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t took only hours for Dr. Erik Larsen, assistant director of emergency medical services and emergency preparedness at White Plains Hospital, to hop on a plane for Puerto Rico once he learned his services and expertise were needed by the hurricane-ravaged island.

“The devastation was just everywhere,” said Larsen, who landed in Puerto Rico less than a month after Hurricane Maria laid waste to the region.

“It’s a wreck.”

Larsen was part of a team deployed by the federal National Disaster Medical

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System, an arm of the Department of cy department,” said Larsen, who serves Health and Human Services that suppleas chief medical officer of the National ments health and medical systems and Disaster Medical System’s Region 2, which response capabilities during times of crisis. covers New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico In Puerto Rico, Larsen’s team operand the U.S. Virgin Islands. ated a medical shelter in Manati, a city The repurposed medical facility in about 30 miles west of San Juan. The Manati hosted between 40 to 50 chronic makeshift medical center was convert» » PUERTO RICO, page 6 ed from a large sports arena that had been largely undamaged by the hurricane.

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f money is the mother’s milk of politics, then the $4.2 million given to Robert Astorino and George Latimer in their contest for Westchester county executive suggests priorities and obligations.

Real estate developer Louis R. Cappelli, for instance, was Astorino’s biggest contributor at $65,000.

Latimer’s biggest contributors were three wealthy individuals who tend to support Democrats and liberal causes and who kicked in $111,000.

The numbers come from recent financial disclosure reports filed with the state Board of Elections.

Overall, the lion’s share of campaign contributions has gone to Astorino, the Republican, two-term county executive who is seeking re-election on Nov. 7. Friends of Rob Astorino has raised more than $2.9 million through mid-October.

That’s more than twice as much as the $1.3 million given to Latimer, a Democratic state senator.

More people and organizations have supported Astorino, 2,783 to 2,159 for Latimer, and their average donation was nearly twice as much, $1,051 to Latimer’s $598.

Individual contributors, partnerships and trade associations were twice as generous to Astorino as to Latimer. Latimer received twice as much from unions, $97,000, to Astorino’s still respectable $48,000.

The greatest differential was in corporate money: $413,000 for Astorino and

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Scarsdale mother has found a way to turn a program adored by her two children into a successful side business.

When Dana Fisher and her husband, Joshua, lived in Manhattan, their two children, Teddy and Ruby, loved visiting the children’s music program Songs for Seeds on the Upper West Side. The program allows children under 6 years to interact with a live, three-person band.

Children can sing along, dance or even play an instrument, while the band plays a mix of children’s, contemporary and classic rock ’n’ roll music.

“The kids loved the classes and so did the parents,” Fisher recalled.

But when her family moved to Westchester County in 2014, the television producer struggled to find a class that was similar to the one her children enjoyed in the city.

“When we came up here, we really missed it,” she said. “We tried other music classes and it just wasn’t the same.”

It seemed serendipitous, then, when she received an email blast from the organization’s Manhattan parent company, Apple Seeds, about a franchising opportunity. The company, which operates a trio of indoor play spaces for children across New York City, had recently franchised its Songs for Seeds program and was looking to expand into Westchester County.

“I sent it to my husband and said, ‘This is a sign,’” Fisher said.

The timing may not have been perfect for the couple. Neither had any experience owning their own business, and the duo had recently purchased a house in Fisher’s hometown of Scarsdale.

“We had no money,” she said, laughing.

“But we decided that we were just going to go for it.”

To start their franchise in 2015, the pair rented a ground-floor banquet room from Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont & Emanu-El at 2 Ogden Road.

“When we first were going to get started, we went through every scenario,” she recalled. “Like, what if no person ever signs up? Will we have to move from the town?”

Instead, families flocked to Songs for Seeds, which features 45-minute classes that give children the opportunity to bang on drums, play an electric keyboard or even grab a microphone and sing along.

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The fee to start a Songs for Seeds franchise is $45,000. According to the company’s website, total initial investment ranges from $91,300 to $116,100, and franchise owners pay the parent company a 6.5 percent royalty on sales.

Along with musical equipment, training and props, Songs for Seeds also provides a scripted curriculum that includes music, lyrics and lessons for the participants.

“The success of the music program is beyond our expectations,” Fisher said. “We’re thrilled for the kids and their parents.”

Following what she called an “overwhelming” response to the program during its first year, Fisher decided to expand her franchise, first to Rye Brook in 2016 and to Armonk in September of this year. In Rye Brook, the program rents space from East Point Dance in the Rye Ridge Shopping Center. Similar to her Scarsdale operation, Fisher in Armonk rents a room from Congregation B'Nai Yisrael.

Today, nearly 300 children take part in Songs for Seeds classes across the three Westchester franchises. The business also employs nine musicians, three at each location.

Because each franchise location hosts from 10 to 15 classes each week, “It’s just not a business that can have a (single) storefront,” Fisher said.

“We’re probably going to expand one more time to the Rivertowns in the fall, but it might be nice — because we’ve opened a new place every year — it might be nice to have one year” without opening a new franchise, she said. “But at the same time, it’s nice to build on that momentum.”

Though the success of the business has been rapid, Songs for Seeds is still a side job for Fisher, who has spent two decades working as a producer at ABC for the popular daytime talk show, “The View.” She frequently finds herself greeting parents at Songs for Seeds in Scarsdale, just a few blocks from her home, before rushing off to her full-time job in Manhattan.

“I don’t really know how I juggle it all, and my friends ask that question all the time,” said Fisher. “I am a producer, so I think I am good at time management and getting stuff done quickly. I really work on Songs for Seeds most of the night. Parents always say, I got an email from you at 11:30 p.m.,’ and I just say 'Yes, you did.'”

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The Rockland Business Association at 50

he Rockland Business Association (RBA) was founded Aug. 31, 1967, by a group of 40 local business leaders concerned with assisting the county in its growth, both as a business community and in its cultural and social programs.

The goals have been essentially unchanged since its formation. The need for the organization’s involvement, however, has intensified over the years as the

county has grown from a parochial, semirural community into a critically important regional partner.

In fact, today the RBA is the most regional of all similar associations in the Hudson Valley, with 24 per cent of its members coming from outside of Rockland.

The RBA is viewed as one of New York’s most influential public policy and economic development organizations.

The president/CEO of the RBA serves as

Rockland’s voting member on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council.

The RBA has twice been recognized as a Best of Business honoree by the Small Business Commerce Association and was New York’s 2001 Small Business NotFor-Profit of the Year. It won a Regional Achievement Award in 2009 from Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress and, in 2010, was named The Business Council of New

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Among its many significant contributions to the local and regional communities are the issuance of the Rockland Business Association White Papers of 2012 and 2016.

The first changed both the elected and staff leadership that led Rockland in the seven-year fiscal spiral that earned us the title of Most Fiscally Stressed County in New York. The document also changed the course of action regarding the financially draining Summit Park Hospital and County Pharmacy. The second paper clearly identified why Rockland was the second-highest taxed county in America and boldly presented the hard decisions necessary for the county to correct the situation.

The RBA twice led successful campaigns to defeat the living wage movement’s attempts to impose its arbitrary wage rates on our businesses. The organization developed the strategy that led to the creation of Rockland’s Empire Zone Task Force and brought the issue of broadband infrastructure to the public forum, which then led to the creation of thenCounty Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef’s Technology Leadership Council.

Most recently, the RBA was instrumental in gaining favorable considerations for our business community relative to the imposition of the state’s new minimum wage laws.

The RBA was the leading advocate for the new Tappan Zee bridge and the prime motivator for the adoption of legislation for an executive form of county government. The group was responsible for the Airmont interchange on the New York State Thruway and for the formation of Rockland’s Industrial Development Authority.

The RBA is known as “The Voice of Business.” Through the RBA, businesses are able to work together achieving goals that could not be attained by working as single entities.

Al Samuels is president and CEO of Rockland Business Association Inc.in Pearl River. He can be reached at asamuels@ rocklandbusiness.org.

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INSURANCE LAW FIRM TO SPLIT INTO TWO

The White Fleischner & Fino insurance law firm plans to split into two smaller firms early next year, with one of the practices to be headquartered in White Plains.

The partners have decided to focus on their specialties, insurance coverage and insurance defense, according to partner Patti Potash.

The Fleischner Potash firm will concentrate on insurance coverage and insurance recovery and will be based in White Plains.

White, Werbel and Fino will continue to do insurance defense law in Manhattan.

Potash said the goal is to remain as a midsize law practice that is not so small to specialize or so big that they lose the personal touch with clients.

The insurance coverage practice in White Plains has clients nationwide. It provides coverage opinions, mediation, arbitration and litigation for primary insurers, excess insurers and reinsurers.

A state Department of Labor regulatory filing classified the reorganization as a plant closing with 45 layoffs. In fact, Potash said, most or all employees will continue to work at one firm or the other when they split up by Jan. 31.

The firm was established in 1976 and it now has offices in Manhattan, White Plains, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida.

SCHWARTZBERG TRAINING CENTER OPENS IN WHITE PLAINS

Schwartzberg Training Center, a new mental health training facility, has opened at 1 N. Broadway in White Plains.

The center is owned by Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants co-founders, Drs. Alec L. Miller and Lata K. McGinn. McGinn, Miller and their team will conduct intensive training for other professionals at the center.

The center was funded by Harris Schwartzberg, CEO of The Schwartzberg Cos., a private investment firm with a focus on health care operating companies and real estate.

"Harris and Nicole Schwartzberg's generous contribution has made this training center possible, and thanks to their support, we will now offer training for both professionals in the mental health field, as well as parents, school administrators, teachers and corporate executives," Miller said.

McGinn and Miller co-founded Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants in 2004, and the company now has offices in Manhattan and White Plains, along with a team of 30 professionals. The company offers clinical services in both cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy, as well as

services in parent child interaction therapy, trauma-focused treatments, neuropsychological testing, and executive functioning.

Attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony were two celebrities who advocate for mental health: actress Glenn Close and New York Giants wide receiver Brandon Marshall.

WHITE PLAINS CPA SENTENCED FOR TAX FRAUD

A White Plains CPA was sentenced Oct. 25 to 22 months in prison for obstructing the IRS in a $23.5 million fraudulent tax credit scheme.

Joseph Cervone, 64, had pleaded guilty to filing bogus tax credit claims for clients and of concealing $500,000 in personal income.

Federal Judge Nelson S. Roman also sentenced him to one year of supervised release and fined him $15,000.

Cervone’s attorney, Glenn H. Morak, asked for leniency: probation and 12 months of home confinement.

He argued in a sentencing memorandum that Cervone did not know that the energy and coal credits were fraudulent. But he knowingly took the credits for his clients and declared losses on their tax returns when the credits had yet to be purchased.

Cervone is deeply ashamed of his conduct, Morak said, and has accepted responsibility. The Internal Revenue Service has received $17.25 million in restitution in the form of tax credits the government seized.

“Mr. Cervone is an ordinary, simple family man with a storefront practice in White Plains,” Morak said. “The tax shelter and subsequent tax fraud is so out of character for Mr. Cervone’s humble and otherwise honest accounting career.”

Such a man would not abuse his position again, Morak argued, so a long prison sentence would not serve as a deterrence.

“He prays for a second chance to atone for his criminal behavior.”

The government asked the court to impose a harsher sentence: 57 to 71 months in prison.

Cervone created 66 partnerships and prepared fraudulent tax forms for clients, for 2010 and 2011, to enable $23.5 million in refundable energy credits and $8.4 million in net operating losses. He underreported his own income by $506,600 for those two years.

His clients never saw the partnership tax returns, did not fully understand their roles and relying on Cervone believed the credits were legitimate, Assistant U.S. Attorney John P. Collins Jr. said in the government’s sentencing memorandum.

Cervone was supposed to keep 5 percent of the tax credits and he expected to earn more than $1 million from the scheme, Collins said. He said Cervone should be viewed in the proper context, “as an individual who committed fraud because of greed and then was caught.”

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Citrin Cooperman Corner Just around the corner – the implementation of the new lease accounting standards

BY ANTHONY HARRYPERSAD

CHANGES TO LEASE ACCOUNTING In February of 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued an Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-02, Leases, which significantly changes the way leases are accounted for on the financial ANTHONY HARRYPERSAD statements of lessees. The ASU also includes changes to accounting for leases in the financial statements of lessors to conform and align with the new revenue recognition guidance. The new lease accounting standard is a result of the FASB wanting more transparency and comparability among companies by requiring all leasing arrangements to be recognized on the balance sheet as a lease asset and a lease liability in the financial statements of lessees. This essentially means that any company under current accounting standards that have operating leases, which are considered off-balance sheet financing, will now be required to record those leases as a Right of Use (“ROU”) asset and a corresponding lease liability, as the entity has a right to use the underlying asset for the lease term. Additionally, there are going to be increased disclosures in the notes to the financial statements to further increase transparency.

DID THE FASB CHANGE THE DEFINITION OF A LEASE? The definition of a lease remains unchanged, however the FASB does give explicit guidance on what defines “control” and what defines an “identified asset” under the new standards.

An “identified asset” must be detailed in the lease agreement and the supplier must not have substitution rights. If the supplier has substitution rights, it would not meet the definition of an “identified asset”. The criteria for “control” is the lessee must have the right to direct how the asset is used and they receive substantially all the benefits from the asset.

LESSEE VS LESSOR ACCOUNTING The new lease accounting standards will bring substantial changes to the way lessees account for leases. Under current accounting standards, the lessees have two lease options, capital leases which are capitalized on the balance sheet and operating leases which are recorded through the income statement. The new lease accounting standards will require all leases to be recorded on the balance sheet, with the only exception to this is if the lease term is less than 12 months or the agreement does not meet the definition of a lease, in which case, the lessee is able to make an accounting policy election not to recognize the lease assets and lease liabilities. Lessees will still have two options for categorizing their leases; financing leases, which are essentially the same as capital leases, and operating leases, which will be recorded on the balance sheet as a ROU asset and a lease liability.

Lease accounting for lessors are similar to current accounting standards. The modifications made to the accounting for leases from a lessor perspective were made to align the new lease standards with the new revenue recognition standards. The change focuses in on whether the lease agreement transfers ownership of the asset, which is a key principle in the new revenue recognition standards.

The new lease standards are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018 for public companies and for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019 for all other companies.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT NOW? Leasing, as a financing vehicle, is pervasive amongst companies of all sizes (leasing of real estate, vehicles, copiers and equipment).

Given the substantial impact this new standard will have on the balance sheet, companies need to begin assessing the impact of this now. Consideration should be made to the implications of the new lease standards to key performance metrics, debt covenants, taxes and internal operations. The key performance metrics that are expected to be affected by these changes are the leverage ratio (debt/ equity), current ratio (current assets/current liabilities), and Debt to Earnings before income taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“EBITDA”), as the new standards are adding liabilities to the books. Since lessees are adding the ROU assets to the balance sheet, it could also impact book to tax differences, state apportionment calculations, and personal property tax. From an operations perspective, companies will need to consider the impact of lease vs buy decisions, as they no longer have the benefit of off-balance sheet financing option that operating leases currently provides, such as no changes to the liquidity of the company and no changes to debt/liabilities.

WHAT COMPANIES SHOULD BE DOING TO PREPARE The most important thing companies need to do is start a dialog with accountants, creditors, and investors on how these changes will impact financial reporting. The next step is gathering all lease contracts and testing them to determine if they meet the criteria of a lease, and which category of leases they fall under. Management will need to analyze lease contracts for remaining terms, renewal options, future payments and interest rates, if applicable. At this stage, management will need to prepare estimated journal entries to move operating leases onto the balance sheet and analyze the impact of the adjustment on key metrics and debt covenants. In transitioning to the new accounting standard, entities are required to recognize and measure leases at the beginning of the earliest period presented using a modified retrospective approach. Using this information, management will need to make decisions on whether a company should buy vs lease assets, execute short term vs long term leases, or whether it is possible to include substitution clauses in lease contracts.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anthony Harrypersad, CPA is a supervisor in Citrin Cooperman’s White Plains and Norwalk office. He can be reached at 203.847.4068 or at aharrypersad@citrincooperman.com.

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for help after a natural catastrophe that he’d answered that month.

Larsen had been home in New York for only 10 days when he received the call that he was being sent to Puerto Rico.

Prior to that, he’d boarded a private plane with the president of the International Humanitarian Aid Foundation, Andrew Topp, to deliver 500 pounds of medical supplies to the British Virgin Islands, which were devastated by Hurricanes Maria and Irma. Larsen and Topp spent their time on the islands supplying clinics with medicines, emergency medical care equipment and water filtering devices.

Returning home from his trip to the Virgin Islands, “In some ways, I was ready to go sort of back immediately in the field,” the emergency doctor said.

Larsen has always felt drawn to emergency medicine, which led him to pursue the specialty at the Medical College of Ohio.

He joined the National Disaster Medical System in 1989, an organization that has put him on the front lines of some of the world’s most destructive natural disasters, from the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Following Hurricane Katrina, Larsen served as a medical director at the New Orleans International Airport, where he organized the care and transport of the injured, sick and dying and arranged to evacuate 40,000 patients. “That was probably the biggest, most comprehensive operation that I’ve been involved in or in leadership of,” he said.

Along with natural disasters, Larsen also lends his expertise to pre-planned events through the National Disaster Medical System. He served as chief medical officer at President Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration, the 2013 Super Bowl and the 2013 and 2014 opening sessions of the U.N. General Assembly.

“When there’s three quarters of a million people in any place, you’re going to have people get sick, and a certain number of people will have injuries,” he said.

“Hopefully minor injuries, but there will certainly be injuries.”

For Larsen, facing new catastrophes has not become any easier over his nearly three-decade-long career. “Every time, it brings some of it back up. It brings the sadness,” he said. “The best thing actually for me is doing what I’m doing right now, which is telling people” what he has witnessed in the field. “That’s been the most

therapeutic thing.”

“It is kind of a shock when you come back,” he said. “We were totally involved in this (situation in Puerto Rico) and in a lot of ways, completely cut off from the world.

When you come back and you see things sort of operating normally, you’re kind of like, ‘Everyone is just sort of going about their business like nothing else is happening,’ yet we were so involved in this disaster world in which people’s lives were totally turned upside down.”

At the end of his stint in Puerto Rico, Larsen said he was asked to stay on for an additional two weeks on the island, an opportunity he ultimately declined.

“I need a little bit of a break, mostly just for the responsibilities I have back here,” he said, noting his positions as medical director for multiple ambulatory care agencies in Westchester County and as medical director for the Hudson Valley Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committee.

To make the trip to Puerto Rico, Larsen had to ask for assistance from his colleagues at White Plains Hospital.

“I had to dump a number of shifts on my fellow ER doctors,” he said. “They’ve been very good about it. They feel like it’s their contribution.”

He also plans to take some time for himself after a strenuous few weeks. “My thing is, I recuperate by spending time outdoors in woods, in wilderness, so I will go do some of that just to unwind,” he said.

And then?

“If they asked me to go back (to Puerto Rico) in a different type of leadership role or whatever role, really” he said, “I would, certainly.”

eral entities during the election cycle. Cappelli, for instance, donated $25,000 to Astorino, but when his wife and two partnerships are included, the total grows to $65,000.

