianying Xu, who was raised there. Xu last year followed her Chinese Canadian husband, a medical

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student and now a physician in Westchester, from Toronto to Scarsdale. Xu sees her work as a broker at Houlihan Lawrence’s Scarsdale office as part of her thorough education in residential real estate.

“Being a Realtor, you study and know different kinds of homes,” she said. “I really want to know everything.” It will prepare her for her next venture, the development company she plans to start with American construction partners and Chinese investors, she said.

Nunan said the Westchester team met in Xi’an with potential corporate clients — Chinese companies that have a presence in New York — and banks, one of which agreed to make Houlihan Lawrence brochures for international buyers available in Mandarin China, page 16

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Smartphone repair businesses have ringing registers

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t lasts less than a second, but that second can stop the beat of a smartphone user.

An expensive mobile device slips out of a hand and plummets 3 feet to Earth — will it emerged unscathed?

Since 2007, the year Apple released the first iPhone, mobile devices with shattered screens have been a common sight. But often, the expensive devices aren’t ruined — and two Westchester County businesses have entered the niche market of repairing damaged electronics.

Just over a month ago, Patrick Harter launched iFixiBuy, which makes house calls to fix iPhones and other electronic devices in the Westchester area. He said the business fit with his tinkering nature.

“I’d always built computers and stuff when I was a kid,” said Harter, whose business is based in New Rochelle. “I’ve been taking things apart and putting them back together since I was 3 years old.”

Harter said broken screens are his most common repair, followed by water damage.

“Lots of people drop their phones in toilets,” Harter said with a laugh. “I’d say 90 percent of the water-damaged phones we see are dropped in toilets. You wouldn’t believe it, but it’s true.”

Apple’s newest iPhone models, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, range in price from $199 To $499, depending on the model and amount of storage space, while the soonto-be-released Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will set a buyer back about $300 with a contract.

For Harter’s iFixiBuy, and for uBreakiFix, a franchised chain out of Orlando, Fla., with locations in Mount Kisco and Scarsdale, those big prices mean big business.

UBreakiFix has nearly 100 locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and made the Inc. 5000 list, which ranks the 5,000 fastestgrowing private companies in the U.S. by three-year percentage revenue growth, in 2013 and 2014.

“In addition to phones, we do computers, game consoles and basically any small electronics as long as it is cost-effective to the consumer,” said Jesse Glassberg, the district manager for the uBreakiFix stores in Mount Kisco and Scarsdale.

At the uBreakiFix store in Scarsdale, a team of three technicians was working on different repair projects in the back, where Glassberg showed the Business Journal the first broken iPhone 6 to come in.

“I’m going to try and fix it this afternoon; it’ll be our first iPhone 6 repair,” Glassberg said.

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The reason the cellphone repair business has gotten big recently is the replacement cost of the devices. For those buying the phone without a cellular service plan, which often happens when a phone is damaged beyond repair, the prices are much higher: the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus cost between $649 and $949, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will run at about $900.

When a new model comes out, as the iPhone 6 recently did and the Galaxy Note 4 soon will, people are often caught between upgrades. Those people often pay the full price for the new phone and sell the older, but still functioning, model.

“There is literally billions of dollars in value in old phones just sitting around in drawers,” said Nik Raman, chief operating officer of uSell.com, a website that enables the owners of outdated or damaged phones to sell them online. To date, the site has linked sellers of more than 375,000 phones with buyers.

Raman said used phones are divided into grades. A phone with a cracked screen would get a C grade, a phone that no longer turns on would get a D grade, and a phone with a bent body, as can happen with the iPhone 6, would get an E grade.

“Those E grade phones are almost junk.

They have virtually no resale value,” Raman said.

But for those less-damaged phones, there is some value. A 64GB iPhone 5s that does not power on, has a cracked screen or body, or is not fully functional still could sell for about $115 on uSell.com.

For those just keeping a phone alive until the next new model comes out or they are allowed to upgrade, fixing the phone might be the best option.

“If someone is between upgrades and doesn’t have insurance, that’s where we come in,” said Glassberg at uBreakiFix, where a screen replacement on an iPhone costs about $100, and a little more for a Samsung Galaxy.

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Iona College opens campus to Start-Up NY companies

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ona College officials plan to make the school’s new business analytics institute at the Hagan School of Business the focus of partnerships with private hightech companies as part of the state’s StartUp NY program to attract new businesses and help existing ones expand or relocate in tax-free zones at academic campuses across the state.

The Catholic university recently was named the second private institution in Westchester County — and the second in New Rochelle — to participate in the f ledgling program, which was initially designed to stimulate a new wave of high-tech economic development and create good-paying jobs in struggling upstate communities. The College of New Rochelle in August was included in the tax incentives program, which was proposed and aggressively pursued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and authorized by the state Legislature in 2013.

Companies whose business missions

and activities align with the academic mission of the school sponsoring a Start-Up NY zone will pay no state taxes for 10 years.

Their employees will pay no state personal income taxes for the first five years in the campus zone. For the second five years, workers will pay no state taxes on annual income up to $200,000 for individuals, $250,000 for a head of household and $300,000 for taxpayers filing a joint return.

At public and private academic institutions in Westchester and New York City and on Long Island, eligible businesses must be in the formative stage of development or engaged in the design, development and introduction of new biotechnology, information technology, remanufacturing, advanced materials processing, engineering or electronic technology products or innovative manufacturing processes.

“The Business Analytics Institute is really going to be our focus in terms of potential partnerships,” said Dan Konopka, director of corporate, foundation and government relations at Iona. The first focus will be health care analytics, he said. Both the Business Analytics Institute and a Center for

Health Care Analytics were launched earlier this year in the Hagan School of Business.

Konopka in the school’s plan presented to state officials said the school will form business partnerships “with the prospect of breaking new ground in the area of large data-driven analytics.” After the initial focus on health care analytics, the school will look to apply business, the sciences and cybersecurity analytics in its future partnerships.

Iona College President Joseph E. Nyre said the Start-Up NY program is an opportunity for Iona to create partnerships “that improve the vitality of the community and the vitality of the college.” In a press release announcing the program, Nyre said the interaction with business enterprises “will have a positive impact on our students and faculty, creating resources of business expertise and internship possibilities for our students” and a “natural synergy” with the two analytics centers at the Hagan School.

The college will make available for StartUp NY companies a total of approximately 9,000 square feet of third-floor space in the

business school building, Hagan Hall, and McSpedon Hall, the main administration building. Nyre said that space is available on the urban campus because of Iona’s acquisition of commercial and residential space in the surrounding New Rochelle neighborhood during his administration that has increased its physical land assets by 30 percent.

Regarding recruitment of businesses for the startup zone, Konopka said “We’re not pursuing them at this point. They’re coming to us.”

Iona officials in their proposal to the state said the college has been in discussions with two potential business partners that had considered relocating their operations outside New York “until this opportunity arose.” One is interested in partnering with Iona’s Center for Health Care Analytics to facilitate the discovery and development of biomarkers, molecular diagnostics and personalized therapies. The second is in the business of “high-scale web mining,” used by companies to extract valuable information from an unlimited number of websites, Iona officials said.

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Mamaroneck set to approve transit-oriented rezone

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he 3 Jalapenos Mexican restaurant closed for good in 2011 when Hurricane Irene brought floodwaters that submerged the one-story building. It was the second flood that caused extensive damage to the restaurant, which occupied a prominent space on Mamaroneck Avenue in the flood-prone village of Mamaroneck.

The space has been vacant since.

A buyer has agreed to buy the property, according to real estate broker Nancy Wasserman of Coldwell Banker. Although she would not reveal the identity of the buyer until the transaction is closed, Wasserman confirmed that it plans to propose building a mixed-use development with retail stores on the ground floor and rental apartments above.

“People are already asking me, ‘How tall is it going to be?’ ‘How much is it going to cost?’ ‘How many bedrooms are there going to be?’” she said. The developer has been eyeing adjoining properties to potentially buy those as well.

What that proposal hinges on, though, is the anticipated rezoning of the area as part of an effort to spark transit-oriented development in the corridor around Mamaroneck’s Metro-North train station.

The village’s board of trustees will vote to approve revisions to the code Oct. 27, after a lengthy process that flagged the area as ripe for redevelopment and attractive to potential young renters who would be drawn in by the proximity to the station and to Mamaroneck’s budding downtown scene.

Mamaroneck Avenue on the southeast side of the tracks has grown into a dining and nightlife destination with on-street parking and foot traffic, but the northwest side of the tracks remains a vehicledominated thoroughfare. The zoning is fragmented in the corridor, with some areas allowing commercial uses and other areas zoned only for residential (the former 3 Jalapenos’ zone allows for residential development but not mixed-use). The train station itself was part of an adaptive reuse project that built a restaurant-bar in the old building.

Many of the existing retail stores there are noncomforming under the existing zone and most lots in the RM-3 residential zone are noncomforming due to their lot sizes, setbacks or building coverages. The rezone would not only allow for mixed use but also bump up allotments to bring more existing buildings into conformity and promote redevelopment. It would establish an overlay

zone in the commercial zone.

“It’s a major hodgepodge, and the reason this came up is to make that hodgepodge go away,” Wasserman, who lives nearby, said. She said she expected there to be ample interest in real estate in the corridor due to the rezoning. “The numbers will not work if the zoning is not changed,” she said.

The village and a local civic group called the Washingtonville Housing Alliance commissioned the transit-oriented development, or TOD, study after they were given a $38,500 grant in 2012 from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the One Region Funders’ Group. The village later appointed a 15-member steering committee, worked with New York City-based BFJ Planning and held three public forums

about the rezoning.

There will be no changes to density and height in the RM-3 zone but the overlay zone would allow for more density than other areas in the village. The overlay zone would also have a bonus for affordable housing: Developers can increase the floor area ratio from 0.6 to 0.8 when residential building meets a requirement of about 10 percent affordable housing out of a total development.

Mayor Norman Rosenblum, a Republican, said the TOD in Mamaroneck was not urban redevelopment and would not include any use of eminent domain.

He also said the affordable housing provision was key to keeping intact the broad demographics of the village. “Not only will it bring retail and increase the tax base

but it will bring more affordable housing,” he said. “I’m big on keeping the diversity of the village of Mamaroneck.”

The rezone also comes with requirements for green building, flood mitigation measures and payment into a flood mitigation fund. It also offers bonus allotments to ensure that a grocery store remains in the neighborhood — there is an A&P on Mamaroneck Avenue near the Interstate 95 juncture.

Rosenblum said that the TOD, combined with an anticipated rezone of the village’s industrial district, will spark new businesses and construction in Mamaroneck. “It all fits in to the continuing growth of the village of Mamaroneck so we stay No. 1, and I’ll continue to be its cheerleader,” he said.

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“This could truly be a hub of innovation, arts and entrepreneurship,” he said.

New Rochelle is Westchester County’s second-largest city, with a population of nearly 80,000. The city’s Department of Development has joined with the New Rochelle Board of Education to solicit proposals from potential consultants to study the effects of the downtown redevelopment on student growth in the public school system.

RXR has $7 billion in assets and 112 operating properties. Renaissance has $10 billion in the development pipeline and has completed 80 redevelopment projects in 35 years in business. The partnership has undertaken several master development projects across the country totaling 5.4 million square feet. It is currently in the process of undertaking a similar project in Hempstead, Long Island. The partnership was one of two candidates that responded to a Request for Qualifications issued by the

Casinos — From page 1

believe that those engaged in today’s event at the Empire City Racino are espousing anti-competition rhetoric aimed at promoting the position of one racino owner that would like to operate a full-fledged casino resort at the site in the coming years,” the statement said.

The New York state Legislature legalized casino gambling in 2012 and 2013. A public referendum in 2013 amended the state constitution to allow up to seven fullscale casinos, in addition to existing Native American casinos, to create jobs in economically depressed areas upstate. According to the Orange County Department of Planning website, there are six pending proposals to put casinos in the towns of Tuxedo, Woodbury, South Blooming Grove, Newburgh and New Windsor.

“As the author of this law, the spirit of this law was for upstate economic development, definitely not to cause the demise of any existing entities,” said Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow, D-Mount Vernon, who chairs the Assembly’s Racing and Wagering Committee. “A full-fledged casino less than 30 minutes from this place would have a devastating effect on the monies and jobs that are generated at Empire City.”

While state law would allow the construction of a casino in Orange County if approved, opponents of the five proposals

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city in May. The first cluster centers around the New Rochelle train station abutting Interstate 95 and bisected by North Avenue. The second cluster includes a number of city-owned parking lots and other parcels, centering around the public library building.

The master developer said it envisions a glass atrium “front door to the community” at the New Rochelle Metro-North train station. The newly-christened Ruby Dee Park is likely to be a new public green space that could be complemented with a new library, cultural center and outdoor theater. The Garden Street area, near the I-95 exit, could see construction of medical space; the possibility of research space and innovation construction is strong because of the colleges in the city, Iona College and The College of New Rochelle. A hotel is also a likely piece of the plan.

The City Council must now negotiate the terms of the master development agreement, and once that is in place the partnership will begin the process of formulating plans. Until then, the amount of construc-

tion is unknown, but a recent transit-oriented development study — one of three comprehensive development analyses the city commissioned — identified the potential for an additional 1.5 million square feet of office and medical space, 2,000 apartments and 500,000 square feet of retail space. The creation of “overlay” zoning districts is likely for the clusters and may even be suggested in areas outside of those clusters, which head planner Mark Evans called “catalytic sites.”

“It’s not just about the core downtown,” Evans said, adding the partnership would look for ways to connect areas including the marina into a unified, walkable downtown.

Although the partnership did not estimate the overall economic impact of the plan, it said similar master development undertakings in Long Island created as many as 12,000 temporary construction jobs, 5,000 permanent jobs and $39 million in tax revenue for the community.

Marissa Brett, president of the business advocacy group the Westchester County Association, released a statement saying,

“We have never seen a project of this magnitude in Westchester. … New Rochelle can become a key growth area in Westchester — and, as the cost of business goes up in Manhattan, more competitive in our regional economy.”

The city hired a marketing firm last month to brand the community, as officials look to tap into the trend of young, educated workers flocking to urban environments near mass transit. New Rochelle’s train station on the New Haven Line is already among the busiest Metro-North stops, with roughly 5,000 weekday commuters and reverse commuters utilizing the less-thanhalf-hour trip to and from Grand Central Terminal. The station also has an Amtrak stop and will be connected to Penn Station when the New Haven Line extension is completed in 2021.

Councilman Barry Fertel, a Democrat and the longest-serving member of the City Council, said plans to re-spark the downtown were long awaited. “I guess we have to buckle up and get ready to take that ride,” he said.

argue that the intent of the legislation to legalize casino gambling was to benefit and revitalize areas like the Catskills, once a thriving resort area colloquially known as the “Borscht Belt.”

Originally known as Empire City Race Track, Yonkers Raceway opened in 1899,

site slot machines is used to supplement purses for thoroughbred or harness racing.

Those racinos are not allowed to have table games on their floors — a restriction that would place them at a competitive disadvantage against the proposed casinos in Orange County.

“When we first developed the racinos, it was to help a struggling racetrack to increase the monies that went into the equine industry, to help support the equine industry and also support education,” Pretlow said.

It is unknown how extensively an Orange County casino would hurt Empire City Casino’s business.

Taryn Duffy, the director of public affairs at Empire City Casino, said that when Resorts World Casino opened at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens in December 2011, the company estimated a potential 30 to 35 percent drop in monthly revenues. Since then, though, the worst monthly revenue drop at Empire City was 15 percent.

“We’re thrilled with that outcome,” Duffy said.

However, with more states legalizing casino gambling, the gaming industry, legislators and the public have become acutely aware of the problems created by the rapid expansion of the gaming industry.

“Look at Atlantic City,” said state Sen. George Latimer, D-Rye. “That is exactly the path we’ll be on if we aren’t careful about where we site these casinos.”

Latimer, who worked in hotel market analysis, pointed out that new casinos in Philadelphia, Delaware and Bethlehem, Pa., cut Atlantic City’s share of the mid-Atlantic gaming market. The city has seen four casinos close in 2014, including Revel Hotel and Casino, which opened in 2012 and was constructed at a cost of more than $2 billion, only to go bankrupt and shut down last month.

Duffy, the spokesperson for Empire City, said that Empire City has every intention of bidding on a full casino license once one becomes available, and noted that Empire City already withstood the competition from the Resorts World Casino by adding amenities with a $50 million expansion.

“This isn’t an issue about competition; it’s about the intent of the legislation and what’s best for New York state as a whole,” said Duffy in a phone interview. “If the legislation is implemented as intended, they can revitalize the areas in need without putting jobs and revenue at risk.”

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, D-Yonkers, whose office organized the press conference, said that decisions on the Orange County casinos will be made in the near future, possibly before the end of October.

