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Chris Christie: Midterm elections will have no impact on 2020 presidential race

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BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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lthough pundits and commentators on both sides of the political divide have spent countless hours trying to interpret what impact the Nov. 6 elections will have on the 2020 presidential tilt, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is having none of it.

“Nothing — absolutely nothing,” Christie said about what ’18 will mean to ’20. “2020 will be about President Trump against ‘that person.’ ” As the Democratic nominee has yet to be determined, all other speculation is just hot air, Christie said.

Now an ABC News contributor, Christie made his remarks at a post-election wrap-up » CHRISTIE

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Sweeping views are part of the marketing of Philips Harbor.

Philips Harbor condos built with a Sound view in Mamaroneck

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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or a new set of million-dollar condos on the market in Mamaroneck, the water is the main attraction.

The seven condos — two of which have already sold since the properties hit the market earlier this year — are built with floor to ceiling windows that optimize the view of Mamaroneck Harbor and Long Island Sound. The homes

even feature some nautical touches, including circular windows above each front door that look a bit like portholes.

The condos, branded Philips Harbor, sit at the corner of Delancey Avenue and Boston Post Road near the village’s southern gateway, just across the street from Mamaroneck’s Harbor Island Park. It’s a spot where developer Michael Rosen said he saw clear potential to build homes around the coastal views.

“It really has an exciting view of

the harbor, Long Island Sound,” Rosen said. “I felt if I could take advantage of that, it could really be something special.”

The main construction on the properties wrapped up late last year. They are marketed by Houlihan Lawrence. The three-bedroom and three-anda-half bathroom units across four levels, ranging from 2,972 to 3,256 square feet, are starting at $1.79 million.

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Offer to fix Orange County business owner's 'problem' lands parolee in jail for extortion

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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artin Hodge, a former employee of a New Windsor truck dealership, met with a company official on Oct. 24 and offered to fix a problem.

The businessman’s brother had supposedly cheated Albanian mobsters out of $60,000, according to a transcript of the conversation.

Hodge presented a solution.

“I also do something else that I try to keep under the wraps. It’s called independent contracting work. You got problems, I take care of them,” he said.

Hodge’s conversations with the businessman were recorded and on Oct. 30 he was arrested on the basis of a criminal complaint that alleges extortion for attempting to obtain money “from a small-business owner by using threats of physical violence against the victim and his family.”

The businessman is not named in the complaint and the company is identified only as a full-service international dealer of trucks, tractors and chassis in New Windsor, Orange County.

The criminal complaint does not say when Hodge worked for the truck dealership or in what capacity, but there were two periods in his life when he was not available for work.

Hodge, 54, was convicted of second-degree murder for killing his landlord in 1985, after he was evicted for not paying rent on a basement apartment on Pelham Avenue in the Bronx.

He was sentenced to prison for 25 years to life.

He was paroled in 2014 after 28 years of incarceration with the help of a Bronx prosecutor, according to a New York Post story, and over the objections of the assistant district attorney who prosecuted him.

Christine Scaccia, a Bronx assistant district attorney, argued that Hodge was intelligent and well-spoken, the Post reported, and he had cooperated while behind bars in several cold-case homicides.

The original prosecutor, William Flack, argued that Hodge was still dangerous and deceitful.

Hodge was released in January

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2014. But this past April he was returned to the prison system, according to Thomas Mailey, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, for violating the conditions of parole.

He was sentenced to the Willard Drug Treatment Campus in Seneca County for a 90-day therapy program. He was released on July 24 and he was living in Orange County.

When Hodge met the businessman at the company’s office on Oct. 24, the businessman recorded the conversation.

In a transcript laced with expletives, as quoted in the criminal complaint, Hodge said Albanians were looking to put out a $100,000 contract against the businessman’s family, “to make everybody suffer because they know you don’t have money.”

“Them f---ing Albanians … will go after your f---ing kids and they will go after your f---ing wife, and they will go after your f---ing father and make people, you people, f---ing bleed until they get their money,” Hodge is quoted in the complaint.

And if the businessman went to the police, “two years, three years down the road when you least expect it, they’ll come.”

Hodge, according to the com-

plaint, claimed he worked for two people connected with the mob.

“I’m a phantom in the wind,” the complaint quotes him. “I pop up and I leave. I’ll break the guys’ legs.

I’ll put them in the f---ing hospital.”

He boasted that he had done things “you couldn’t even wrap your mind around,” the complaint states, “and I don’t get caught.”

For $60,000, the businessman asked, would the problem be gone?

“It’ll be gone,” Hodge replied.

They met again on Oct. 26, and this time agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were listening and recording.

Hodge asked if the businessman was wearing a wire.

He ordered the businessman to lift up his shirt. Then, according to the complaint, Hodge ordered the businessman to turn off his phone and accompany him to his car.

There, the complaint states, Hodge told the businessman to write a letter stating that he was paying for past services. He proposed four payments, totaling $60,250.

They met again on Oct. 29 at the company office. Hodge had prepared his own letter and asked the businessman to sign it.

“I fully agree to pay Martin

Hodge for past work done and future work for myself and my company," the letter states. “At no time did I agree to pay Martin Hodge the money I am agreeing to under duress, intimidation, threats or by extortion. I am doing so under my own free will and out of the kindness of my heart to help him.”

The businessman signed and then handed over the letter that Hodge had asked him to write.

“This letter will confirm that (the company) has agreed to pay to you the sum of $60,250 for various truck repairs, autobody and detailing services you previously rendered.”

The following day, the businessman gave Hodge a company check for $15,062.50 as the first payment, the complaint states.

“Hodge then told the victim that the victim’s problem has gone away,” the complaint states, “because Hodge took care of it the prior day.”

Hodge was arrested and brought before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy for his initial appearance. He was represented by public defender Rachel Martin.

Hodge now resides, according to the parole office, in the Westchester County Jail.

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Yonkers Whiskey House sues landlord for $750,000 alleging negligence

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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magine nursing an Old Fashioned as you sit on an outdoor deck on a crisp fall day and enjoy the view of Central Park Avenue in Yonkers.

The operators of Yonkers Whiskey House say a deck near the busy retail-restaurant corridor is a vital part of its recipe for success.

So Robert Foti, managing member of Double Barrel LLC, the entity that runs the Yonkers Whiskey House, sued Yonkers Shopping Center LLC, the landlord, for $750,000, claiming it thwarted efforts to upgrade the bar and restaurant at 2221 Central Park Ave. Efforts to reach the landlord for comment were unsuccessful.

Whiskey House signed a 10-year lease in January 2017 with a previous property owner.

The bar claims it got permission to erect a lighted sign in the parking lot to draw attention to the business. It says it advised the previous landlord of its plans to build a deck

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it appear that the shopping center was closed.

In April, as work was being done on the deck, the city of Yonkers shut down the project because the parking lot, according to the complaint, was not big enough.

Last June the landlord replaced the bar’s sign with a smaller sign. But by then, the Whiskey House alleges, it had lost considerable business.

Whiskey House — represented by attorney Jacqueline N. Boone of Yonkers — is accusing the landlord of negligence.

Yonkers Shopping Center is registered at a house in Briarcliff Manor, according to a New York Department of State record. Deed and mortgage records list the shopping center’s office in the care of Ehud Cafri at the Broadway Bridge car wash, 5134 Broadway, in the Inwood section of Manhattan. A telephone message for Cafri requesting his side of the story was not returned.

The new landlord took over the premises last March and began making renovations in the parking lot. But in doing so, the complaint states, the Whiskey House sign was removed and discarded.

for outdoor dining, according to the complaint filed in Westchester Supreme Court, and the landlord agreed to assist with getting the necessary permits.