Two organizations associated with sports owner James Dolan — The New York Knicks LLC and MSG Sports and Entertainment LLC — gave Astorino his second highest haul, $55,340.

Many donations are in the names of obscure partnerships that can conceal who is behind the donation. Sometimes a common address can be a clue.

Astorino got $55,200 in five donations from RSA-PAC and Neighborhood Preservation PAC, 123 William St., New York.

That’s the address of the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents residential building owners and agents.

Seven donations, totaling $49,000, are linked to 101 Park Ave., New York, including N. Richard Kalikow/Gamma Realty, HJ Kalikow & Co., HJK LLC, and Kenilworth/ Marlin Realty LLC. Latimer’s biggest contributors tended to be individuals. Donald Sussman,

a hedge fund manager from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who contributed $41.8 million to Democrats last year, gave $44,408. Marie T. McKellar of Dobbs Ferry, who supports Democrats, gave $42,000. Adam Katz of Farmingdale, president of Talon Air Inc., gave $25,000.

A union, 1199 SEIU NYS Political Action Fund, gave $36,000, including a donation last year to his Senate committee.

Latimer also raised a lot of money from political committees and other elected officials: Westchester County Democratic Committee, $25,000; Democratic City Committee of New Rochelle, $15,000; Friends of Andrea Stewart-Cousins, $11,000.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave $11,000 to his Senate race last year.

The fundraising dovetails with campaign themes, as portrayed in criticisms of one another.

Latimer claims that Astorino fosters a “pay to play” culture. The campaign cites more than $200,000 in donations to Astorino, going back to 2008, from 28 companies with county airport contracts worth

more than $55 million.

Astorino paints Latimer as an old-style Democratic pol who likes to increase taxes.

The campaign money imbalance is also evident on the spending side.

Astorino’s committee has spent more than $3.5 million. Latimer has spent onefourth as much, $862,988.

Astorino also benefits from Win for NY, an independent political action committee backed by consecutive billionaire Robert Mercer that has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into anti-Latimer advertisements.

A spokesman for the Latimer campaign who asked to remain anonymous said that Astorino’s spending advantage has not made much of a difference. As of mid-October, he said, the campaign’s polling showed Latimer ahead by 1 percent.

An Astorino spokesman, William O’Reilly, said the campaign does not speak about donors as a matter of policy.

Both campaigns had plenty of money to continue getting their messages out. As of a month before the election, Astorino had $1.7 million left and Latimer had $501,000.

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patients on the main floor of the arena, many of whom needed ongoing care that could not be provided in homes but was not critical enough to necessitate stays in crowded hospitals. The 24-hour facility also saw hundreds of outpatients daily.

“Sometimes there were long waits when people would come in, and they were so patient,” Larsen said. “You never heard anyone complain about not being seen.

They appreciate everything we were able to help them with, and that does make your job very rewarding.”

Though it’s been more than a month since the hurricane ravaged the area, food, electricity and clean drinking water remain large problems for much of Puerto Rico.

Contaminated water has led to a number of health complications for residents, including the potentially life-threatening bacterial infection leptospirosis.

“It really comes down to a lot of the basics,” Larsen said of the region’s needs.

Despite “the usual problems” of rodents, mosquitoes, habitually failing generators and diets of ready-to-eat meals, his team considered themselves fortunate compared with others on the island, he said.

They enjoyed an occasional cold shower and toilets that could be flushed with buckets of water. The sports arena provided a solid roof over their heads, while also serving as a protectant against the onslaught of mosquitos that have overtaken the region.

Aiding in the relief effort in Puerto Rico was not Larsen’s first foray into disaster response. In fact, it wasn’t even the first call

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$27,000 for Latimer.

Astorino, as the incumbent, has been raising money continuously for years. On Jan. 1, 2016, for instance, his committee had $557,000 in the bank.

Latimer was running for re-election in the state Senate in 2016. He did, however, continue to raise money after the election, and he transferred $50,000 to his county executive committee, Latimer for Westchester.

By filtering for campaign donations of $5,000 or more, one can follow the big money, or what some would call the smart money. Less than 7 percent of all transactions accounted for 68 percent of the contributions.

Ten percent of the Astorino donations brought in nearly $2.4 million, or 81 percent of his total. A bit more than 2 percent of Latimer’s donations accounted for $504,580, or 39 percent of his total.

The influence of big donors is even greater than these numbers suggest, because many people donated several times or through sev-

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Slower growth, but immigrants vital to region’s economy

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mmigrants play a key role in Westchester County and across the Hudson Valley, panelists at a recent discussion at the Crowne Plaza in downtown White Plains agreed. And any reform regarding immigration would have a considerable effect on the area's economy.

“What sustains this region in many respects is the immigrant community,” Elijah Reichlin-Melnick, senior research planner at Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress in Newburgh, said during the Oct. 26 discussion, presented by the Business Council of Westchester and the African American Men of Westchester Inc. About one-fourth of those who call Westchester County their home are immigrants who were born in another country.

“Throughout the Hudson Valley, the Hispanic and Latin American community by far is the fastest — growing demographic in urban areas, in suburban areas, in villages,” Reichlin-Melnick said. “Basically everywhere, except some of the smaller, rural towns on the outskirts of the region.”

Immigrant concentrations are highest in

larger cities, like Yonkers, White Plains and New Rochelle, largely due to the availability of housing.

While the region saw significant growth in the number of immigrants who live in the Hudson Valley during the decade between 2000 and 2010, that growth has slowed in recent years. Reichlin-Melnick cited a number of factors for that, including a “big fall-off” in immigration following the financial crisis of 2008, along with today’s political climate.

Richard St. Paul, a White Plains attorney whose practice areas include civil rights, employment law and government relations, said the Trump administration is focused on passing merit-based immigration reform.

This approach would give preference to high-skilled immigrant workers, or those who have attained a certain level of education or skillset.

However, St. Paul noted a key flaw in that plan. “All workers, low-skilled and highskilled workers, make contributions to this particular economy,” he said. “The cons of (the Trump approach) in terms of economic impact is on the local level.”

Peter Herrero, owner of New York Hospitality Group in White Plains, has seen firsthand the struggle to find workers in a

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time of shrinking immigrant numbers.

“The (hospitality) industry is growing so much that we don’t have people to fill these jobs,” he said. “Our industry is really being starved — right, wrong or indifferent.”

Herrero said that at its heart, the hospitality industry is an industry of immigrants.

“Immigrants will do what Americans will not do,” he said. “They fill all the cracks.”

Despite the crucial role immigrants play in Westchester County’s society, the immigrant population remains largely ignored here, said Maria Trusa, CEO and partner at Forme Medical Center & Urgent Care in White Plains.

“We have to figure a way to communicate with them,” said Trusa, who as a teenager emigrated to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic. “This is a population that has a hard time trusting, because they’ve been burned.”

Attempting to rebuild that trust has been the focus of Trusa’s two-decades-long career.

The health care executive said that because many immigrants spend large amounts of time on Facebook, she’s found a way to use the social network to her advantage. “We’re obsessed with social media,” she said.

The White Plains medical center creates videos covering a variety of topics, from the

importance of CPR training to messages and recommendations from the organization’s gynecologist, which are then posted to its Facebook page. Those videos rack up thousands of views online and, said Trusa, are part of the reason why her business has seen an increase in its patient numbers.

Many who visit Forme Medical for treatment are working class. To help accommodate those patients, the center is open each day until 9 p.m. “A lot of the time, our population is not able to take off work,” Trusa said.

“When they take off work, they lose pay that’s critical to them.”

Trusa also focuses on educating the immigrant community on the importance of preventive care.

“We do not understand why preventive care is so critical,” she said, referring to the immigrant community. “People might not know this, but in our community, people don’t get colonoscopies when they’re 50. It’s not something you speak about.”

Eridania Camacho, director of Gateway to Entrepreneurship at Westchester Community College in Valhalla and panel moderator, agreed. “A lot of these things are very private to us, so education becomes critical,” she said.

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The estimated $250 million development comes from LCOR Inc., a Berwyn, Pennsylvania real estate development company with a Manhattan office. The apartment building includes 3,000 square feet of retail space at ground level and an underground parking garage with 381 spaces.

The building represents phase one of the project, which will eventually include a 16-story south tower with 273 apartment units and ground-floor retail.

The Continuum rentals are a mix of studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments. The studios, which range from 523 to 587 square feet, are priced from $2,120 to $2,380 per month. The one-bedroom residences range in size from 710 to 732 square feet and rent for $2,680 to $3,020. The twobedroom residences, ranging from 1,184 to 1,256 square feet, are priced between $3,845 and $4,220 per month. The building includes features 57 units designated as below market rate.

The first residents are expected to move in Nov. 15. Amenities include a twostory lobby with 24-hour concierge service, a club room, fitness center and a rooftop deck with a pool and barbecue grills.

LCOR bought the property, previously a municipal parking lot, from the city for $15.5 million in 2007, but the project stalled following the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008 and subsequent recession.

LCOR's previous financial partner, Lehman Brothers, went bankrupt in 2008.

LCOR returned to the project in 2015 with an $80 million construction loan from Wells Fargo and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System as a financial partner.

The Continuum marks LCOR's second major project near the White Plains MetroNorth station. In 2004, the company built the 502-unit Bank Street Commons apartment towers, now known as 15 Bank St. Construction for the second phase of the development is expected to begin in early 2019, according to a spokesperson for the project.

In a statement, White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach said The Continuum aligns with the city's vision for a redeveloped transit-oriented district surrounding its Metro-North station.

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hough the cleanup of polluted industrial property on the Hastings-on-Hudson waterfront may have gotten underway this summer, the site’s owner hasn’t ruled out the possibility of bringing in an outside developer to complete the remediation.

Atlantic Richfield Co. continues to move forward with its design plans for the cleanup of the 28-acre waterfront property that will be submitted to and reviewed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, according to the company.

“This is an environmentally complex remediation that will take several years to implement,” Atlantic Richfield, a BP PLC subsidiary, said in a statement. “Because there are construction efficiencies in the coordination of remediation and redevelopment and (Atlantic Richfield’s) expertise is not in redevelopment, we continue to explore whether remediation and redevelopment work can be performed together and whether qualified developers may be interested in conducting both as a package.”

The oil company is consulting with a “short list of developers” that may complete the remediation and redevelop the property,

Atlantic Richfield might hand over the environmental cleanup and redevelopment of this razed industrial plant site in Hastings-on-Hudson to a developer. Photo by Aleesia Forni

though the company added that the “feasibility and timing of this approach is under review.” “(Atlantic Richfield) recognizes that the highest and best use for the property is in redevelopment,” the company said in a statement. “We are striving for an outcome where the village collaborates in the planning process with a developer to achieve a balanced vision for the site.”

The company said this approach would provide the opportunity for a new developer “to incorporate certain redevelopment activities into the remediation process. It also could enable the village to expedite the redevelopment process, allowing the site to be put to productive use sooner.”

Hastings-on-Hudson Mayor Peter Swiderski said Atlantic Richfield is well within its right to seek an outside developer to facilitate the remediation, adding that “it does not mean they are offloading their liability for the cleanup of the site.”

“This property is owned by (Atlantic Richfield) and ultimately these decisions are theirs to make,” he said.

Earlier this year, demolition work began on Building 52, a red-brick industrial building on the Hastings waterfront dubbed the “literal birthplace” of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls.

Atlantic Richfield removed asbestos and other materials from the building interior prior to beginning demolition of the struc-

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ture in August, when construction crews used excavators and other heavy machinery to bring down the century-old building piece by piece.

In 2014, Atlantic Richfield signed an order with the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in which it agreed to fund the more than $250 million estimated cost of removing the contaminated soil and sediment from the property, designated a federal Superfund brownfield site.

The demolition of Building 52 came more than a year after the village signed a consent decree that sparked the cleanup.

The July 2016 decree is an update to a 2003 version that settled a lawsuit between Atlantic Richfield, the village and environmental group Riverkeeper and forced Atlantic Richfield to clean the site. Since then factors, including potential storm risks, rising sea levels and a new set of directives issued by DEC required changes to the agreement.

The village also plans to rezone the waterfront parcel from marine industrial use in the coming year. That process will likely begin this winter, according to Swiderski, and proceed for 18 to 24 months.

The mayor said the village plans to engage John Nolon, attorney, law professor and founder of the Pace University Land Use Law Center, to assist in that process.

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BY FILOMENA FANELLI

Pause for publicity: making the most of major events

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bout to celebrate a milestone anniversary? Holding a ribbon cutting to unveil your new location? Scheduling a groundbreaking ceremony for a soon-to-be constructed or remodeled building? Congratulations!

Before you invite the community to toast the moment with you, I encourage you to pause and consider the public relations possibilities. An event is an excellent way to capture headlines and give the public a chance to learn about your business or facility. A strategic approach makes all the difference in terms of the outcome.

Following are a few tips to ensure a day that is more extraordinary than ordinary.

Plan ahead. Sure, you could wing it and put something together on the fly, but for the best results, ceremonial events should be scheduled three months or more in advance.

Contact your local chamber of commerce or business council. Create a save-the-date letter for city and county executives and other dignitaries in your community so they can mark their calendars.

Also, take a quick look at other events nearby to ensure you’re picking a date

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with little or no scheduling conflicts.

Then, hone in on your guest list and issue invitations, either in hard copy or through social media or email, approximately four to six weeks prior.

Make it visual. Start thinking about what others will see who attend. If you’re planning to invite members of the media, consider what a photographer or video crew might want to see.

Will there be a check presentation to a local nonprofit? A reveal of a model building?

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Hard hats and golden shovels for a photo opportunity? A cardboard cut-out for social media sharing? The more unusual or interactive, the better the odds of an event that others will talk about or share with others.

Working with your creative team well in advance will help with brainstorming what angle, view or image might work best. It also may be wise to book your own photographer, so that whatever shot is set up can be captured and shared after the event with newspapers, magazines and online media that may not have been able to attend but might still be interested in spreading the word about what happened that day.

Have a run-of-show. Choose two to four people to deliver remarks during the event and elect a point person or two, which may include your public relations representative, to ensure the day moves along as planned. Smart choices for speakers include the president or CEO of the company, elected officials or the person accepting the check on behalf of the charitable partner.

Discuss in advance how long each person’s talk should be and what kind of comments you’d appreciate they make. Have a

general outline of what will occur, in what order and where. Keep in mind, short and sweet is often best. People are busy and may need to get back to their desks or the newsroom, so condensing the key parts of the event is appreciated.

Don’t overlook the details. Tour the facility the event is being held at a few weeks prior. Consider if you’ll need chairs, a tent, a podium, music or audiovisual equipment and ensure there’s access to electricity and restrooms.

Remember, too, the refreshments. It’s not uncommon for businesses to leave this matter to the last minute, only to realize their caterer of choice can’t accommodate their crudité and cheese and cracker platter with short notice.

With a little bit of creativity, a lot of planning and a what’s-in-it-for-them approach, your big moment can become even bigger — and that’s worth celebrating.

Filomena Fanelli is the CEO and founder of Impact PR & Communications Ltd., a public relations firm and certified women’s business enterprise in Poughkeepsie. She can be reached at 845-462-4979 or at filomena@prwithimpact.com.

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“Shouldn’t you decide what will become of your business?”

Bruce F. Hoffmeister Director of Wealth and Fiduciary Planning Bruce has more than two decades of experience in estate and financial planning for closely held business owners and their families. He is part of a seasoned team of professionals who exemplify Wilmington Trust’s 114-year heritage of successfully advising business owners. Our goal is to help you create a plan for each stage of your business and your life, offering key insights at critical times of transition. For access to knowledgeable professionals like Bruce and the rest of our team, contact Sharon Klein at 212-415-0547.

Heads of successful family businesses are often reluctant to share control and involve other family members in the management process. But do you know what would happen to your business if you suddenly became incapacitated or worse, passed away?

Who would step in to manage day-to-day operations? And even if you have a successor in mind, is that successor ready and capable of stepping up and running the business?

Starting early. Ideally, succession planning should begin the day you take over a business. Of course, that isn’t always realistic given the amount of work running a business takes, but succession planning needs to be a top priority. Most importantly, you will need to decide if you want to keep the business in the family or eventually sell it.

Looking down the road. To make the important decisions, you have to think about how you envision your retirement.

You’ll need to determine if you want to be actively involved in the business in some capacity for the remainder of your life.

You should ask yourself if you want to be chairman of the board and collect the net

income. And you should know whether the business will generate sufficient cash flow to support you and your family in retirement.

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BENEFITING: Burke Rehabilitation Hospital Burke’s clinical pharmacist Jacqueline DiMarco will discuss the importance of organizing and following prescriptions, as well as common medication interactions. Registration required.

TIME: 8:30 to 10 a.m.

LOCATION: Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, White Plains TICKET PRICE: Free CONTACT: Lindsay Amoroso at 597-2848 or visit lamoroso@burke.org

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BENEFITING: ArtsWestchester This family-friendly event is offered in associated with ArtsWestchester’s “Give Us The Vote” exhibition, which examines the state of voting rights in America today. Join artist Pedro Nel Ospina.

TIME: 2 to 4 p.m.

LOCATION: 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains TICKET PRICE: Free CONTACT: 428-4220 or email commassist@ artswestchester.org

A TASTE OF WESTCHESTER

TIME: 5 to 9:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown TICKET PRICE: $300 per WCA member, $350 per future member; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Julia Emrick at jemrick@westchester. org or call 948-6444 or purchase online at Westchester.org

BENEFITING: Cerebral Palsy of Westchester Food and Wine Tasting Event that will feature more than 25 of the area’s finest restaurants along with beer, wine and dessert establishments.

TIME: 6:15 to 8:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Renaissance Westchester Hotel, Harrison TICKET PRICE: $75; after Oct. 13 $125; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: bridgette.pennelle@cpwestchester.org

One hundred-plus holiday trees, shopping, live entertainment, raffle prizes and more. Special kids activities: Tribute and party, Nov. 17; Taps & Trees Craft Beer Fest, Nov. 18; and Festival dates Nov. 17 to Nov. 19; see website.

HONORING: Peggy Marconi and Rudy Marconi, first selectman, Ridgefield, Connecticut TIME: 10 a.m to 4 p.m.

LOCATION: Crowne Plaza, Danbury, Connecticut TICKET PRICE: Adults $10, kids and seniors $5; under 5 free CONTACT: Jack Bouffard at jack@annsplace.org or visit www.AnnsPlaceFestivalOfTrees.org

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BENEFITING: Literacy Solutions NY Inc. Celebrate literacy and citizenship in Westchester, as you enjoy tantalizing food, wine, craft beer and other beverages.

HONORING: Yonkers Public Library and Hospitality Resource Group, Inc. TIME: 6 to 9 p.m.

LOCATION: Yonkers Brewing Company, Yonkers TICKET PRICE: $175 per person CONTACT: Hospitality Resource Group at 761-7111

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BENEFITING: Westchester Public Private Partnership for Aging Services (WPPP) A tribute to older adults who have generously given their time and energy to improve the quality of life in their communities or the county at large.