Mayer said she hopes that the intent of the law that legalized casino gambling in New York state will be followed.

“It was intended to strengthen the Borscht Belt, not Orange County.”

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and was the site of Seabiscuit’s win in the 1936 Scarsdale Handicap. It was converted into a harness racing track in 1942 and was bought by the Rooney family in 1972.

Empire City Casino first opened at Yonkers Raceway in 2006. As the popularity of thoroughbred and harness racing declined, several tracks in New York state became “racinos,” where revenue from on-

YoFi film fest will allow artists to watch and learn One of Hoffman’s last films among those to be shown in Yonkers

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inephiles in Westchester County and beyond can look forward to the second edition of YoFi Fest, the Yonkers film festival that will run from Oct. 17-19 at the Riverfront Library and the Blue Door Gallery.

“The motto this year is ‘A little bit bigger and a little bit better,’” said Dave Steck, YoFi Fest’s executive director.

Steck, who is the creative director and executive producer at Numeric Pictures, said both fans and film industry insiders will have plenty to feast their eyes and ears upon. He said there will be more than 75 films, including shorts, documentaries, animation and student films, in the festival.

“The inaugural YoFi Fest proved to be a great success last year and I am proud that the film festival will return to Yonkers, celebrating the emerging film and arts community in our city.” said Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano.

“Thanks to YoFi Fest and founders Dave Steck and Patty Schumann, Yonkers is quickly becoming Hollywood on the Hudson.”

The event kicks off with a red carpet reception Oct. 17, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. One of

the most notable films in the festival will be screened that night, giving moviegoers a look at one of Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s final roles. “God’s Pocket” was shot primarily in Yonkers, Steck said.

“A lot of people didn’t get to see it on the big screen, so we’re excited to give them that opportunity on opening night,” he said.

The film, which was directed by John Slattery, also features Hoffman’s co-star from “The Big Lebowski,” John Turturro. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 17, about two weeks before Hoffman’s death from a heroin overdose at age 46.

Among the short films entered in the festival is “Unfit to Print,” a humorous look at the business of hyperlocal journalism co-written and directed by Liam McKiernan and the Business Journal’s Mark Lungariello.

Lungariello said the short, off-the-wall comedy revolves around “a real bootleg newspaper with a crooked editor who puts a reporter in an uncomfortable situation.

Luckily, it’s not autobiographical.”

For those interested in the craft of filmmaking, YoFi Fest will again feature a “mini film school,” with workshops led by awardwinning industry professionals on the aspects

The opening reception at last year’s YoFi Fest.

of filmmaking, including production, writing, marketing, animation, permits, tax credits and how to break into the industry.

“The Blue Sky Studios animation team is going to be here on Saturday, and they’re doing a workshop about the animation process,” said Steck. Blue Sky Studios has produced animated features including Ice Age and Rio, and was based in White Plains before moving to Greenwich, Conn., in 2009. “If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many names at the end of an animated feature, you’ll find out why.”

Other workshop topics include how to write screenplays that sell and a presentation from the state film office about the film industry in New York.

Steck said the support of the city and the sponsors has been strong and enabled the organizers to keep ticket prices low. Until Oct. 12 at midnight, tickets are available at YoFiFest.com at an advance purchase price of $60 for a full-festival, three-day VIP pass and $25 for a single-day VIP pass. These passes get all-inclusive VIP access to all the screenings, lectures, workshops, events and parties.

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Buchanan station a new concern in Algonquin expansion

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he plan to rebuild and expand a pipeline that pumps natural gas through the Hudson Valley region includes a receiving station in the village of Buchanan.

Spectra Energy Partners LP plans to increase the capacity of its Algonquin pipeline to ease an energy bottleneck in the New England region, but the larger amounts of f lammable gas that would go through Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties has some residents opposing the plan.

The agency responsible for approving the project, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, held a public hearing in Cortlandt Manor last month, but few of those following the review process were aware of the receiving station at that time.

“That’s really disturbing that this was sort of snuck in there,” said Susan Van Dolsen, a member of the activist group Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion.

Spectra made a presentation to the village board of trustees on Oct. 6, with elected officials and residents firing questions about potential environmental impacts from the station and why the pipeline was 450 feet from the BuchananVerplanck Elementary School.

The existing pipeline has run through Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties since 1953. The company wants to replace the existing 26-inch diameter pipe with a 42-inch pipe that will use a quarter more pressure to transport natural gas fracked from the Marcellus Shale.

Indian Point Energy Center, the nuclear power plant in the village, was built after the original pipes were put in use. If the expansion is approved, it is likely that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will require Indian Point conduct new safety analyses or build out to enhance safety for its two reactors. Members of opposition groups said it didn’t make sense for the NRC to weigh in after the fact.

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looking to have the project approved by year’s end and in place by spring 2016.

“That’s fine they have a timetable they have a business, but if that timetable is irresponsible then they have to wait and that timetable has to go.”

The pipeline runs 1,127 miles and carries 2.6 billion cubic feet per day. 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 at Rockland County.

Receiving stations, or pigging stations, will be built along the expansion.

These stations include access for a socalled pigging tool that maintains and cleans the interior of the pipe between every half a year and 12 months. Some residents have complained that the access to the pipe could cause chemicals seeping out into the air, including waste from corroded radon materials traveling through the pipe.

There remain some questions about what ability the municipalities will have to affect the utility construction if FERC ultimately approves the plan. Activist

groups are calling for action from the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which also have to issue approvals for such a plan.

Marylee Hanley, Spectra’s director of stakeholder outreach, said in a phone interview that the existing pipeline hadn’t had an incident in its existence.

She said construction would use mostly company-owned lands and rights of way.

“The (Algonquin) project is the most immediate solution for the region and would have an immediate impact on prices,” she said.

The Algonquin Incremental Market project is one of three interlinked pipeline plans running through New England for Spectra, which is based in Texas. The others are the Atlantic Bridge project and Access Northeast, both of which are expanding capacity as the amount of fracked natural gas increases. Another receiving station will be built in Yorktown as a result, but will be moved to Carmel on the border of Somers once the expansion work is completed.

Westchester’s top CFOs honored

BY LEIF SKODNICK lskodnick@westfairinc.com

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utside of the boardroom, chief financial officers are often the least noticeable executives, but Oct. 2, 16 of Westchester County’s top CFOs were recognized at the 2014 CFO of the Year Awards.

Held at the Wainwright House in Rye, the awards ceremony was presented by Westfair Communications and sponsored

by McGladrey, Heineken, TD Bank and Rakow Commercial Realty Group. Fifteen nominees from for-profit and nonprofit entities were presented for three award categories: big business, midsize business and small business.

“The ability of a CFO to navigate financial reporting requirements, economic conditions and corporate policy is what makes the job difficult, and it’s this broad range of responsibilities that makes the CFO role so crucial, and so much more impressive when a person does it well,” said Leslie F. Seidman, a CFO of the Year Awards judge and executive director of the Center for Excellence in Financial Reporting at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business.

In Seidman’s view, being an excellent CFO has not been easy as of late.

“Companies and nonprofits have had to deal with a prolonged period of economic turmoil and technological changes,” Seidman said. “I think it’s fair to say that boards of directors, shareholders, donors and others look to CFOs for financial acumen, leadership and forward thinking.”

Vincent DeSantis, CFO of Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow, won the CFO of the Year Award in the big business category. With both an undergraduate degree and an MBA from Iona College, DeSantis began his career at Deloitte’s health care division before moving into hospital finance.

“Up until tonight, I though passing the CPA exam was my greatest accomplishment,” DeSantis joked in his acceptance speech. “I work with the most amazing people in the field of finance as well as health and clinical professionals. It’s a job that lets me be creative, go beyond the numbers and help us achieve our organization’s goals.”

For the first time ever, a woman was named CFO of the Year, when Jennifer Solomon of Yonkers-based Greyston was honored in the midsize business division.

“I really value this and I really value working for Greyston,” said Solomon, whose career began on Wall Street as an

equities analyst. Solomon said that being a CFO and an equities analyst require similar traits, including the ability to make bold financial calls and effectively make one’s opinion known.

“I’m kind of lucky; I’ll go home and tell my daughters I won,” Solomon joked. “But my 10-year-old will want to remind me, ‘How many CFOs are there in Westchester?’”

Also receiving the CFO of the Year award in the midsize category was Marshall Asche of St. Christopher’s Inc., a residential treatment center for special education students in Dobbs Ferry.

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Also nominated were Susan Barto of School Choice International, Andrew Bracco of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Anthony Capeluppo of O’Connor Davies LLP, James Crisci of Cerebral Palsy of Westchester, Richard Dannenbaum of the Cappelli Organization, Rachel Eckhaus of Strauss Paper, James Federico of Vintus LLC, Tom Gannalo of Magnetic Analysis Corp., Abbie Relkin of the Mental Health Association of Westchester, Thomas Scalera of ITT Corp., Arthur Schwacke of ENT and Allergy Associates LLP, and Patricia Vitelli of Westhab.

The awards were judged by a panel consisting of Leslie Seidman; Marissa Brett, president of the Westchester County Association; and Michael Gillan, dean and associate vice president emeritus of Fordham University.

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According to Asche, his ascension to a CFO position was a case of being in the right place at the right time.

“I was the right person when there was a need for a CFO — I came on day one as CFO,” he said. “My years in public accounting made me the right person for this position.”

Taking home the CFO of the Year award in the small business category was F. Thomas Cornelius of Greater Hudson Bank.

“I walked in five years ago to the president of the bank and said ‘I’m up for the job,’” Cornelius said of how he became the bank’s CFO. “I said, ‘Give it to me,’ and the board did. My success has been a reflection of that confidence and my staff, they really do a great job for me.”

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Observers of diversity report that companies with a diverse workforce enjoy a broad range of advantages. These companies tend to make better decisions, consider more options, have better growth and profit performance, are more competitive and have a broader service offering … just to name a few benefits of diversity. With that in mind, what does any company have to lose by trying to build a more varied workforce?

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You probably already have more diversity than you think. Here are some diversity factors: age, sex, physical ability, religious beliefs, race, education, work experience and cultural background.

Think about what you want to add to the company. Do you want more variety of opinions and alternative thought processes? Do you want to attract new customers of a different background? Are you doing it because you think it’s the right thing to do? Hoping for a more stable workforce?

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Provide employees with successful role models who speak and look like they do. Hire consultants and trainers who come from diverse backgrounds. Get clients of diversity to talk with your employees about what they value.

Make managers accountable for meeting the company’s diversity goals. Educate managers about the changes in our society’s demographics, including the shift towards a nonwhite, nonmale majority in the workforce. Make it clear that bonuses and even job security will be tied to employees’ and managers’ willingness to support diversity

initiatives. And then give them upside opportunity by reminding them that diverse organizations generally produce higher growth and profits, which means more success for the company in the future.

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INBRIEF ARTSWESTCHESTER HOSTS CORPORATE COLLECTION ArtsWestchester in White Plains is hosting “Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the BNY Mellon Collection,” featuring 69 works on paper by noted sculptors.

The new exhibit is part of the organization’s initiative to develop 50 new arts and business partnerships in recognition of its 50th anniversary next year. It includes exploratory studies and stand-alone finished works of art by sculptors including Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Olafur Eliasson, Sol Lewitt, Maya Lin, Henry Moore, Kiki Smith and Fred Wilson.

“ArtsWestchester is privileged to have been selected by BNY Mellon Wealth Management to show these works in our

gallery,” said Janet Langsam, CEO of ArtsWestchester, in a statement. “Hosting this corporate art collection is an example of one of the 50 arts and business partnerships initiated in recognition of our golden anniversary. Our goal with this initiative is to further sustain the vibrant arts community in the county that we have helped to build and nurture since 1965.”

Brian J. Lang, the curator of BNY Mellon’s collection, said, “Assembling this collection has been a journey of discovery. ...

Each work of art opens a new window into the mind of its creator.”

ArtsWestchester is at 31 Mamaroneck Ave. in White Plains. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

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FARM GRANT AIDS HOSPITAL CENTER MARKET Hudson Valley Hospital Center will expand its farmers market in its fourth season next year with the aid of a $99,899 grant recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A spokesperson at the hospital in Cortlandt Manor said it was one of 10 organizations in New York and the only one in Westchester and Putnam counties to be awarded some of the $52 million distributed nationally for such programs through the 2014 Farm Bill.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in an announcement this week called the funding a move to bolster the organic food industry and improve access to fresh foods for millions of Americans.

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Federspiel said the grant helps provide a venue for local farmers to increase sales and will help the hospital make the market more accessible to the community through a series of community outreach efforts. Grant money also will be used to purchase Electronic Benefits Transfer machines so that market vendors can accept food stamps, making fresh foods more affordable for lower-income residents.

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CNR GETS $4M GRANT FOR MENTORING PROGRAM The College of New Rochelle has announced receiving a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The $4 million grant is from the department’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, First in the World program. The College of New Rochelle will use the grant to fund pilot testing of “Mentoring, Undergraduate Research and Augmented Libraries,” or MURAL, which aims to create a set of model interventions to improve adult students’ grades, retention and four-year graduation rates as well as collect data on successful practices to share with institutions that serve similar student populations.

The announcement comes on the heels of a $10 million federal grant the college said will fund a comprehensive program to enhance student success through innovative, collaborative learning strategies.

MURAL will create teams of librarians, faculty, writing specialists and case managers to undertake professional development and produce curricula, the college said in a press release. Grant funding also will support the creation of a Learning Commons, an open space that provides electronic library resources, information technology, intensive writing assistance, support for online education, in-person and online tutoring and collaborative group work, according to the press release.

LAWYER PLEADS GUILTY TO TAX EVASION A Bronxville real estate attorney facing grand larceny charges in New York for stealing roughly $3 million from his law clients pleaded guilty Sept. 30 in Connecticut to income tax fraud.

Timothy Griffin, a resident of Ridgefield, admitted in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport that he failed to report approximately $272,000 in income from his law practice

in 2004 for which he owed approximately $71,000 in federal income tax. Griffin on his joint tax return reported and paid taxes on about 46 percent of his actual income that year.

Griffin was granted a probationary release from U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel while awaiting sentencing on Dec. 23.

The lawyer’s guilty plea followed his appearance last month in New Rochelle City Court on seven grand larceny charges for his alleged theft of more than $1 million from his clients’ escrow accounts over a five-year period.

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman alleged Griffin transferred money to his personal bank account that his clients had given him to be held in escrow for pending real estate deals. The alleged thefts, which occurred between April 2009 and February, were used to support an “extravagant lifestyle” that included membership fees at Waccabuc Country Club and purchases of BMW and Lexus automobiles and expensive jewelry, according to Schneiderman.

In a separate but related case, Griffin in February was charged with grand larceny for allegedly transferring $1.9 million to his attorney escrow account from the account of United Hebrew Cemetery on Staten Island while he served as the cemetery nonprofit’s acting president.

Schneiderman said investigators from his office think Griffin stole from the cemetery to reimburse the escrow account from which he had been stealing his Westchester law clients’ money.

Griffin faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted on the Westchester County charges and the same penalty for the alleged thefts on Staten Island.

CAMBRIA HOTEL OPENS IN WHITE PLAINS White Plains’ newest hotel, the Cambria Suites, has opened to guests.

At 250 Main St., the 130-unit, all-suite hotel is part of a mixed-use development that includes 35,000 square feet of retail and two floors of underground parking.

Constructed as part of a joint venture between Meyer Jabara Hotels and franchisor Choice Hotels International Inc., the development was estimated to cost $37 million when ground was broken in 2012.

The eight-story hotel was built on the former site of an A&P supermarket that was demolished in 2011.

“The opening of the Cambria hotel and suites White Plains is an integral part to our continued expansion into top-tier markets,” said Michael Murphy, senior vice president of upscale brands for Choice Hotels International, in a statement.

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Heavy lifting: Supercrane drops anchor at Tappan Zee Bridge

The Left Coast Lifter arrived Oct. 6 at the Tappan Zee Bridge. Photo by Bob Rozycki

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giant supercrane called the Left Coast Lifter arrived at the site of the new Tappan Zee Bridge after making its way up the Hudson River at a pace of less than 5 knots per hour in the last leg of its 6,000-mile journey.

The Left Coast Lifter, nicknamed I Lift NY by state officials, has a 328-foot lifting arm that will be used to hoist 1,000-ton pieces of the new bridge. The components of the replacement bridge will be brought to the area by barge. The crane also will take part in dismantling the 60-year-old current bridge.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, joined local business and community leaders to greet the supercrane on its arrival Oct. 6.

They took a boat tour of the construction, where 66 percent of the new bridge’s support pilings have already been installed.

“The New NY Bridge project is a symbol of partnership and progress — it is tactile proof that the new New York is here, with a government that works more efficiently and tackles problems more affordably,” Cuomo said.