The sign went up. An architect was hired.

Money was spent.

Late last year, according to property records, Yonkers Shopping Center LLC bought the property for $8.2 million. The Whiskey House lease, the complaint states, was assigned to the new landlord.

The new landlord took over the premises last March and began making renovations in the parking lot. But in doing so, the complaint states, the Whiskey House sign was removed and discarded. The bar’s security camera and a window were broken. The parking lot and a walkway were closed for a while. Lights were allegedly turned off in the parking lot, making

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The Queen City Lofts — a 69-unit apartment building from Baldwin Placebased Kearney Realty & Development Group — expects to open to tenants early next year. In the meantime, the building at 178 Main St. in downtown Poughkeepsie is open for applicants to the 50 affordably priced units set aside for artists.

Painters, poets, graphic artists and chefs all qualify, according to the developer's announcement.

Rents for eligible artists range from $716 per month for a one-bedroom to $1047 for a two-bedroom.

A breakdown of rents and income requirements is available at the website QueenCityLoftsNY.com.

The 19 lofts for nonartists will be offered at rents ranging from $1,099 per month for a one-bedroom

The Queen City Lofts. Photo by Bob Rozycki.

and $1,395 per month for a two-bedroom apartment.

The apartments are part of an effort to attract artists to Poughkeepsie to help revitalize the city's downtown.

“By creating an epicenter of artistic and cultural activity on lower Main Street, we believe Queen City Lofts will directly contribute to the revitalization of downtown Poughkeepsie,” said Ken Kearney, CEO of Kearney Realty & Development Group.

The company started construction on the four-story structure at the corner of Main and South Bridge streets in 2017.

The building is expected to include a restaurant at street level, which could include a rooftop tavern as well. With views of the Mid-Hudson Bridge and Walkway Over The Hudson, Kearney said the rooftop tavern could be "one of the coolest spots in Poughkeepsie."

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A Little Rose Company, have been building in Westchester since the early ‘80s, he said. He’s built homes and condominiums across the county, including in Rye, Purchase, White Plains and Greenburgh.

Philips Harbor marked a return for Rosen to his home county. He has focused his building in Florida since the early 2000s, but returned for the Philips Harbor project, as well as a 96-unit apartment building his company is co-developing near the Mamaroneck train station with Halpern Real Estate Ventures, called The Mason M.V.S. Rosen’s childhood growing up on Long Island Sound in New Rochelle made him particularly interested in property with views of the water, he said. Rosen and his father even frequented the restaurant that once occu-

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Christie—

at Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts on Nov. 7. The well-attended event appeared to heavily favor those sympathetic to the Republican cause, if the widespread groans at the first mention of Gov.elect Ned Lamont and the applause that resulted from Christie calling the left-leaning “The View” co-host Joy Behar “stupid” were any indication.

Christie — who not only served as the Garden State’s governor from 2010 to 2018, but also ran as a Republican candidate for president in 2016 and briefly served on Trump’s transition team — mostly kept the partisan comments to a minimum, preferring instead to paint himself as a fair-minded political analyst with a gift for stand-up comedian-style wisecracks.

Although he touched on the Connecticut gubernatorial contest between Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski, Christie took more of a big-picture approach during his 45-minute opening comments.

Having gotten two hours’ sleep after election night, he

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pied the Philips Harbor lot before it closed down. “We loved the roast beef there,” he recalled.

But he and his father also loved the view. Rosen is a third-generation developer.

Both his dad and grandfather were also in the real estate business. When the property became available a little more than three years ago, Rosen jumped at the chance to develop it.

Property records show Philips Harbor Development LLC purchased the property for $1.85 million in January 2015. Rosen named the project in honor of his father, Philip, who died shortly before his son purchased the property.

The village had already approved 15 townhome units for a previous developer, which were never built. But Rosen said the prior plan didn’t allow for each unit to have a water view. After purchasing the property, he

said, “I’ll be a little bit punchy, which is good for you. I’ll probably say a few things I’m not supposed to.”

Those potential fireworks were absent, although his early dig at Behar promised there could be more to come. That slam came in response to Behar’s opinion on “The View” that Republicans had gained seats in the Senate this election cycle because of gerrymandering. Christie noted that gerrymandering is the manner in which congressional districts are drawn to favor one party or candidate. Senators are elected at the state level, so gerrymandering does not apply.

“She’s just so stupid,” Christie repeated.

As for claims that the 2018 election could be the “most consequential” in the nation’s history, as he said his ABC election night colleague George Stephanopoulos and others have maintained, Christie invoked the elections of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and even George Washington as only some counterarguments.

Though unceremoniously dumped from the Trump transition team — something the ex-governor said still hadn’t been fully explained

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came to the village with plans that actually reduced the number of units.

“It’s a rare thing for a developer to do,” Rosen said. “But I wanted all the footage on the water.”

The water had to be the selling point, he said. The property is close to a public park and walking distance to Mamaroneck’s downtown, but the harbor view was the property’s main draw, to Rosen’s mind.

To avoid having the view blocked, he even worked with Con Edison to have the power lines that ran along the street in front of the property buried.

The four-story condos focus on opening up to water views as much as possible, with the tall windows and terraces on the master suite and great room levels.

“I was thinking of this in terms of the empty nester, who would basically live on

Chris Christie appeared at Fairfield University to discuss the impact of the midterm elections.

— Christie said he and his wife have been friends with Trump for 16 years. As such, Christie said, he correctly predicted that Trump would spin the Nov. 6 results as a “tremendous victory” for him personally.

Christie got another laugh when he recounted how, whenever he’s asked how he could have voted for Trump, his answer is: “I didn’t want to. I wanted to vote for me.”

Fielding an audience question as to whether it’s possible for Connecticut to elect a Republican governor in the current climate, Christie said, “Of course. But there’s a real need for some

serious self-examination (by the state Republican party) of who they’re picking as candidates and why they lose.”

He further said that Stefanowski’s loss was due at least in part to national dissatisfaction with Trump’s performance. Connecticut is one of “the places where Donald Trump is too much of a headwind for anybody — not necessarily his policies, but personally.”

Likability is one of the chief characteristics a successful candidate must have, Christie added. “Hillary Clinton is simply the most unlikable candidate of my lifetime,” he said. “I’m not

the great room and master suite,” Rosen said. “When the kids come to visit, they would have their own floor with nice bedrooms and baths, but the best views are on those two main floors.”

That clientele includes snowbirds who may want to spend the summer on the Sound and then pack up for Florida in the winter, he said.

Rosen collaborated with Wade Allyn Hallock, a Miamibased designer, on the condos, with a focus on modern touches. The units include open concept kitchens, floating staircases and private elevators. Techie features such as Nest smart thermostats and electronic locks and video doorbells add to the modern feel.

“A lot of people are moving toward the contemporary look, cleaner lines, more European,” Rosen said.

“Already there are a lot of contemporary homes with

the look (in Westchester), but not as much in a multifamily situation.”

The sales team has also pitched potential buyers on the tax advantage of condos compared to property taxes on a single-family home, particularly with the new federal tax law limiting local deductions to $10,000. Rosen argued that owning a property at this price point that is taxed as a condominium can save a homeowner more than $25,000 compared to a single-family home.

Rosen’s other Mamaroneck project, The Mason M.V.S. apartments, is nearing the start of its leasing. Rosen also has an office in the village where he has focused his recent Westchester development.