TIME: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

LOCATION: Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown TICKET PRICE: $65 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Events@TheEventDepartmentNY.com or 914-747-0519

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Can a bridge be a work of art? ArtsWestchester believes it can. Please join in celebrating the new Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and the men and women who have built it, at Westchester’s most anticipated event.

HONORING: Isabel Villar, founder and executive director, El Centro Hispano TIME: 6 to 11 p.m.

LOCATION: The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester TICKET PRICE: $600+ per person CONTACT: dscates@artswestchester.org

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

Events are compiled in cooperation with Association for Development Officers Inc. www.adoonline.org

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GIRLS INC. OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY PREPARES TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS WITH GRATITUDE. Established in 2007, Girls Inc. of Westchester County delivers pro-girl programs during and after school at schools and community centers throughout Westchester County. They are the local affiliate of Girls Incorporated, a 150-year-old national nonprofit providing more than 140,000 girls across the U.S. and Canada with life-changing experiences and solutions to the unique challenges girls face. The Girls Inc. of Westchester County programs equip girls to navigate gender, economic and social barriers so they can grow up healthy, educated and independent.

“Our programming is a unique and comprehensive combination of STEM, Career Readiness, Life Skills, Personal Health and Financial Literacy, that focuses on the whole girl,” said Executive Director Catherine Lepone. “We’ve just launched a three-year strategic initiative to double the number of girls we serve, particularly in low-income communities. As part of that effort we wanted to acknowledge all the hard work, dedication and shared vision that has brought us to this point.”

Girls Inc. of Westchester County is celebrating “10 Years of Gratitude” at its Strong, Smart & Bold Gala on Thursday evening, April 12, at the Doral Arrowwood in Rye Brook. The gala honors notable Westchester women from the worlds of business, politics, philanthropy, entertainment, science, politics and the arts. Honorees exemplify the Girls Inc. mission by being strong, smart and bold. The event brings together more than 300 people from Westchester and the New Yorkmetro area. Guests included influential business professionals, community leaders and philanthropic donors who share their vision of empowered girls in an equitable society.

For more information, visit www.GirlsIncWestchester. org or call 914-419-0764 Follow them on Facebook at https://www.facebook. com/GirlsIncWestchester/ and Twitter @GirlsIncWC.

Participants at Girls Inc. of Westchester County’s summer leadership retreat.

Girls Inc. of Westchester County encourages girls to take healthy risks to cultivate perseverance and resilience.

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Hands-on activities encourage girls explore a wide range of STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields, and understand STEM’s relevance to everyday life.

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WHY GIVE? “With looming budget cuts to funding for afterschool programs, providing girls with safe, nurturing and effective programming is more critical than ever. Girls Inc. of Westchester County is truly a local organization and with your support we can continue our work to educate, inspire and empower girls in our community. Throughout our 10-year history in Westchester County, we have been able to grow because of the generosity of individuals, our Champions for Girls, who believe all girls should have access to opportunity. We are incredibly grateful for the support we have received and look forward to welcoming new Champions who wish to have a direct and immediate impact in their local community.”

Girls need trusted adults they can turn to for career advice and guidance with post high school planning, which is why mentoring relationships are an essential element of the Girls Inc. Experience.

Joanna Straub Executive Director, Nonprofit Westchester

As we head toward Thanksgiving, many people are planning delectable meals to share with family and friends to celebrate our bounty. It may surprise you to learn that one in five people in Westchester struggle to get enough to eat. You may be even more surprised to learn that this might include the person in the cubicle next to you, who works hard – sometimes at more than one job – but still struggles to make ends meet.

It’s no secret that it costs a lot to live in Westchester. According to the ALICE report released by United Way of Westchester & Putnam, it takes $78,720 for a family of four to survive in Westchester – and that’s just the basics, including very low and unrealistic budgeted housing costs of $1,439.

People can work hard – even more than full time – and still not have enough food to make it to the next paycheck.

That’s where organizations like Food Bank for Westchester come in. Each year, Food Bank delivers 8.4 million pounds of food – enough for 7.5 million meals – that are distributed to the 200,000 Westchester residents who need it. They partner with other organizations to distribute the food,

including local food pantries.

Are you interested in helping your friends and neighbors who may be silently struggling?

• Through the Food Bank for Westchester’s Feed a Family campaign, donate $25 to provide a family with a holiday meal. Info at http://www.fb4w.org/feedafamily • Form a team for the Food Bank #GivingTuesday Community Scoop-A-Thon and compete for the championship trophy!

Info at http://www.foodbankforwestchester. org/events/Holiday-Calendar.

• Join Volunteer New York’s Volunteer Hunger Relief Corps to help serve, harvest, package and deliver food throughout Westchester. Learn more and sign up for an orientation at https://www.volunteernewyork.org/hunger.

No one can be at his or her best on an empty stomach. Together, we can ensure that everyone has enough to eat so everyone can reach their potential and thrive.

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

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BY BRIAN M. MITTMAN

Why workers and small businesses lose big with New York’s workers’ compensation reforms

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Before the workers’ compensation law, the alternative was that employees would sue employers; employers would defend the cases and medical care and compensation for lost wages would fall on the families, charities and even the public through welfare.

However, in New York today, the positive social impact of workers’ compensation has been replaced with a misconception about costs being out of control due to the fault of the injured workers. This misconception truly does not stand up to deeper analysis. In fact, in New York, the cost of workers’ compensation insurance per $100 of payroll today is at its lowest point in 35 years. Nevertheless, the narrative persists that injured workers are at the root of this problem.

As a result, there are periodic reforms proposed, some that improve the system and others that further hurt already injured workers and do nothing to lower premiums for employers who follow the rules. Unfortunately, while premiums have decreased, benefits actually paid to injured workers have decreased as well.

Yet pressure continues to ‘reform’ the system. In April, Albany passed a sweeping workers’ compensation reform as part of making a deal on the state budget. As with past reforms, the trend is to shift more and more of the burden onto the shoulders of injured workers and away from providing a safety net to everyday people who got hurt at work and have bills to pay and families to feed.

Workers’ compensation only pays for actual lost time and medical care; there is no pain-and-suffering type of award as in

a lawsuit. Therefore, if someone breaks an arm but misses little time from work, they would only receive compensation for the actual lost time. There would be no money for the permanent injury.

To solve this problem, the original legislation created a list of body parts and assigned specific values to those body parts. A simple formula is then used to figure out the injured worker’s permanent injury and a monetary benefit can then be paid for that injury. The theory behind this concept is that injuring or losing limbs and digits may not keep you from work for a long time, but will be permanent and could limit your earning power into the future.

The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board recently submitted a series of regulations and drafted impairment guidelines based on this year’s reform legislation. These rules and regulations continue to hurt injured workers and the business climate in New York. And the scary part, especially for small — business owners, is that if their trusted and experienced workers suffer an unforeseen work accident, those injured workers will more than likely receive far less compensation then they deserve, may not be able to return to work and may be even reluctant to get proper medical care, thus increasing unsafe work conditions.

These new regulations significantly impair the ability of injured workers to offer evidence in support of their claims; deprive injured workers of necessary legal protections against so-called independent medical exams; and drastically reduce and in many cases, eliminate compensation for permanent injuries to limbs with no real medical justification for such arbitrary reductions. Many small-business owners are also employees themselves and are subject to the same limitations and reductions in benefits.

While improving any system is always a noble pursuit, it is important to remember the true purpose of the law: helping those who have been injured due to no fault of their own. If businesses work with their employees to better understand the system, then safer work places will be achieved and costs will continue to remain low as they already are when it comes to workers’ compensation insurance.

Brian M. Mittman is the managing partner and owner of Markhoff & Mittman P.C., a White Plains law firm specializing in worker’s disability cases since 1933. He can be reached at bmittman@thedisabilityguys.com.

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Westchester County has worked out a deal with a developer to convert an abandoned homeless shelter in Greenburgh into subsidized housing for seniors.

County and town officials announced a proposal on Oct. 27 that would require Marathon Development Group of Peekskill to pay $1.5 million to develop the property. Marathon would pay $900,000 to the county and $600,000 to the town.

The proposal must be approved by the county Board of Legislators.

The 6-acre site is on property owned by the county and leased to Greenburgh, next to Westchester Community College on Knollwood Road.

WestHelp had operated 108 studio apartments there from the late 1980s to 2011.

The new plan calls for converting the studios into 54 apartments, including 28 one-bedroom and 26 two-bedroom units.

Marathon would lease the property from the county for 65 years and spend $6 million on repairs and improvements within three years. The facility would include an office, reading rooms, computer center and laundry room.

Tenants would be chosen by a lottery.

Applicants must be at least 62 years old and meet income criteria.

Thirty-two of the apartments, for example, would be rented to people who make no more than 60 percent of the area median income. That works out to $46,800 for an individual and $53,520 for a twoperson household.

Eleven units would be set aside for people making no more than 50 percent of the area median income and 11 for people making up to 90 percent of the median.

The lease would require Marathon’s Mayfair Housing affiliate to evict occupants who are not at least 62 years old.

The developer and government officials have been negotiating the terms for several years.

The deal was announced by County Executive Robert P. Astorino, Board of Legislators Chairman Michael Kaplowitz, Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner, and Marathon President Mark Soja.

REGENERON EXPANDS OPERATIONS IN IRELAND

Tarrytown-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that it has expanded its Limerick Industrial Operations and Product Supply bioprocessing campus in Ireland by adding 300 jobs and investing $100 million in the facility.

Regeneron’s 400,000-square-foot facility at Raheen Business Park in Limerick is the largest scale bulk biologics production facility in Ireland, according to the company.

The additional $100 million investment will support the construction of manufacturing suites to increase production capacity and enable the company to meet patient demand.

Regeneron’s facility in Limerick became operational in 2015 and is responsible for the production, packaging, labeling and delivery of medicines worldwide.

The latest announcement brings the company’s total expected employment at the site to 800 people and investment in the Limerick facility to $750 million.

“Gut feel is a large portion of any site selection. When we picked Limerick years ago, we simply felt good about the community, universities and people,” said Dan Van Plew, executive vice president and general manager of industrial operations and product supply at Regeneron. “A few years and a lot of experience later, I can now confidently say I know Limerick is a place where you can build and thrive as a biotech.”

The project is supported by the government through business development service IDA Ireland.

"Regeneron’s decision to expand so significantly is testament to the talent pool and attractive business environment available to companies in Ireland,” Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said. “This planned further expansion by Regeneron in Limerick is a significant contribution to the rejuvenation of the region.”

Recruitment is ongoing for high-end specialist positions in commercial manufacturing, process sciences, quality assurance, control, validation and various support functions.

“Regeneron, a leader in the global biopharma industry, set up in Limerick in 2014 and has created a world-class science hub to produce medicine for millions of people,” said Frances Fitzgerald, deputy head and minister for business, enterprise and innovation. “I am delighted to see the great progress made to date giving rise to further substantial investment and additional jobs to be created in Limerick.”

In addition to the production facility in Limerick, the company has a growing Dublin office that employs 30 people and serves as its European Business Administration headquarters. Regeneron’s total headcount in Ireland is expected to approach 850 by the end of 2018.

WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY?

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onventional wisdom holds that the normal course in business, as an entrepreneur, is to start a venture, pour yourself into it and hold on to it for life. Or at least until you pass it on to a family member.

Nothing wrong with that scenario, of course, but it just doesn’t have to be that way.

I’ve always been a contrarian, starting businesses with the goal of selling them.

My motto, of sorts, has been: “Build and sell. Grow and monetize.”

It’s really my view of the ideal exit strategy: •Develop a concept.

•Form a business to give the idea life.

•Bring the entity to market.

•Give your all to make it a raving success.

•Identify the ideal market conditions to consummate a sale.

•Bank the capital gains and build personal wealth.

•Start a new venture or initiative that enriches your life and grows you as a person.

I recently sold a business that I found-

ed 23 years ago. After taking most of the summer off, I’m writing a novel and simultaneously starting three new businesses that have nothing in common from the one I sold.

It’s my exit strategy in action. As I work with other businesspeople to consider the best course for them, I ask all to consider the following questions: •Would I like to turn sweat equity into cash?

•Are there new challenges that I would like to take on?

•Am I grasping on to the business because “that’s the way it’s supposed to be?”

•Is there anyone in my family who would really want to take the business over — and who has the guts and brains to do so?

Time to get started thinking about your exit strategy?

Mark Stevens is CEO of Almost Science and author of the best seller Your Marketing Sucks , founder of the marketing firm MSCO where he remains an advisor. Contact Mark@almostscience.us.

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password policy designed for federal agencies must be secure, right? Surprisingly, that hasn’t been the case according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

On the hook for the password best practices that we still use today— the combination of letters, capitalizations, and numbers — NIST admits that the existing guidelines were misguided. Find out why and how it involves you.

THE PROBLEM The issue isn’t necessarily that NIST advised people to create passwords that are easy to crack, but it did steer people into creating lazy passwords, using capitalization, special characters, and numbers that are easy to predict, like “P@ssW0rd1.”

This may seem secure, but in reality, these strings of characters and numbers

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To make matters worse, NIST also recommended that people change their passwords regularly, but did not define what it actually means to “change” them.

Since people thought their passwords were already secure with special characters, most only added one number or symbol.

NIST essentially forced everyone, including you and your colleagues, to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess.

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s the Affordable Care Act began to change large parts of the health care industry in 2012, Dr. Virginia Feldman said she, like many doctors, had some concerns about those changes.

To better understand it, she printed out the entire law — about 1,600 pages — and carefully read through it.

“I realized that some of this makes a whole lot of sense,” Feldman said. “Like anybody in an industry that’s getting turned upside down, we can complain that the people who were writing the legislation don’t really understand. But a lot of it actually made sense.”

That led Feldman, a surgeon with ENT and Allergy Associates in Middletown, to recognize an opportunity she could address. By 2014, she would launch Nexus Health Resources, which provides software to help hospitals and other care providers track transitional care for patients and prevent avoidable readmissions.

Feldman said her interest in starting the company was to find a way to help “be a positive part of this change and not just another doctor complaining about the change. Let me get on the side of the solution.”

That opportunity, Feldman found, was in a mandate from the Affordable Care Act that shifted the way the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services pays hospitals. Rather than paying on a volume-based system, such as by the number of hospital visits, hospitals would be paid on a valuebased system, which measures the quality of care they provide to patients.

That shift exposed a number of gaps in the health care system that would need to be addressed, Feldman said. “I saw a way to plug one of those holes that I thought would make a big difference for health care facilities.”

That hole was in the follow-up care after a patient was discharged. A system was needed to address the problem of patients who would leave hospitals and “fall through the cracks,” as Feldman described it, such as by not receiving medications or by not arranging follow-up appointments, and subsequently returning to the hospital.

Starting in 2013, Feldman worked with Orange Regional Medical Center to develop

Dr. Virginia Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Nexus Health Resources.

a system to try to improve outcomes for recently released patients. Feldman said that by better organizing follow-up care and communication among care providers following discharge, the 353-bed Middletown hospital was able to eventually reduce patient readmission rates by between 40 and 50 percent.

That work set the foundation for the software that launched Nexus Health Resources, which Feldman co-founded with Scott Roan and Ryan Sparks. The company grew out of the Orange County Business Accelerator, a business development program funded by the Orange County Industrial Development Agency.

The company’s main software product, NexusConnexions, helps manage the care of each patient released from a health care facility.

“We basically wanted to empower the workforce, the transitional care coordinators, to improve their health population,” Feldman said.

The software provides a way for a patient’s full medical team to coordinate care in the weeks following a hospital

stay. Physicians and other care providers can communicate through the software, track patient progress and prescriptions and schedule follow-up phone calls and appointments.

Feldman said one of its main strengths is its ability to automate and organize the necessary care for the large volume of patients who pass through hospitals and other health care facilities.

“What we found is that facilities would initially do this and they could do it really well for an extremely small amount of patients,” Feldman said. “But in order for it to scale for their entire patient population … the volume gets to be so great you need to have it automated.”

Nexus has also developed a health call center, which offers staff trained in contacting patients for follow-ups. The phone calls can be used to schedule primary care appointments, check on the status of home health care providers and ensure prescriptions are filled.

Along with its work with Orange Regional Medical Center, Nexus Health Resources has started working with post-acute care

providers, such as skilled nursing facilities. In May, the company started working with EPIC Healthcare Management, which operates short- and long-term rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities in Croton-onHudson, Purdys and Middletown.

Nexus clients include National HealthCare Associates Inc. Nexus provides its software at some of the 38 skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers the Long Island-based company operates.

Feldman said the company is in discussions with hospitals throughout the country to add their services. The software is cloud-based and offered as a yearly subscription service.

The company has eight employees and is based in Middletown.

Feldman previously co-founded the Hudson Valley Ambulatory Surgery Center in 2007, a Middletown surgical center with 33 independent surgeons and physicians.

So while launching a business wasn’t entirely a new process, Feldman said there were challenges shifting from medicine into the technology startup world.

“I’m a surgeon, so I’m used to things being pretty quick,” she said. “But with any startup or any technology or any business working in the health care fields, it can take a while for everything to fall into place.”

Given that the company’s founding was tied to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Feldman said she’s asked often what it will mean for the company if the health care law is repealed. She pointed to her company’s focus on decreasing total costs for a care provider and increasing access and quality.

“Any model that comes out is still going to demand that of facilities,” Feldman said. “Our model is not based on components of the health care bill that would likely be changed.”

The company now is focused on adding to its list of provider clients and expanding its services based on what those clients request. The company recently launched Nexus Health Academy, which creates educational videos for patients and home care providers to guide them through various steps of the recovery process.

“It’s about staying in tune to the market and what our clients need,” Feldman said, “and continuing to improve the product as we increase the number of people who are using that product.”

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REASONS TO ATTEND A FREE MEDICARE SEMINAR

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ctober 15 through December 7 is the Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) when Medicare beneficiaries can decide whether to remain in their current Medicare Advantage Plan, choose another plan or return to Original Medicare.

Attending a free Medicare educational seminar hosted by licensed Medicare agents, can give you information about eligibility and enrollment and help you understand covered benefits and services available to support your health care coverage. There’s no cost to attend a seminar and no obligation to enroll.

These are a few important items to keep in mind, so you can get the most out of attending a Medicare seminar and learn about different health plan options to help you make the right decision about your Medicare coverage.

• ORIGINAL MEDICARE VS. MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS. What’s the difference?

What are the pros and cons? You should

have all your questions answered and know all your options before making a decision.

• MEDICARE AND OR MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY. Some plans offer options for those with varying levels of Medicare and those with Medicare and Medicaid. Talk to advisors at the seminar about your levels of Medicare and or Medicaid and find out if there are plans options best suited for your health and personal care needs.

• ENROLLMENT PERIODS AND LATE PENALTIES. The enrollment period for Medicare is up to three months prior to turning 65 and 3 months after turning 65, but there are a few special enrollment opportunities that you could qualify for.

You should be aware of late enrollment penalties and when you could be eligible to enroll in a Medicare plan.