The supercrane, with a reach of 328 feet and enough strength to lift 12 Statue of Libertys at once, arrived in New York Harbor in January, after a journey that began in San Francisco and took the floating crane into the waters of the Pacific, through the Panama Canal and into the Atlantic.

The crane, owned by Tappan Zee Constructors LLC, has been touted as keeping construction costs down, although questions persist over what the toll will cost on the new bridge. The bridge was approved under a design-build fixed-price contract in 2011.

Marsha Gordon, the president and CEO of The Business Council of Westchester, was among those who joined the governor on the tour.

“The arrival of this mechanical marvel is proof positive that one of the largest infrastructure projects in the nation is indeed underway and accelerating by the day,” she said in a statement. “The multibillion (dollar)

project to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge is vital to our region. It’s creating jobs, improving our infrastructure and necessary for the future of this region and New York state.”

The $3.9 billion, double-span replacement bridge has been reported on schedule and on budget by state agencies but questions remain about funding the construction, accentuated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recent rejection of a $511 million loan out of a clean water fund.

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The 26-acre property includes 2649 Strang Blvd., a three-story, 66,267-square-foot office and medical building, and 2651 Strang Blvd., a one-story, 142,811-square-foot building formerly occupied by Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield. The properties are 40 percent occupied, according to the Harrison-based buyer.

Facing foreclosure after defaulting on a $14.5 million mortgage, the previous owner of the Yorktown campus, Taconic Corporate Park LLC, in 2011 deeded the property to a special servicer for Bank of America.

GHP Office Realty Executive Vice President Jamie Schwartz declined to disclose the purchase price, citing a confidentiality agreement.

The real estate news site Globest.com, citing an unnamed source, said GHP paid approximately $11 million. GHP, which will also manage and lease the property, took out an acquisition

loan and credit facility totaling $13.2 million on the two buildings.

Health care tenants at 2649 Strang Blvd. include ENT & Allergy Associates, Hudson Valley Hematology, North Shore-LIJ Health System’s Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute, Northern Westchester County Dental, Hudson Valley Oral Surgery and Dialysis Clinic Inc. Schwartz said Mercy College’s Yorktown campus occupies about 47,000 square feet of space at 2651 Strang Blvd., which was vacated by Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield several years ago.

Schwartz said the new owner plans to spend $6 million in renovations and energy efficiency improvements to the two buildings. “We have approximately 100,000 square feet of technology, medical or laboratory space at 2651 Strang Blvd. We believe this type of space is in short supply in Westchester County and are optimistic about our leasing prospects,” he said.

Schwartz said several other entities bid on the properties. “At the end of the day, the seller was very comfortable that we could close,” he said.

The GHP acquisition team was led by Andrew Greenspan, company principal; Michael Cinicolo, vice president of operations; Andrea Lofaro, director of administration; and associate Harrison Lyss.

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Greenspan said the former Blue Cross/ Blue Shield space at 2651 Strang Blvd. will be retrofitted to create individual units for corporate, hospital, computer or entrepreneurial companies.

LINK TECHNOLOGY MAKES VALHALLA MOVE Link Technology Group, a software development firm and e-business solutions provider, has leased space at 500 Summit Lake Drive, a three-building office park in Valhalla owned by SL Green Realty Corp. The lease was announced by Reckson, the suburban division of SL Green.

The software firm is relocating from 420 Columbus Ave. in Valhalla, a Reckson spokesperson said. Following a move-in this month, Link Technology Group will occupy a groundfloor office, the square footage of which was not disclosed.

John Barnes, senior vice president and managing director of Reckson/SL Green, in a press release noted that two other high-tech tenants, VmTurbo and Axiom Software, previously signed leases at Reckson/SL Green’s 115 Stevens Ave. office building in Valhalla. The Link Technology deal “further proves that the hamlet of Valhalla continues to attract hightech companies seeking state-of-the-art digital amenities, including sophisticated fiber optics and communication systems, all within a sus-

tainable 21st century environment,” he said.

David A. Greer, president and managing partner of Link Technology Group, in a press release called the move “a flight to quality for us. We are very glad to remain in the Valhalla Westchester corridor, conveniently situated for both our customers and our staff, and the Summit’s amenities are unparalleled in the vicinity, offering an unprecedented quality of professional life.”

Reckson/SL Green’s Robert Swierbut negotiated the deal for the landlord.

BUS COMPANY ACQUIRES VERPLANCK PROPERTY

An affiliate of the regional school bus operator Montauk Student Transport LLC recently paid $1.3 million for an industrial property at 301 Sixth Ave. in Verplanck.

The 5.5.-acre parcel on the Hudson River includes two buildings totaling 6,000 square feet of industrial space, according to Houlihan-Parnes Realtors LLC. Steve McCulloch of Houlihan-Parnes represented the buyer, Worth Properties LLC. The buyer’s Long Island-based principal owner, John B. Mensch, operates East End Bus Lines on Long Island, Montauk Transit Service in New Brunswick, N.J., and Montauk Student Bus Transport in Yonkers.

A spokesperson at Houlihan-Parnes said the Verplanck site will be used as a staging area for Mensch’s school bus operations in northern Westchester County.

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Rye ready to reassert itself in Playland dispute

BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

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he city of Rye is not backing down in an ongoing dispute over who has the final say on any future construction at Playland park, according to Rye’s mayor. The county owns the amusement park and its property, which are in Rye. Mayor Joe Sack, a Republican and attorney by trade, called on county Legislator Catherine Parker to side with the city in the dispute. The comments came in an editorial posted Oct. 6 on the website of The Rye City Review, a weekly newspaper. The editorial was titled “It’s called Rye Playland for a reason.”

“Respectfully, we’d like our representative in White Plains (Parker) to represent Rye to the county and not to represent the county to Rye,” Sack said.

The county had entered into a management agreement with the nonprofit Sustainable Playland Inc. in a deal to take over day-to-day management of the park and invest in improvements that would have included an 82,500-square-foot field house. Critics said the field house was large and out of character for the neigh-

borhood, which occupies a scenic space on the Long Island Sound. Neighbors said the field house would bring traffic and create congestion on the predominantly suburban streets in the area.

The city asserted its authority over Sustainable’s plan, which was later voluntarily withdrawn before the state Department of Environmental Conservation ruled on whether the county or city should be the lead agency in the required environmental review process.

The county still intends to enter into an agreement to hand over management of the park to a private operator, but differences of opinion between the executive and legislative branches has slowed those discussions in recent weeks.

County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, agreed to pay a consultant $100,000 to study operations at the park and offer recommendations in a report due by the end of November. The Board of Legislators and its Democratic majority decided not to wait for those results, meeting with two amusement park operation companies with the goal of entering into a new deal before the end of the year.

Astorino made reinventing the park a

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goal of his administration, saying the park has been running in the red annually and seeing attendance decline year to year.

There’s been a pronounced lack of consensus, though, on how best to reinvent the park, be it upgrading the rides and amusements or shifting the focus to yearround amenities such as the field house.

There has even been ongoing disagreement about the annual attendance figures and revenue numbers, with the method for tallying of attendees having changed several times over the years.

The county board announced last month that attendance for the 2014 season was 467,948, an increase of 77,000 from 2013. Revenues also went up 24 percent, according to the board, to $8.7 million.

Legislator Peter Harckham, a Democrat and chairman of the Labor, Parks, Planning and Housing Committee of the board, said in a statement that the numbers meant there was still life in the aging amusement park.

“That’s why it’s so important that the park’s revitalization plans move forward right away, and that a partner be brought on board before next season begins,” he said.

to its private-banking clients. “It’s a relationship that we hope to develop and grow,” she said.

Xu said her home city, with a booming economy and “lots of rich people” running its industries, is an opportune market for Houlihan Lawrence.

“Successful business owners, they really want to send their kids overseas and educate in America,” Xu said. One of her Chinese clients has rented a house for his wife and two children in Scarsdale while looking to buy a home in the “very tough” Scarsdale market where “everything goes very quickly,” she said.

“I believe it will bring in a lot of business,” Xu said of Houlihan Lawrence’s new connection to Xi’an. “The more we stay in the market, the more people know us.”

Nunan said one Chinese client was interested in a $2.5 million home in Scarsdale. Houlihan Lawrence also has had prospective Chinese buyers in Larchmont, Mamaroneck and Rye. “They are looking at $2 million or higher,” she said. The firm’s sales agents have been seeing more Chinese at open houses, she said.

Compared with suburban Westchester, “Other parts of the country have seen faster and larger growth of the Chinese consumer,” Nunan said, citing San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. “We see this as a new market for us.

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THE ROAD TO NOVEMBER MEET THE INFLUENCERS Just five days before Election Day, The Business Council of Westchester is hosting the Road to November featuring some of New York’s most influential politicos.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to gain insight into key races and to meet with policy makers and power brokers. This timely forum is sure to be captivating.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Luncheon Keynote Speaker Jimmy Vielkind, Chief Political Reporter, Capital New York Featured Speakers Edward F. Cox, Chair, New York Republican State Committee State Senator Dean G. Skelos, Co-Leader of the State Senate and Leader of the State Republican Conference.

State Senator Catharine M. Young, Chair of the Republican State Senate Campaign Committee.

State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, Co-Leader of the State Senate and Chair of the Independent Democratic Conference.

State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Leader of the State Democratic Conference.

New York State Senator Michael Gianaris, Chair of the Democratic State Senate Campaign Committee.

Assemblyman William A. Barclay, Chair of the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Reckson Metro Center 360 Hamilton Ave, White Plains Lunch will be served Convenient parking directly across the street in municipal garage $35 members/$45 non-members For more information, call 914-948-2110 or visit westchesterny.org

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Conversations Series to Feature Montefiore CEO The Business Council of Westchester’s new business leadership series sponsored by First Niagara Bank continues this month with one of the region’s leading healthcare executives, Dr. Steven Safyer of Montefiore Health System, as the featured speaker. The program, which will be held October 27 from 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. at Manhattanville College, is titled First Niagara Bank Presents Leadership Conversations: Dr. Steven M. Safyer, President and CEO, Montefiore Health System.

“We’re honored to have Dr. Safyer as the featured speaker for the next program in this exciting new series featuring interviews with today’s pre-eminent business leaders,” said Marsha Gordon, President and CEO of The Business Council of Westchester.

“Dr. Sayfer’s insights into the ever-changing face of healthcare and Montefiore’s expansion in Westchester are sure to be of great interest to our members,” said Gordon, who will serve as the interviewer for the program.

An accomplished physician leader and highly respected healthcare executive, Dr. Safyer has been a leader in advancing Montefiore’s position as a preeminent, innovative and equitable healthcare system.

Dr. Steven Safyer, President and CEO Montefiore Health System

Montefiore has emerged as a major presence in Westchester County with its acquisition of Sound Shore Medical Center and Mount Vernon Hospital as well as its affiliation with White Plains Hospital. Montefiore also maintains administrative offices in the former Kraft Foods complex in Tarrytown.

recommitted, expanded or started in Westchester County.

At the October 27 event, The Business Council will also announce the winners of its Westchester Business Champion Awards. The Business Champion Awards are presented quarterly to businesses that have relocated,

To purchase tickets or learn more about First Niagara Bank Presents Leadership Conversations event on October 27, visit www.westchesterny.org or call 914-948-2110.

This is the second in a series of conversations with Westchester’s top business leaders. The series debuted in June with Leonard S. Schleifer, M.D., Ph.D., Founder, President and CEO, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

BE THERE! OCTOBER 23 Business After Business Klaff’s, Scarsdale 5-7pm

OCTOBER 27 First Niagara Conversations Series Featuring Dr. Steven Safyer of Montefiore Manhattanville College 4:30 - 6:30 pm

OCTOBER 31 Road to November 360 Hamilton Ave., White Plains 9 am-2 pm

NOVEMBER 6 Annual Dinner Westchester Marriott Tarrytown Cocktails 5:30 pm Dinner 7 – 9 pm

NOVEMBER 19 Healthcare Forum: ObamaCare One Year Later Doubletree Hotel Tarrytown 8 - 10 am

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Golf Outing a Grand Slam

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More than 120 of Westchester’s top business and community leaders were on hand September 23 for The Business Council of Westchester’s Annual Entergy Day of Golf held at the Westchester Hills Golf Club in White Plains.

The day’s event included an interactive golf seminar and clinic with Westchester Hills PGA Head Professional Jason Gobleck. The day also included various course challenges, a BBQ lunch, high-end raffle prizes and cocktails and dinner with great networking opportunities. Presenting sponsor was Entergy. Other sponsors included Empire City Casino, Normandy Real Estate Partners, Tommie Copper, Jackson Lewis, Manhattanville College, Business of Your Business, Divney Tung Schwalbe, O’Connor Davies, Heineken, Ali Graphics, Signarama, Elements Massage, Crunch and Gentle Giant.

1. From left, Ken Theobalds of Entergy, Sergio Barrios of Mikes Hard Lemonade, Manny Garcia of Mack Cali and Glenn Smith of Entergy 2. From left, Luke Matthews, Sol Jacobs, Mary Lavelle and Tom Kallish 3. From left, Greg Palmer, Kurt Kannemeyer, Victor Nordenson, Nik Kumar, Marty Clague and Wiley Harrison

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BCW Unveils International Travel Program Looking to travel to exotic places? Look no further than The Business Council of Westchester’s new international travel program that offers business leaders and members of the community trips to India, Portugal and Ireland. The trips begin next year and are a great way to see the world while traveling with friends, family and colleagues. All inclusive prices start as low as $3,000 for 10 days.

“We’ve put together a top-notch program that the most discerning travelers would appreciate,” said Marsha Gordon, President and CEO of The Business Council of Westchester. “We’re working with well-established international tour companies that have had tremendous success – across the country and internationally – and we’re excited to offer this travel program to the people of Westchester.” Gordon added, “Traveling with peers provides great opportunities to build personal and business relationships. Very often, travel introduces people to new cultures and provides us with a global awareness, which is great for personal and professional growth.”

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4. From left, BCW Chairman Stephen Jones, Jim O’Toole and BCW President & CEO Marsha Gordon

BCW TRAVEL PROGRAM

The Business Council is partnering with Collette Travel and Indus Travel and all of the arrangements are being handled

by Caprice Travel Agency, a Business Council member based in Yonkers.

• Incredible India: March 19-29, 2015.

This 10 day tour of India explores the Nazare Beach, Portugal three highlights of North India: Delhi, Cabra Castle, Ireland Jaipur and Agra. Guests will explore • Shades of Ireland: November 3-12, 2015. Travel the Amber Fort at Jaipur, visit the incredible Taj to the magical Emerald Isle while enjoying the Mahal at sunrise, and marvel at Delhi’s impressive landscapes of rolling hills and warm Irish villages. architecture and history while taking advantage of Visit Dublin, Waterford, Killarney and Limerick business networking opportunities. as this comprehensive tour introduces Ireland’s • Sunny Portugal: May 15-24, 2015. Enjoy a historic natural beauty, rich history and most importantly, land of the great explorers while discovering its hospitable culture. Dublin, Kilkenny, Waterford ancient castles, Roman ruins, groves of lemon and Crystal, Blarney Castle, Ring of Kerry, Cliffs of Moher almond trees and quaint whitewashed villages, not and Galway are among the stops. to mention the country’s kind and friendly people.

Highlights include Cascais, Lisbon, Jeronimo’s For more information contact John Ravitz Monastery, Fatima, Monsaraz, and the Alentejo at the Business Council at 914-948-0110 or visit countryside as well as two winery tours and five www.westchesterny.org UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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THELIST: MARKETING DIRECTORS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY

WESTCHESTER COUNTY

Marketing Directors

WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND HUDSON VALLEY REGION NEXT LIST: OCTOBER 20 CEOS

Listed alphabetically.

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

Avon Products Inc.

1 Avon Place, Suffern 10901 845-369-2000 • avon.com

Balchem Corp.

52 Sunrise Park Road, New Hampton 10958 845-326-5600 • balchem.com

Ball Corp.

95 Ballard Road, Wallkill 10941 845-692-3800 • ball.com

CMO/Marketing Director Year appointed

Patricia Perez-Ayala Senior vice president, CMO and brand category president 2014 Eric Smith Vice president, sales and marketing 2004 James N. Peterson Vice president, marketing and corporate affairs 1997

Castle Oil Corp.

Antonio A. Rosado Senior vice president, suppy and marketing 1997

Emelin Theatre

Ashley Prymas Marketing director 2012

440 Mamaroneck Ave., Fourth floor, Harrison 10528 381-6600 • castleoil.com

153 Library Lane, Mamaroneck 10543 698-0098 • emelin.org

EMC Corp.

1133 Westchester Ave., White Plains 10604 866-438-3622 • emc.com

Fujifilm USA Inc.