He said Mamaroneck has the right mix of “water, a vibrant dining scene and transportation convenience” to be attractive for developers.

talking about her competence or her experience, but her likability.” Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all benefited from being more “likable” than their opponents, he said.

During the evening’s concluding 45-minute Q&A portion, Christie was asked about the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, announced earlier that day.

“It’s amazing it took that long,” he said. “It’s the first one but I doubt it’ll be the last one.” Although the possibility that Trump could offer the job to Christie — the U.S. attorney for New Jersey before being elected governor — has been discussed in the press, no such follow-up was posed of Christie.

Christie also briefly discussed Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s defeat, which he said was due at least in part to voter fatigue with Walker, who due to a recall vote ran for election four times in an eight-year span; the talk of failed Texas U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke being a star in the making (“Could Beto O’Rourke go away?”); and the Robert Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and related matters.

Of the latter, Christie expressed confidence in Mueller and his tactics, approving the lack of leaks and noting that the investigation is showing signs of wrapping up. He further declared that Trump would not shut down the investigation, as has been consistently mentioned.

Trump “knows how far to go without damaging himself,” Christie said. “It will never happen.”

He concluded by warning House Democrats, widely thought to be eager to launch various investigations and issue subpoenas — and possibly to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump — to remember 1995 to 1998. That era began with Republicans picking up 54 seats in the House of Representatives and eight in the Senate — momentum that was derailed by the Clinton impeachment hearings.

“We look back now and say that was a dumb move — they made Bill Clinton a martyr,” Christie said.

“There should be appropriate oversight, absolutely.

But don’t overdo it. You’ll turn the president into a martyr and he’ll be tougher to beat than he already will be in 2020.”

Hudson Barter Exchange marks 10 years

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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he economic collapse that was the Great Depression of the 1930s forced many people to use barter as a way to survive. With no money, people turned to this ancient form of commerce and traded their services or meager belongings for food, clothing and other necessities.

While the Great Depression may have been relegated to history, bartering has not. In fact, it's thriving in the Hudson Valley, according to Karen and Kevin Brown, the husband and wife founders of the Hudson Barter Exchange (HBX) based in Elmsford.

More than 500 local businesses and professionals are bartering their goods and services through Hudson Barter Exchange. Globally, the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA)

estimates the value of goods and services bartered annually at about $14 billion and increasing at 5 to 10 percent per year.

Kevin Brown said bartering can bring a business new customers it would not otherwise have.

“We market to other members of the exchange, find you incremental business, you get paid in trade credit and you use that trade credit to either offset some of your business expenses or live what we call 'a better life through barter,' ” he told the Business Journal during HBX's 10th anniversary networking party on Nov. 8 at the Belvedere Estate in Tarrytown.

While bartering helps preserve cash or makes excess production capacity or other unused resources profitable depending on which side of the transaction a business is on, Brown said there's nothing underground about bartering.

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“Each member receives an IRS form 1099-B at the end of the year, which reflects the value of their transactions.” He notes that a barter dollar is equal to the value of a U.S. dollar as far as the IRS is concerned,

so there's no tax advantage.

“There's no tax disadvantage either, because if you're spending it on advertising and business supplies and office equipment it's all deductible against the income,” Brown said.

HBX acts as an administrator that keeps records of trading activity and tracks what each member has earned or owes. It charges a one-time membership fee and a monthly marketing fee. It also receives a cash

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commission on the barter sales and purchases.

Karen Brown told the Business Journal that most of HBX's members are located in Westchester, Rockland and Fairfield counties and New York City. “We belong to a barter exchange so we get goods and services from all across the nation,” she said.

It's estimated there are more than 350 barter exchanges operating in the U.S. Among the items frequently bartered are printing, phone systems, office cleaning, website design, photography, restaurant meals, legal and accounting services, vacations and auto repairs. “When we started the barter exchange, we just wanted to get in friends and family if we could and my brother happens to be a plastic surgeon out in California so we have a plastic surgeon out in California who participates in our barter exchange,” Karen Brown said with a laugh.

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2018 Milli Award winners consider how the future will view millennials

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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eorge Bernard Shaw’s celebrated lament about youth being wasted on the young was happily contradicted during the fourth annual Milli Awards ceremony on Nov. 13 at 1133 Westchester Ave. in White Plains.

Sponsored by Westfair Communications, the parent company of the Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journals and WAG magazine, the Milli Awards serve as a way to recognize standout local young professionals aged 21 to 34.

As part of the ceremony, the award winners were asked to give their thoughts on how they would like future generations to view the millennials’ contributions to the business world and the wider society.

Mark Anthony Abile of Greenwich Hospital said he hoped the next demographic generation wave — Generation Z, defined as people born from the mid1990s to the early 2000s — would consider millennials as both an inspiration for and a partner in their endeavors. “I know that if we all work together, we can make this world a better place,” he said.

Grace Battalgia of Open Door Family Medical Center wanted the millennials to be seen as resourceful, passionate and visionary members of society. “Whether it be our encounters with obstacles, be it personal or global, we really focus on solutions and strategies and focus on actions to making changes that we need in the world.”

Andre Escandon of Tompkins Mahopac Bank hoped that tomorrow’s professionals would see his generation as not being afraid to take chances.

“Future generations can look up on their iPhone 28+ and can see that we millennials were an ambitious generation,” he said.

Vanessa Guzman of Montefiore Health System acknowledged that mil-

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Front row, from left: Amanda Paktinat, Kelsie Mania, Britt Tavello Melitsanopoulos, Megan Sullivan, Grace Battaglia, Daniel Guiney, Marla Lewis, Ariella Arias and Lauren Kemp. Back row, from left: Emily Larkin, Angie Kim, Vanessa Guzman, Paul Lippolis, Arnold Escandon, Yesher Larsen, Mark Anthony Abile and Mitchell Mirtil. Photo by Bob Rozycki.

lennials took advantage of multiple technology platforms that were not available to their predecessors, but she cautioned that there was more to this digital era than endless selfies and precocious hashtags.

Instead, she stated that technology gave millennials “awareness of our true identity to be shared with future generations, our families, our colleagues.”

Angie Kim of Purchase College said that some members of the previous Generation X were unhappy with millennials, viewing the demographic as “narcissistic and selfish” and believing that “we apparently ruined everything from diamonds to chain restaurants — I think yesterday I saw an article that said we ruined American cheese.” But Kim added that Generation Z “looks up to us, believing that we have strong values,” and she defined millennials as “change agents and the ones who are really paving the way for a better future.”

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THE 2018 MILLI AWARD WINNERS WERE: • Mark Anthony Abile, Greenwich Hospital.

• Ariella Arias, Gregory Sahagian & Son Awning Co. • Grace Battaglia, Open Door Family Medical Center.

• Arnold Escandon, Tompkins Mahopac Bank.

• Daniel Guiney, ZRM Brokerage.

• Vanessa Guzman, Montefiore Health System.

• Lauren Kemp, Morgan Stanley.

• Angie Kim, Purchase College, State University of New York.

• Marc Koch, J.P. Morgan Securities.

• Emily Larkin, The Community Fund of Darien.

• Yesher Larsen, Aquarion Water Co. • Marla Lewis, Deloitte & Touche.

• Paul Lippolis, Lippolis Electric.

• Kelsie Mania, Westfair Communications.

• Mitchell Mirtil, Westchester Medical Center.

• Amanda Paktinat, American Red Cross of Metro New York North.

• Lindsay Rinehart, Brody and Associates.

• Megan Sullivan, The Local Moms Network.

• Britt Tavello Melitsanopoulos, Stew Leonard’s.