• PROVIDER NETWORK: Health plans are continually expanding and/or modifying their provider networks. Find out if your primary care physician or specialists are in the plan’s network. If they are not, ask

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• CARE NAVIGATOR OR CARE MANAGER: Some plans give you access to a Care Navigator or Care Manager. These professionals are assigned to assist you with accessing providers and health services, supporting your medication management, setting up a care plan based on your clinical and functional requirements and ensuring that you receive routine screenings and preventative services. Find out if these services are available to you and how it works.

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ounty Executives Robert P. Astorino and MaryEllen Odell have joined with the WestchesterPutnam Workforce Development Board to sponsor a Virtual Job Fair. From now until the end of November, the online fair will connect Westchester and Putnam County residents to private sector businesses and non-profit organizations across all business sectors that are ready to hire for full-time, part-time, and seasonal positions.

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group of the county's most accomplished doctors — along with one future doctor — were honored Oct. 24 at the annual Doctors of Distinction Awards held at the C.V. Rich Mansion in White Plains.

The awards were co-prsented by the Westchester County Business Journal; the law firm Brown, Gruttadaro, Gaujean, Prato & Sastow PLLC; the Westchester County Medical Society, Mitchell WealthCare, UBS Financial Services and New York Medical College.

The first award of the night, the No Land Too Far award, went to Dr. Rifat Latifi, director of the department of surgery at Westchester Medical Center. Latifi was unable to attend because he was out of the country. His daughter, Kalterina Latifi, accepted the award on his behalf.

Latifi has overseen three national telemedicine programs in Kosovo, Albania, and Cabo Verde. He is working to establish a telemedicine program in provincial hospitals in Hanoi, Vietnam.

While Kalterina Latifi said her father is dedicated and passionate about his role as director of the surgery department at WMCHealth, she made clear that passion extended beyond the patients in the Hudson Valley.

"Today he has traveled to more countries than you can possibly imagine," she said. "The best part is he truly, truly loves what he does. From surgical missions in the Philippines to telemedicine in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, no land is too far and no mission impossible."

Next came the Cutting Edge awards, which first recognized Dr. Ashutosh Kaul.

Kaul is the program director of the mini-

mally invasive surgery fellowship program at New York Medical College, director of bariatric surgery at Greenwich Hospital and director of minimally invasive and robotic surgery at Westchester Medical Center.

Kaul, who is specialized in advanced abdominal laparoscopic surgery, used his speech to discuss obesity, which he said has become "the biggest health care issue affecting the country."

"In the hours this event will take, over 200 people will die due to the side effects of obesity," Kaul said.

He described bariatric surgery as a treatment for many of the side effects of obesity, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer risk.

Also accepting a Cutting Edge award was Dr. Brian Levine of the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine. Levine is the founding partner and practice director of CCRM New York. Levine said that infertility affects 1 in 8 people.

"And I think people are wondering why infertility research is getting a Cutting Edge award," Levine said. "The reason is that out of all the fields in medicine I truly believe that infertility treatment is one of the fields that we are really benefiting from (science)."

Levine researches male infertility, which he said is often overlooked, but represents 40 percent of cases when a couple seeks treatment for infertility.

Dr. Cynthia Chin received the Female Trailblazer award. Chin is director of the women's cancer program at White Plains Hospital.

"I'm truly honored to accept an award for a job that I love," Chin said. "I get to work with cancer patients and, as a physician, there is nothing better to me."

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After registering online at www.westchesterputnamonestop.com, employers can post their available positions free-of-charge and have access to thousands of qualified workers who are ready to get to work. Job-seekers who register will be able to post their resumes and apply for open positions.

“The Virtual Job Fair is a win-win for Putnam County businesses and residents,” said Putnam County Executive MaryEllen Odell. “Businesses who hire our residents will find that they possess the skills, education, training, professionalism and confidence to help their business grow, while enhancing the life of the communities in which they work and live.”

“The benefits of a virtual job fair include the behind the scenes matching of qualified candidates across both counties to the available positions posted by employers making for a greater hiring pool than they might see by posting one job at a time,” stated Donnovan Beckford, Executive Director of the Westchester-Putnam One Stop Development Board. “By screening candidates for available jobs and facilitating the interview process at our locations, our One Stop Career Centers maximize efficiencies for both the candidates, who may interview for multiple jobs on the same day, and the employers who can see many qualified candidates in a shorter period of time. We also assist employers by conducting mini job fairs for companies who may have several open positions at the same time and eliminate the expense associated with conducting their own job fair at their location or offsite,” he added.

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s annual enrollment on the New York State of Health exchange opened on Nov. 1, state officials were getting the word out that the health insurance markets are still active amid federal uncertainty over the law.

President Donald Trump earlier this month declared the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, “dead” and “gone,” as the Republican-controlled Congress has spent several months attempting to pass a bill to replace the 2010 health care law signed by President Barack Obama. In response, New York officials have stressed that its market is still open to renew insur-

ance plans or sign up for a new policy.

"Despite the ongoing debate in Washington over the future of the Affordable Care Act, New York's marketplace remains open and strong as ever," New York State of Health Executive Director Donna Frescatore said in a statement.

“The ACA is still the law — and New Yorkers should know they can enroll starting November 1st to find the right coverage for their needs,” Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman echoed last week.

The open enrollment period will run for three months through Jan. 31, 2018. The deadline applies to commercial qualified health plans offered on the state exchange.

Enrollment in Medicaid, Child Health Plus and the Essential Plan insurance offerings is open year-round.

The state expects to renew coverage for more than 400,000 households during the open enrollment period and enroll new customers. New York has 12 insurers offering qualified commercial health plans through its exchange for 2018 and 15 insurers offering the Essential Plan.

Overall, about 4.1 million people get health insurance through the New York State of Health exchange, according to state enrollment data. That includes 2.8 million enrollees in Medicaid, 683,000 New Yorkers on the state’s Essential Plan, about 350,000 in the Child Health Plus plan and about 228,000 residents on qualified commercial health plans.

In Westchester, nearly 152,000 people enrolled in plans on the state's exchange last year, including about 100,000 in Medicaid plans, 13,000 in Child Health Plus plans,

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New York, along with 11 other states and the District of Columbia, runs its own health exchange separate from the federal exchange used by residents of 38 states that opted not to operate their own exchanges. That somewhat insulates the New York exchange from turmoil in the law at the federal level. Running its own exchange also allows New York to extend the enrollment period beyond the earlier Dec. 15 cutoff set by the Trump administration.

Trump has cut the federal advertising budget for this year’s open enrollment significantly, to $10 million from $100 million last year. Those cuts, paired with confusion caused

by Republicans’ ongoing effort to repeal the law, have some health officials concerned about declines in enrollment nationally.

Joshua Peck, who served as HealthCare. gov’s chief marketing officer under Obama, predicted in a post on Medium that 1.1 million fewer people will be covered through the exchanges because of the cuts in advertising and outreach.

New York State of Health announced last week it would expand its outreach campaign, including partnerships with pharmacies across the state.

The Westchester County Department of Health has eight health care "navigators" to help residents with enrollment. Nonprofit organizations throughout the state, such as Westchester Disabled on the Move, also offer navigators to help people enroll in health plans.

Some insurers have expanded their own advertising efforts in New York. Oscar Health, which in Westchester County offers individual qualified health plans, has launched a multimillion-dollar campaign in the six states it operates that will include TV, radio and ads on public transit.

In August, New York regulators approved rate increases of 15 percent on average in 2018 for companies offering qualified plans on the state exchange. The state has said that for lower-income enrollees who are eligible for tax credits, premium costs for silver-level plans will be about the same or lower than last year.

Both state officials and insurers blamed the rising premiums on increasing medical costs, particularly the cost of prescription drugs. But additional rate increases were also granted to account for the likely loss of cost share reduction payments, a provision in the Affordable Care Act that provides federal funds to insurers to offset individual plans with low out-of-pocket costs.

Trump announced last month that he would end those payments to insurers, which he claims are a bailout to insurance companies and cannot be lawfully disbursed by the White House. Schneiderman is leading a lawsuit with 19 other state attorneys general challenging Trump’s withholding of the subsidies.

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"I look forward to continuing to improve the health and well-being of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities along with my colleagues and my team," Litt said.

The Promise For The Future award, which recognizes a top medical student, went to Michael Tarr, a fourth-year student at New York Medical College.

While studying at New York Medical College, Tarr organized a series of webinars advising medical providers on how to best treat patients with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

"My first year of medical school I realized that there was a lack of material in the curriculum that educated future doctors on how to treat such a diverse and medically underserved population," Tarr said.

Tarr worked with the Westchester Institute of Human Development and the American Academy for Developmental Medicine and Dentistry to develop the monthly educational webinars for doctors and students. He said he is starting a task force to continue creating webinars after he graduates and moves on to a medical residency next year.

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New regional ambulance base in New Rochelle

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfariinc.com

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national emergency services company is aiming to fill the void left by the collapse of TransCare EMS last year that left area towns and health care facilities with a shortage of ambulance crews.

American Medical Response (AMR) of Greenwood Village, Colorado, bought TransCare’s certificates of need, issued

by the state Health Department, allowing it to provide basic life support, advanced life support and ambulance services in Westchester and New York City.

AMR has set up a regiomal base at 35 Bartels Place in New Rochelle. New Rochelle was chosen because it is centrally located, close to Interstate 95 and U.S. Highway 1, and the rents are cheaper here than in New York City.

“There is a void locally,” said Patrick Pickering, AMR’s operations manager for Metro New York, “and we’re looking to fill it.”

TransCare had 911 contracts with Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, White Plains and other towns in the Hudson Valley, as well as with New York City and several hospitals. The headquarters was in Brooklyn and it had a base in Mount Vernon. In February 2016, TransCare declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy and fired 1,200 workers across the country.

AMR bills itself as the nation’s largest prehospital emergency care provider, handling 4.5 million patients a year from operations in 40 states and the District of Columbia.

From left, paramedics Matthew Mulvaney and Michael Wolf and operations manager Patrick Pickering at American Medical Response Operations in New Rochelle.

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It provides mutual aid or backup ambulances, for example, when there is a surge in demand. It staffs concerts and sports events, including NASCAR races.

It handles disasters, terrorism and public health emergencies under a contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This year, for example, AMR has responded to wildfires in California and to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

“We still have people on the ground in Puerto Rico assisting with the efforts there,” Pickering said.

The ambulance company has regional connections. Edward Van Horne, its CEO, is from Rye and had worked for the Harrison ambulance service. Pickering retired in 2015 as chief of the West Shore Fire Department in Connecticut.

AMR is negotiating contracts with area health care systems, hospitals, nursing homes and 911-systems. For now, it does a couple of transports a day. Its air ambulance division also transports patients from across the country and overseas to area hospitals for advanced medical procedures.

AMR has 21 people in New Rochelle, including 15 emergency medical technicians and 5 paramedics. It has six ambulances and two fly cars — quick response vehicles staffed by medics who don’t transport patients.

Pickering said he has 100 applicants for 10 openings. Entry level EMTs are paid $14.60 an hour and paramedics $22.70.

As word spreads about the quality of their work, Pickering said, he expects the business to grow quickly. “We’re looking to establish our brand.”

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THE LIST: Financial Planners and Wealth Managers FINANCIAL PLANNERS/WEALTH MANAGERS

westchester county

WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND THE HUDSON VALLEY

Ranked by number of financial planners in the region. Listed alphabetically in the event of a tie.

2 3

6.5 billion

!

8 (One additional in Fairfield County)

800,000 NA

820 million

!

Geri Pell geri.e.pell@ampf.com 1986

7

WND

1.15 billion

!

Lawrence J. DeNoia and Daniel V. Giaimo larry@itistrategies.com dgiaimo@itistrategies.com 1991

4

500,000 100,000

200 million

!

Bill Winters bwinters@tompkinsfinancial.com 1890

4

1 million 1.25 percent

5.5 billion

!

!

Joseph F. Christiana jchristiana@finserctr.com 2003

3

50,000 .65-1.5 percent

15 million

!

!

The Ostrove Group Inc.

Mitchell Ostrove mitch@ostrovegroup.com 1965

3

1 million 1 percent

100+ billion

!

Eastern Planning Inc.

Beth Blecker bblecker@easternplanning.com 1995

2

500,000 1 percent

6 billion

Emerald Retirement Planning Group

Matthew S. Clement matthew@emeraldretirement.com 2004

2

NA No minimum

55 million

!

John G. Ullman 1978

2

450,000 2,000

770 million

!

Gayle Lob and Adam Rude 1987

2

NA NA

NA

!

!

Julia A. Peloso-Barnes and Erik Hayden Julia.peloso-barnes@morganstanley.com Erik.hayden@morganstanley.com 1984

2

NA

115 million

!

George S. Sinnott george@sinnottwealthmanagement.com Louann Rooney 1978

2

500,000 0

125 million

!

Ameriprise Financial Services Inc.

Michael Mazzilli michael.x.mazzilli@ampf.com 1894

1

500,000 1,000

WND

Christopher W. Judge CFP, AIF

Christopher W. Judge chris@cwjudgefinancial.com 1997

1 (One additional in Fairfield County

400,000 1%

100+ million

Coughlin Financial Services Inc.

John M. Coughlin Jr. info@coughlinfinancial.com 2000

1

800,000 Negotiable

Life Goals Asset Management LLC *

Scott Greenbaum scott.lifegoals@gmail.com 1992

1 (One additional in Fairfield County

LEXCO Wealth Management Inc.

120 White Plains Road, Suite 112, Tarrytown 10591 468-8900 • lexcowealth.com

Pell Wealth Partners

4

(A private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services Inc.) 800 Westchester Ave., Suite S300, Rye Brook 10573 253-8800 • pellwealthpartners.com

5

ITI Strategies Inc.

994 Main St., Peekskill 10566 734-2800, ext. 20 • itistrategies.com

Tompkins Financial Advisors

10 Bank St., White Plains 10606 946-1277 • tompkinsfinancialadvisors.com

6

Financial Services Center Asset Management Inc.

3944 Route 9G, Red Hook 12571 845-876-1919 • finserctr.com

4 New King St., Suite 101, White Plains 10604 428-4095 • ostrovegroup.com

7

800 Westchester Ave., Suite 641N, Rye Brook 10573 845-627-8300 • easternplanning.com

5 Joyce Plaza, Larchmont 10538 845-942-8578 • emeraldretirement.com

John G. Ullman & Associates Inc.

30 E. Market St., Suite 1, Rhinebeck 12572 866-819-5046 • jgua.com

LoB Planning Group

2900 Westchester Ave., Suite 308, Purchase 10577 428-6440 • lobplanning.com

The Peloso-Barnes Group at Morgan Stanley

2000 Westchester Ave.,1NC, Purchase 10577 225-6391 • famorganstanley.com/pelosobarnesgroup

Sinnott Wealth Management Inc.

555 Taxter Road, Suite 190, Elmsford 10523 909-1524 • sinnottwealthmanagement.com

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111 Brook St., Third floor, Scarsdale 10583 341-1482 • michaelmazzilli.com

1053 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley 10502 693-6789 • cwjudgefinancial.com

178 Myrtle Blvd., Larchmont 10538 834-1234 • coughlinfinancial.com

24 Abbey Close, Scarsdale 10583 723-1797 • lifegoalsllc.com

The Mitchell WealthCare Group

709 Westchester Ave., Suite 400, White Plains 10604 287-6074 • ubs.com/team/themitchellgroup/

Barry P. Mitchell Jr. Maggie Smith maggie.smith@ubs.com 2011

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! NA

Financial, intergenerational and divorce financial planning, socially responsible investing, women's financial strategies and wealth-preservation strategies retirement

!

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! corporate benefit planning, pension

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! NA

!

!

! and planning and life, accident

!

!

!

!

! Medicare consulting

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!

!

Insurance, including whole life, universal life, variable universal life, term, disability and long-term care

!

!

!

!

Comprehensive financial, LGBT financial and planning for families of children with special needs

!

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! NA

!

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42 million

!

!

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!

!

!

1 million 10,000

35 million

!

1

Varies

400 million

!

!

!

!

1 (One additional in Fairfield County

Based on clients' needs

Based on recommendations

!

!

!

!

Robert E. Mann rem@westwealthadv.com 2007

1

1 million 0

Less than 50 million

!

NA

NA

140+ million

!

!

!

!

!

!

Retirement planning, pensions, disability and long-term care insurance

!

Westchester Wealth Advisers LLC

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!

75 million

Not available.

Would not disclose.

!

!

This list is a sampling of financial planners and wealth managers that are located in the region. If you would like to include your firm in our next list, please contact Danielle Renda at drenda@westfairinc.com.

NA WND

!

!

250,000 3,000

Douglas Ruby douglas.ruby@morganstanley.com 1935

!

!

1

Morgan Stanley

Divorce planning, personal financial management, retirement planning, tax preparation, wealth transfer strategies and LifeSlate (specialty archive service)

!

and health insurance

Greg Werlinich greg@waminvest.com 1997

2000 Westchester Ave., Suite 1NC, Purchase 10577 225-4717 • morganstanleyfa.com/therubygroup/

! Life and disability insurance

Fee-based RIA, tax preparation

Werlinich Asset Management LLC

800 Westchester Ave., Suite 641 North, Rye Brook 10573 872-4010 • westwealthadv.com

!

and profit sharing and long-term care insurance planning

Paul M. Petrone petronefinancial@yahoo.com 1991

14 Birch Lane, Rye Brook 10573 481-5888 • waminvest.com

!

!

Retirement and insurance planning, business succession planning,

Paul M. Petrone CFP, CPA

67 Burns Place, Briarcliff Manor 10510 944-3073

Not ranked

Christopher P. Jordan Betti J. Barone bbarone@lexcowealth.com 1999

!

tax planning

18 million 10,000

Robert A. Clarfeld wealth@clarfeld.com 1981

!

philanthropy

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Clarfeld Financial Advisors

520 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 846-0100 • clarfeld.com

!

risk management

2.4 billion

investment management

NA

Josh Becker, Jerry Harnik, Lyle Domenitz and Jeff Neeck larpa@strat4wealth.com ccatts@strategiesforwealth.com 1934

estate planning

150 12 additional in Fairfield County)

Strategies for Wealth

800 Westchester Ave., Suite N409, Rye Brook 10573 288-8800 • strategiesforwealth.com

family and legal

Total AUM ($)

fee based

1

Number of financial planners in county

Planning/management services offered

Average AUM per client ($) Minimum annual fee ($)

Top local executive Contact Email address Year firm established

commission based

Name Address Area code: 914, unless otherwise noted Website

Family wealth management

!

In-house tax department and retirement planning

Retirement-distribution planning

Investment, employee benefits and insurance, including term, universal, variable and whole life

!

Financial planning, investment management and estate planning

NA

!

!

Retirement, longevity, income, cash flow and college planning and disability, life and long-term care insurance

!

!

!

Social security, retirement income and tax specialist

NA

!

Offers 50 state tax-preparation services

!

!

!

!

!

! for individuals, businsesses, trusts, etc.

and IRS representation

!

!

!

!

!

Banking and lending, insurance, annuities, philanthropic services, retirement planning and asset allocation

FACTS & FIGURES

MANHATTAN

CPK Union LLC. Filed by Owen Harty. Action: Americans with Disabilities Act — civil enforcement. Attorney: Peter Erik Sverd. Filed: Oct. 27. Case no.