200 Summit Lake Drive, Valhalla 10595 789-8100 • fujifilm.com

Heineken USA

360 Hamilton Ave., Suite 1103, White Plains 10601 681-4100 • heinekenusa.com

Houlihan Lawrence

800 Westchester Ave., Suite N-505, Rye Brook 10573 967-7680 • houlihanlawrence.com

Hudson Valley Hospital Center

1980 Crompond Road, Cortlandt Manor 10567 737-9000 • hvhc.org

IntegraMed

2 Manhattanville Road, Purchase 10577 253-8000 • integramed.com

International Business Machines Corp.

1 New Orchard Road, Armonk 10504 499-1900 • ibm.com

Lawrence Hospital Center

55 Palmer Ave., Bronxville 10708 787-1000 • nyplawrence.org

Mack-Cali Realty Corp.

100 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford 10523 592-4800 • mack-cali.com

Jeremy Burton President, products and marketing 2010 Ben Cole Marketing manager 2013 Nuno Teles CMO 2014

Kathleen S. Murray Vice president, project marketing

Victoria Hochman Marketing and public relations director 2010

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

MasterCard Inc.

Raja Rajamannar CMO 2013

McCarthy Fingar LLP

Lauren Proud Marketing director NA

2000 Purchase St., Purchase 10577 249-2000 • mastercard.com

11 Martine Ave., 12th floor, White Plains 10606 946-3700 • mccarthyfingar.com

NetJets Inc.

38 Loop Road, White Plains 10610 877-356-5823• netjets.com

New York - Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division

21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains 10605 997-5000 • nyppsychiatry.org

Northern Westchester Hospital

400 E. Main St., Mount Kisco 10549 666-1200 • nwhc.net

PepsiCo Inc.

700 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase 10577 253-2000 • pepsico.com

Adam Johnson President of sales, marketing and service of Netjets North America NA David A. Feinberg Vice president, CMO 1997 Mark Vincent Vice president, marketing and service line development 2009 Kristin Patrick CMO 2013

Pernod Ricard USA

Pierre Berard Spirits marketing, senior vice president 2013

Somnia Anesthesia

Laura Herrera Vice president, marketing 2008

100 Manhattanville Road, Purchase 10577 848-4800 • pernod-ricard-usa.com

10 Commerce Drive, New Rochelle 10801 877-795-5788 • somniaanesthesiaservices.com

Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates LLC 38 Main St., Tarrytown 10591 332-7070 • sothebysrealty.com

Starwood Hotel & Resorts Worldwide Inc.

1111 Westchester Ave., White Plains 10604 640-8100 • starwood.com

The Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

Doug Weiss Senior vice president, CMO 2014

785 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains 10605 597-2500 • burke.org

Jon C. Iwata Senior vice presiden, marketing and commmunications 2008

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

Tracy Wanamaker Conte Vice president, marketing and development NA

336 Central Park Ave., White Plains 10606 997-6700 • uwwp.org

Ilene Jablonski Vice president, marketing 2011

CMO/Marketing Director Year appointed

The Ritz-Carlton

United Way of Westchester and Putnam

Verizon Communications

500 Summit Lake Drive, Valhalla 10595 800-837-4966 • verizon.com

Wendy S. Purvey CMO 2010 Mark P. Vondrasek Senior vice president, distribution, loyalty and partnership marketing 2006 Richard Sgaglio, Ph.D. Director of marketing and external affairs 2010

Dana Cooper Director of sales and marketing 2013

Shannon Cobb Senior vice president, marketing and communications 2011 John Harrobin CMO, Verizon Enterprise Solutions 2012

This is a lis(ng of chief marke(ng officers from a selec(on of companies located in this region. If you wish for your chief marke(ng officer to be included in our next list, please email Danielle Renda at drenda@wesAairinc.com.

Source: Informa(on obtained from company websites and exis(ng LinkedIn accounts.

Note: Addresses above contain regional loca(ons, not necessarily company headquarters.

NA Not available.

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Mount Kisco Medical Group expands in Hudson Valley Group practice to take over Mid-Hudson Medical Group

BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

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aving recently secured a foothold in southern Westchester County, Mount Kisco Medical Group in 2015 will extend its service reach northward in the Hudson Valley when it completes its acquisition of Mid-Hudson Medical Group PC, based in Fishkill.

Though the two multispecialty group practices at press time had made no formal announcement of their deal, Mid-Hudson Medical Group officials recently notified the state Labor Department that 746 employees will be affected when the business closes on Dec. 31 and its assets are sold to Mount Kisco Medical Group. Private businesses with 50 or more full-time workers in New York are required by law to notify employees and the state Labor Department 90 days prior to plant closings or mass layoffs affecting 25 or more workers.

Dr. Scott D. Hayworth, president and CEO of Mount Kisco Medical Group PC, was traveling on business when the notice was posted Oct. 6 on the department’s Albany website, prompting news reports of a mass layoff in the region. In a call to the Business Journal, he confirmed the acquisition, which will take effect Jan. 1, but sought to allay concerns that 746 area residents will be left jobless by the takeover.

“We plan on the vast majority of the MidHudson Medical Group employees coming to work at Mount Kisco,” he said. “They’ll come as individuals” newly applying for positions, he said.

Hayworth said Mount Kisco Medical Group administrators are meeting with all Mid-Hudson employees.

Dr. Joseph A. Garvey, president and CEO of Mid-Hudson Medical Group, did not return a call to his office seeking comment on the sale. Garvey has served as president of the approximately 100-physician group since 2007 and was named CEO 2 ½ years ago.

The acquisition could increase by about one-third the Mount Kisco group’s physician roster. With more than 300 doctors, the physician-owned group in its home county currently is rivaled in number of practi-

Dr. Scott D. Hayworth, president and CEO of Mount Kisco Medical Group.

tioners only by Westmed Medical Group, the physician-owned multispecialty practice group headquartered in Purchase.

The Hayworth-led physician group has ventured into the southern portion of the county — where Westmed has been dominant, adding solo and small group practices to its fast-growing group in recent years — through its new partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at the New York City institution’s outpatient cancer treatment facility that opened this month in West Harrison. Mount Kisco Medical Group doctors with appointments to the Memorial Sloan Kettering medical staff will provide noncancer clinical services to MSK patients, including cardiology, gastroenterology, gynecology, infections disease and internal medicine, at the $143 million, 114,000-square-foot center that adjoins the Fordham Westchester campus on Westchester Avenue.

By acquiring the Mid-Hudson Medical Group’s assets, the Mount Kisco group will expand its existing practice locations northward along the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie into Ulster and Columbia counties as well as Connecticut’s Litchfield County. Among its 11 practice locations, the Mid-Hudson group has medical offices in Rhinebeck in northern Dutchess County, in Highland and Lake Katrine in Ulster County, in Hudson in Columbia County and in Sharon, Conn. The two medical groups have overlapping practice areas in Putnam County and in southern Dutchess County up to Poughkeepsie.

A Mount Kisco Medical Group facility in Poughkeepsie. Photos by Bob Rozycki

Mid-Hudson Medical Group’s offices in Fishkill.

The Mid-Hudson Medical Group has a nearly six-decade history in the Hudson Valley, according to its website. It was founded in Fishkill in 1955 by a general practitioner, a radiologist and an internist who observed that most small-town medical groups solely included either general practitioners or specialists practicing the same specialty. The doctors — John Sarno, Alexander Friedman and Joseph Davis — decided to merge the two types of groups and start a multispecialty group.

Mid-Hudson Medical Group now has its headquarters in the Westage Business Center in Fishkill.

Founded in 1946, Mount Kisco Medical Group provides medical care at 30 locations in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties. The independent practice group has a primary hospital affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and last month announced an expanded clinical affiliation with Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.

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BY MICHELE A. QUIROLO

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Home care agencies are key partners in aging America

he aging of the baby boom segment of the U.S. population is bringing with it a significant shift in the demographic makeup of our country — a shift that creates myriad issues and is causing a strain on our health care delivery system. Cost, availability and access to appropriate care will be increasingly critical, particularly as the health care needs of large portions of the population change.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 117 million adults suffer from one or more chronic conditions. As might be expected, the elderly are disproportionately affected: The majority of the elderly live with a chronic illness.

Complex chronic diseases have become the leading cause of death in this country, and 75 percent of health expenditures are related to the treatment of chronic disease. New York state ranks third in the nation in the number

of older adults and by 2020, almost one quarter of the state’s population will be 60-plus.

While living longer is a positive trend, living healthy must remain the goal. Understanding one’s chronic disease and improving the ability to self-manage it is key. The traditional model of managing the medical aspects of a chronic condition is being replaced with new strategies focused on interactive learning, health improvement, coping strategies, problem solving and self-guided decision-making.

These strategies often short circuit the need for medical intervention during a crisis.

Health care coaching, now employed by many hospitals to avoid costly readmissions, has a positive impact for patients, for hospitals and for the health care system as a whole. For the patient, coaching results in an improved ability to conduct daily activities and brings about an enhanced quality of life. For a hospital, coaching reduces the financial burdens that come with

hospital readmissions. For Medicare, Medicaid and other payers, the cost of covering expensive hospital stays can be greatly reduced or even eliminated as coaches work to prevent hospitalization or readmission.

By building partnerships with other care providers and leveraging innovative technologies, home health care agencies are able to address the need for chronic disease self-management where it matters most — in the home.

The Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley has created partnerships with two community hospitals, Northern Westchester Hospital and St. John’s Riverside Hospital, to provide a Care Transitions Coach Program that works as an extension of the hospital services.

This program is initiated while the patient is in the hospital and the coach remains connected to patients for 30 days after discharge.

During this period, patients are taught to recognize “red flags” or warning signs for man-

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aging their disease or condition so they can employ the necessary interventions to prevent a disease crisis.

The use of a personal health record, followup appointments with physicians and mediMichele Quirolo cation management are all emphasized in the program.

Advances in technology also continue to provide additional tools to manage chronic disease. Telehealth, an electronic method of delivering health-related services and information, is beginning to change the way health care is delivered and enables efficiency gains and cost containment. Telehealth can be as simple as using a smartphone to track and monitor a variety of health care metrics, to a face-to-face virtual home health care visit by a nurse, to remote robotic surgeries performed by a physician in underserved areas.

The Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley has launched a new wireless videobased tablet telehealth system that provides regular monitoring of patients with chronic conditions and those who have a need for additional assistance.

Health care reform is moving rapidly, and one of its key characteristics is the decreased use of hospitals for care delivery.

Clearly, acute care needs will continue to be provided in those institutions. However, care will increasingly be provided in the least restrictive environment — the home. The role of home health care, previously seen as the setting of last resort, is moving into a more prominent position as new models of care are being created. Not only is home health care less costly, but the home is also often the setting in which patients would prefer to receive care. As reform of our health care system continues, home care will become the safety net for preventing hospital readmissions and managing chronic disease.

Partnerships among local health care providers, including hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and home care agencies in our area will become increasingly important as new models of care emerge. The successful management of chronic disease and other issues that affect an aging population require a coordinated effort on the part of all care providers, and keeping the patient at the center of care is the only way to ensure quality, to reduce hospitalizations and readmissions, and to address the complex issues that will increasingly cause a strain on the health care system in our country.

Michele Quirolo since 1994 has been president and CEO of VNA of Hudson Valley, a nonprofit home health care agency founded in 1898.

She can be reached at mquirolo@vnahv.org.

INBRIEF FSW TO EXPAND ALZHEIMER SERVICES Family Services of Westchester Inc. will use a $902,000 federal grant to train and support caregivers of adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in Westchester County and extend its adult day program services to southern residents of the county living with those diseases.

Officials at FSW headquarters in Port Chester said the three-year grant from the Administration on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will support a four-pronged initiative with an ultimate goal to reduce the disproportionate access in Westchester to services for residents with Alzheimer’s and related dementias and improve the county’s ability to serve all those in need.

Susan B. Wayne, Family Services of Westchester president and CEO, in the announcement said the 60-year-old nonprofit will partner with the Alzheimer’s Association, Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services, Arc, Fordham University, Burke Rehabilitation Center Memory Evaluation and Treatment Services and others active in the field “to develop a system of care to meet the county’s needs.”

With the grant, Wayne said, FSW will replicate in White Plains its award-winning adult day program in Mount Kisco, My Second Home; provide respite, training and support to caregivers of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have or are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias; provide outreach, gatekeeper training and education in those diseases to residents of southern Westchester; and offer advanced training in behavioral symptom management and expert consultation to caregivers in the county.

Wayne called the timing of the grant “particularly fortuitous” as Family Services of Westchester is building the Lanza Family Center in White Plains this year and expects to open the facility at 106 N. Broadway in early 2015.

“This new multi-generational site was originally conceived as a means to serve residents of southern and central Westchester who did not have access to our adult day program in Mount Kisco,” Wayne said,”so we are delighted that it will be a part of this more comprehensive effort to expand access to care.”

SENIOR HEALTH CARE SEMINARS PLANNED Six presentations on Medicare and health

care will be held this month and next in Westchester County, part of the library system’s Westchester Seniors Out Speaking program.

“Demystifying Medicare and Healthcare Coverage for Seniors” aims to answer questions for people over 65 years old, those soon to be 65, those planning retirement or others assisting relatives with medical decisions.

According to an announcement of the event, the topics will include Medicare Advantage Plans and prescription drug plans.

Pre-registration for the seminars is requested but not required. The events will be held: • Oct. 22, 2 to 4 p.m., in Pleasantville (Clinton Street Center, 1A Clinton St.). To pre-register, call 914-769-2021.

• Oct. 27, 7 to 9:30 p.m., in Greenburgh (Greenburgh Town Hall, 177 Hillside Ave.).

To pre-register, call 914-231-3236.

• Nov. 3, 6:15 to 8:45 p.m., in Tarrytown (Warner Library, 121 North Broadway). To pre-register, call 914-631-7734.

• Nov. 13, 6:30 to 8:45 p.m., in White Plains (White Plains Public Library, 100 Martine Ave.). To pre-register, call 914-2313236.

• Nov. 18, 7 to 9 p.m., in Pleasantville (Clinton St. Center, 1A Clinton St.). To preregister, call 914-769-2021.

HUDSON VALLEY HEALTH CENTER AWARDED $718K The Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center in Newburgh will get $718,00 worth of federal grants, one of 22 health centers in the country selected for looking to reduce the effects and limit the spread of HIV and AIDS. The Partnerships for Care program at the center looks to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS in urban communities.

Linda Muller, president and CEO of

the center, said, “We look forward to working closely with the New York State AIDS Institute on engaging, educating and caring for these highly sensitive patients.”

The grants were announced Oct. 6

by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, both Democrats.

Maloney said, “The Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center is a leader in providing quality health care to our neighbors and this important investment helps make significant strides in HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention — we have to keep working to bring an end to this global epidemic.”

The center said it provides services for more than 20,000 people in the Newburgh, Orange County, region. It employs more than 300.

Gillibrand said, “This is a major investment for the Hudson Valley. Quality health care must be accessible throughout our communities.”

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Utilizing long-term care insurance as part of an estate plan

hen recommending the purchase of long-term care insurance, or LTCI, to my clients, the most often heard response has historically been, “I don’t want to have to pay the premiums for the rest of my life.” For many 55- to 70-yearolds, a potentially lengthy premium payment period is a psychological obstacle they are unable to overcome in making the decision to purchase LTCI. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly 70 percent of people turning age 65 will need longterm care at some point in their lives. While realistically there is no way of predicting who will need to enter a nursing home or need in-home care, the reality is that many will.

That less than one-third of Americans aged 50-plus have begun planning for long-term care in any fashion is cause for concern.

LTCI is designed to cover a variety of longterm services such as personal and custodial care either at home or in a nursing home. The insurance company pays out a daily amount based on the size of the policy (extent of coverage). The costs of individual LTCI policies

range greatly depending on a number of factors including, age, health, scope and length of coverage.

During the last five years, I’ve noticed that a number of seniors have become significantly more receptive to the purchase of LTCI specifically as part of a comprehensive elder law plan, which includes making transfers of assets to a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust.

The transfer of assets to said trust would effectively create a five-year “look back” period for a Medicaid nursing home (not home care).

Once the “look back” period has been established, an ideal opportunity exists for the purchase of LTCI as protection from the cost of a nursing home during this five-year period. Ideally, the purchase of LTCI should coincide with Medicaid planning to provide coverage in the event that nursing home care is necessary during the “look back” period.

Once the five years have elapsed (and the individual has effectively protected his or her home and/or other assets), the decision can be made whether to keep the policy.

For those still reluctant to buy traditional LTCI, another option to consider is a hybrid

policy combining life insurance with LTCI. Still relatively new, hybrid products were introduced in the market about five years ago and continue to gain in popularity. While individual policies can vary greatly in terms of cost, benefits and potential restrictions, the most attractive aspect remains the same – the buyer receives some benefit from their premiums even if long-term care is never needed. In such an event, death benefits would be paid to the buyer’s beneficiary.