• Chris Walters, J.P. Morgan Securities.

The sponsors of this year’s event were, in alphabetical order: Aquarion Water Co., Blue Buffalo, Buzz Creators, Deloitte, Greater Hudson Bank, Greenwich Hospital, JP Morgan Securities,

Lippolis Electric, Mahopac Bank, The McIntyre Group, Neiman Marcus, Oasis Day Spa, Tompkins Mahopac Bank, UConn School of Business and Val’s Putnam Wines and Liquors.

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Gail, Kelsie and Michael Mania Britt Tavello Melitsanopoulos and Jill Tavello Amanda Paktinat and Richard Crabbe Francesco Battaglia, Grace Battaglia, Francesco Battaglia Jr., Assunta Battaglia and Andrea Ruggiero

Luxury developer D'Alessio facing prison for $58M swindle

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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ormer White Plains luxury real estate developer Michael P. D’Alessio is facing possible prison time for swindling investors out of $58 million.

D’Alessio, 53, pleaded guilty on Nov. 8 in Manhattan federal court to wire fraud and concealing assets from bankruptcy court.

He comingled investors’ funds in “Ponzi-like fashion,” according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, and channeled the funds through a series of shell companies.

The funds were used to cash out early investors, cover debts and pay off gambling debts.

D’Alessio is president and CEO of Michael Paul Enterprises, which was

based in White Plains until recently. Last year, he moved his home from Westchester to the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

For more than 25 years he built and managed commercial and residential real estate projects. More recently, he focused on luxury residential projects in Manhattan, the Hamptons and Westchester.

He bought townhouses on the Upper East Side, for example, demolished or gutted them and built luxury condominiums. Several projects, according to court pleadings, saw little or no construction.

From 2015 to this past April, according to court pleadings, he sold shares in separate limited liability companies for each project and assured investors that the funds would be used only for developing the specific LLC property. Investors were

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promised monthly interest payments and returns of up to 16 percent a year and a share of profits when the property was sold.

In reality, the government charged, D’Alessio channeled funds to the bank accounts of shell companies he owned and controlled.

Some of the money, the government charged, was used to pay off “significant gambling” debts. One debt, according to a bankruptcy case, was for a $590,000 line of credit at the Borgata Hotel casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

D’Alessio concealed his fraud, according to the government, by issuing false progress reports to investors.

Late last year, as payments dried up, investors began filing lawsuits. At least 29 individuals, as well as several companies, have sued D’Alessio in Westchester, Manhattan and

the Hamptons.

Several investors are themselves real estate developers.

When they sued, D’Alessio was dismissive.

“There was absolutely no fraud committed,” he said in an email to the Business Journal in April. “Just a case of disgruntled seasoned real estate investors with big damaged egos.”

Three banks petitioned the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in April to force D’Alessio into Chapter 7 liquidation.

In response, the developer declared $23,350 in assets and $165 million in liabilities.

He identified 115 companies registered at 12 Water St., White Plains.

The government accused D’Alessio of making false declarations in the involuntary bankruptcy case by omitting money and property belonging to his estate.

In June, he petitioned

the court to liquidate his companies, declaring $49.7 million in assets and $97.5 million in liabilities.

After his Aug. 30 arrest, he posted a $5 million personal recognizance bail and was released to home detention, including permission to stay at a home in Westchester when he had visitation rights with a child. The court replaced home confinement on Nov. 8 with a curfew that allows D’Alessio to leave home from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The court was notified on Nov. 7 of D’Alessio’s intent to change his plea to guilty. But three letters sent more than a month ago to U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman signaled his desire to seek leniency. Such character references are customarily submitted after a defendant pleads guilty and before sentencing.

Robert A. Haskins, a

managing director of U.S. Trust Private Wealth Management in Westport, Connecticut, wrote that D’Alessio “is without peer” among the legions of businessmen he has dealt with.

He said he has worked closely with D’Alessio on numerous projects and transactions for more than 10 years.

Sentencing was scheduled for March 22. The maximum prison sentences are 20 years for wire fraud and five years for concealing bankruptcy assets.

D’Alessio is represented in the criminal case by Benjamin Brafman and Jacob Kaplan of Brafman & Associates PC and

by Jonathan Sloan Abernethy of Cohen & Gresser LLP, both in Manhattan. He is represented in the bankruptcy cases by Sanford Philip Rosen of Rosen & Associates in Manhattan.

Seeking Excellence For The Long Term Aquarion Water Company is proud to support all of this year’s

honorees for the 2018 millennial awards. Their backgrounds, interests and activities are both forceful and dynamic.

Aquarion is also extremely proud to congratulate our very own Yesher Larsen, Manager of Technical Services, on being selected as one of this year’s award winners. Yesher’s innovation and creativity, combined with his vast knowledge make him an enormously valuable team member at Aquarion. In addition to his job responsibilities, Yesher’s community activities include: mentoring four interns; participating in a middle school math competition; working closely with UMASS grad students to promote drinking water challenges and solutions; and assisting two national organizations to promote the water industry.

Congratulations, Yesher!

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AMS Acquisitions buys again in Yonkers with $18M downtown deal

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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ew York City real estate investment firm AMS Acquisitions LLC has bought again in Yonkers.

The company announced Nov. 7 that it has purchased 55 Buena Vista Ave., a

50,000-square-foot development lot, for $18.3 million. The deal, filed with the county on Nov. 2, comes less than a week after the company announced plans to buy the Chicken Island development site from the city for $16 million.

AMS Acquisitions said it plans to build a 24-story tower with 361 luxury apart-

ments on the site, which was once home to the city's Teutonia Hall.

The city of Yonkers had already approved a previous developer's plans for the site in 2013, which called for a 25-story apartment tower with 361 apartments.

Teutonia Hall was a German-American music and social hall built in 1891.

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The site was later home to a variety of operations, from a garage with underground storage tanks to a knitting mill, a toy manufacturer and printing facility. But it has sat vacant for decades.

The previous owner, Teutonia Buena Vista LLC, reportedly excavated more than 20,000 pounds of soil to remediate the former brownfield site.

The development could extend the city's transit-driven growth near its downtown train station. The property is adjacent to train tracks and is about a quarter-mile south of the Yonkers Metro-North Railroad station.

AMS already owns two properties nearby. In January, the company paid $9.5 million for 86 Main St., a 6-story, 70,000-square-foot office building on the southeast corner of Main Street and Buena Vista Avenue across from the train station. The compa-

Teutonia Hall once stood on this lot on Buena Vista Avenue in Yonkers.

ny also owns 92 Main St., a 78,000-square-foot mixed-use building that was formerly a city trolley barn. That building includes 40 live-work lofts and is home to Chase Bank and Yonkers Brewery.

The company's purchase of the Chicken Island property hinges on approval from the Yonkers City Council. But the company has already announced its plans to turn the long-abandoned property

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into a downtown epicenter, with a concentration of shopping, dining, apartment buildings, offices and a luxury hotel.

With the three recent deals, AMS has spent more than $40 million buying properties in downtown Yonkers in the past 12 months.

Formed in 2012, AMS’ portfolio includes approximately 1.5 million square feet of retail, residential and office space in the tristate region.