7:17-cv-08267-CS.

5 Trillium Inc. 347 Fifth Ave., Room 1402, New York 10016. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Ehsanul Habib. Filed: Oct. 25. Case no. 17-12992smb.

Enhanced Recovery Company LLC. Filed by Esther Rottenstein. Action: 1692 Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney: Daniel Harris Kohn. Filed: Oct. 30. Case no. 7:17-cv-08297-NSR.

Environmental Technologies LLC. 233 E. Third St., Apt 1E, New York 10009. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Bruce Weiner. Filed: Oct. 30. Case no. 17-13045-mew.

Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc. Filed by Joseph Greico. Action: diversity action. Attorney: Amy L. Bellantoni. Filed: Oct. 26. Case no. 7:17-cv08221-UA.

Fabritex Inc. 215 W. 40 St., Ninth floor, New York 10018. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Brian J. Hufnagel. Filed: Oct. 25. Case no. 1712989-mkv.

FDR Services Corporation of New York. Filed by the trustees of the Laundry, Dry Cleaning Workers and Allied Industries Retirement Fund, Workers United. Action: E.R.I.S.A. — delinquent contributions. Filed: Oct. 30. Case no. 7:17-cv-08353.

BANKRUPTCIES

Junction Elmhurst 27 Corp. 1461 First Ave., Suite 132, New York 10075.

Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Alcides Alberto Casares. Filed: Oct. 26.

Case no. 17-13017-scc.

Portero LLC. 415 Madison Ave., New York 10017. Chapter 7, involuntary.

Represented by Portero LLC. Filed: Oct. 26. Case no. 17-13015-smb.

COURT CASES Angelo Balbo Management LLC. Filed by Owen Harty. Action: Americans with Disabilities Act — civil enforcement. Attorney: Peter Erik Sverd.

Filed: Oct. 27. Case no. 7:17-cv-08263NSR. Asset Recovery Solutions LLC. Filed by Rosa Ramirez. Action: 1692 Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney: Daniel Harris Kohn. Filed: Oct. 27.

Case no. 7:17-cv-08280-CS. Callahan Inc. Filed by Plumbing & Heating Corp. Action: diversitycontract dispute. Attorney not listed.

Filed: Oct. 26. Case no. 7:17-cv-08231KMK.

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

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

Heavy Equipment & Dump TK Rental Inc. Filed by Teamsters Local 456 Pension, Health & Welfare, Annuity, Education & Training, Industry Advancement and Legal Services Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A. — delinquent contributions. Attorney: Daniel Ernest Kornfeld. Filed: Oct. 26. Case no.

7:17-cv-08228-CS. Lakeside Plaza Associates LLC. Filed by Owen Harty. Action: Americans with Disabilities Act — civil enforcement. Attorney: Peter Erik Sverd.

Filed: Oct. 26. Case no. 7:17-cv-08261KMK. Mazda Motor of America Inc. Filed

by WPM Automotive Partners LLC. Action: diversity action. Attorneys: Charles Andrew Gallager, Michael Palmer McMahon, Russell Pries McRory and John Joseph Sullivan.

Filed: Oct. 30. Case no. 7:17-cv-08319NSR. Paradise Heating Oil Inc. Filed by Teamsters Local 456 Pension, Health & Welfare, Annuity, Education & Training, Industry, Advancement and Legal Services Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A. — delinquent contributions.

Attorney: Daniel Ernest Kornfeld.

Filed: Oct. 30. Case no. 7:17-cv-08296CS. Schwartz & Feinsod. Filed by Zachary Hiller. Action: FLSA — minimum wage or overtime compensation. Attorneys: Andrea Batres, Brian Bodansky and Mordy Yankovich. Filed: Oct. 30. Case no. 7:16-cv-05547-VB. Steve Giordano Builders Inc. Filed

by Teamsters Local 456 Pension, Health & Welfare, Annuity, Education & Training, Industry Advancement and Legal Services Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A. — delinquent contributions.

Attorney: Daniel Ernest Kornfeld.

Filed: Oct. 30. Case no. 7:17-cv-08293NSR.

ON THE RECORD

The Smedley Co. Filed by Teamsters Local 456 Pension, Health & Welfare, Annuity, Education & Training, Industry Advancement and Legal Services Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A.— delinquent contributions. Attorney: Daniel Ernest Kornfeld. Filed: Oct. 30. Case no.

7:17-cv-08282-VB. Snap Advances. Filed by SHG of Illinois LLC. Action: diversity action.

Attorney: Shane R. Heskin. Filed: Oct. 30. Case no. 7:17-cv-08320-NSR.

DEEDS Above $1 million 144 East Kingsbridge LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: BETNY Realty Corp., Tarrytown. Property: 144 Kingsbridge Road East, Mount Vernon. Amount: $2.8 million. Filed Oct. 23.

1444 Flagler Drive LLC, Mamaroneck. Seller: Paul Bindler, Mamaroneck. Property: 1444 Flagler Drive, Mamaroneck. Amount: $7.5 million.

Filed Oct. 26.

19 E 4 LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: West Moreland Realty Corp., Mount Vernon. Property: 19 Fourth Street East, Mount Vernon. Amount: $1 million.

Filed Oct. 24.

20 Mianus LLC, Bedford. Seller: Christian M. Bradeen, Bedford. Property: 20 Mianus River Road, North Castle. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Oct. 25.

5 North Greenwich Road LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Barnegat Partners LLC, Armonk. Property: 5 N. Greenwich Road, North Castle. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Oct. 27.

Diplomat Property Manager LLC, Chicago, Ill. Seller: John Guttridge, White Plains. Property: 11055 Old Post Road, Bedford. Amount: $2.1 million.

Filed Oct. 27.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Lynn Farrell, Ossining. Property: 2 Birch Court, Cortlandt. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Oct. 23.

Lehman XS Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-19. Seller: Dianna Lee, Scarsdale. Property: 43 Appleton Place, Greenburgh. Amount: $2.1 million.

Filed Oct. 26.

30th Anniversary Westchester Real Estate Awards Breakfast March of Dimes Greater New York Market Thursday, November 16, 2017 Hilton Westchester • Rye Brook 7:00 a.m.

Honoring

The Real Estate Award

Robert F. Weinberg, Co-founder & President Robert Martin Company

30th Anniversary Westchester Real Estate James J. Houlihan, Principal Awards Breakfast

The Martin S. Berger Award for Lifetime Achievement Houlihan-Parnes Realtors Title sponsors

Houlihan-Parnes Realtors, GHP Office Realty, Houlihan-Parnes Properties Mack-Cali Realty Corporation Pavarini North East Construction Co.

Platinum sponsors AMEC Construction DLC Management Corp.

Robert Martin Company

Gold sponsors Benerofe Properties Corp.

Cappelli Organization Cuddy & Feder Ginsburg Development Companies Jones Lang LaSalle Levitt-Fuirst Insurance Newmark Grubb Knight Frank People’s United Bank RPW Group, Inc.

Silver sponsors Acadia Realty Trust, AvalonBay Communities, Inc., Belway Electrical Contracting Corp./LeChase Construction, Benchmark Title Agency, CBRE, De Clercq Office Group / Knoll, DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, Fieldpoint Private, Flushing Bank, George Comfort & Sons, Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, M&T Bank, National Realty & Development Corp., Reckson, a Division of SL Green Realty Corp., RM Friedland, Shleppers Moving & Storage, Signature Bank, Simone Development Companies, Steelcase Inc./ Waldner’s Business Environments, The MacQuesten Companies, VHB

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Below $1 million

Westchester County Business Journal To purchase tickets online, go to: ww.marchofdimes.org/westchesterrealestate Sponsorship and information: 914-610-7530 or JFortuna@marchofdimes.org

2 GM Partners LLC, Dobbs Ferry.

Seller: Robert F. Longobardi, et al, Thornwood. Property: 884 Warren Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $420,000. Filed Oct. 24.

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GOOD THINGS NATHANS JOINS LOTHROP

More than 30 culinary and beverage professionals participated in the event.

ARC EVENT RAISES $400K The Arc of Westchester Foundation raised more than $400,000 at its 14th annual “A Matter of Taste” fundraiser. Nearly 400 attended the Oct. 17 event at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle.

The foundation raises funds to support Arc of Westchester’s programs and services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, while increasing public awareness of Arc’s activities.

George and Laura Landegger accepted the Family Partner Award honoring their family’s service to the organization. Richard P. Swierat, Arc’s executive director, received the first Legacy Award for his 35 years of leadership.

A portion of the Rubens painting “Reconciliation of the Queen and her Son” showing the head of Marie de Medici. The painting is on display at Iona’s Chapman Gallery.

RUBENS ON DISPLAY AT IONA An exhibition of Peter Paul Rubens’ work, “Peter Paul Rubens and the Flemish 17th Century,” is being presented at Iona College’s Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery in New Rochelle through Nov. 30.

The exhibition includes works by Rubens, his workshop and others. In all, 26 paintings and drawings from the collection of Seena and Arnold Davis are on display.

Rubens is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. His pieces reference aspects of classical and Christian history and include religious figures, mythological subjects and hunt scenes.

A gallery talk will be held on Nov. 9, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Gallery hours are Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from noon to 5 p.m.; Thursdays, noon to 8 p.m.; and Sundays, 2 to 5 p.m. The gallery is closed on holidays.

DESIGN AGENCY MARKS FIVE YEARS

Regeneron volunteers in Tarrytown packaging meals for Rise Against Hunger.

REGENERON HOLDS FIRST GLOBAL DAY OF SERVICE Tarrytown-based pharmaceutical company Regeneron staged its first “Day for Doing Good,” a companywide day of service, on Oct. 27. The company’s employees participated in community service projects impacting nonprofit and community organizations. The projects were as varied as working with Head Start preschoolers in Westchester on science and literacy activities to sorting donated items for refugees in Albany.

“At Regeneron we have a tradition of ‘doing well by doing good’ — it’s what we commit to every day through our work developing and producing medicines for serious diseases and through our efforts to strengthen our communities,” said Leonard S. Schleifer, president and CEO of the company.

More than 50 percent of Regeneron employees participated in the event. More than 3,500 volunteered more than 10,000 hours on 227 different projects that benefited 105 organizations.

In Tarrytown, about 110 Regeneron volunteers packaged meals to be distributed by Rise Against Hunger. They were visited by U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey who, along with Schleifer, congratulated them for their public service spirit and enthusiasm.

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William Nathans has joined Lothrop Associates LLP, an architectural and interior design firm in White Plains, as an associate and assistant director of health care.

He will collaborate with Phil Cerniglia, the firm’s director of health care.

Nathans has 30 years of experience with health care projects. When he was with NBBJ Design, Nathans was the senior project manager for development of the NYU Langone Medical Center’s Kimmel Tower, an 800,000-square-foot, 20-story building in Manhattan.

While employed at other firms, he managed work on various facilities such as the VA Medical Center in New York, New York Presbyterian Hospital and King Edward Medical Center in Bermuda.

Lothrop Associates recently was honored by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino on its 50th anniversary and for its design contributions, including work on Westchester County Airport and the Westchester Medical Center.

Planning committee members, from left, Heather Panessa, Angela Retelny, Nancy Chochrek, To-Dao Casey, Patti Lipman, Laura Miller, Lynne Clark, Sheri Wolfe and Ellen Schwartz. (Not pictured: Kathy Coleman, Rene Wolfer and Michelle Silverman Bedell.) Photo by Linda Blair.

BREAKFAST FOR THE LIBRARY Scarsdale area Realtors recently gathered at the Sunningdale Country Club in Scarsdale for the inaugural RealHelp fundraising breakfast to support worthy local causes. The goal of the breakfast was to make a difference in the communities where agents live and work.

The Scarsdale Public Library, now undergoing renovation and expansion, was the beneficiary.

There are about 500 agents in the Scarsdale Area Realtors group. The RealHelp Planning Committee is chaired by Lynne Clark and Laura Miller from Houlihan Lawrence.

“We hope the fundraising breakfast will be an annual affair, choosing a new worthy recipient each year,” Clark said.

The digital design agency Play Nice Together, which is based in Elmsford, recently celebrated its fifth anniversary with an event at Harper’s Restaurant and Bar in Dobbs Ferry.

Agency founder Ryan Smith said, “Through my previous corporate experience, I saw the amazing ways technology, design and marketing were being put to use in large-scale projects for multinational companies and wanted to bring that same type of experience to the small business community.”

The agency has both local and national clients, including 35 Westchester companies and two nonprofits.

DATES HAPPENING COPELAND NAMED BOARD CHAIR

From left: Tamara Mitchel, Pro Bono Director Marian Genio, John Pappalardo, Georgia Kramer and Michelle Lewis.

LEGAL SERVICES MARKS PRO BONO WEEK

From left, Chip Wood, Dan Welsh, Kathy Wells and Dorian Moore.

WESTCHESTER POWER AT ENERGY CONFERENCE Dan Welsh, program director for Westchester Power, took part in the Renewable Energy Markets conference held in Manhattan on Oct. 25.

This year, the focus was on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) programs. Westchester Power is a bulk-buying program in Westchester and was the first CCA in New York.

It was founded under Sustainable Westchester, which had organized about 40 municipalities into a buying group representing approximately 800,000 county residents.

Welsh was on a panel about CCAs moderated by Chip Wood from the Center for Resource Solutions. Speakers in addition to Welsh included Dorian Moore of Dynegy’s retail electric supply division and Kathy Wells from Lancaster Choice Energy in California.

Port Chester-based Family Services of Westchester has announced the appointment of Lisa Copeland as chair of its board of directors.

Copeland is an owner and chair of SRI, a philanthropic services organization, and a director of the Hugh J. Andersen Foundation, both based in Bayport, Minnesota. Copeland was an elementary school teacher in the New York City public school system and now lives in Scarsdale.

Copeland holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s degree in early childhood education from New York University.

Legal Services of the Hudson Valley on Oct. 24 marked National Pro Bono Week with a celebration at its White Plains offices.

Five pro bono attorney volunteers were honored: Henry Berman and Tamara Mitchel from Berman Frucco Gouz Mitchel & Schub PC in White Plains; John Pappalardo from Farber, Pappalardo & Carbonari in White Plains; and Georgia Kramer and Michelle Lewis from Kramer Kozek LLP in White Plains.

National Pro Bono Week was launched in 2009 by the American Bar Association to raise awareness about the unmet legal needs of vulnerable and economically disadvantaged individuals and families and to encourage more legal professionals to volunteer their services.

The nonprofit has more than 85 attorneys in its nine offices in the lower and midHudson Valley. It relies on approximately 300 volunteer attorneys and paralegals to provide pro bono legal assistance to clients in matters that its staff cannot handle because of limited resources.

VISIONARY AWARDS GALA

Ira Schwartz

HONORING A WORLD-RENOWNED EXPERT World experts in tick-borne diseases from as far away as Slovenia gathered at New York Medical College in Valhalla on Oct. 18 to exchange the latest scientific information and honored a peer, Ira Schwartz. He is stepping down from his role as chairman of the college’s department of microbiology and immunology.

There were presentations on the latest discoveries about how ticks spread Lyme disease and other illnesses, and discussions of the progress in diagnosis and treatment.

Schwartz was presented with a plaque in “recognition and sincere appreciation” of his contributions as chairman of the department. His “knowledge, wisdom, compassion and leadership” were among the qualities cited.

Schwartz joined the college in 1980. The Schwartz Laboratory, where his research is centered, has been conducting sophisticated studies of tick-borne illnesses and the way ticks act as hosts. It was the first to apply molecular diagnostics to help determine the presence of pathogens in tick and wildlife populations.

African American Men of Westchester will be celebrating 30 years of service in Westchester when it holds its Visionary Awards Gala on Nov. 18 at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle. In addition to dining and dancing to music by the Full Circle band and DJ Danny, there will be entertainment by Grammynominated jazz musician Sherry Winston and spoken-word artist McKinley Winston. The gala will be emceed by Wale Aliyu, a journalist with WNBC-TV in New York.

This year’s honorees include Alé Frederico of TD Bank; Vikki Pryor of Change Create Transform; Roger Woolsey of Million Air and Eric Yarbro of Colliers International.

African American Men of Westchester is a nonprofit whose members volunteer to organize free programs to benefit young men and women. Areas covered include academics, health and wellness, environmental sustainability, domestic violence and sports.

Scholarships are awarded to students who are impacting their communities.

Corporate and individual sponsorships for the event are available. For more information visit aamw.com.

Officials of St. Christopher’s pose at the new barn. From left: Eric Lebenson, chief development officer; Robert Maher, CEO; Pamela Kelly-Day, board member; Ralph Herrera; and Donald Antonecchia, COO.

BARN RAISING ON JENNIE CLARKSON CAMPUS St. Christopher’s, the nonprofit based in Dobbs Ferry that serves children who have special needs and their families, hosted a barn raising on its Jennie Clarkson Campus in Valhalla on Oct. 26. Not only was the new barn unveiled, so too were the chickens and goats which will be calling it home.

St. Christopher’s has been introducing animal-assisted therapy into its specialized residential programming for young people. St. Christopher’s has a partnership with the Cornell Extension of Westchester County and is an official 4-H Chapter.

Director of Operations Ralph Herrera said, “The barn has been a dream of ours for some time now, and we are all excited to finally welcome the animals to our campus, and officially make them a part of the St. Christopher’s family.”

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FACTS 218 Victory Boulevard Corp., Yonkers. Seller: John Miller, Elmsford.

Property: 48 S. Lawn Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $225,000. Filed Oct. 25.

Nationstar HECM Acquisition Trust 2016-1. Seller: Dolores Phillips, Yonkers. Property: 259 Westchester Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $653,121. Filed Oct. 26.

342 Willis LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Colleen Hickey, Hawthorne. Property: 342 Willis Ave., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $350,000. Filed Oct. 23.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Seller: Michael Sirignano, Cross River. Property: 4 Upland Road, New Rochelle.

Amount: $560,653. Filed Oct. 25.

48 Brookdale LLC, Larchmont.

Seller: 48 Brookdale Place Associates LLC, Armonk. Property: 48 Brookdale Place, Rye. Amount: $916,830. Filed Oct. 25.

Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union, Brooklyn. Seller: Michele Bermel, Chappaqua. Property: 26 Chestnut Ridge Road, North Castle.

Amount: $950,000. Filed Oct. 25.

AA-MK LLC, Mount Kisco. Seller: JCA 4 Grove LLC, Mount Kisco. Property: 4 Grove St., Mount Kisco. Amount: $401,600. Filed Oct. 26.

QVX21 Construction LLC, Hartsdale. Seller: Michael Rahimi, et al, Mamaroneck. Property: 1195 Old White Plains Road, Mamaroneck. Amount: $850,000. Filed Oct. 27.

Alchris LLC, Ossining. Seller: Richard J. Joyce III, Kingston. Property: 9 Terrace Ave., Ossining. Amount: $135,000. Filed Oct. 23.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: Deborah Buchalski, et al, Bronxville. Property: 106 Cassilis Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $797,000. Filed Oct. 25.