In my experience, LTCI is best utilized as part of an overall asset protection plan rather than as a stand-alone, long-term care option.

It allows the individual the comfort of knowing that there is a light at the end of the tunnel as to the payment of policy premiums, rather than placing them in the difficult position of choosing to buy a policy that may never be used (with the possibility that premiums will have to be paid for a potentially lengthy period of time). Depending on the needs and assets of the individual, hybrid insurance may also be a viable alternative to traditional LTCI. Either approach, however, will require a coordinated effort between your elder law

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attorney and financial adviser or insurance agent.

Anthony J. Enea is a managing member of Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano LLP, with offices in White Plains and Somers. He is the past chairman of the New York State Bar Association’s Elder Law Section and was named Westchester County’s Leading Elder Care Attorney at the 2013 Above the Bar Awards. He can be reached at 914-948-1500 or A.Enea@esslawfirm.com.

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Honorees were William J. McGuinness, director of Tiffany & Co.; James F. X. Steets, retired director of communications at Entergy Corp.; and Anna L. Shereff, founder of the organization’s Anna and Louis H. Shereff Caregiver and Complementary Care Programs and grand sponsor of this year’s gala.

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FACTS& FIGURES BANKRUPTCIES MANHATTAN 1058 Southern Blvd. Realty Corp.

2416 National Drive, Brooklyn 11234.

Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gerard R. Luckman. Filed: Oct. 3. Case no. 14-12808-reg.

71 Clinton Inc. P.O. Box 1321, Lenox Hill Station, New York 10021. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by David Carlebach. Filed: Oct. 7. Case no.

14-12830-scc.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Erica Henley. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Oct. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08054-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Janae Hill. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: Eric Steven Johnson. Filed: Oct. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08062-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Misty Murphy.

Action: diversity-personal injury.

Attorney: Troy A. Brenes. Filed: Oct. 8.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08087-CS.

Rena Lange (USA) Inc. 430 W.14 St., Suite 201, New York 10014. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Wayne M. Greenwald. Filed: Oct. 7. Case no.

14-12831-smb.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Lacie Sexton. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Oct. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08056-CS.

WHITE PLAINS

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Victoria B. Williford.

Action: diversity-product liability.

Attorney: Michael C. Bradley. Filed: Oct. 7. Case no. 7:14-cv-08050-CS.

Ewing Realty LLC. 686 N. Main St., Spring Valley 10977. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Ewing Realty LLC. Filed: Oct. 6. Case no.

14-23410-rdd.

J & B Partners of NY, LLC. 4000 Veterans Memorial Highway, Second floor, Bohemia 11716. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Michael P. Cooley. Filed: Oct. 1. Case no. 1423393-rdd.

Klum Realty Corp. 1 Alpine Court, Spring Valley 10977. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Barry N. Frank.

Filed: Oct. 7. Case no. 14-23420-rdd.

COURT CASES Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by April Cochran.

Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: R. Seth Crompton. Filed: Oct. 8. Case no. 7:14-cv-08086-CS.

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

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

Commissioner of Social Security.

Filed by Carmen M. Morales. Action: review of HHHs decision (SSID).

Attorney: Daniel Berger. Filed: Oct. 1.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07855-CS. Commissioner of Social Security.

Filed by Stephanie Kaloko for Rodell Fletcher Jr. Action: review of HHHS decision (SSID). Attorney: Alexandra Michalowicz. Filed: Oct. 8. Case no.

7:14-cv-08017-KMK-LMS. New York State Board of Elections. Filed by Edward Borrelli.

Action: 1983 Civil Rights Act. Attorney: Liam James McLaughlin. Filed: Oct. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08076-NSR. Royal Property Advisors Inc. Filed by Stephanie Kennedy. Action: copyright infringement. Attorneys: Edward C. Greenberg and Tamara L. Lannin. Filed: Oct. 6. Case no. 7:14-cv08038-CS. SAC Acquisition LLC. Filed by Joann Bateman. Action: job discrimination. Attorneys: Amos Ben Blackman and Robert L. Levy. Filed: Oct. 6.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08013-KMK. Town of Washington Planning Board. Filed by Homeland Towers LLC, and New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC. Action: Cable Communications Act. Attorneys: Christopher B. Fisher, Andrew P. Schriever and Hans J. Germann. Filed: Oct. 1. Case no. 7:1407935-NSR. US ITT Machinery Limited. Filed

by ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLC. Action: trademark infringement.

Attorney: Philip Goldstein. Filed: Oct. 1. Case no. 7:14-cv-07941-KMK.

ON THE RECORD

DEEDS Above $1 million 131 Florence LLC. Seller: Jacquelyn Elaine Copeland, et al, White Plains.

Property: 131 Florence Ave., Rye. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Oct. 1.

18 West 125 LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Kunyu Company Inc., White Plains.

Property: 124-128 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Amount: $2.8 million.

Filed Oct. 6.

Cliff Owner Corp., Bronx. Seller: 1416 Cliff Avenue Realty Ltd., Yonkers.

Property: 14-16 Cliff Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Oct. 2.

Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn, Brooklyn. Seller: Church of the Immaculate Conception, North Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow. Property: 199 N. Broadway, Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $1.6 million. Filed Oct. 1.

B Green Holdings LLC, Mount Kisco. Seller: Daniel Figa, Somers.

Property: 43 Moore Ave., Mount Kisco. Amount: $173,000. Filed Oct. 6.

Callu II LLC, Yorktown Heights.

Seller: The Healy Living Trust, West Nyack. Property: 590 John St., Peekskill. Amount: $152,000. Filed Oct. 7.

Cartus Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: David A. Reel, et al, Yonkers. Property: 744 Warburton Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $430,000. Filed Oct. 6.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Daniel Romano, Yonkers. Property: 260 Columbus Ave., Rye. Amount: $603,683. Filed Oct. 6.

West Shore Enterprises LLC, Putnam Valley. Seller: Sprout Creek Development Ltd., Hopewell Junction.

Property: 409 Ringgold St., Peekskill.

Amount: $29,000. Filed Oct. 2.

127 Halstead Avenue LLC, Harrison. Seller: Marvellis Property LLC, Harrison. Property: 127-129 Halstead Ave., Harrison. Amount: $675,000.

Filed Oct. 6.

Land Investors LLC, Chappaqua.

Seller: Joseph Vessecchia, et al, Mount Kisco. Property: 125 Cross River Road, New Castle. Amount: $997,922. Filed Oct. 6.

19 Intervale Realty LLC, Yonkers.

Seller: Zuburtain LLC, Yonkers.

Property: 19 Intervale Place, Yonkers.

Amount: $855,000. Filed Oct. 1.

Mastrantoni Brothers Inc., Mahopac. Seller: David F. Ryan, et al, Croton-on-Hudson. Property: 30 High St., Bedford. Amount: $74,286.

Filed Oct. 2.

55 Greendale LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Karen Costopoulos, Scarsdale. Property: 55 Greendale Road, Scarsdale.

Amount: $925,000. Filed Oct. 7.

571B Heritage Hills LLC, Katonah.

Seller: Jennifer Sbarra, et al, New Fairfield, Conn. Property: 571B Heritage Hills, Somers. Amount: $315,000.

Filed Oct. 3.

915 Protano LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Barry Goodman, et al, Mamaroneck.

Property: 915 Protano Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $940,000. Filed Oct. 2.

Alecia Garcia Acquisitions LLC. Seller: Muriel Fuller, et al, Yonkers.

Property: 6 Hunt Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $215,000. Filed Oct. 6.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Peter P. Rosato, Yonkers. Property: 35 Rose Hill Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $959,981.

Filed Oct. 3.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: David Gallo, Armonk. Property: 40 Crotty Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $623,487.

Filed Oct. 1.

Below $1 million

40 North Mac Realty Corp., Mount Vernon. Seller: Cleophas Dowridge, et al, Mount Vernon. Property: 325 Locust St., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $160,000. Filed Oct. 2.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Lino Castrellon, et al, Yonkers. Property: 122 Ridgewood Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $400,000. Filed Oct. 7.

Edson Avenue Development LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 335 Warwick Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $259,000. Filed Oct. 1.

Hudson Valley Bank N.A., Bronx.

Seller: Jeffrey Marron, et al, Ossining.

Property: 11-01 Brooke Club Drive, Ossining. Amount: $320,000. Filed Oct. 3.

20 East Main Street LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Deborah K. Kotzen, et al, Rye. Property: 20 E. Main St., New Rochelle 10801. Amount: $950,000.

Filed Oct. 1.

Sirva Relocation Credit LLC. Seller: Geraldo Abreu, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 299 Stuart Drive, New Rochelle. Amount: $667,500.

Filed Oct. 2.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Jonathan Shade, et al, Tuckahoe. Property: 250 Scarsdale Road, Yonkers. Amount: $540,000. Filed Oct. 2.

Navbharath Real Estate Development Corp., New Rochelle. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 150 Linden St., Yonkers. Amount: $48,000. Filed Oct. 6.

Pan Bar Realty LLC, Mahopac.

Seller: Christian O. Lyhus Jr., et al, Yorktown Heights. Property: Hanover St., Yorktown. Amount: $70,000. Filed Oct. 3.

Random Properties Acquisition Corporation III, Stamford, Conn.

Seller: Kevin A. Cohen, White Plains.

Property: 73 French Ridge, New Rochelle. Amount: $380,000. Filed Oct. 2.

Sayvon Development Inc., Armonk. Seller: Judith M. Finamore, Greenwich, Conn. Property: 41 Byram Ridge Road, North Castle. Amount: $561,000. Filed Oct. 1.

POUND RIDGE, 67 Salem Road.

Single-family residence; 2.0 acre.

Plaintiff: Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates; 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill.

Defendant: Gerald Martyn Upright Jr. Referee: Steven Feinstein. Sale: Oct. 16, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $626,076.62.

YONKERS, 36 Fairmount Ave. Two-family; .06 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association.

Plaintiff ’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC; 25 Northpointe Parkway, Amherst.

Defendant: Kevin Scott. Referee: Peter Rosato. Sale: Oct. 15, 2 p.m. Approximate lien: $421,801.48.

YONKERS, 214 Truman Ave. Twofamily; .11 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: The Margolin & Weinreb Law Group, 516-921-3838; 165 Eileen Way, Syosset. Defendant: Robert Espinal. Referee: John Sarcone. Sale: Oct. 21, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $872,619.00.

FORECLOSURES CROTON-ON-HUDSON, 123 N. Highland Place. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association.

Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: David Berger. Referee: Jeffrey Binder. Sale: Oct. 14, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $509,827.38.

DOBBS FERRY, 7 Woodbine Terrace. Single-family residence; .23 acre. Plaintiff: Bank of America NA. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Stiene & Associates, 631-935-1616; 187 E. Main St., Huntington. Defendant: Genevieve Kelly. Referee: Francis Malara. Sale: Oct. 14, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $620,284.42.

HARRISON, 3 Bliss Farm Drive.

Single-family residence; .28 acre.

Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Thomas Roskin. Referee: Michael George Santangelo. Sale: Oct. 14; 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,307,316.59.

PORT CHESTER, 1 Landmark Square, Apt. 224. Apartment; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle. Defendant: Glenn Ouimette. Referee: Eric Marker Fayer. Sale: Oct. 21, 9:45 a.m. Approximate lien: $254,933.88.

JUDGMENTS Anabella Transportation LLC, Mount Vernon. $35,719 in favor of Pro Premium Finance Company Inc., Hollywood, Fla. Filed Sept. 30.

Ashley Industries LLC, Mount Vernon. $4,008 in favor of All Star Beverages Inc., Yonkers. Filed Oct. 1.

Complete Retirement Services Inc., Yaphank. $13,284 in favor of A and J Cianciulli Inc., Yonkers. Filed Sept. 30.

Continental Limousine, Montrose. $4,942 in favor of Red Oak Transportation, Port Chester. Filed Sept. 29.

Da-Ell Inc., New Rochelle. $1,031 in favor of Cholos Kitchen, New Rochelle. Filed Oct. 1.

Rocmar Contracting Corp., Thornwood. $11,392 in favor of Claridge Products and Equipment Inc., Harrison, Ariz. Filed Oct. 3.

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

Albers, Roy L., et al. Filed by Hudson City Savings Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $650,000 affecting property located at 11 Flanders Lane, Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed Feb. 28.

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NEWSMAKERS [PLUS AWARDS AND EVENTS] GROUP ADDS THREE DOCTORS

ANGELES ELECTED TO FRIENDS OF KAREN BOARD

Andres Espinoza

Farrah Gutwein

Douglas D. Sankar

Three physicians have joined Phelps Medical Associates, the multispecialty group of Phelps Memorial Hospital Center. They are internist Andres Espinoza, rheumatologist Farrah Gutwein and neurologist Douglas D. Sankar.

Espinoza attended medical school at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Mexico. He completed a pre-internship at New York Medical College and his internal medicine residency at Danbury Hospital. A resident of Mohegan Lake, his office is in Sleepy Hollow.

Gutwein, who specializes in the

treatment of arthritis, lupus and osteoporosis, is board-certified in internal medicine. A resident of White Plains, Gutwein attended medical school at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her three-year internal medicine residency at Westchester Medical Center, followed by a two-year rheumatology fellowship, also at WMC. After her fellowship, she was in private practice in New Rochelle and served as assistant director of the rheumatology clinic at Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital and as physician educator at the hospital. Gutwein is seeing pa-

tients at offices in Sleepy Hollow and Croton-on-Hudson.

Sankar is board certified in neurology and clinical neurophysiology.

He earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed an internship in internal medicine, a residency in neurology and a fellowship in neurophysiology, all at New York University Medical Center. He is a clinical assistant professor at New York Medical College. Prior to joining Phelps Medical Associates, Sankar was in private practice in Cortlandt Manor. His practice is now on the Phelps campus in Sleepy Hollow.

GIFT OF LIFE NAMES NEW BOARD Gift of Life, a Rotary-sponsored charity, has elected Valhalla resident and White Plains Rotarian Bill Currie to be its chairman of the board for a two-year term and has appointed three additional members to the board: Janet DiBenedetto, past governor of the Rotary Club District and a Rotarian for 25 years; John Felicetti of the Rotary Club of Pelham; and Richard Sherman, new president of the Bronx Rotary Club and a Rotarian since 2010. Leon Horwitz, who has held numerous Rotary board positions, has been promoted to vice chairman of the board. These Rotarians will help direct the operations of Gift of Life in its life-saving heart surgery operations for children from several foreign countries.

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Currie has served on the Gift of Life board since 1998. He became involved with the International Gift of Life program shortly after it was founded in 2002, eventually serving as vice chairman from 2007 to 2009 and as chairman/president from 2009 to 2013. He serves as secretary and uses his financial background to assist the organization. He has helped raise money and awareness of the Gift of Life by addressing Rotary conferences on four continents and has spoken to groups of medical professionals about the life-saving work of Gift of Life.

DiBenedetto has been a winner of the Rotary’s highest honor, the Service Above Self Award. Only 500 individuals of the approximately 2 million

members in Rotary International have received the award.

DiBenedetto, a member of the Pleasantville Rotary Club, has been a member of the Gift of Life for 20 years.

A grant writer and teacher of grant writing, she is serving on the board to share her grant writing expertise.

Felicetti, a 20-year resident of Pelham, has spent his professional career in information technology and management consulting and has been an active member of the Rotary Club of the Pelhams’ annual Tastings fundraiser for children with cardiac needs since its inception in 2005.

During that time, he and his family have hosted several children from abroad while they received life-saving heart surgery.

North Salem-based Friends of Karen, an organization supporting critically ill children and their families, recently elected Anne Angeles to its board of directors. Angeles is a marketing executive, holding previous positions at major firms, including Prudential Financial, American Express, McCann-Erickson and American International Group. She also actively helps notfor-profits as a pro-bono marketing consultant with Taproot Foundation of New York.

SOMERS REALTOR RECEIVES AWARD The New York State Association of Realtors recognized Linda Crispinelli for her work with the Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Fund by naming her one of its first-ever Community Service Award honorees during the association’s fall business meeting in Verona.

The service award is intended to honor Realtors’ involvement supporting initiatives aimed at a community’s youths, improving the quality of education, quality of life for older Americans, homelessness prevention, as well as efforts following natural disasters.

Crispinelli created the Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Fund, also known as Stephanie’s Mission, following the death of her daughter during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The nonprofit organization was created with the hope of continuing Stephanie’s mission of helping children who are less fortunate all

over the world.

Through Stephanie’s Mission, Crispinelli creates approximately 200 Steph’s Comfort Kits annually, which are donated to the Westchester Chapter of the American Red Cross. They include a blanket, small pillow, teddy bear and books for children displaced from their homes.

In addition, the fund has built five pre-elementary schools in poverty-stricken areas of Jamaica in Stephanie’s honor. Its goal is to build a school every year. Scholarships have also been set up for high school and college students to go on humanitarian trips similar to those in which Stephanie participated.