ASK ANDI | Andi Gray

Competitive strategy I WOULD LOVE TO JUST SAY “NO” TO ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS WHO IS UNFAIRLY DEMANDING AND NOT THAT GREAT IN TERMS OF PROFIT. THEY BUY A LOT OF WHAT WE PRODUCE, BUT I CAN GET PAST THAT WITH OTHER CUSTOMERS. MY ISSUE IS THAT I WANT TO HELP THEM OUT SO A COMPETITOR DOESN’T GO THERE AND SELL THEM A SIMILAR SOLUTION AND GET MORE OF A FOOTHOLD WITH SOMETHING WE’RE A LEADER AT PRODUCING. WHAT SHOULD I DO? THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: It’s tough when customer know they have choices and use that to negotiate terms that are favorable to them and potentially hurtful to you. Think about what you can do to improve your product or service to differentiate it from what your competitor sells while you negotiate for a premium from customers who value that difference. Working through options and consequences is like playing chess on a multi layered board.

You can’t let the custom-

er dictate your business.

You have to decide which customers are going to create long-term value for your business. Usually that comes from customers who meet the following criteria: • Value what we do, sufficient to pay at or above our average margin.

• Willing to make investments with us to build future products or services.

• Make suggestions that help us grow.

• Don’t try to hold us over a barrel.

Go through your client list and figure out how many current clients and prospects meet that set of criteria. Is that enough to grow the business? If not, figure out a plan to get more value-oriented clients and prospects.

Differentiating what you do or creating a niche that only you can serve is important for any small business.

That comes from providing something unusual, including the following examples: • Special handholding.

• Offering a set of customer service hours that no one else offers.

• Putting a group of services into a package.

• Listening to your best customers’ complaints about what they can’t get and figuring out how to meet those needs.

To answer the question of what to focus on, consider

what solutions will lead to: • The greatest profits from production and sales.

• The greatest difference vs. competitors.

• The longest-term solutions in terms of picking off great clients who value what your company does for them.

You can’t be all things to all customers, so don’t bother trying to go there. Focus your efforts on products, services and combinations that your company can be good at and then find clients who want exactly that.

Take a look at your competitors and what they’re doing.

Build a competitive profile for each significant competitor that includes: • What they do and how you compare.

• Who they provide most of their services to.

• What recent innovations they’ve announced.

• Customers who have left them recently, and why.

• Customers who have left your company for these competitors and why.

Decide on which competitors could be the most threatening to your company going forward. Pick one or two to focus on and decide if you can match what they’re doing and stay ahead of them over the next several years.

Identify areas where those competitors are vulnerable.

Research the marketplace.

• Is demand for the products or services you offer growing or declining?

• Are new clients entering the market?

• What additional products or services are likely to be in demand in the next few years?

Use that competitive and marketplace profile to figure out whether or not you should try to compete to keep

the business you have with your demanding customer. If it’s time to let go, focus on building a sales and marketing plan to bring in more new, high potential clients.

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Need for doctors, vision for AI innovation drive Marist, Health Quest medical school collaboration

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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arist College President David Yellen was only a couple of weeks into his new job at the private Poughkeepsie school in July 2016 when he was asked to a meeting with Health Quest, the nonprofit health care system based nearby in LaGrangeville.

While it may not have been clear at the time, it was a meeting that set in motion a plan with historical implications for both institutions and education in the Hudson Valley.

“That was the first time I had any discussion about the possibility of a med school,” Yellen said of that meeting. “It hadn’t come up when I had interviewed for the job here. It wasn’t in our plans. They invited us to a

discussion and that got the ball rolling at that point.”

That ball rolled through a series of more meetings, research and discussions. It wasn't until about two years later, this September, that Health Quest officials traveled up Route 9 to Marist’s campus to announce the planned launch of the Marist Health Quest School of Medicine, with plans for a first group of students to arrive in 2022.

The project is expected to cost $184 million, with a new 100,000-squarefoot academic building to be constructed on Health Quest's Vassar Brothers Medical Center campus in Poughkeepsie. The school will be the first M.D.granting institution between New York Medical College in Westchester County and Albany Medical College.

The Business Journal met recently at Marist with

Health Quest President and CEO Robert Friedberg (left) and Marist College President David Yellen. Photo by Bob Rozycki.

both Yellen and Health Quest President and CEO Robert Friedberg to discuss plans for the medical college and how the partnership came together.

For Health Quest,

Friedberg said there had been conversations within the organization about the possibility of a medical school, but without any formal plan. But both Marist and Health Quest share a

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trustee — businessman and philanthropist Robert R. Dyson — who suggested Health Quest take the idea to the college.

“It seemed possible,” Friedberg said. “We start-

ed with possible, then did all of our due diligence on whether it was actually reasonable to launch a medical school in this community, what it would take, what it would look like.”

The need The partnership unites two growing organizations.

Health Quest is already building a $545 million, 752,000-square-foot patient pavilion adjacent to Vassar Brothers hospital. The organization also plans to combine by early 2019 with Western Connecticut Health Network to form a new system that will include seven hospitals, 2,600 aligned physicians and more than 12,000 employees.

Marist is nearing completion on a $26 million expansion project at the Steel Plant Studio where it hosts art programming, and has invested $100 million to » MARIST

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Leaders among their generation J.P. Morgan Securities applauds Marc Koch and Chris Walters On being named 2018 Millennials of the Year, an acknowledgment of significant achievements in their field.*

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Marist—

build four new dormitory buildings in recent years.

There's a statistic that Friedberg cites off the top of his head during the interview: an expected shortfall of between 40,800 and 104,900 physicians by 2030. That’s according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Baby boomer doctors are retiring and population growth is pushing more demand, Friedberg said.

The medical college provides an opportunity, Friedberg said, “to train physicians here with the expectation and hope that they will be able to stay in this region.”

Marist Health Quest school students could fill residency programs in area hospitals, such as the one Health Quest recently launched at Vassar Brothers, and then pursue careers in the Hudson Valley and surrounding area, Health Quest officials hope.

“That’s good for us as a

A conceptual rendering of the Marist Health Quest School of Medicine.

health system to be able to attract that physician talent,” Friedberg said.

For Marist, which has a total undergraduate enrollment of about 5,700 plus another 1,400 graduate students, the medical college offers a chance to build significantly on health science programs recently established there, such as a physician assistant program

and a doctoral program in physical therapy.

The new school also offers Marist a chance to join the ranks of just 40 private colleges and universities nationwide with an M.D.granting medical school.

There are 151 M.D.-granting institutions in the U.S. counting public institutions.

“If you look at the list of private colleges with a med-

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ical school, it is a nice group to be among,” Yellen said.

The plans The main campus building at Vassar Brothers hospital will host the majority of school programming, but students will likely attend courses on the Marist campus as well.

Medical colleges in the U.S. are certified by the Liaison Committee on

Medical Education, which is jointly sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association.

To meet the criteria, Yellen said that a large majority of the curriculum must follow certain standards. Marist and Health Quest have hired a consultant for medical schools and have just started hiring people to help form their vision.

“We have some very particular ideas about what our medical school will look like, particularly in the area of incorporating artificial intelligence,” Yellen said. “But a lot of what we will do will be a great, modern version of what all med schools do.”

So how does the new med school on the block compete with its established competitors? For Friedberg, part of the school’s advantage will be its focus on artificial intelligence.

“That is different,” Friedberg said. “We recognize that there will be vast changes in the health care industry, just as with every other

industry, in how information is used and how artificial intelligence is applied.”

The timeline There’s a curriculum to organize, more than 100 full-time employee slots to fill and a campus to build.

The governance of that process will be overseen by what's been named the Marist Health Quest School of Medicine Joint Board of Overseers, split between five Marist members, five Health Quest members and Yellen and Friedberg.

The organizations are searching for the school’s founding dean. The med school hopes to have its LCME certification, as well as certificate from the New York State Education Department and Middle State Commission on Higher Education, by July 2021.