Fannie Mae. Seller: Edmund G. Fitzgerald, White Plains. Property: 1 Agate Ave., Ossining. Amount: $517,368. Filed Oct. 27.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Peter P. Rosato, Yonkers. Property: 1446 Main St., Peekskill. Amount: $521,065. Filed Oct. 27.

Grims Property Management LLC, Union City, N.J. Seller: Silver Oak Commerical Real Estate and Consulting, Putnam Valley. Property: 1 Lounsbury, Somers. Amount: $23,000.

Filed Oct. 24.

High and Low Realty LLC, Monsey.

Seller: Bruce Bozeman, Mount Vernon. Property: 19 Cooley Place, Mount Vernon. Amount: $146,000. Filed Oct. 25.

Stevens Management LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: Bayview Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables, Fla. Property: 140 Stevens Ave., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $345,000. Filed Oct. 27.

Sunnyside Lane LLC, Sleepy Hollow. Seller: Dianne Moore, et al, White Plains. Property: 86 E. Sunnyside Lane, Greenburgh. Amount: $415,000. Filed Oct. 27.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Michael Taylor, Larchmont.

Property: 92 Rose Ave., Eastchester.

Amount: $739,259. Filed Oct. 23.

The Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Inc., Bronx. Seller: Roman Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist and Most Holy Trinity, Yonkers. Property: 15 Trinity St., Yonkers. Amount: $550,000. Filed Oct. 25.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Aldo V. Vitagliano, Rye. Property: 39 Old Pound Road, Pound Ridge. Amount: $994,830.

Filed Oct. 23.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Lisa Bluestein, Scarsdale. Property: 41 Hemlock Circle, Peekskill. Amount: $351,106. Filed Oct. 24.

Immobiliare Assets LLC, West Harrison. Seller: Howard Johnson, et al, Cortlandt Manor. Property: 806 Hudson Ave., Peekskill. Amount: $81,324.

Filed Oct. 25.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Jeffrey S. Shumejda, Sleepy Hollow. Property: 747 Sherman Ave., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $802,937. Filed Oct. 25.

Macahudy LLC, New York City.

Seller: Glenn Staropoli, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 64 St. Johns Place, New Rochelle. Amount: $530,000.

Filed Oct. 24.

Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc., Morris Plains, N.J. Seller: Douglas Lowe, et al, Valhalla. Property: 1 Suzette Lane, Mount Pleasant. Amount: $668,000. Filed Oct. 25.

MJD Contracting Corp., Mahopac.

Seller: Ian D. Orr, Armonk. Property: 28 Stratford Road, Greenburgh.

Amount: $395,000. Filed Oct. 24.

Wolfpack Land Development Ltd., Rye. Seller: Thomas Gallinelli, et al, Mamaroneck. Property: 1219 Henry Ave., Rye. Amount: $450,000. Filed Oct. 26.

MJD Contracting Corp., Mahopac.

Seller: James Wallace, et al, Mahopac.

Property: 72 Hemlock Circle, Peekskill. Amount: $191,501. Filed Oct. 26.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: John F. Gnerre, Somers. Property: 161B Heritage Hills, Somers. Amount: $339,246.

Filed Oct. 27.

FORECLOSURES ARDSLEY, 630 Ashford Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .1 acre.

Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Michelle Muse. Referee: Francis Malara.

Sale: Nov. 20, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,839,687.46.

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HARTSDALE, 40 S. Washington Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .25 acre. Plaintiff: Citibank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Jin Yang. Referee: David Gelfarb.

Sale: Nov. 20, 9:15 a.m. Approximate lien: $922,716.17.

KATONAH, 13 Fisher Lane. Singlefamily residence; lot size: .4 acre.

Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504.

Defendant: Bruno Decaudin. Referee: John Sarcone. Sale: Nov. 17, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $793,986.25.

MOUNT KISCO, 39 Weavers Hill.

Single-family residence; lot size: .01 acre. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Grace Sims. Referee: Joseph Ruggiero. Sale: Nov. 20, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $584,835.92.

MOUNT VERNON, 13 N. Sixth Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: 06 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Friedman Vartolo LLP, 212-471-5100; 85 Broad St., New York 10004. Defendant: Glenroy Moffatt. Referee: Theodore John Brundage. Sale: Nov. 8, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $638,964.79.

MOUNT VERNON, 59 Oak St. Twofamily residence; lot size: .05 acre.

Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin, 516-280-7675; 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury 11590. Defendant: Monica Douse. Referee: Julie Cherico.

Sale: Nov. 20, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. MOUNT VERNON, 240 Tecumseh Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .11 acre. Plaintiff: Residential Credit Solutions. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin, 516-280-7675; 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury 11590.

Defendant: Nadine Heron. Referee: Ian Spier. Sale: Nov. 15, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. NEW ROCHELLE, 9 on the Court.

Single-family residence; lot size: .51 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 585-9872800; 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Rochester 14614. Defendant: Maureen Webb. Referee: Julia Henrichs. Sale: Nov. 14; 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $430,299.09.

PEEKSKILL, 504 Mallard Way. Single-family residence; lot size: .14 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504.

Defendant: Wellington Beheran. Referee: Frank Malara. Sale: Nov. 20, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $349,103.60.

FIGURES PLEASANTVILLE, 23 Old Farm Road South. Single-family residence; lot size: 1.41 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Mario Finkbiner. Referee: Charles D’Agostino. Sale: Nov. 16, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $785,243.51.

PORT CHESTER, 37 Francis Lane.

Single-family residence; lot size: .26 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin, 516-280-7675; 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury 11590.

Defendant: Bernardo Fernandez. Referee: Joseph Ruggiero. Sale: Nov. 20, 9:45 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. WEST HARRISON, 40 Underhill Place. Two-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-969-3100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore 11706. Defendant: Judith MandujanoCari. Referee: Christopher Meagher.

Sale: Nov. 13, 9:15 a.m. Approximate lien: $774,592.09.

YONKERS, 9 Floral Lane. Singlefamily residence; lot size: .08 acre.

Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 585-987-2800; 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Rochester 14614. Defendant: Susan Caras. Referee: Julia Henrichs. Sale: Nov. 16, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $304,299.93.

YONKERS, 42 Elissa Lane. Twofamily residence; lot size: 08 acre.

Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-6368900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Kenny Morales. Referee: Judith Rearden.

Sale: Nov. 15, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $588,035.07.

YONKERS, 111 Hoover Road.

Single-family residence; lot size: .09 acre. Plaintiff: Fremont Investments & Loan. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-6368900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Kim Traub. Referee: Theodore Brundage.

Sale: Nov. 15, 9:45 a.m. Approximate lien: $492,232.93.

JUDGMENTS 5 Brothers Construction Services Inc., Mount Vernon. $2,680 in favor of the trustees of the Drywall Tapers, New York City. Filed Oct. 26.

Allen Supply and Laundry Service Inc., Paterson, N.J. $93,189 in favor of Laundry Dry Cleaning Workers and Allied Industries, White Plains.

Filed Oct. 25.

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

Any unknown heirs to the estate of Margaret Magnuson, et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $498,550 affecting property located at 2 Greenwood Lane, Valhalla 10595.

Filed Sept. 27.

Avila, Monica, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $375,891 affecting property located at 43 Dogwood Road, Cortland Manor 10567. Filed Sept. 27.

Bellantoni, Rory J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $333,968 affecting property located at 3653 Edgehill Road, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed Sept. 28.

Castillo, Winston, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $435,372 affecting property located at 33 Woodbine St., Yonkers 10704. Filed Sept. 27.

Catarella, Robert, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 98 Paulding Place, Chappaqua 10514. Filed Sept. 27.

Esquivel, Jose M., et al. Filed by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $279,000 affecting property located at 43 Emmett Terrace, New Rochelle 10805. Filed Sept. 28.

Garguilo, Ellen M., et al. Filed by Live Well Financial Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 7 Southgate Drive, Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed Sept. 29.

Graham, Johanna, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $350,000 affecting property located at 620 S. Fifth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Sept.

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Harvey, Lilieth A., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $399,750 affecting property located at 15 Liberty Ave., New Rochelle 10801.

Filed Sept. 27.

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Heyman, Alan H,, et al. Filed by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $624,000 affecting property located at 436 Pleasantville Road, Briarcliff Manor. Filed Sept. 28.

Leader, Jeffrey, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.5 million affecting property located at 69 West Lane, Pound Ridge 10576. Filed Sept. 29.

Lopez, Sergio, et al. Filed by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $815,000 affecting property located at 56 Northfield Road, New Rochelle 10804. Filed Sept. 29.

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Malinari, Agnes G., et al. Filed by Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 18 Laurel Road, Pound Ridge 10576. Filed Sept. 28.

Mew, Ian D., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 106 Hutchinson Blvd., Mount Vernon 10552. Filed Sept. 28.

Mogrovejo, Walter, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $388,430 affecting property located at 21 and 25/27 Jefferson Ave., White Plains 10606. Filed Sept. 29.

Public administrator of the Westchester County as temporary public administrator to the estate of Frances Olga Ferris, et al. Filed by Nationstar HECM Acquisition Trust 2016-3. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $544,185 affecting property located at 54 Narragansett Ave., Ossining 10562.

Filed Sept. 28.

Rainone, Joseph, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $499,000 affecting property located at 25 Highland Ave., New Rochelle 10801. Filed Sept. 28.

Thime, Audrey M., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 36 Riverdale Ave., Port Chester 10573. Filed Sept. 28.

Velardo, Michael, et al. Filed by PCSB Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 6 Apple Farm Road, New Castle. Filed Sept. 28.

Wilson, Carolyn, et al. Filed by Carrington Mortgage Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $280,726 affecting property located at 77 Lorraine Terrace, Apt. 335B, Mount Vernon 10553. Filed Sept.

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Zellner, Barbara S., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $635,000 affecting property located at 2 Turner Drive, Chappaqua 10514.

Filed Sept. 28.

MECHANIC’S LIENS 1 Ridge Hill LLC, as owner. $51,138 as claimed by Oz Solutions Inc., Roslyn.

Property: in Yonkers. Filed Oct. 25.

4 Brookline LLC, as owner. $5,350 as claimed by JDV Plumbing and Heating Inc., Brewster. Property: in Scarsdale. Filed Oct. 27.

Iroiro LLC, as owner. $149,217 as claimed by Drywall and Acoustic System Inc., Yonkers. Property: in Yonkers. Filed Oct. 30.

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Iroiro LLC, as owner. $386,380 as claimed by Ima Construction and Consultants, Yonkers. Property: in Yonkers. Filed Oct. 30.

Jones, Albert, et al, as owner. $65,000 as claimed by Terence Jeffries, Mount Vernon. Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed Oct. 30.

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

Sole Proprietorships Growing Minds Pediatric Occupational Therapy, 5 Birch Street West, White Plains 10607, c/o Jill Miller.

Filed Aug. 25.

Smith Street Realty, 31 Lawrence Ave., Sleepy Hollow 10591, c/o Larry Welch. Filed Aug. 26.

Fearghal—Made To Fit, 1306 Old Country Road, Elmsford 10523, c/o Karim Y. Ferrell. Filed Aug. 25.

Deep Blue Root.com, 621 S. Columbus Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Luis Muga. Filed Aug. 26.

Grace and Truth Ministries, 81 Independence St., White Plains 10606, c/o Helen Dallas. Filed Aug. 26.

Larchmont Massage Therapy, 178 Myrtle Blvd., Larchmont 10538, c/o Robert Grejdus. Filed Aug. 26.

Westchester Shipping and Thrift Store, 182A S. Lexington Ave., White Plains 10606, c/o Banesa I. Guerrero Diaz. Filed Aug. 25.

The Office—Business Services, 783 Midland Ave., First floor, Yonkers 10704, c/o Andressa Arendartchuk.

Filed Aug. 26.

Bella So Crafty, 708 Mallard Way, Peekskill 10566, c/o Monique A. Thomas. Filed Aug. 26.

Expert High Tech Car Detail, 26 Hunt Place, White Plains 10606, c/o Omar G. Segovia. Filed Aug. 25.

The Faith Co., 147 Webber Ave., Sleepy Hollow 10591, c/o Ramfis Rosario. Filed Aug. 26.

Eri Sanchez Cleaning Service, 166 Poningo St., Port Chester 10573, c/o Maria E. Sanchez. Filed Aug. 25.

Town Nail Salon, 4 Main St., Tarrytown 10591, c/o Eunjoo Lee. Filed Aug. 30.

Jim’s Computer Business, 10 Stewart Place, 3AE, White Plains 10603, c/o James Parsons. Filed Aug. 29.

Positive Life Change, 1 Columbia Ave., Hartdale 10530, c/o Joan Alberto Ayala Reyes. Filed Aug. 29.

Happy Klubhouse Child Care, 158 Second St., Buchanan 10511, c/o Clara Leonardo. Filed Aug. 29.

Maximal Security, 776 Bronx River Road, No. B14, Bronxville 10708, c/o Eric M. Velez. Filed Aug. 30.

Andrea Carapella Rendo, Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 151, Cross River 10518, c/o Andrea Carapella Rendo.

Filed Aug. 29.

PATENTS Adaptive behavior profiling and anomaly scoring through continuous learning. Patent no. 9,807,105 issued to Pau-Chen Cheng, Yorktown Heights; Lawrence Koved, Pleasantville; and Kapil K. Singh, Cary, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Automatic content-load balancing. Patent no. 9,807,160 issued to Nathaniel F. Enrich, New York; Niraj P. Joshi, Cary, N.C.; Kimberly D. Kenna, Cary, N.C.; and Robert C. Leah, Cary, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Collective operation management in a parallel computer. Patent no. 9,807,132 issued to Charles J. Archer, Rochester, Minn.; James E. Carey, Rochester, Minn.; Philip J. Sanders, Rochester, Minn.; and Brian E. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Conclusive write operation dispersed storage network frame.

Patent no. 9,807,171 issued to Andrew Baptist, Mount Pleasant, Wis.; Wesley Leggette, Chicago, Ill.; Jason K. Resch, Chicago, Ill.; Zachary J. Mark, Chicago, Ill.; and Ilya Volvovski, Chicago, Ill. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Dynamic middlebox redirection based on client characteristics. Patent no. 9,806,946 issued to Seraphin B. Calo, Cortlandt Manor; William Cornejo, Woodhaven; Thai F. Le, White Plains; Erich M. Nahum, New York; Maroun Touma, Redding, Conn.; and Dinesh C. Verma, New Castle. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Preventing accidental phone call session termination. Patent no.

9,807,220 issued to Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Baltimore, Md.; Dana L. Price, Surf City, N.C.; Aaron J. Quirk, Cary, N.C.; and Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode, Thornton, Colo. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Providing targeted messages via a social media system while concealing ties to the message source. Patent no. 9,807,048 issued to Lee A. Carbonell, Flower Mound, Texas; Tsz S. Cheng, Grand Prairie, Texas; Jeffrey L. Edgington, Keller, Texas; and Pandian Mariadoss, Allen, Texas.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

FACTS Reactive throttling of heterogeneous migration sessions in a virtualized cloud environment.

Patent no. 9,807,014 issued to Gabriel Alatorre, Campbell, Calif.; Eric K. Butler, San Jose, Calif.; Mark V. Chitti, Richmond, Ky.; James E. Olson, Oxford, Conn.; Aameek Singh, University Place, Wash.; and Yang Song, San Jose, Calif. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

System and method for active transcoding of content in a distributed system. Patent no.

9,807,139 issued to Robert W. Bond, Powder Springs, Ga.; Stephen E. Jaffe, Canton, Ga.; Michael P. Outlaw, Dallas, Ga.; Matthew A. Terry, Celebration, Fla.; and Matthew B. Trevathan, Roswell, Ga. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Using an out-of-band password to provide enhanced SSO functionality. Patent no. 9,807,087 issued to Heather M. Hinton, Austin, Texas; and Kelly Malone, Delmar. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million Blitman Mahopac LLC, White Plains, as owner. Lender: Mahopac Bank, Brewster. Property: in Carmel.

Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Oct. 10.

Below $1 million Bazinet, Ryan, et al, as owner. Lender: Wayne Bank, Liberty. Property: 30 Melody Lane, Kerhonkson 12446.

Amount: $280,135. Filed Oct. 26.

DEEDS Above $1 million Legoland New York LLC, Carlsbad, Calif. Seller: Fini Brothers, Goshen.

Property: in Goshen. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Oct. 19.

Legoland New York LLC, Carlsbad, Calif. Seller: Goshen Land Owner LLC, New York. Property: in Goshen.

Amount: $8.2 million. Filed Oct. 20.

The Shops at Woodbury LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: Cabela’s Wholesale Inc., Sidney, Neb. Property: in Woodbury. Amount: $8 million. Filed Oct. 18.

Below $1 million 12 Israel Zupnick Realty Associates LLC, Monroe. Seller: Congregation Keren Chesed Yisroel, Monroe.

Property: 12 Israel Zupnick Drive, Monroe 10950. Amount: $250,000.

Filed Oct. 13.

21 Mortgage Corp., Knoxville, Tenn. Seller: Gerard J. Comatos Jr., Poughkeepsie. Property: 1540 Route 376, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $477,000. Filed Oct. 23. st

656 State Route 211 LLC, Middletown. Seller: Julie E. Powers, Walden.

Property: 656 Route 211, Montgomery 12549. Amount: $86,000. Filed Oct. 17.

76 Champlin LLC, Hyde Park. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 9-11 Broad St., Middletown 10940. Amount: $85,000. Filed Oct. 13.

763-769 Yonkers Avenue Realty Corp., Mahopac. Seller: Robert B. Shultz, Brewster. Property: 4 Michael Neuner Drive, Brewster. Amount: $170,000. Filed Oct. 24.

92 Jersey Ave LLC, Port Jervis. Seller: Frankinkstein Corp., Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $120,000.

Filed Oct. 17.

Destefano, Daniel, et al, Cortland Manor, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: 64 Brookside Ave., Putnam Valley.

Amount: $406,000. Filed Oct. 11.

Airgas USA LLC, Radnor, Pa. Seller: P.B. Shaw LLC, Carmel. Property: 761 Fair St., Carmel 10512. Amount: $550,000. Filed Oct. 11.

Lanwin Forest Ridge LLC, Hopewell, N.J., as owner. Lender: Manna Dells LLC, Vero Beach, Fla. Property: 22 Copper Rock Road, Newburgh.

Amount: $348,750. Filed Oct. 23.

Amante and Norris Associates LLC, Washingtonville. Seller: FTG Rentals LLC, Florida. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $70,000. Filed Oct. 20.

New Directions Enterprise LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson, as owner. Lender: LendingHome Funding Corp., San Francisco, Calif. Property: 5081 Route 9W, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $159,800. Filed Oct. 27.

Bank of Millbrook, Millbrook.

Seller: Michael Kranis, Poughkeepsie.

Property: in Pleasant Valley. Amount: $230,000. Filed Oct. 24.

Westwind Estates LLC, Accord, as owner. Lender: Catskill Watershed Corp., Margaretville. Property: 215 Lower Whitfield Road, Accord 12404.

Amount: $550,000. Filed Oct. 25.

Beautiful New Paltz LLC, New York City. Seller: Carole Brtalik, Etters, Pa. Property: in Rosendale. Amount: $92,000. Filed Oct. 25.