Along with an inscribed award, a monetary grant of $500 was also made in Crispinelli’s name to the Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Fund.

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THE ARC OF WESTCHESTER FOUNDATION “A MATTER OF TASTE” from 6 to 9 p.m. at Westchester Country Club, Rye, will feature signature dishes prepared by area chefs and a wide assortment of fine wine and craft beer. The event benefits children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities.

Tickets are $185. For more information, call 914-495-4573 or 914-428-8330 or email rmoore@arcwestchester.org or visit arcwestchester.org.

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Both doctors will oversee services offered by Westmed, the orientation of physicians at all its locations and the credentialing and privileging process of doctors. Meixler and Morel are also involved in ongoing development and achievement of quality initiatives as an accountable care organization.

Meixler received his medical de-

THE MARIANDALE ANNUAL FUNDRAISER THIS YEAR FEATURES THE CHICAGO STILL POINT THEATER’S “HAUNTED BY GOD: THE LIFE OF DOROTHY DAY,” 3 p.m. at Mariandale Retreat and Conference Center in Ossining. Tickets for the show are $40. Profits will support Mariandale outreach programs. Day was a powerful woman of immense conviction, spending 47 years living with the poor and challenging the U.S. Government to halt acts of war. She is known as the “mother of the peace movement.” Reservations are recommended. Call 914941-4455, ext. 0, for more information or reservations or visit mariandale.org

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Westmed Medical Group has announced two promotions to vice president: Steven Meixler of White Plains, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist, who is associate medical director for medical specialties, and Richard Morel of Pelham, an internist, who is associate medical director for internal medicine.

Richard Morel

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Steven Meixler

gree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed his residency training through Manhattan VA/New York University Medical Center, where he served as chief resident. He completed a fellowship in pulmonary/critical care medicine at New York University Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital Center. Meixler was in private practice in White Plains before joining Westmed in September 2005. He is also director of the Department of Internal Medicine at White Plains Hospital and has served as chief of pulmonary/critical care medicine.

Morel is board-certified in internal medicine. He was awarded his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed his postgraduate training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. In addition, he has recently completed a master’s of medical management degree at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining WMG in July 2008, he was in a private practice affiliated with Columbia-Presbyterian Riverdale for 12 years.

THE 41ST ANNUAL IONA COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES INVITATIONAL GOLF OUTING TO RAISE MONEY FOR IONA SCHOLARSHIPS takes place at 12:15 p.m. (shotgun) at Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck.

Limited availability. For more information and reservations, call Caitlin H. Krueger at 914-637-7781 or email events@iona.edu.

LANGSAM AN AWARD RECIPIENT Janet Langsam, CEO of ArtsWestchester, was honored by the Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Services for her leadership in advocating and maintaining arts programs for seniors. She received the Humanitarian Award at the organization’s Golden Harvest Awards Breakfast Oct. 2.

The Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Services develops resources to provide services that help seniors age with independence and dignity in their home community.

“It was a superb decision to honor Janet Langsam with the Golden Harvest Humanitarian Award,” said Mae Carpenter, commissioner of Westchester County’s Department of Se-

nior Programs and Services. “Her programs for seniors have enriched their lives and broadened their horizons.

Her outreach has been outstanding.”

ArtsWestchester, the county’s oldest and most influential nonprofit for artists and cultural organizations, has been providing free services at low income, county-subsidized senior residencies for more than 30 years, using the arts to reinforce cognitive and social skills.

“With social isolation, as well as transportation and mobility barriers limiting seniors, we provide hands-on artist residencies that foster socialization by bringing people together for a shared, art-making experience,” Langsam said.

NEW BRANCH AND MANAGER Justin Maneen has been appointed

by The Westchester Bank as vice president, branch manager of the bank’s newest full-service branch at 51 S. Moger Ave. in Mount Kisco.

Maneen is a Westchester County resident and an active member of the Mount Kisco Chamber of Commerce and the Westchester County Association’s Young Professionals Group.

Prior to joining The Westchester Bank, Maneen was branch manager for KeyBank in Mount Kisco where he was promoted from positions in commercial lending, portfolio analysis, sales and customer relations. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta with a Bachelor of Science degree in business economics and focus on finance.

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FACTS & FIGURES Banchetto, John, as heir to the estate of Angela Constantini, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,001 affecting property located at 713-715 Midland Ave., Yonkers 10704. Filed Feb. 27.

Bietsch, Janice, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $350,000 affecting property located at 186 Wyndcliff Road, Scarsdale 10583.

Filed Feb. 27.

Bigby, Heather J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $269,619 affecting property located at 16 Washington Mews, Port Chester 10573. Filed Feb. 28.

Brown, Jack B., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $414,000 affecting property located at 10 Cliff St., Yonkers 10701.

Filed Feb. 28.

Brown, Roseline, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 43 Ravine Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed Feb. 27.

Cardona, Roberto, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $256,000 affecting property located at 12 Orchard St., Montrose 10548.

Filed Feb. 26.

Carparelli, Louis A., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $320,000 affecting property located at 9 Minetta Place, Yonkers 10710. Filed Feb. 26.

Desiano, Virginia, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $370,000 affecting property located at 121 Viewpoint Terrace, Peekskill 10566. Filed Feb. 28.

Hidalgo, Angel, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $350,200 affecting property located at 54 Babbitt Court, Elmsford 10523. Filed Feb. 26.

Hidalgo, David R., et al. Filed by Aurora Loan Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $628,000 affecting property located at 9 Maple Way, Armank 10504. Filed Feb. 28.

Horan, Thomas A., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $484,000 affecting property located at 34 Hart Ave., Yonkers 10704. Filed Feb. 27.

Hospedales, Amadika B., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $672,000 affecting property located at 350 Warwick Ave., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed Feb. 27.

Kesti, Enver, 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 180 Vredenburgh Ave., Yonkers 10704. Filed Feb. 26.

Loughlin, Theresa, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $472,500 affecting property located at 3164 Albany Post Road, Buchanan 10511. Filed Feb. 28.

Macellaro, Joseph J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $938,250 affecting property located at 3 Intervale Ave., White Plains 10603. Filed Feb. 28.

Martinez, Jose A., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $421,350 affecting property located at 61 Landscape Ave., Yonkers 10705.

Filed Feb. 26.

Desir, Hebert, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $368,000 affecting property located at 635 S. Fifth Ave. Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Feb. 27.

Mastrangelo, Lorim, individually and on behalf of the estate of Dolores Mastrangelo, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $742,500 affecting property located at 116 Vernon Ave., Yonkers 10704.

Filed Feb. 26.

Fair, Hazel, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $268,800 affecting property located at 464 S. Seventh Ave., Mount Vernon 10550.

Filed Feb. 27.

Mendez, Nelly, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $304,000 affecting property located at 31 Fourth Ave., Pelham 10803. Filed Feb. 28.

Gardiner, Edmund A., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $157,731 affecting property located at 6 Waring Row, Yonkers 10701. Filed Feb. 26.

Michael, John J., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $930,000 affecting property located at 164 E. Middle Patent Road, Bedford 10506. Filed Feb. 28.

Herkenhoff, Helena M., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 543 Main St., New Rochelle 10801. Filed Feb. 28.

Mikovits, Christopher, et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $385,000 affecting property located at 634 Webster Ave., New Rochelle 10801. Filed Feb. 26.

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Mosquera, Oscar E., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $372,000 affecting property located at 170 Endicott Ave., Elmsford 10523. Filed Feb. 27.

Placzankis, Brian, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $322,000 affecting property located at 423 Hinman Place, Mamaroneck 10543. Filed Feb. 27.

Ray, James, 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 1231 Crestward Ave., Shrub Oak 10588. Filed Feb. 27.

Reyes, Luz, 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 255 Union Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Feb. 27.

Schaer, Donna, individually and as surviving tenant by the entirety with Scott M. Schaer, et al. Filed by LaSalle Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $444,600 affecting property located at 14 Debbie Lane, Cross River 10518. Filed Feb. 28.

Schwartz, Darryl S., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $302,141 affecting property located at 3 Crystal Court, Montrose 10548.

Filed Feb. 26.

Sendon, Manuel, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $315,000 affecting property located at 295 Washington St., Sleepy Hollow 10591. Filed Feb. 27.

Slaughter, Dennis, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $324,879 affecting property located at 23 Cardoza Ave., Mohegan Lake 10547.

Filed Feb. 28.

MECHANIC’S LIENS 44 Sea Cliff Ave Corp., as owner. $5,800 as claimed by Connecticut/ New York Concrete Inc., Danbury, Conn. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Sept. 30.

Diluna Real Estate Inc., as owner. $2,831 as claimed by Interstate Fire and Safety Equipment, Port Chester.

Property: in Harrison. Filed Sept. 29.

Efekta IA Inc., as owner. $6,800 as claimed by WSP USA Corp. Property: in Mount Pleasant. Property: in Mount Pleasant. Filed Oct. 3.

Lorenzen, Barbara, as owner. $411 as claimed by C.W. Carl Electric Contractors Inc., Mount Vernon.

Property: in Yonkers. Filed Sept. 30.

Montefiore MV Holdings LLC, as owner. $13,700 as claimed by Doria Inc. Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed Sept. 25.

Montefiore SS Holdings LLC, as owner. $11,900 as claimed by Doria Inc. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed Sept. 25.

Robert James Contracting, as owner. $4,232 as claimed by Four Seasons Insulators Inc., Newburgh.

Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Oct. 3.

Tarryhill Associates L.P., as owner. $1,222 as claimed by Advantage Wholesale Supply LLC, Brooklyn. Property: in White Plains.

Filed Sept. 30.

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

Ever Moving and Delivery, P.O. Box 3322, Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Everton Spence. Filed June 4.

Media Monsters Unlimited.com, 39 Rathbun Ave., White Plains 10606, c/o Travis P. Williamson. Filed June 4.

Molina’s Cleaning Service, 69 Croton Ave., Ossining 10562, c/o Rosa Molina. Filed June 7.

Patientspeak Consulting, 3410 Villa at the Woods, Peekskill 10566, c/o Diane Ferrero-Paluzzi. Filed June 5.

Patter Paws, P.O. Box 1042, South Salem 10590, c/o Katherine Z. Airey.

Filed June 6.

Port Chester Dog Park Group, 32 Clark Place, Port Chester 10573, c/o Dina Goren. Filed June 6.

Pound Ridge Organics, 22 Westchester Ave., Pound Ridge 10576, c/o Donna P. Simons. Filed June 7.

Prima Donna Realty, 245 Lakeview Ave., West Harrison 10604, c/o Donna Carone. Filed June 5.

Rapido y Seguro, 120 Spring St. Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Beltran B. Quispe. Filed June 6.

Rivera’s Quality Painting, 192 E. Boston Post Road, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Edwin G. Rivera. Filed June 4.

SP Wenzler Enterprises, 746 Mamaroneck Ave., Apt. 1406, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Stephen P. Wenzler.

Filed June 5.

The A Is 4 Art, 28 Edgepark Road, White Plains 10603, c/o Aaron Bell.

Filed June 6.

Partnerships

Yes Automotive Sales, 324 Saw Mill River Road, Millwood 10546, c/o Henry Abraham. Filed June 6.

The heir and distributees of the estate of Dessie T. Potillo, et al.

Filed by James B. Nutter and Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $765,000 affecting property located at 66 Ethelton Road, White Plains 10603. Filed Feb. 28.

Agua De Vida, 24 N. Main St., Port Chester 10573, c/o Celia Carlo and Floralba Bolivar. Filed June 4.

Your Personal Driver, 36 Cedar Place, Rye 10580, c/o Mary Fisher.

Filed June 4.

Unknown heirs of the estate of Alice D. Lane, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $862,500 affecting property located at 58 Willow St., Pleasantville 10570.

Filed Feb. 26.

3D1on1, 245 Lakeview Ave., West Harrison 10604, c/o Robert Raio.

Filed June 5.

Weingartner, Amy E., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $258,000 affecting property located at 68 Southside Ave., Hastings on Hudson 10706. Filed Feb. 27.

D Kanya Creations, 3 Cleveland Place, Apt. 2, Yonkers 10710, c/o Manisha S. Bansal. Filed June 7.

Sole Proprietorships

A to B Towing, 1725 Carhart Ave., Peekskill 10566, c/o Kenneth Mitchell Moorer. Filed June 4.

Delight Airport and Limo Service, 73 Hillview Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Svetoslav Dyulgerov. Filed June 4.

PATENTS The following patents were issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. Dynamic Java bean for visualage for Java. Patent no. 8,856,806 issued to James R. Wason, Tuxedo Park.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Dynamic security question compromise checking based on incoming social network postings. Patent no. 8,856,945 issued to Bernadette Alexia Carter, Raleigh, N.C.; Al Chakra, Apex, N.C.; and Lori Debra Landesman, Andover, Mass.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Generating layouts for graphs of data flow applications. Patent no. 8,856,766 issued to Andrew Lawrence Frenkiel, Irvington; Henrique Andrade, Croton on Hudson; Bugra Gedik, White Plains; Michael Donald Pfeifer, Rochester, Minn.; and Wim De Pauw, Scarborough. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Protection for unauthorized firmware and software upgrades to consumer electronic devices.

Patent no. 8,856,771 issued to Diane Christine Chalmers, Rochester, Minn.; Nixon Cheaz, Cary, N.C.; and David Michael Stecher, Durham, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Sectional email transmission.

Patent no. RE45,184 issued to Yen-Fu Chen, Austin, Texas; John Hans Handy-Bosma, Cedar Park, Texas; Mei Yang Selvage, Austin, Texas; and Keith Raymond Walker, Austin, Texas.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Security filter for context-based data gravity wells. Patent no.

8,856,946 issued to Samuel S. Adams, Rutherfordton, N.C.; Robert R. Friedlander, Southbury, Conn.; James R. Kraemer, Santa Fe, N.M.; and Jeb R. Linton, Manassas, Va. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

System, method and program for scheduling computer program jobs. Patent no. 8,856,793 issued to Joseph M. Picinich, Peoria, Ariz.; Loren W. Pusey, Dublin, Ohio.; and Jiyu C. Lin, Erie, Colo. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Techniques for executing normally interruptible threads in a nonpreemptive manner. Patent no. 8,856,801 issued to Dayavanti G. Kamath, Santa Clara, Calif.; Nirapada Ghosh, Sunnyvale, Calif.; Dar-ren Leu, Santa Clara, Calif.; Nilanjan Mukherjee, Santa Clara, Calif.; and Vijoy Pandey, San Jose, Calif. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Updating firmware without disrupting service. Patent no.

8,856,776 issued to Ajay Kumar Mahajan, Austin, Texas; and Atit D. Patel, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Unstacking software components for migration to virtualized environments. Patent no. 8,856,775 issued to Nikolai Joukov, Thornwood; Matthew Markley, Hays, Kan.; Birgit Pfitzmann, Valhalla; and Michael Tacci, Downingtown, Pa. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

FACTS & FIGURES HUDSON VALLEY

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Lacie Sexton. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Oct. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08056-CS.

BANKRUPTCIES MANHATTAN

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Victoria B. Williford.

Action: diversity-product liability.

Attorney: Michael C. Bradley. Filed: Oct. 7. Case no. 7:14-cv-08050-CS.

1058 Southern Blvd. Realty Corp.

2416 National Drive, Brooklyn 11234.

Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gerard R. Luckman. Filed: Oct. 3. Case no. 14-12808-reg.

Commissioner of Social Security.

Filed by Carmen M. Morales. Action: review of HHHs decision (SSID).

Attorney: Daniel Berger. Filed: Oct. 1.

Case no. 7:14-cv-07855-CS.

71 Clinton Inc. P.O. Box 1321, Lenox Hill Station, New York 10021. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by David Carlebach. Filed: Oct. 7. Case no.

14-12830-scc.

Commissioner of Social Security.

Filed by Stephanie Kaloko for Rodell Fletcher Jr. Action: review of HHHS decision (SSID). Attorney: Alexandra Michalowicz. Filed: Oct. 8. Case no.

7:14-cv-08017-KMK-LMS.

Rena Lange (USA) Inc. 430 W.14 St., Suite 201, New York 10014. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Wayne M. Greenwald. Filed: Oct. 7. Case no.

14-12831-smb.

WHITE PLAINS Ewing Realty LLC. 686 N. Main St., Spring Valley 10977. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Ewing Realty LLC. Filed: Oct. 6. Case no.

14-23410-rdd.

J & B Partners of NY, LLC. 4000 Veterans Memorial Highway, Second floor, Bohemia 11716. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Michael P. Cooley. Filed: Oct. 1. Case no. 1423393-rdd.

Klum Realty Corp. 1 Alpine Court, Spring Valley 10977. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Barry N. Frank.

Filed: Oct. 7. Case no. 14-23420-rdd.