At capacity, the medical college expects to reach about 500 students, though Health Quest and Marist don’t expect to hit that number until a decade after the school launches. The school's first class will be set for 60 students.

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THE LIST: Commercial Printers

COMMERCIAL PRINTERS

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Mary Jane Annicelli and Alan Goldman print@alloyprinting.com 1979

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Jeffrey Wayne service@wayneprinting.com 1971

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Andrew Dieckman andrew@exprint.com 1987

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231 Croton Ave., Cortlandt Manor 10567 788-1800 • minespress.com

961 Phoenix Ave., Peekskill 10566 937-2823 • gficommunications.com

168 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne 10532 769-8484 • colorgroup.com

(Formerly PIP Printing & Marketing Services) 190 E. Post Road, White Plains 10601 993-9007 • alloyprinting.com

70 W. Red Oak Lane, White Plains 10604 761-2400 • wayneprinting.com

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Executive Printing & Direct Mail Inc.

8 Westchester Plaza, Elmsford 10523 592-3200 • exprint.com

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467 Bedford Road, Pleasantville 10570 769-2020 • sirspeedy.com/pleasantvilleny460/

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Note: LandmarkPrint Inc. is listed as "not ranked," because although the company does business in Westchester County, it does not have an office space in the county.

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375 Fairfield Ave., Building No. 3, Stamford 06902 800-499-3808 • landmarkprint.com

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CORRECTION: In the list of Wealth Managers carried in our Nov. 5, 2018, issue, the column “Total AUM” (Assets Under Management) for Altium Wealth, 2500 Westchester Ave., Suite 210, Purchase, N.Y. 10577, was incorrect due to a typographical error. It should have read $1.226 billion. We regret the error.

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SPECIAL REPORT | CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Michael Moffitt

Want to play a sport in college?

Consider 7 steps to get recruited

T

he difference between a goal and a dream is that a dream is something you just think about happening, while a goal is something that you work toward every day.

I like to say this to my students all the time, especially since most have ambitions of playing a sport in college.

Many are even competing for athletic scholarships, which are highly coveted. Nationwide, there are roughly 55 high school athletes competing for every available scholarship.

That means only 2 percent of students earn money to play in college.

Moreover, the average athletic scholarship was only $6,300 for men and $7,500 for women in 2017.

If students establish a

goal and align their daily habits accordingly, they can set themselves up to be recruited to play in college. And I’m not just talking about top Division I athletes. There are many opportunities for students of all sports and all levels to be recruited.

College programs are not only looking for talented athletes. They also want students with strong academics and high moral character.

Be realistic in setting goals and be aware of the commitment it takes. Then follow these seven steps and you may be on your way:

FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE YEARS — SET THE FOUNDATION:

• Compete in the classroom. Be the strongest

College programs are not only looking for talented athletes. They also want students with strong academics and high moral character.

student you can be. The higher your grade point average (GPA), the higher the percentage of schools that can recruit you. Coaches and colleges want to see a challenging course load and good grades.

• Make an impact. Stand out in a positive way, both as a player and as a leader.

• Be dedicated. Push yourself harder during practice, in the weight room and on your own time. Don’t be content to only do what everyone else is doing.

JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEARS — TIME TO SHINE:

• Go to the replay. Put together a highlight reel that showcases your strengths.

• Embrace digital. Have both an academic and an athletic profile that you can easily email to coaches and colleges.

• Be proactive. Reach out to coaches via email, social media and during college visits. Go to college camps and compete in front of the coaches. Not every school or every sport has the funds to visit high schools to recruit players.

• Be realistic. Speak to your high school counselor to make sure you are looking at colleges that would be a good fit.

Be realistic with your selections and spend your time visiting wisely.

Look at the roster of the schools you are interested in and see if you can

compete at that level — not just on the field, but also in the classroom.

Remember that the admissions timeline can be different for scholar-athletes as opposed to students who apply general admission. Be sure to check on each school individually, but the average deadline for regular decision is typically Feb. 1.

Michael Moffitt is assistant dean for scholar-athlete success at Iona Preparatory School in New Rochelle, where more than 100 scholar-athletes have gone on to play collegiate sports over the past five years, including 17 Division I athletes in 2018-19. Moffitt can be reached at mmoffitt@ionaprep.org

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Special Needs Trusts: How Much Trouble are they to Manage?

By Bernard A. Krooks, Certified Elder Law Attorney

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client recently asked the following question: I’m thinking about setting up a special needs trust for my son, who has a developmental disability.

Will it mean a lot more work for my daughter, who will be handling my estate?

It’s a fair question, and one we hear a lot. No one ever asks: “could you please give us the most complicated estate plan possible?”

Just about everyone wants things as simple as they can be.

When you think about providing an inheritance for your child - or anyone, for that matter - with a disability, there are some realities you just have to deal with. Those realities often lead to the same conclusion: a special needs trust is probably the right answer. There are a number of answers to the “can’t we keep it simpler?” question: In most cases there’s going to be a trust, whether you set it up or not. If you leave money outright to a person with special needs, someone is probably going to have to transfer that inheritance to a trust in order to allow them to continue to receive public benefits.

The trust set up after your death will be what is called a “fi rst-party” (or “self-settled “) trust and the rules governing its use will be more restrictive.

There will also have to be a “pay-back” provision for state Medicaid benefits when your son dies so you will lose control over who receives the money you could have set aside. Even if no trust is set up, there is a likelihood that your son will (because of his disability) require appointment of a guardian. The cost, loss of family control and interference by the legal system will consume a significant part of the inheritance you leave and frustrate those who are caring for your son. If you prepare a special needs trust now, it avoids those limitations.

The trust you set up may or may not be that complicated to manage. Of course, there are tax returns to fi le,

and possible accounting requirements which could lead to additional expense. However, the likely cost of not creating a special needs trust could be much greater if much-needed government benefits are lost or reduced. In any event, your daughter can hire experts to handle anything that she fi nds difficult. There are lawyers, accountants, care managers and even trust administrators who can take care of the heavy lifting for your daughter or whomever you name as trustee. The costs can be paid out of the trust itself, so she will not be using her portion of the inheritance you leave, or her own money. Yes, they add an expense but they can actually help improve the quality of life for both your daughter the trustee and your son with a disability.

Your daughter does not have to be the trustee at all. In fact, we frequently counsel clients to name a professional trustee such as a bank or corporate trust department, or other trusted professional as trustee. That lets your daughter take the role in your son’s life that she’s really better suited for: sister.

If it is right for your circumstance, you might even consider naming her as “trust protector.” That could allow her, for instance, to receive trust accountings and follow up with the trustee, or even to change trustees if the named trustee is unresponsive, or too expensive, or just annoying. Trusts are wonderfully flexible planning devices - but that does mean you have to do the planning.

If your son’s condition improves, or he no longer requires public benefits, the trust can accommodate those changes. Depending on your son’s actual condition and the availability of other resources, you might reasonably hope that he will not need a special needs trust or at least might not need one for the rest of his life. The good news: your special needs trust can be flexible enough to allow for the use of his inheritance as if there were no

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special needs. The bad news: that is only true if you set up the trust terms yourself - the trust that will be created for him if you do not plan will not have that flexibility. But who knows what the public benefits system, the medical care available or your son’s condition might look like twenty years from now? Indeed. That’s exactly why the trust is so important.