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Belliman LLC, Goshen. Seller: RM Appl LLC, New York City. Property: in Rochester. Amount: $750,000. Filed Oct. 23.

Best Kingston General Inc., Kingston. Seller: Gary R. Allred, et al, Hurley. Property: in Hurley. Amount: $234,200. Filed Oct. 23.

Britkat Inc., Monroe. Seller: Allan Joseph Ahearne, Warwick. Property: 46 Pinehurst Circle, Monroe. Amount: $265,000. Filed Oct. 13.

Capital Estates Corp., Monroe. Seller: Dragonfly Wellness Inc., Wallkill.

Property: 951 Goshen Turnpike, Circleville 10919. Amount: $71,500. Filed Oct. 16.

Charles Tran Properties LLC, Middletown. Seller: Bayview Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables, Fla. Property: 42 South St., Washingtonville 10992.

Amount: $106,119. Filed Oct. 17.

City of New York. Seller: Ronald V. Decker, et al, Rock Hill. Property: 758 Plank Road, Phoenicia. Amount: $64,450. Filed Oct. 25.

DC 1 Properties LLC, Highland.

Seller: 58 Catharine Realty, Poughkeepsie. Property: 56 Catharine St., Poughkeepsie. Amount: $215,000.

Filed Oct. 25.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: John Thomas, Walden. Property: 4 Kelly St., Middletown 10941.

Amount: $319,884. Filed Oct. 16.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Maura A. Barrett, Poughkeepsie. Property: 9 Kent St., Beacon 12508.

Amount: $203,500. Filed Oct. 23.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Melvin P. Spivak, Poughkeepsie. Property: 14 Cozine Ave., Rhinebeck 12572. Amount: $370,500. Filed Oct. 23.

FIGURES Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Anthony Keogh, White Plains. Property: 108 Towners Road, Carmel 10512. Amount: $231,379. Filed Oct. 17.

Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Blue Sky Bridge LLC, Brewster Property: 162 Main St., Brewster. Amount: $350,000. Filed Oct. 18.

PennyMac Corp., Westlake Village, Calif. Seller: Edward T. McCormack, Fishkill. Property: 77 Kent Lake Ave., Carmel 10512. Amount: $394,280.

Filed Oct. 20.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Laurence A. Clemente, Goshen. Property: 381 Pocatello Road, Middletown 10940. Amount: $465,118.

Filed Oct. 17.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Joseph G. Goubeaud Jr., Mount Vernon. Property: 104 Welfare Road, Brewster 10509. Amount: $222,126.

Filed Oct. 20.

PREC Realty LLC, Somers. Seller: Nicolo A. Asaro, et al, Brewster. Property: in Southeast. Amount: $195,000.

Filed Oct. 12.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Michele Babcock, Walden. Property: 39 Rose Lane, Middletown 10940. Amount: $527,267.

Filed Oct. 16.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Michael Davidoff, Monticello. Property: 104 Borden Road, Walden 12586.

Amount: $351,062. Filed Oct. 13.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Michelle Anderson, Newburgh. Property: 2705 Colonial Drive, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $466,461. Filed Oct. 19.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Rose Kramer, et al, New Windsor. Property: 5 Rosemont Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $178,366. Filed Oct. 18.

Flat Rock Mortgage Investment Trust. Seller: Todd Kelson, New Windsor. Property: 10 Weber Road, Middletown 10940. Amount: $387,223. Filed Oct. 20.

Flipping Cancer LLC, Hyde Park.

Seller: MTGLQ Investors LP, Greenville, S.C. Property: 14 High Court, Poughkeepsie 12603.

Amount: $149,000. Filed Oct. 25.

Freedom Builders Investors and Management LLC, Wallkill.

Seller: U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Property: 2432 Route 17K, Montgomery 12549.

Amount: $145,000. Filed Oct. 20.

GDB Holding Company LLC, Cold Spring. Seller: Heather Lynn Olsen, Hyattsville, Md. Property: in Philipstown. Amount: $140,000. Filed Oct. 20.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Peter George Botti, Goshen.

Property: 46 Poplar St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $218,550. Filed Oct. 17.

Green Chimneys School for Little Folk Inc., Brewster. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 302 Doansburg Road, Brewster 10509. Amount: $299,900.

Filed Oct. 19.

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Seller: Steven H. Klein, Poughkeepsie. Property: 305 Church St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $630,000. Filed Oct. 23.

Hampton Park LLC, Castleton. Seller: Paul Brite, Newburgh. Property: 229 Neelytown Road, Montgomery.

Amount: $605,000. Filed Oct. 16.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: David Brodsky, Chester.

Property: 1441 and 1445 Little Britain Road, Rock Tavern 12575. Amount: $272,708. Filed Oct. 17.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Robert G. Rafferty, Pelham. Property: 20 Sebago Road, Carmel 10512. Amount: $191,660. Filed Oct. 20.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Stelios Thomakos, et al, Goshen. Property: 77 Meadow Hill Road, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $222,079. Filed Oct. 17.

Hardy II Corp., Beacon. Seller: Gerard J. Pisanelli, Poughkeepsie. Property: 4 Dutchess Terrace, Beacon 12508. Amount: $243,000. Filed Oct. 26.

High Equities LLC, Monroe. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 12 Utopian Place, Walden 12586. Amount: $165,000. Filed Oct. 13.

Hoang and Nguyen Bros LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 56 Valley Ave., Walden 12586. Amount: $79,000. Filed Oct. 13.

Howe Construction LLC, Chester.

Seller: Clarence J. Smith, et al, Montgomery. Property: in Montgomery.

Amount: $120,000. Filed Oct. 18.

Presto Properties LLC, Woodstock.

Seller: MP Homestead LLC, Briarcliff Manor. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $285,000. Filed Oct. 26.

KeyBank N.A. Seller: Michelle Anderson, Newburgh. Property: 403 Barclay Manor, Unit 403, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $81,251. Filed Oct. 17.

Reverse Mortgage Solutions Inc. Seller: Jacqueline T. Martin, Poughkeepsie. Property: 2426 Marlorville Road, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Amount: $248,000. Filed Oct. 23.

Knutschies LLC, High Falls. Seller: Anthony Farrow, Rochester. Property: 1107 McIntosh Place, Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $64,000. Filed Oct. 16.

RPG Properties Inc., Brewster.

Seller: Carole Ann Kiefer, Cold Spring.

Property: in Philipstown. Amount: $300,000. Filed Oct. 17.

Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Wappingers Falls.

Seller: Donald D. Brown, Poughkeepsie. Property: 25 Elizabeth Terrace, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $221,500. Filed Oct. 24.

Schunnemunk Estates Holding LLC, Monroe. Seller: Shmiel Stern, Monroe. Property: in Monroe.

Amount: $310,000. Filed Oct. 20.

Mitten Rock Farm LLC, Stony Point. Seller: Florence Cuneo Frascati Farm LLC, Woodbury, Conn. Property: in LaGrange. Amount: $800,000.

Filed Oct. 26.

Mitten Rock Farm LLC, Stony Point.

Seller: Noxon LLC, South Glastonbury, Conn. Property: in LaGrange.

Amount: $450,000. Filed Oct. 26.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Patricia A. Cocchia, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Property: 18 Beverly Trail, Blooming Grove 10950. Amount: $40,116. Filed Oct. 17.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Robert C. Nelson, Katonah. Property: 84 Allview Ave., Brewster 10509. Amount: $399,202. Filed Oct. 20.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc., Eden Prairie, Minn.

Seller: Eric Hou Yuen, et al, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $373,000. Filed Oct. 25.

Nationstar HECM Acquisition Trust 2016-3. Seller: Peter G. Botti, Goshen. Property: 79 Airport Road, Huguenot 12746. Amount: $204,051.

Filed Oct. 20.

Newfound Build and Design Inc., Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Stuart Forman, et al, Florida. Property: 4 Rose St., Florida 10921. Amount: $130,000.

Filed Oct. 18.

NJCC-NYS CRF REO Subsidiary LLC, New Brunswick, N.J. Seller: Sonia Morales, Walden. Property: 3902 Whispering Hills Drive, Chester 10918.

Amount: $285,229. Filed Oct. 13.

Panthoula LLC, Mahopac. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Property: 78 Orchard Road, Mahopac 10541. Amount: $99,900. Filed Oct. 16.

Sharecroppers 200 LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 73 Courtney Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $76,584. Filed Oct. 16.

State of New York Mortgage Agency. Seller: Brian Sheldon, Middletown.

Property: 12 Mercer St., Middletown 10940. Amount: $161,287. Filed Oct. 20.

SunWest Mortgage Company Inc., Cerritos, Calif. Seller: Kevin Lawrence Wright, Mahopac. Property: 24 Valley Lane, Garrison 10524. Amount: $370,000. Filed Oct. 17.

Temple Hill Union LLC, Cornwallon-Hudson. Seller: Susan Fischer, et al, Falls Church, Va. Property: in New Windsor. Amount: $100,000. Filed Oct. 16.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Alan L. Joseph, Goshen. Property: 22 Oxford Road, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $240,877. Filed Oct. 17.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: John B. Swift III, Goshen. Property: 104 Baldwin Lane, Unit 1-D, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $133,038. Filed Oct. 16.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Kyle Barnett, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 110 Hudson Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $131,000.

Filed Oct. 23.

Thick W. Corp., Brewster. Seller: James J. Dietz, Carmel. Property: 7 W. Croton Drive, Carmel 10512. Amount: $100,000. Filed Oct. 17.

Tier 3 Properties LLC, Walden.

Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 13 Elmhurst Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $42,595. Filed Oct. 20.

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U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Eugene Kuzmin, White Plains. Property: 23 Beach Court, Carmel 10512. Amount: $270,665. Filed Oct. 12.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Jeffrey Albanese, Goshen. Property: 1015 Route 211W, Middletown 10940.

Amount: $195,006. Filed Oct. 17.

E and S Machine Inc., New Windsor. $2,170 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Fidencio Gutierrez, Holmes. Property: 593 Route 292, Pawling 125331. Amount: $176,500. Filed Oct. 26.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Ned Kopald, Highland Falls. Property: 664668 S. Drury Lane, Newburgh 12575.

Amount: $470,117. Filed Oct. 19.

EJM Transport LLC, Newburgh. $1,141 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Peter Botti, Goshen. Property: 104 Delafield Lane, Unit 19E, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $350,050. Filed Oct. 20.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Richard E. Griffler, Tuxedo Park. Property: 68 Cedar Drive, Tuxedo 10987.

Amount: $381,785. Filed Oct. 19.

F and G Pools and Hearths Inc., Marlboro. $235 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Robert Rametta, Goshen. Property: 64 Decker Drive, Walden 12586. Amount: $319,500.

Filed Oct. 13.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: James Dunn, et al, Dover Plains. Property: 137 Chestnut Ridge, Carmel 10541. Amount: $278,619. Filed Oct. 23.

Fancy Nails, Middletown. $23,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Oct. 3.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Charles Frankel, New Windsor. Property: 37 Daisy Lane, Montgomery 12549.

Amount: $468,553. Filed Oct. 17.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Debra A. Quinones, Haverstraw. Property: 142 Fries Lane, Walden 12586. Amount: $255,628. Filed Oct. 20.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Martin Goldberg, Middletown. Property: 59 Orchard Trail, Monroe. Amount: $40,600.

Filed Oct. 18.

JUDGMENTS

GPC Inc., Kingston. $1,040 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 25.

Hooper Trading LLC, Harriman. $620 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Dianne Hanley, Katonah. Property: 5281 Route 22, Amenia 12501. Amount: $490,500.

Filed Oct. 26.

ADA Tire Service Inc., Bronx. $14,783 in favor of Zeller Tire Co., Maybrook. Filed Oct. 4.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Glen A. Plotsky, Port Jervis. Property: 3 Sandhill Lane, Florida 10921. Amount: $403,157. Filed Oct. 19.

Aim Properties Corp., Monroe. $297 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

iDes3 SCE Solar Inc., San Diego, Calif. $295,816 in favor of Oceans 1212 Inc., New York City. Filed Oct. 3.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Jeffrey Albanese, Goshen. Property: 888 Greenville Turnpike, Middletown 10940. Amount: $486,991. Filed Oct. 13.

Arthur Nicalek Arts Limousine, Monroe. $38,817 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Iquarters LLC, Walden. $166 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Bojitsu Academy Inc., Monroe. $203 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

KM Jewelry Designs LLC, Warwick. $200 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Bricktown Furniture and Liquidation Store Inc., Middletown. $1,694 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

L. Terwilliger Enterprise LLC, Middletown. $1,491 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: John J. Fallon, Walden. Property: 20 Bridge St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $186,611. Filed Oct. 19.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: John Wirth, Poughkeepsie. Property: 67 S. Remsen Ave., Wappingers Falls 12590.

Amount: $307,000. Filed Oct. 25.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Lisa Felicissimo, Monroe. Property: 236 Derby Road, Middletown 10940. Amount: $387,315. Filed Oct. 20.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Nancy Schneider, Washingtonville. Property: 678 Mount Hope Road, Middletown 10940. Amount: $357,540. Filed Oct. 18.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Patricia Cocchia, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Property: 12 Hoover Drive, Middletown 10940. Amount: $446,006. Filed Oct. 17.

Upstate Lodgings LLC, Pine Hill.

Seller: 41-44 Middle Street LLC, Newburyport, Ma. Property: in Shandaken. Amount: $650,000. Filed Oct. 24.

Wahoo Holdings LLC, Highland Mills. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 5 Kenilworth Lane, Warwick 10990. Amount: $175,000. Filed Oct. 19.

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Complex City, Newburgh. $655 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Oct. 10.

Cootie Music Inc., Middletown. $339 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Crunch Time Fitness and Dance LLC, Newburgh. $21,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Oct. 3.

D&D Waltke, Wallkill. $259 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

DSDE LLC, Tuxedo Park. $393 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Oct. 6.

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Hudson Valley Bagel Company Inc., Highland Mills. $9,542 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

Mabljo Inc., Milton. $22,376 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

Main Street Comics Inc., Middletown. $4,700 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

FIGURES New Windsor Pharmacy Corp., New Windsor. $1,146 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

New York Pest Solutions Inc., Saugerties. $25,902 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

Nissan Lift of New York Inc., Middletown. $14,502 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

On The Road Again, Wallkill. $3,158 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

Panaderia San Miguel LLC, Middletown. $524 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Partition Street Wine Shop Inc., Saugerties. $1,061 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 25.

Pioneer Photography and Design Inc., Newburgh. $466 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Prismatic Engineered Fabrics LLC, Newburgh. $4,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Oct. 3.

Ralph and Associates of Ulster Inc., Lake Katrine. $168 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

Rite Pest Control, Middletown. $1,036 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Satsang Music Inc., Bearsville. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

Showcase of Awards, Monroe. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Miller Contracting, Pine Island. $775 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

Slate Hill Apple Orchards Partners LLC, Slate Hill. $3,109 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Miss Juliette Enterprises Inc., Middletown. $562 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 6.

Teambxtreme Inc., Middletown. $689 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Nallelys Auto Service and Tire Repair, Newburgh. $1,032 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

Tinys Tire, Dunellen, N.J. $12,186 in favor of Zeller Tire Company Inc., Maybrook. Filed Oct. 3.

TLC Grooming, Chester. $150 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Oct. 10.

Travel Accessories Inc., Monroe. $218 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

United Exteriors LLC, Newburgh. $2,000 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 10.

UR Classik, Middletown. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Oct. 10.

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

Ackerly, Eric, et al. Filed by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 1180 Route 32, Plattekill 12589. Filed Oct. 25.

Adeyan-Ju, Lanre, et al. Filed by Velocity Commercial Capital LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $167,533 affecting property located at 4 Debbie Court, Chester 10918. Filed Sept. 1.

Albero, Andrea, et al. Filed by Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $220,940 affecting property located at 88 Marian Court, Warwick 10990. Filed Sept. 6.

Arteaga, Deyrold M., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $285,750 affecting property located at 56 Midland Ave., Central Valley 10917.

Filed Sept. 8.

Banke, Flair, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $660,000 affecting property located at 8 Evans Drive, Woodbury 10930. Filed Sept. 8.

Barley, Robert J., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $122,000 affecting property located at 4 Stoley Lane, Malden-on-Hudson 12453. Filed Oct. 24.

Battista, Vincent, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $252,841 affecting property located at 166 Shenandoah Road, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed Oct. 25.

Beare, Katherine J., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $180,000 affecting property located at 108 South St., Marlboro 12542. Filed Oct. 23.

Blondell, Grace, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $359,400 affecting property located at 107-109 Highland Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed Sept. 1.

Boggi, Deborah, et al. Filed by Citizens Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $55,000 affecting property located at 718 Hill Drive, Mahopac 10541. Filed Oct. 16.

Cairney, Thomas F., et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 213 Fairfield Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed Oct. 11.

Calicchia, Jeanette, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $60,000 affecting property located at 18 Stephanie Lane, Mahopac 10541. Filed Oct. 25.

Carilli, Leander, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $252,000 affecting property located at 55 Lakeport Drive, Patterson 12563. Filed Oct. 25.

Casey, John P., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $387,600 affecting property located at 26 Fishkill Road, Philipstown 10516.

Filed Oct. 12.

Cesana, Claire V., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $131,000 affecting property located at 30 Center Road, High Falls 12440. Filed Oct. 24.

Chiera, Joseph D. Sr., et al. Filed

by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $168,307 affecting property located at 15 Arthur Lane, Saugerties 12477. Filed Oct. 26.

Choinsky, Robert, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $247,500 affecting property located at 241 Kidd Lane, Tivoli. Filed Oct. 25.

Cortese, Charles, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $165,000 affecting property located at 126 Brigham Lane, Lake Katrine 12449. Filed Oct. 24.

Debellis, Anthony, et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $182,875 affecting property located at 610 Drew Lane, Carmel 10512. Filed Oct. 20.

Decker, Eric V., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $151,520 affecting property located at 3 Anna St., Kerhonkson. Filed Oct. 25.

Delaney, William T., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $214,800 affecting property located at 78 Roosevelt Road, Hyde Park 12538.

Filed Oct. 25.

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Fagan, Jennifer, et al. Filed by New Penn Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $288,450 affecting property located at 17 Winchester Way, Washingtonville 10992. Filed Sept. 5.

Hughes, Janet, et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $356,000 affecting property located at 19 Barrett Place, Mahopac Falls 10541. Filed Oct. 16.

Massaro, Niccole, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $152,085 affecting property located at 307 Highland Avenue Extension, Middletown 10940. Filed Sept. 8.

Feist, George L., et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $333,700 affecting property located at 52 Glenwood Drive, Wallkill 12589.

Filed Oct. 24.

Iezzi, Gaetano, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 21 John St., New Windsor 12553. Filed Sept. 1.

Maurice, Frank, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $199,000 affecting property located at 14 Maurice Lane, Vails Gate 12584.

Filed Sept. 8.

Floyd, Jerome, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $393,975 affecting property located at 79 Ludingtonville Road, Holmes 12531. Filed Oct. 16.