COURT CASES Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by April Cochran.

Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: R. Seth Crompton. Filed: Oct. 8. Case no. 7:14-cv-08086-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Erica Henley. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Oct. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08054-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Janae Hill. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: Eric Steven Johnson. Filed: Oct. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08062-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Misty Murphy.

Action: diversity-personal injury.

Attorney: Troy A. Brenes. Filed: Oct. 8.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08087-CS.

New York State Board of Elections. Filed by Edward Borrelli.

Action: 1983 Civil Rights Act. Attorney: Liam James McLaughlin. Filed: Oct. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08076-NSR. Royal Property Advisors Inc. Filed by Stephanie Kennedy. Action: copyright infringement. Attorneys: Edward C. Greenberg and Tamara L. Lannin. Filed: Oct. 6. Case no. 7:14-cv08038-CS.

Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn, Brooklyn. Seller: Church of the Immaculate Conception, North Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow. Property: 199 N. Broadway, Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $1.6 million. Filed Oct. 1.

Below $1 million 127 Halstead Avenue LLC, Harrison. Seller: Marvellis Property LLC, Harrison. Property: 127-129 Halstead Ave., Harrison. Amount: $675,000.

Filed Oct. 6.

19 Intervale Realty LLC, Yonkers.

Seller: Zuburtain LLC, Yonkers.

Property: 19 Intervale Place, Yonkers.

Amount: $855,000. Filed Oct. 1.

20 East Main Street LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Deborah K. Kotzen, et al, Rye. Property: 20 E. Main St., New Rochelle 10801. Amount: $950,000.

Filed Oct. 1.

40 North Mac Realty Corp., Mount Vernon. Seller: Cleophas Dowridge, et al, Mount Vernon. Property: 325 Locust St., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $160,000. Filed Oct. 2.

55 Greendale LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Karen Costopoulos, Scarsdale. Property: 55 Greendale Road, Scarsdale.

Amount: $925,000. Filed Oct. 7.

SAC Acquisition LLC. Filed by Joann Bateman. Action: job discrimination. Attorneys: Amos Ben Blackman and Robert L. Levy. Filed: Oct. 6.

Case no. 7:14-cv-08013-KMK.

571B Heritage Hills LLC, Katonah.

Seller: Jennifer Sbarra, et al, New Fairfield, Conn. Property: 571B Heritage Hills, Somers. Amount: $315,000.

Filed Oct. 3.

Town of Washington Planning Board. Filed by Homeland Towers LLC, and New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC. Action: Cable Communications Act. Attorneys: Christopher B. Fisher, Andrew P. Schriever and Hans J. Germann. Filed: Oct. 1. Case no. 7:1407935-NSR.

915 Protano LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Barry Goodman, et al, Mamaroneck.

Property: 915 Protano Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $940,000. Filed Oct. 2.

US ITT Machinery Limited. Filed

by ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLC. Action: trademark infringement.

Attorney: Philip Goldstein. Filed: Oct. 1. Case no. 7:14-cv-07941-KMK.

DEEDS Above $1 million 131 Florence LLC. Seller: Jacquelyn Elaine Copeland, et al, White Plains.

Property: 131 Florence Ave., Rye. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Oct. 1.

18 West 125 LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Kunyu Company Inc., White Plains.

Property: 124-128 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Amount: $2.8 million.

Filed Oct. 6.

Cliff Owner Corp., Bronx. Seller: 1416 Cliff Avenue Realty Ltd., Yonkers.

Property: 14-16 Cliff Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Oct. 2.

Alecia Garcia Acquisitions LLC. Seller: Muriel Fuller, et al, Yonkers.

Property: 6 Hunt Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $215,000. Filed Oct. 6.

B Green Holdings LLC, Mount Kisco. Seller: Daniel Figa, Somers.

Property: 43 Moore Ave., Mount Kisco. Amount: $173,000. Filed Oct. 6.

Callu II LLC, Yorktown Heights.

Seller: The Healy Living Trust, West Nyack. Property: 590 John St., Peekskill. Amount: $152,000. Filed Oct. 7.

Cartus Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: David A. Reel, et al, Yonkers. Property: 744 Warburton Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $430,000. Filed Oct. 6.

Edson Avenue Development LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 335 Warwick Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $259,000. Filed Oct. 1.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Daniel Romano, Yonkers. Property: 260 Columbus Ave., Rye. Amount: $603,683. Filed Oct. 6.

Hudson Valley Bank N.A., Bronx.

Seller: Jeffrey Marron, et al, Ossining.

Property: 11-01 Brooke Club Drive, Ossining. Amount: $320,000. Filed Oct. 3.

Land Investors LLC, Chappaqua.

Seller: Joseph Vessecchia, et al, Mount Kisco. Property: 125 Cross River Road, New Castle. Amount: $997,922. Filed Oct. 6.

Mastrantoni Brothers Inc., Mahopac. Seller: David F. Ryan, et al, Croton-on-Hudson. Property: 30 High St., Bedford. Amount: $74,286.

Filed Oct. 2.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Jonathan Shade, et al, Tuckahoe. Property: 250 Scarsdale Road, Yonkers. Amount: $540,000. Filed Oct. 2.

Navbharath Real Estate Development Corp., New Rochelle. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 150 Linden St., Yonkers. Amount: $48,000. Filed Oct. 6.

Pan Bar Realty LLC, Mahopac.

Seller: Christian O. Lyhus Jr., et al, Yorktown Heights. Property: Hanover St., Yorktown. Amount: $70,000. Filed Oct. 3.

Random Properties Acquisition Corporation III, Stamford, Conn.

Seller: Kevin A. Cohen, White Plains.

Property: 73 French Ridge, New Rochelle. Amount: $380,000. Filed Oct. 2.

Sayvon Development Inc., Armonk. Seller: Judith M. Finamore, Greenwich, Conn. Property: 41 Byram Ridge Road, North Castle. Amount: $561,000. Filed Oct. 1.

Sirva Relocation Credit LLC. Seller: Geraldo Abreu, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 299 Stuart Drive, New Rochelle. Amount: $667,500.

Filed Oct. 2.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Lino Castrellon, et al, Yonkers. Property: 122 Ridgewood Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $400,000. Filed Oct. 7.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Peter P. Rosato, Yonkers. Property: 35 Rose Hill Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $959,981.

Filed Oct. 3.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: David Gallo, Armonk. Property: 40 Crotty Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $623,487.

Filed Oct. 1.

West Shore Enterprises LLC, Putnam Valley. Seller: Sprout Creek Development Ltd., Hopewell Junction.

Property: 409 Ringgold St., Peekskill.

Amount: $29,000. Filed Oct. 2.

FORECLOSURES CROTON-ON-HUDSON, 123 N. Highland Place. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association.

Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: David Berger. Referee: Jeffrey Binder. Sale: Oct. 14, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $509,827.38.

DOBBS FERRY, 7 Woodbine Terrace. Single-family residence; .23 acre. Plaintiff: Bank of America NA. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Stiene & Associates, 631-935-1616; 187 E. Main St., Huntington. Defendant: Genevieve Kelly. Referee: Francis Malara. Sale: Oct. 14, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $620,284.42.

HARRISON, 3 Bliss Farm Drive.

Single-family residence; .28 acre.

Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Thomas Roskin. Referee: Michael George Santangelo. Sale: Oct. 14; 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,307,316.59.

PORT CHESTER, 1 Landmark Square, Apt. 224. Apartment; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle. Defendant: Glenn Ouimette. Referee: Eric Marker Fayer. Sale: Oct. 21, 9:45 a.m. Approximate lien: $254,933.88.

POUND RIDGE, 67 Salem Road.

Single-family residence; 2.0 acre.

Plaintiff: Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates; 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill.

Defendant: Gerald Martyn Upright Jr. Referee: Steven Feinstein. Sale: Oct. 16, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $626,076.62.

YONKERS, 36 Fairmount Ave. Two-family; .06 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association.

Plaintiff ’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC; 25 Northpointe Parkway, Amherst.

Defendant: Kevin Scott. Referee: Peter Rosato. Sale: Oct. 15, 2 p.m. Approximate lien: $421,801.48.

YONKERS, 214 Truman Ave. Twofamily; .11 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: The Margolin & Weinreb Law Group, 516-921-3838; 165 Eileen Way, Syosset. Defendant: Robert Espinal. Referee: John Sarcone. Sale: Oct. 21, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $872,619.00.

JUDGMENTS Anabella Transportation LLC, Mount Vernon. $35,719 in favor of Pro Premium Finance Company Inc., Hollywood, Fla. Filed Sept. 30.

Ashley Industries LLC, Mount Vernon. $4,008 in favor of All Star Beverages Inc., Yonkers. Filed Oct. 1.

Complete Retirement Services Inc., Yaphank. $13,284 in favor of A and J Cianciulli Inc., Yonkers. Filed Sept. 30.

Continental Limousine, Montrose. $4,942 in favor of Red Oak Transportation, Port Chester. Filed Sept. 29.

Da-Ell Inc., New Rochelle. $1,031 in favor of Cholos Kitchen, New Rochelle. Filed Oct. 1.

Rocmar Contracting Corp., Thornwood. $11,392 in favor of Claridge Products and Equipment Inc., Harrison, Ariz. Filed Oct. 3.

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

Albers, Roy L., et al. Filed by Hudson City Savings Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $650,000 affecting property located at 11 Flanders Lane, Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed Feb. 28.

Banchetto, John, as heir to the estate of Angela Constantini, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,001 affecting property located at 713-715 Midland Ave., Yonkers 10704. Filed Feb. 27.

Bietsch, Janice, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $350,000 affecting property located at 186 Wyndcliff Road, Scarsdale 10583.

Filed Feb. 27.

Bigby, Heather J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $269,619 affecting property located at 16 Washington Mews, Port Chester 10573. Filed Feb. 28.

Brown, Jack B., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $414,000 affecting property located at 10 Cliff St., Yonkers 10701.

Filed Feb. 28.

Brown, Roseline, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 43 Ravine Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed Feb. 27.

Cardona, Roberto, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $256,000 affecting property located at 12 Orchard St., Montrose 10548.

Filed Feb. 26.

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FACTS & FIGURES Carparelli, Louis A., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $320,000 affecting property located at 9 Minetta Place, Yonkers 10710. Filed Feb. 26.

Loughlin, Theresa, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $472,500 affecting property located at 3164 Albany Post Road, Buchanan 10511. Filed Feb. 28.

Desiano, Virginia, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $370,000 affecting property located at 121 Viewpoint Terrace, Peekskill 10566. Filed Feb. 28.

Macellaro, Joseph J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $938,250 affecting property located at 3 Intervale Ave., White Plains 10603. Filed Feb. 28.

Desir, Hebert, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $368,000 affecting property located at 635 S. Fifth Ave. Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Feb. 27.

Martinez, Jose A., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $421,350 affecting property located at 61 Landscape Ave., Yonkers 10705.

Filed Feb. 26.

Fair, Hazel, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $268,800 affecting property located at 464 S. Seventh Ave., Mount Vernon 10550.

Filed Feb. 27.

Mastrangelo, Lorim, individually and on behalf of the estate of Dolores Mastrangelo, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $742,500 affecting property located at 116 Vernon Ave., Yonkers 10704.

Filed Feb. 26.

Gardiner, Edmund A., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $157,731 affecting property located at 6 Waring Row, Yonkers 10701. Filed Feb. 26.

Herkenhoff, Helena M., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 543 Main St., New Rochelle 10801. Filed Feb. 28.

Hidalgo, Angel, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $350,200 affecting property located at 54 Babbitt Court, Elmsford 10523. Filed Feb. 26.

Hidalgo, David R., et al. Filed by Aurora Loan Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $628,000 affecting property located at 9 Maple Way, Armank 10504. Filed Feb. 28.

Horan, Thomas A., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $484,000 affecting property located at 34 Hart Ave., Yonkers 10704. Filed Feb. 27.

Hospedales, Amadika B., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $672,000 affecting property located at 350 Warwick Ave., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed Feb. 27.

Kesti, Enver, 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 180 Vredenburgh Ave., Yonkers 10704. Filed Feb. 26.

Mendez, Nelly, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $304,000 affecting property located at 31 Fourth Ave., Pelham 10803. Filed Feb. 28.

Michael, John J., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $930,000 affecting property located at 164 E. Middle Patent Road, Bedford 10506. Filed Feb. 28.

Mikovits, Christopher, et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $385,000 affecting property located at 634 Webster Ave., New Rochelle 10801. Filed Feb. 26.

Mosquera, Oscar E., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $372,000 affecting property located at 170 Endicott Ave., Elmsford 10523. Filed Feb. 27.

Placzankis, Brian, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $322,000 affecting property located at 423 Hinman Place, Mamaroneck 10543. Filed Feb. 27.

Ray, James, 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 1231 Crestward Ave., Shrub Oak 10588. Filed Feb. 27.

Reyes, Luz, 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 255 Union Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Feb. 27.

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Schaer, Donna, individually and as surviving tenant by the entirety with Scott M. Schaer, et al. Filed by LaSalle Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $444,600 affecting property located at 14 Debbie Lane, Cross River 10518. Filed Feb. 28.

Schwartz, Darryl S., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $302,141 affecting property located at 3 Crystal Court, Montrose 10548.

Filed Feb. 26.

Sendon, Manuel, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $315,000 affecting property located at 295 Washington St., Sleepy Hollow 10591. Filed Feb. 27.

Slaughter, Dennis, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $324,879 affecting property located at 23 Cardoza Ave., Mohegan Lake 10547.

Filed Feb. 28.

The heir and distributees of the estate of Dessie T. Potillo, et al.

Filed by James B. Nutter and Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $765,000 affecting property located at 66 Ethelton Road, White Plains 10603. Filed Feb. 28.

Unknown heirs of the estate of Alice D. Lane, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $862,500 affecting property located at 58 Willow St., Pleasantville 10570.

Filed Feb. 26.

Montefiore MV Holdings LLC, as owner. $13,700 as claimed by Doria Inc. Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed Sept. 25.

Montefiore SS Holdings LLC, as owner. $11,900 as claimed by Doria Inc. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed Sept. 25.

Robert James Contracting, as owner. $4,232 as claimed by Four Seasons Insulators Inc., Newburgh.

Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Oct. 3.

Tarryhill Associates L.P., as owner. $1,222 as claimed by Advantage Wholesale Supply LLC, Brooklyn. Property: in White Plains.

Filed Sept. 30.

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

Partnerships Agua De Vida, 24 N. Main St., Port Chester 10573, c/o Celia Carlo and Floralba Bolivar. Filed June 4.

Sole Proprietorships 3D1on1, 245 Lakeview Ave., West Harrison 10604, c/o Robert Raio.

Filed June 5.

Weingartner, Amy E., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $258,000 affecting property located at 68 Southside Ave., Hastings on Hudson 10706. Filed Feb. 27.

A to B Towing, 1725 Carhart Ave., Peekskill 10566, c/o Kenneth Mitchell Moorer. Filed June 4.

MECHANIC’S LIENS

Delight Airport and Limo Service, 73 Hillview Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Svetoslav Dyulgerov. Filed June 4.

44 Sea Cliff Ave Corp., as owner. $5,800 as claimed by Connecticut/ New York Concrete Inc., Danbury, Conn. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Sept. 30.

Diluna Real Estate Inc., as owner. $2,831 as claimed by Interstate Fire and Safety Equipment, Port Chester.

Property: in Harrison. Filed Sept. 29.

Efekta IA Inc., as owner. $6,800 as claimed by WSP USA Corp. Property: in Mount Pleasant. Property: in Mount Pleasant. Filed Oct. 3.

Lorenzen, Barbara, as owner. $411 as claimed by C.W. Carl Electric Contractors Inc., Mount Vernon.

Property: in Yonkers. Filed Sept. 30.

D Kanya Creations, 3 Cleveland Place, Apt. 2, Yonkers 10710, c/o Manisha S. Bansal. Filed June 7.

Ever Moving and Delivery, P.O. Box 3322, Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Everton Spence. Filed June 4.

Media Monsters Unlimited.com, 39 Rathbun Ave., White Plains 10606, c/o Travis P. Williamson. Filed June 4.

Molina’s Cleaning Service, 69 Croton Ave., Ossining 10562, c/o Rosa Molina. Filed June 7.

Patientspeak Consulting, 3410 Villa at the Woods, Peekskill 10566, c/o Diane Ferrero-Paluzzi. Filed June 5.

Patter Paws, P.O. Box 1042, South Salem 10590, c/o Katherine Z. Airey.

Filed June 6.

Port Chester Dog Park Group, 32 Clark Place, Port Chester 10573, c/o Dina Goren. Filed June 6.

Pound Ridge Organics, 22 Westchester Ave., Pound Ridge 10576, c/o Donna P. Simons. Filed June 7.

Prima Donna Realty, 245 Lakeview Ave., West Harrison 10604, c/o Donna Carone. Filed June 5.