Simply disinheriting your son probably is not a good plan. Sometimes clients express concern about the costs and what they perceive as complicated administrative and eligibility issues and they decide to just leave everything to the children who do not have disabilities. “My daughter will understand that she has to take care of my son,” clients tell us. That’s fi ne, and it might well work. But do you feel the same way about your daughter’s hus-

band? What about the grandkids and step-grandkids who would inherit “your” money if both your daughter and her husband were to die before your son who has special needs? What about the possibility of divorce or creditors’ claims against your daughter, or even bankruptcy? Most of our clients quickly recognize that disinheriting the child with a disability is not really a good planning technique.

What does that mean for your planning? If you have a child, spouse or other family member with special needs or if you have a loved one who may have special needs in the future your plan should include an appropriate trust. The cost is relatively small, and the benefits are significant. In fact, the cost of not doing anything is probably higher and the opportunity loss from failing to plan is especially high.

Sound complicated? It is. At a recent meeting of the Special Needs Alliance, there were several sessions addressing special needs trusts and related issues.

The Special Needs Alliance (the “SNA”) is a national organization comprised of attorneys committed to helping individuals with disabilities, their families and the professionals who serve them. Many of their members have loved ones with special needs and all of them work regularly with public benefits, guardianships, planning for disabilities and special education issues, according to the SNA website www.specialneedsalliance.org. Special needs planning is a complex subject and it is important to work with an experienced, competent professional.

Bernard A. Krooks is managing partner of the law firm Littman Krooks LLP (www.littmankrooks.com).

He is past president of the Special Needs Alliance and past chair of the Elder Law and Special Needs Planning Group of the Real Property, Trusts and Estates Law Section of the American Bar Association.

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Investment in infrastructure, facilities pays off for Pace

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hen you look back at the time you spent in college, there are a few key things you remember. Your friends, of course. Your professors, we educators hope.

What your campus looked like, what it was like to cheer on your teams, whether you were launched into a great job.

In fact, data show that college athletic programs create positive experiences for the campus community — and surrounding communities — and increase student and alumni engagement. In addition, a Gallup-Purdue Index survey of more than 11,000 college graduates found those who reported positive experiences with campus career services were 5.8 times more likely to say their university prepared them for life after college and 3.4 times more likely to recommend their school.

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That’s why Pace University has spent this decade transforming its Pleasantville campus, making it more beautiful and more useful for our students. Just last month we cut the ribbon on a new Career Services center, modeled on today’s hottest corporate campuses. And several of our Pace Setters teams — including our No.2 in the nation women’s field hockey team, in only its fourth season — are posting their best records in years.

Pace Pleasantville is today a modern, sustainable and dynamic living and learning community. We’re providing our students with a great education, a great experience and we’re preparing them to lead tomorrow’s workforce.

Our plan included building new infrastructure and renovating existing buildings to transform the student experience. The new facilities include new residence halls that enhance the living-learning experience for students with First Year Interest Groupthemed communities, study lounges, classroom and collaborative study spaces with faculty members in residence.

Our environmental science program has a new home in a self-sufficient, sustainable classroom building that incorporates geothermal heating and solar panel systems, and it hosts more than 2,500 school children a year for educational programs. The Kessel Student Center was renovated and expanded to create collaborative learning spaces and accommodate an increased student population. We also added new state-of-the-art production facilities for the media, communications and visual arts programs.

A major component of the plan was to enhance our athletic program. New fields and facilities include Finnerty Field for baseball; another field for women’s lacrosse and field hockey programs, among other sports; and the new, state-of-the-art Ianniello Field House, named for Joseph Ianniello, the Pace alumnus and trustee who is now the CEO of the CBS Corporation.

With new teams and facilities, the athletics program has been able to attract a great new cohort of student-athletes who are highly successful both on and off the field. Our football team is seeing its best season in decades.

And these athletes perform just as well in the classroom. In the spring of 2018, 244 student-athletes had a GPA of 3.0 or higher. That’s an impressive two-thirds of our student-athletes. Last academic year, a record five teams from Pace won the Team Academic Excellence Award from the Northeast-10 Conference, for the highest team GPA. This commitment to enhancing the student experience is paying off. First-year applications and enrollments are up, with higher average SAT scores and GPAs among applicants. And those students end up finding good jobs. For our Class of 2017, 87 percent of undergraduates and 94 percent of graduate students were either employed, in graduate school, or volunteering within six months of graduation.

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Mercy College uses $25K TD Bank grant to open veterans center

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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ercy College has opened a center dedicated to supporting its military veteran students, utilizing a $25,000 grant from TD Bank.

Known as the TD Bank Veterans Center, the space will serve the roughly 300 veterans who attend Mercy College, about half of which attend classes at the Dobbs Ferry campus.

The center, the school said in its announcement, will provide veterans on campus a space for peer-to-peer mentoring, study groups, programming and solitude for study. The center includes

From left: Bob McLoughlin, mayor of Dobbs Ferry; Florence Landi-Egiziaco, alumnus and donor to TD Bank Veterans Center; Stephen Moroney, senior VP at TD Bank; Jennifer Bonhomme, VP Commercial Banking at TD Bank; Mercy College President Tim Hall; Ronald Melendez, president of veterans of Mercy Student Club; Viviana DeCohen, veterans PACT Counselor at Mercy College; Ron Tocci, director of veterans services agency, Westchester County; and Anthony Esernio, regional VP at TD Bank.

computers, a printer, study tables and bookshelves as well as recliners and a small kitchen with a refrigerator and coffee maker.

Mercy College President Tim Hall said the veterans center will further facilitate the soldiers’ transition to students and into successful careers.

today is the Pace Path, our signature education model that combines excellent academic instruction with hands-on, real-world experience, so our students are ready to hit the ground running in their careers when they graduate.

The internship program at Pace is one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area among four-year colleges. In the last academic year, Pace Career Services offered more than 1,500 internship and cooperative education experiences. Approximately 62 percent of Pace students complete at least one internship and we’re aiming to increase that number to 70 percent over the next five years.

Career Services has also received national recognition for its success in placement rates, employer satisfaction and building a network of employers. The department works with the employment community to identify entry-level professional jobs and internships. Each year, the office engages with more than 6,000 employers. It posted 19,000 opportunities for students in 2017. Employers can post job opportunities directly through Pace’s online database and sign up to participate in campus career fairs.

Marvin Krislov is the president of Pace University.

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Access and equity threatened by state cuts to higher education

BY EDITORIAL STAFF

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unding for higher education provided by virtually every state has failed to keep up with inflation over the past 10 years.

This is the conclusion presented in the report “Unkept Promises: State Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Access and Equity,” published by the Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

State spending on public universities and colleges remains well below historic levels a decade after the Great Recession.

After adjusting for inflation in the school year ending in 2018 overall state funding for public two- and four-year colleges was more than $7 billion below the 2008 level.

Colleges responded to significant funding cuts by raising tuition, cutting faculty, limiting course offerings and in some cases closing campuses during the most challenging years after the recession, according to the report.

Services in some places have not returned.

“The promise to past generations of students in America has been that if you work hard and strive, public colleges and universities will serve as an avenue to greater economic opportunity and upward mobility,” the report stated. “For today’s students — a cohort more racially and economically diverse than any before it — that promise is fading.”

Access and affordability are threatened by increasing tuition. This results in significant economic impact for those whose wages have stagnated or declined.

Students can find themselves either burdened with crushing debt or simply not able to afford college.

In addition to impacting students, the outlook for communities and states is also jeopardized. They are increasingly reliant on highly educated workforces to grow and thrive.