Johnson, James, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $184,561 affecting property located at 38 Alfred Place, Walden 12586. Filed Sept. 5.

Meddaugh, George E. Jr., et al.

Filed by Santander Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $175,000 affecting property located at 25 Meddaugh Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed Oct. 25.

FIGURES Teutul. Paul, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.5 million affecting property located at 95 Judson Road, Crawford 12549. Filed Sept. 5.

Turnquist, Jon, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $132,000 affecting property located at 244 N. Terry Hill Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Oct. 16.

Verbovsky, Carol J., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $70,000 affecting property located at 8 Fernwood Drive, Greenwood Lake 10925. Filed Sept. 8.

Volpe, Fara, 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 256 Horsepound Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Oct. 13.

Frazier, Eugene A., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $238,500 affecting property located at 433 Third St., Newburgh 12550. Filed Sept. 6.

Keegan, John C., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $320,000 affecting property located at 15 Plymouth Rock Court, Washingtonville 10992. Filed Sept. 8.

Newton, Gary G., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $272,000 affecting property located at 135 Beverly Road, Chester 10918.

Filed Sept. 6.

Goldman, Jonathan R., et al. Filed

by U.S. ROF III Legal Title Trust 2015-1.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $198,000 affecting property located at 6 Old Indian Road, Milton 12547. Filed Oct. 25.

Keller, Gerard F. Jr., et al. Filed

by Key Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 115 De Block Road, Wawayanda 10958. Filed Sept. 6.

Ondek, George M., et al. Filed by Santander Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $271,500 affecting property located at 124 Horsepound Road, Carmel 10512.

Filed Oct. 17.

Gougoutris, Thomas, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $194,100 affecting property located at 132 Stephan St., Kingston 12401. Filed Oct. 25.

King, John, et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $237,600 affecting property located at 5 Shields Road, Highland Mills 10930. Filed Sept. 8.

Parenti, Ronald, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $58,500 affecting property located at 172 Bruceville Road, Rosendale 12440. Filed Oct. 23.

Harrington, Rachel Berns, individually and as administratix of the estate of Judith D. Berns, et al.

Filed by Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $343,500 affecting property located at 164 Main St., Lake Katrine 12449. Filed Oct. 24.

Kleinlercher, Anthony J., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $380,000 affecting property located at 2 Collier Drive East, Carmel 10512. Filed Oct. 17.

Pastore, Nicole D., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $375,000 affecting property located at 32 Glenna Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed Oct. 20.

Watson, Frederick A., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $236,000 affecting property located at 730 Broadway, Newburgh 12550.

Filed Sept. 5.

Ramos, Philip, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $213,350 affecting property located at 13 Jason Court, Newburgh 12550. Filed Sept. 1.

Whelahan, Carl, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $667,500 affecting property located at 72 Lookout Road, Tuxedo 10987.

Filed Sept. 8.

Rocco, Joseph A., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $180,000 affecting property located at 874 Route 312, Brewster. Filed Oct. 13.

Wrubleski, John, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $229,778 affecting property located at 35 Maine Drive, Newburgh 12550. Filed Sept. 6.

Hoffman, Cynthia, et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $288,000 affecting property located at 90 Shore Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed Oct. 24.

Holder, Eric W., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $256,500 affecting property located at 7 Danielle Court, Middletown 10940. Filed Sept. 7.

Houman, Danielle, et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $212,915 affecting property located at 49 Watkins Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed Sept. 6.

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Kung, Minjin, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $427,000 affecting property located at 3 Moorefield Circle, Highland Mills 10930.

Filed Sept. 8.

Lakatosh, Erin S., as executrix of the estate of Liam Smith, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $225,000 affecting property located at 1016 Route 82, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed Oct. 25.

Lamonica, Susan, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $140,000 affecting property located at 40 Bear Hill Road, Patterson 12563. Filed Oct. 17.

Lefkowitz, Joseph, et al. Filed

by HSBC Mortgage Corporation USA. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 83 Jordan Lane, Middletown 10940.

Filed Sept. 5.

Lutz, Christopher, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $184,000 affecting property located at 16 Sean St., Wawarsing 12458. Filed Oct. 25.

Rogers, Patrick, et al. Filed by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $223,300 affecting property located at 9 Harmon Road, Patterson 10509. Filed Oct. 11.

Seibold, Henry J. Jr., et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $52,000 affecting property located at 23 Princeton Road, Kent 10512. Filed Oct. 17.

Smith, Charles J., et al. Filed by Quicken Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $369,450 affecting property located at 86 Lower Reservoir, Goshen 10924.

Filed Sept. 5.

Taylor, Bennie E., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $499,000 affecting property located at 380 Mills Cross Road, Staatsburg 12580. Filed Oct. 25.

Walker, Erin, et al. Filed by Partners for Payment Relief DE IV LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 24 Wintergreen Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed Sept. 7.

Walsh, Eva, et al. Filed by Chase Home Finance LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 41 Roe Ave., Cornwallon-Hudson 12520. Filed Sept. 8.

MECHANIC’S LIENS 7 Satmar LLC, as owner. $8,800 as claimed by Eastgate Management Service Corp., Chester. Property: 7 Satmar Drive, Monroe. Filed Oct. 26.

Alesci, Leonardo, et al, as owner. $3,245 as claimed by Hudson Valley Mitigation Restoration LLC, New Hampton. Property: 45 Maples Lane, Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 26.

Ascolese, Eugene, et al, Middletown, as owner. $17,216 as claimed

by CJBD LLC, Otisville. Property: 182 Monhagen Ave., Middletown 10940.

Filed Oct. 23.

Fernandez, Juan, Newburgh, as owner. $382,000 as claimed by Precision Painting and Remodeling Inc., Wappingers Falls. Property: 1897 Route 300, Newburgh 12550. Filed Oct. 27.

Fisher, Donald, as owner. $17,700 as claimed by Vibar Construction Corp., North Salem. Property: 6-8 No Way Road, Mahopac 10541. Filed Oct. 13.

High Hotels Ltd., as owner. $11,380 as claimed by Mid-Orange Plumbing and Heating Inc., Middletown.

Property: 20 Crystal Run Crossing, Wallkill. Filed Oct. 25.

Partnerships Maple Leaf Contracting, 7 Merry Hill Road, Poughkeepsie 12603, c/o Christopher G. Zanin and Andrew S. Miller. Filed Oct. 20.

Noah’s Ark Nursery School II, 3139 Route 9W, Store 11, Saugerties 12477, c/o Ethel A. Resso and Thomas A. Resso Jr. Filed Oct. 17.

One Strike Fitness, 139 Third Ave., Apt. 2, Kingston 12401, c/o Chukie B. Agbogun and Megan Annendola.

Filed Oct. 18.

Mandell, Albert, Mountainville, as owner. $35,926 as claimed by Spectrum Landscapes Inc., Fishkill. Property: 79 Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville 10953. Filed Oct. 23.

Smyth Landscaping and Property Maintenance, 51 Route 32A, Saugerties 12477, c/o Christopher J. Smith and Bonnie J. Pentz. Filed Oct. 17.

MFB Properties LLC, as owner. $5,966 as claimed by Jan Fence Inc., Pequannock, N.J. Property: 7 Lucy Lane, Monroe 10950. Filed Oct. 24.

The Cohen Brothers, 215 D Woodcrest Drive, Modena 12548, c/o Benjamin R. Weinstein and John Matthew Lynch. Filed Oct. 19.

Olson, Benjamin J., as owner. $4,881 as claimed by Durante Rentals LLC, Flushing. Property: 27 Cedar Drive, Putnam Valley. Filed Oct. 17.

Threshold Property, 27 Orchard Hill Circle, Highland 12528, c/o Patricia Ann Economos and Peter A. Economos. Filed Oct. 11.

PV Properties LLC, as owner. $12,900 as claimed by Williams Brothers, Stillwater. Property: 47 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Oct. 19.

Sole Proprietorships

Two Girls Realty Corp., as owner. $4,625 as claimed by Daka Plumbing and Heating Company LLC, Poughquag. Property: 5 Laurel Drive, Pawling. Filed Oct. 26.

Vitale, Dave, as owner. $968 as claimed by Crystal Clean Landscape and Lawncare Inc., Middletown.

Property: 19 Green Tree Lane, Chester 10918. Filed Oct. 30.

5 Brothers Renovations, 58 Carlo Drive, Kerhonkson 12446, c/o Francisco P. Pereira. Filed Oct. 19.

Actors Theatre of Woodstock, 19 Ohayo Mountain Road, Woodstock 12498, c/o Anthony J. Giaimo. Filed Oct. 17.

Andress Acupuncture, 12 John St., Kingston 12401, c/o Carrie Andress.

Filed Oct. 19.

Aptitude K9 Behavior and Training, 296 Route 299, Lloyd 12528, c/o Sarah Elisabeth Koller. Filed Oct. 20.

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

Doing Business As ADR Mart Inc., d.b.a. Gotham Market, 3112 Route 9W, Saugerties 12477.

Filed Oct. 20.

Affordable Mattress and Furniture Inc., d.b.a. Mattress Factory Outlet, 37 O’Neil St., Kingston 12401.

Filed Oct. 20.

CRSR Designs Inc., d.b.a. Lilac Hill Designs, 284 Wall St., Kingston 12401.

Filed Oct. 20.

Educational Coin Company Inc., d.b.a. Julia Domna, 291 Upper North Road, Highland 12528. Filed Oct. 20.

Gelform Inc., d.b.a. Kanban for WordPress, 11 Finger St., Saugerties 12477. Filed Oct. 20.

Bad Azz Boards, 23 Furnace St., Kingston 12401, c/o Katherine Maria Weidenbacher. Filed Oct. 10.

Canal Street Tattoo, 119 Canal St., Unit 2, Ellenville 12428, c/o Kenneth Medford. Filed Oct. 13.

Charlie D Invention Investments, 11 Lisa Drive, Highland 12528, c/o Charles D’Ambrosio. Filed Oct. 17.

Christine’s Closet, P.O. Box 1160, Port Ewen 12446, c/o Christine Deanne Klippel. Filed Oct. 13.

Daughters Design House, 270 Vineyard Ave., Highland 12528, c/o Stephanie A. Fisher-Meyer. Filed Oct. 18.

EC Catering, P.O. Box 21, High Falls 12440, c/o Timothy D. Dean. Filed Oct. 20.

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LEGAL NOTICES Notice of formation of PRECISION MASSAGE THERAPY PLLC, Art. Of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/17/17.

Office location: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the PLLC, 50 Main St., Suite 1000, White Plains, NY 10606.

Purpose: Practice the profession of Massage Therapy. #61381 BABBITT ROAD PARTNERS LLC Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 09/08/2017. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy. of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: 167 Perry Street, 5D, New York, New York 10014 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61385 CGDG LLC Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 09/08/2017.

Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy. of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: 465 Long Ridge Road, Bedford, New York 10506 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61386 Notice of Formation of ASL Floor Installation & Repair LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/07/2017. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 674 Harrison Ave Peekskill, NY 10566 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61387 Notice of Formation of 990 Mclean LLC. Principal office Westchester County. Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy ofany process served against the LLC to 120 Hyatt Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10704. Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on September 21, 2017’.

Purpose: Any lawful act(s). #61388 R.S. PEPE - AUTOMOTIVE EVENTS, LLC Articles of Organization filed 9/25/17; SSNY; Westchester County, New York; SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. Address for mailing copy of process: 5 Dove Ct, Ste A, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520; Purpose: any lawful purpose; Perpetuity. Name and address of Organizer: Roderick J. MacLeod, Esq., 80 Washington St, Ste 301, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 #61389 Red Moon Tea LLC. Date of filing Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 9/21/2017. The LLC is located in Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served is to the registered agent location at c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave Suite 202, Brooklyn NY 11228.

Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity. #61390 Notice of Formation of Rob Purdie, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/28/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1 Shorthill Rd. Ardsley, NY 10502. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61392

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Notice of Formation of Danny’s Cycles Wolfs Lane LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/01/17. Offc.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 101 Secor Ln, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 . Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61393

Notice of Formation of 993 Lenox Road LLC. Of Org. filed NY Secy. of State on 12/09/2016. Offc. Loc: 993 Lenox Road Brooklyn NY 11212.

SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 993 Lenox Road Brooklyn, NY 11212. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61404

Notice of Formation of JM Global Sales, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/12/17. Offc. Loc.: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be Served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 21 Frances Place, Pleasantville, NY 10570. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61416

Nao LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/18/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 240 Central Ave., White Plains, NY 10606 . General Purpose #61394

Good Shepherdís Estate, LLC. Art. Of Org. filled with the SSNY on 9/22/17. Off. Loc: SSNY Westchester cty. desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process of the LLC at : 415 McClellan Ave. Mount Vernon, NY 10553. Purpose: any lawful purpose #61405

Notice of formation of J J Cameran, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/14/2017. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY design. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 105 Florence Street, Mamaroneck, NY 10543.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61417

Notice of Formation of Peaceful Provisions LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 2851 Fox Hall St., Mohegan Lake, NY 10547. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61406

216-24 115th Ave, LLC. Filed 9/12/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 40 Memorial Highway 36G, New Rochelle, New York, 10801 Purpose: all lawful #61418

Notice of Formation of Leveraging Literacy, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/18/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 49 Loh Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61395 Notice of Application for Authority to do business in New York of SUNSUP HOME SOLUTIONS LLC (ìLLCî). Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State (ìSSNYî) 8/10/17. The LLC formed in Neveda (ìNVî) on 4/20/17. Office location is 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 such process to the LLC c/o 7 Granada Crescent Apt 22, White Plains, NY 10603. Office address is c/o 7 Granada Crescent Apt 22, White Plains, NY 10603. Copies of Certificate of Organization of LLC are on file and may be obtained from the Secretary of State of NV, Nevada State Capitol Building, 101 North Carson Street, Suite 3, Carson City, NV 89701. Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity. #61396 P.M. Gillen, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/20/2017.

Office: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 47 Keats Ave. Hartsdale, NY 10530. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #61398 Clive’s Home Improvement LLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 08/07/17. Off. Loc: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail copy to: 84 Harding Avenue, White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: any lawful #61399 Notice of Formation of 345 East 80th Street, Apt. 3H, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/5/17. Office location: Westchester. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process served against the LLC to Linda Grace John, 3 Chalmers Blvd, Amawalk, NY 10501. The principal business address of LLC is 3 Chalmers Blvd., Amawalk, NY 10501. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61400 Blazing Paths With FastPitch Softball LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/29/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 45 Halcyon Ter., New Rochelle, NY 10801. General Purpose. #61403

4300 Purchase Associates, LLC. Filed 9/18/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water St. Ste. 204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61407 500 Commerce LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/26/2017. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to John Piazza, 3 West Stevens Ave., Hawthorne, NY 10532. General Purpose. #61408 THE MITCHELL LEGAL GROUP, PLLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 10/06/17. Off loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to: The PLLC, 950 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10804 Purpose: any lawful #61410 Notice of Formation of MODA Training LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/05/2017. Office Location: Westchester. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 42 Doeview Lane, Pound Ridge NY 10576. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61411 NJE Chemservices, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/12/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Neal J. Earhart, 1 Renaissance Sq., Unit 25E, White Plains, NY 10601.

General Purpose. #61412 Elecsys Engineering Group PLLC. Articles filed w/ SSNY 9/28/17.

Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to: 195 Evan Dr, Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: P.E #61413 Notice of Formation of SMARTERKIDS CONSULTING LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/29/2017.

Offc.Location: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig.as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 161 Harvard Dr Hartsdale, NY 10530. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61414

Empire State Diamonds, LLC Filed 10/4/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1139 West Boston Post Road, Mamaroneck, NY 10543. Purpose: all lawful #61419 Ad Spin Media LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/11/2017. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 406 Field Point Rd., Greenwich, CT 06830. General Purpose. #61420 LifeSafe Systems LLC. Articles filed w/ SSNY 10/20/17. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to: 27 Mohawk Ln, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Purpose: Any lawful activity #61421 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Mamaroneck Smith, LLC d/b/a Stadium/Avenue Social to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment with one additional bar. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 166 Mamaroneck Avenue White Plains NY 10601. #61422 Empire South Broadway, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/18/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC c/o James Heffernan. 10 Plymouth Road. Rye, NY 10580.

General Purposes. #61423 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by BSWP LLC d/b/a BLT Steak to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 221 Main Street White Plains NY 10601. #61425 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Homestyle Food at Chappaqua Crossing Inc to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 1 Brown River Road Valhalla NY 10595. #61426

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Mulford Yonkers Preservation LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on October 25, 2017. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Mulford Yonkers Preservation LLC, 1511 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers, New York 10710. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #61427 Vernon Snacks LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with NY Secy. Of State on 10/30/2017. Office is located in Westchester County. Secy. Of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy.

Of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/ her to: 517 Riverdale Avenue ñ Apt. 3B Yonkers, NY 10705 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61428 378 Elwood Avenue LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/20/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 378 Elwood Ave., Hawthorne, NY 10532.

General Purpose. #61429 Aleph Rug LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/18/2017. Office Location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Aleph Rug LLC, 255 Huguenot Street, #2101, New Rochelle, NY, 10801. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61430 Notice of Formation of Bubbenmoyer Audio Services LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/30/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 7 Overlook Rd, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61431 Dr. Dayna McCarthy Medical P.L.L.C., Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/21/2017.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Dayna McCarthy, 451 E. 83rd St., Apt. PHA, NY, NY 10028. Purpose: Medicine. #61432 Notice of formation of Drafting Direct LLC a domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/26/17. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Drafting Direct LLC, 90 State Street, Suite 700, Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #61433 Notice of Formation of Golden Lotus LLC Date of filing Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) is 9/5/2017. The LLC is located in Westchester County. The 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 the LLC at 301 Roaring Brook Road, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose of business of LLC is any real estate activity. #61434 Notice of Registration of Pollack & Kozupsky LLP. Cert/Reg. filed with SSNY 9-28-17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent for process.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o Beth Pollack, 119 Cedar Hill Rd. Bedford, NY 10506. Purpose: To practice the profession of law. # 61415

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER Plaintiff designates WESTCHESTER as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 1561 STRAWBERRY ROAD MOHEGAN LAKE, NY 10547 Section: 15.12 Block: 1 Lot: 24 INDEX NO. 58975/2012 ONEWEST BANK FSB, Plaintiff, vs. KELLY FREVE, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GLADYS E. TURNER A/K/A GLADYS C. TURNER; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; KIM ROBERTSON, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GLADYS E. TURNER A/K/A GLADYS C. TURNER, if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; VENUS S. RODRIGUEZ; ANTHONY BLAKE; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF THE NEW YORK; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “JOHN DOE 1 to JOHN DOE 25”, said names being fictitious, the persons or parties intended being the persons, parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $544,185.00 and interest, recorded on September 12, 2007 in Control # 472490070, of the Public Records of WESTCHESTER County, New York, covering premises known as 1561 STRAWBERRY ROAD, MOHEGAN LAKE, NY 10547.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. WESTCHESTER County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. 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 the mortgage company will not stop the 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. Dated: September 13, 2017 Westbury, New York RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: DANIEL GREENBAUM, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 #61424

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