Rapido y Seguro, 120 Spring St. Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Beltran B. Quispe. Filed June 6.

Rivera’s Quality Painting, 192 E. Boston Post Road, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Edwin G. Rivera. Filed June 4.

SP Wenzler Enterprises, 746 Mamaroneck Ave., Apt. 1406, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Stephen P. Wenzler.

Filed June 5.

The A Is 4 Art, 28 Edgepark Road, White Plains 10603, c/o Aaron Bell.

Filed June 6.

Yes Automotive Sales, 324 Saw Mill River Road, Millwood 10546, c/o Henry Abraham. Filed June 6.

Your Personal Driver, 36 Cedar Place, Rye 10580, c/o Mary Fisher.

Filed June 4.

PATENTS The following patents were issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. Dynamic Java bean for visualage for Java. Patent no. 8,856,806 issued to James R. Wason, Tuxedo Park.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Dynamic security question compromise checking based on incoming social network postings. Patent no. 8,856,945 issued to Bernadette Alexia Carter, Raleigh, N.C.; Al Chakra, Apex, N.C.; and Lori Debra Landesman, Andover, Mass.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Generating layouts for graphs of data flow applications. Patent no. 8,856,766 issued to Andrew Lawrence Frenkiel, Irvington; Henrique Andrade, Croton on Hudson; Bugra Gedik, White Plains; Michael Donald Pfeifer, Rochester, Minn.; and Wim De Pauw, Scarborough. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Protection for unauthorized firmware and software upgrades to consumer electronic devices.

Patent no. 8,856,771 issued to Diane Christine Chalmers, Rochester, Minn.; Nixon Cheaz, Cary, N.C.; and David Michael Stecher, Durham, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Sectional email transmission.

Patent no. RE45,184 issued to Yen-Fu Chen, Austin, Texas; John Hans Handy-Bosma, Cedar Park, Texas; Mei Yang Selvage, Austin, Texas; and Keith Raymond Walker, Austin, Texas.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Security filter for context-based data gravity wells. Patent no.

8,856,946 issued to Samuel S. Adams, Rutherfordton, N.C.; Robert R. Friedlander, Southbury, Conn.; James R. Kraemer, Santa Fe, N.M.; and Jeb R. Linton, Manassas, Va. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

System, method and program for scheduling computer program jobs. Patent no. 8,856,793 issued to Joseph M. Picinich, Peoria, Ariz.; Loren W. Pusey, Dublin, Ohio.; and Jiyu C. Lin, Erie, Colo. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Techniques for executing normally interruptible threads in a nonpreemptive manner. Patent no. 8,856,801 issued to Dayavanti G. Kamath, Santa Clara, Calif.; Nirapada Ghosh, Sunnyvale, Calif.; Dar-ren Leu, Santa Clara, Calif.; Nilanjan Mukherjee, Santa Clara, Calif.; and Vijoy Pandey, San Jose, Calif. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Updating firmware without disrupting service. Patent no.

8,856,776 issued to Ajay Kumar Mahajan, Austin, Texas; and Atit D. Patel, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Unstacking software components for migration to virtualized environments. Patent no. 8,856,775 issued to Nikolai Joukov, Thornwood; Matthew Markley, Hays, Kan.; Birgit Pfitzmann, Valhalla; and Michael Tacci, Downingtown, Pa. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

LEGAL NOTICES 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 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 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 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 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 10174<\!#45>1299. Purpose. Any lawful act or activity. Ad # 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 (LLC). 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 SH PROPERTIES 1 LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/22/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Steinvurzel & Levy Law Group, 34 South Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59633 Notice of Formation of Dr Sue Cancer Vet PLLC. Art/Org. filed with SSNY 8/22/14. NY office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent for process. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o The LLC, 80 Van Wart Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591. Purpose: To practice the profession of Veterinary Medicine. #59634

Notice of formation of limited partnership (LP).

Name: MAMARONECK TOWERS, L.P. Certificate of Limited Partnership filed with the Secretary of State of the State of NY (SSNY) 8/13/14. Office location: Westchester County. Principal business location: 570 Taxter Rd., Suite 673, Elmsford, NY 10523. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 570 Taxter Rd, Suite 673, Elmsford, NY 10523.

The name and business address of each general partner is available from SSNY. The latest date the LLC is to dissolve is 12/31/80. Purpose of LP is to own and operate real property at 233<\!#45>235 Halstead Ave., Mamaroneck, NY. #59635 Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: MAMARONECK TOWERS MANAGERS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of NY (SSNY) 8/13/14. 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 any process to 570 Taxter Rd, Suite 673, Elmsford, NY 10523.

The latest date the LLC is to dissolve is 12/31/80.

The LLC shall indemnify each member to the fullest extent permitted by law. #59636 Notice of Formation of Grandview Drive Properties LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/17/2014 . Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Anthony P. Andreacchi, Esq., 7 Grandview Drive, Pleasantville, NY, 10570. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59637 Notice of Formation of HUI ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (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 process to: 333 Westchester Ave., White Plains, NY 10604. Purpose. Any lawful act or activity. #59638 Notice of formation of MJ CON LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/08/14. 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, 830 South St apt 2d Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: Any lawful purpose #59639 Notice of Formation of Imagine Power LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/31/14. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Raya Salter, 35 Forest Circle, New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59640 Notice of Formation of DM Design Build LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/14/14. 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, 55 Lakeside Road Mount Kisco NY 10549.

Purpose: any lawful business activity. #59641 Notice of formation of Alastar Family & Senior In<\!#45>home Care LLC, filed with SSNY on 8/25/14. Office Location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process The LLC, 333 Church St,. White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose any lawful act or activity. #59642 Name of Limited Liability Company (LLC) ShaLew Events. Date of filing Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/26/2014. The LLC is located in Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to : The LLC 122 Depew St 2b Peekskill, NY 10566, the principal business location of the LLC. Purpose of the business of LLC is any lawful act or activity #59643 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Ernie Hicks Contracting LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy of State of NY on 08/25/14, Office loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Ernest Hicks, 2 Fennimore Ave., Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any lawful activity #59648

Notice of formation of Westchester Putnam Pottery, LLC, a domestic limited liability company. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/10/2014. NY Office location: Putnam County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at: 114 Austin Road, Mahopac, New York 10541. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. #59649 570E HERITAGE HILLS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/26/2014. 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. #59650 HARLEM APP COLLECTIVE, LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ NY Sec. of State (SSNY) on 6/6/14. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 11 Park Hill Place, Yonkers, NY 10705.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. #59651 Notice of Formation: Royís Elite Dealer Services LLC, Filed with SSNY on 8/6/2014. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Royís Elite Dealer Services LLC, 170 Glover Ave. Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: Any lawful Purpose. #59652 CITI CONNECT INDUSTRIES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/25/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Citi Connect, LLC, 255 Huguenot St., Ste 2001, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59653 WILL’S WAY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/01/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 131 Radio Circle Dr., Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59654 CIRCLE Z LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/01/2014. Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 131 Radio Circle Drive, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59655 Trident Limousine Company, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/22/14. 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. #59656 Notice is hereby given that an Application for an On<\!#45>Premises Liquor License, serial number 1280457, has been applied for by the undersigned in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 163 N. Main St., Port Chester, New York 10573. Westchester County /s/ Fine Indian Dining IBC d/b/a Tandoori #59657 NEW ROC BLT 1 LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/02/2014. Office location: 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 J. Fonte, Trifont, 1955 Central Park Ave., Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59658 Notice of Formation of ERIC ZITANER LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/30/14. Office Location: Westchester Cty. SSNY is desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, PO Box 1887 White Plains, NY 10602. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59659 KERRIZ ENTERPRISES, LLC Art. of Org were filed with the SSNY on 09/10/214. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 11<\!#45>21 JACKSON AVENUE, SCARSDALE, NY 10583, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity #59660

208<\!#45>210 SOUTH TERRACE AVENUE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/27/2014.

Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany , NY 12207. Reg Agent: Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany , NY 12207. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59662

Notice of formation of William C. Wood, M.D., PLLC, a domestic professional service limited liability company. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/26/2014. NY Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at: 122 East 82nd Street, Suite 1B, New York, NY 10028<\!#45>0873. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. #59663

SUMMONS Index No. 60190/2014 D/O/F: July 2, 2014 Premises Address: 129 S 11TH AVE, MOUNT VERNON, NY 10550 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, JOHN DIDONATO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF RITA LANZADORE; TERESA PETRETTI AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF RITA LANZADORE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA <\!#45> INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; JOHN DOE 1 THROUGH 50; JANE DOE 1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF RITA LANZADORE WHO WAS BORN ON JUNE 7, 1948 AND DIED ON AUGUST 26, 2012, A RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF ‘’JOHN DOES’’ AND ‘’JANE DOES’’, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises and corporations, other entities or persons who have, claim, or may claim, a lien against, or other interest in, the premises, Defendant(s), :TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The following notice is intended only for those defendants who are owners of the premises sought to be foreclosed or who are liable upon the debt for which the mortgage stands as security.

YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. The amount of the Debt: $161,650.48 consisting of principal balance of $127,196.26 plus interest of $12,433.34, escrow/impound shortages or credits of $18,244.42, late charges of $46.46; Brokerís Price Opinion, inspection and miscellaneous charges of $2,455.00; attorney fee $1,000.00 and title search $275.00. Because of interest and other charges that may vary from day to day, the amount due on the day you pay may be greater. Hence, if you pay the amount shown above, an adjustment may be necessary after we receive the check, in which event we will inform you.

The name of the creditor to whom the debt is owed: FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Unless you dispute the validity of the debt, or any portion thereof, within thirty (30) days after receipt hereof, the debt will be assumed to be valid by Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates P.C. If you notify Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates P.C. in writing within thirty (30) days after your receipt hereof that the debt, or any portion thereof, is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt or a copy of any judgment against you representing the debt and a copy of such verification or judgment will be mailed to you by Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates P.C. Upon your written request within 30 days after receipt of this notice, Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates P.C. will provide you with the name and address of the original creditor if different from the current creditor.

Note: Your time to respond to the summons and complaint differs from your time to dispute the validity of the debt or to request the name and address of the original creditor. Although you have as few as 20 days to respond to the summons and complaint, depending on the manner of service, you still have 30 days from receipt of this summons to dispute the validity of the debt and to request the name and address of the original creditor.

TO THE DEFENDANTS, The Plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action.

TO THE DEFENDANTS: If you have obtained an order of discharge from the Bankruptcy court, which includes this debt, and you have not reaffirmed your liability for this debt, this law suit is not alleging that you have any personal liability for this debt and does not seek a money judgment against you. Even if a discharge has been obtained, this lawsuit to foreclose the mortgage will continue and we will seek a judgment authorizing the sale of the mortgaged premises.

Dated: June 16, 2014 Patricia Boland, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Main Office 51 E Bethpage Road Plainview, NY 11803 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about ìsavingî your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non<\!#45>profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll<\!#45>free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1<\!#45>877<\!#45>BANKNYS (1<\!#45>877<\!#45>226<\ !#45>5697) or visit the Departmentís website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies. #59664

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER ------------------------------------------------------------x IN THE MATTER OF FORECLOSURE ON TAX LIENS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ELEVEN OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW BY THE TOWN OF RYE FORECLOSURE OF PETITION AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE TOWN OF RYE BY ------------------------------------------------------------x

INDEX NO. 3079/14 PETITION OF FORECLOSURE AND NOTICE OF TAX LIENS BY THE ACTION IN REM 2014 PROCEEDING

NICHOLAS C. MECCA, being duly sworn, affirms as true, deposes and says under the penalties of perjury as follows:The above-captioned proceeding is hereby commenced to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes or other lawful charges which have accumulated and become liens against certain property. The parcels to which this proceeding applies are attached hereto and made a part hereof, identified as ASchedule A@.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 28th of AUGUST, 2014, the Receiver of Taxes, hereinafter the Enforcing Officer of the Town of Rye, pursuant to law, filed with the Clerk of Westchester County, a Petition of Foreclosure against various parcels of real property for unpaid tax liens. Such Petition and Notice of Foreclosure pertains to the parcels on the list attached hereto and made a part hereof.

All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such list of delinquent taxes are hereby notified that the filing of such list constitutes the commencement by the Town of Rye of an action and proceeding in the Supreme Court, Westchester County to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem. Such action and proceeding is brought against the real property only, and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such list. No personal judgment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such list of delinquent taxes. Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such list of delinquent taxes has been filed in the Office of the Enforcing Officer, the Receiver of Taxes of the Town of Rye, and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the last day for redemption.

Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may, on or before said date, redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens and unpaid taxes thereon including all interest and penalties and other legal charges included in the lien which are against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to NICHOLAS C. MECCA, Receiver of Taxes, Town of Rye, 10 Pearl Street, Port Chester, New York 10573. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as DECEMBER 15, 2014.

Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such list of delinquent taxes may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Town of Rye setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure. Such answer must be filed in the office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Town of Rye on or before the date above mentioned as the last day for redemption.

In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person(s) shall be forever barred and foreclosed of all his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such list of delinquent taxes and a Judgment of Foreclosure may be taken by default.

Dated: Mamaroneck, New York AUGUST 5th, 2014 NICHOLAS C. MECCA Receiver of Taxes Enforcing Officer TOWN OF RYE 10 Pearl Street Port Chester, New York 10573 914-939-3558 PAUL J. NOTO, PLLC Attorney for the Town of Rye 650 Halstead Avenue - Suite 105 Mamaroneck, New York 10543 914-698-9331 STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER

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On the 5th day of AUGUST, 2014 before me personally appeared NICHOLAS C. MECCA, the Receiver of Taxes and Enforcing Officer for the Town of Rye to me known to be the individual described herein and who executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

NOTARY PUBLIC

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Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Spadaro Restaurant LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 751-753 Central Park Avenue Scarsdale, NY 10583. #59644 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by El Olivar Restaurant Corp. to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 583 Main Street New Rochelle, NY 10801. #59645

Notice is hereby given that a Tavern Wine license, #TBA has been applied for by Bedford Brew, LLC d/b/a Brew & Co. to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 532 Bedford Road Bedford Hills, NY 10507. #59646 Notice is hereby given that an on-premises license, #TBA has been applied for by Zanni Restaurant Group, LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 45 Bedford Road Armonk, NY 10504. #59647

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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

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FINANCIAL WIZARDS HONORED Westfair Communications, parent company of the Business Journal, presented its 2014 CFO of the Year Awards Oct. 2 at Wainwright House in Rye. Leslie F. Seidman, executive director of the Center for Excellence in Financial Reporting at the Lubin School of Business at Pace University and director of Moody’s Corp., was the evening’s presenter and one of the judges. The awards recognize those who have “transformed financial departments, developed sound fiscal policies and with strategic thinking, management and leadership impacted the successful growth of their companies.”

Photographs by John Rizzo

1. Nominees Patricia Vitelli of Westhab, Inc.; and F. Thomas Cornelius of Greater Hudson Bank.

2. Nominee James Crisci of Cerebral Palsy of Westchester Inc., with wife, Laura Crisci and children, Jordan Crisci and Malcolm Crisci.

3. Carolyn Sierra Rios, Gamal Abdulrahman and Yvonne Marcinek, all of McGladrey.

4. Tony Ceci of McGladrey; nominee Tom Gannalo of Magnetic Analysis Corp.; and Amy Fischer of McGladrey.

5. Nominees Richard Dannenbaum of Cappelli Organization; and Marshall Asche of St. Christopher’s Inc. 6. Nominees Vincent DeSantis of Phelps Memorial Hospital Center; Jennifer Solomon of Greyston and Susan Bartow of School Choice International.

7. Jerry Landau of McGladrey; Nicole Monti of ENT & Allergy Associates; nominee Arthur Schwacke of ENT & Allergy Associates; and Robert Glazer of ENT & Allergy Associates.

8. Bethany Pacia, Allison Mignardi and nominee Abbie Relkin of The Mental Health Association of Westchester.

9. Nominee Andrew Bracco and Joan Rosen, both of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic.

10. Leslie Seidman.

11. An overview of the event.

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DOCTORS of DISTINCTION Saluting those who go beyond the diagnosis

2014

MEET THE WINNERS AND HEAR THEIR REMARKABLE STORIES LOCATION

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DATE / TIME

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

String trio from Juilliard, delectable bites and spirits followed by the formal award ceremony.

WINNERS

FOUNDERS

Humanitarian Award: MARTIN LEDERMAN, MD Lederman & Lederman Lifetime Achievement: KIRA GERACI-CIARDULLO, MD Westchester Health Leadership in Medical Advocacy: THOMAS LEE, MD New York Neurological Surgery, P.C. Community Service: AUGUSTINE MOSCATELLO, MD Westchester Medical Center Excellence in Medical Research: WILLIAM BAUMAN, MD VA Hospital

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