“To build a prosperous

2008-2018 Percent change in average tuition at public, four-year colleges, inflation adjusted

Percent change in state spending per student, inflation adjusted

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Change in average tuition at public, four-year colleges, inflation adjusted

Change in state spending per student, inflation adjusted

1938

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-$219 -$3,203

CONNECTICUT

NEW YORK

Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

economy — one in which the benefits of higher education are broadly shared and felt by every community regardless of race or class — lawmakers will need to invest in high-quality, affordable and accessible public higher education by increasing funding for public two- and four-year colleges and by pursuing policies that allow more students to pursue affordable postsecondary education,” according to the report. “By doing so, they can help build a stronger middle class and develop the entrepreneurs and skilled workers a strong state economy needs.”

STATES HAVE ONLY PARTIALLY REVERSED FUNDING CUTS

State and local tax revenue is a major source of support for public colleges and universities. Unlike private institutions, which rely more heavily on charitable donations and large endowments to help fund instruction, public two- and four-year colleges typically rely heavily on state and local appropriations, the

report said. In 2017, state and local dollars constituted 54 percent of the funds these institutions used directly for teaching and instruction.

While states have been reinvesting in higher education for the past few years, resources remain well below 2008 levels — 16 percent lower per student — even as state revenues have returned to pre-recession levels. Between the 2008 school year (when the recession took hold) and the 2018 school year, adjusted for inflation: • State spending on higher education at two- and four-year public colleges nationwide fell $1,409 per student, or 16 percent, after adjusting for inflation.

• Per-student funding rose in only four states: California, Hawaii, North Dakota and Wyoming.

• Twenty states cut funding per student by more than 20 percent, and in nine of those states the cut exceeded 30 percent.

• Arizona cut per-student funding by more than half.

Facts & Figures BANKRUPTCIES Westchester Olympic Peak Estates LLC, 100 Fulton Lane, Vernon 10550. Chapter 7, voluntary. Attorney: Pro se. Filed Nov. 8. Case no. 18-23727-rdd.

COURT CASES Dutchess Empire Stock Transfer Inc. Filed

by Seth Shaw. Action: Diversity Action. Attorney for plaintiff: Daniel Joseph Hurteau. Filed Nov. 7. Case no. 1:18-cv-10349-AKH.

New York Bank of America Corp., et al.

Filed by Allianz Global Investors GmbH, et al. Action: Antitrust litigation (monopolizing trade). Attorney for plaintiff: Daniel Lawrence Brockett. Filed Nov. 7. Case no. 1:18cv-10364.

Gatehouse Media LLC. Filed

by Flavored Nation Products LLC Action: Declaratory judgment. Attorney for plaintiff: Willard Alonzo Stanback. Filed Nov. 8. Case no.

1:18-cv-10415-GHW. I-FE Apparel Inc., et al. Filed by Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. Action: Trademark infringement (Lanham Act). Attorney for plaintiff: Matthew Thomas Salzmann. Filed Nov. 7.

Case no. 1:18-cv-10352-AT. Image Comics, Inc. Filed by DRT Group LL. Action: Trademark infringement (Lanham Act). Attorney for plaintiff: John Peter Bostany.

Filed Nov. 8. Case no. 1:18-cv-10416NRB.

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Questions and comments regarding this section should be directed to:

J&D Operators, L.L.C., et al. Filed

by Namel Norris. Action: Americans With Disabilities Act – civil enforcement actions. Attorney for plaintiff: Ben-Zion Bradley Weitz. Filed Nov. 9. Case no. 1:18-cv-10451-GBD. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al.

Filed by Dominick Cognata. Action: Federal Commodity Exchange Regulation. Attorneys for plaintiff: Vincent Briganti and Christian Levis. Filed Nov. 7. Case no. 1:18-cv10356-JGK. Lotte Hotel New York Palace L.C. Filed by Brian Fischler. Action: Federal question: Other civil rights.

Attorney for plaintiff: Christopher Howard Lowe. Filed Nov. 7. Case no.

1:18-cv-10367-PAC. Moxie Software Inc. Filed by Publicis Media Limited et al. Action: Trademark infringement (Lanham Act). Attorney for plaintiff: Charles Patrick Kennedy. Filed Nov. 8. Case no. 1:18-cv-10385-UA. Netflix Inc., et al. Filed by United Federation of Churches LLC. Action: Copyright infringement.

Attorneys for plaintiff: Bruce H. Lederman and Christopher Michael Tarnok. Filed Nov. 8. Case no.

1:18-cv-10372-LAP. Pier 59 Studios LP, et al. Filed by Trinidad Vargas. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney for plaintiff: C.K. Lee. Filed Nov. 7. Case no.

1:18-cv-10357-VSB. Room Mate Hotel New York Inc. Filed by Natalia Juscinska. Action: Federal question: Other civil rights.

Attorney for plaintiff: Nolan Keith Klein. Filed Nov. 7. Case no. 1:18-cv10360-ALC. The Paris Review Foundation Inc. Filed by Lawrence Schwartzwald. Action: Copyright Infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Nov 7. Case no.

1:18-cv-10368-GHW. Viacom International Inc. Filed

by Law Lawrence Schwartzwald.

Action: Copyright Infringement.

Attorney for plaintiff: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Nov 7. Case no. 1:18-cv10369-LTS. Vintage Grand Condominium Association Inc. Filed by Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, et al. Action: Petition to appoint arbitrator. Attorneys for plaintiff: Emilie Bakal and Jeffrey Steven Weinstein.

Filed Nov. 8. Case no. 1:18-cv-10382CM.

ON THE RECORD

Touitou Inc. Filed by Thomas J. Olsen. Action: Federal question: Other civil rights. Attorney for plaintiff: Christopher Howard Lowe. Filed Nov. 7. Case no. 1:18-cv-10366-GBD.

Westchester Berkeley College, et al. Filed by Jimarzarette Esteves, et al. Action: Job discrimination (Unlawful Employment Practices). Attorney for plaintiff: Daniela Elisabeth Nanau.

Filed Nov. 7. Case no. 7:18-cv-10350CS. ECSI America Inc., et al. Filed by John Valentino. Action: FLSA: Minimum wage. Attorney for plaintiff: Matthew N. Persanis. Filed Nov. 7.

Case no. 7:18-cv-10353-VB. Lafonn LLC. Filed by Alwand Vahan Jewelry Ltd. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Kalpana Nagampalli. Filed Nov. 11.

Case no. 1:18-cv-10468-PGG. Midland Credit Management Inc., et al. Filed by Gavriel C. Altheim, et al. Action: Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Daniel Zemel. Filed Nov. 12. Case no.

7-18-cv-10497.

Orlan M. Johnson. Filed by Metallica Commodities Corp. Action: Diversity action. Attorney for plaintiff: Evan Jason Zucker. Filed Nov. 9.

Case no. 1:18-cv-10445-VEC.

FORECLOSURES MAMARONECK, 614 Second St. Single-family residence; lot size: .1 acres. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle. Defendant: Rose Tucker.

Referee: James Hyer. Sale: Nov. 28, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $611,677.

MOUNT VERNON, 420 S. Fourth Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .8 acres. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester.

Defendant: Paul Campbell. Referee: Judith Reardon. Sale: Nov. 19, 11 a.m.

Approximate lien: $1,028,821.

MOUNT VERNON,226 S. 10th Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .09 acres. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Fein Such & Crane LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Westbury. Defendant: Audley Johnson. Referee: John Guttridge. Sale: Nov. 26, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $551,189.

OSSINING, 59 Ellis Place. Two-family residence; lot size: .05 acres.

Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville. Defendant: Maria Chuni. Referee: Risa Kass. Sale: Nov. 19, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $662,844.

OSSINING, 2 Yates Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .14 acres. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association.

Plaintiff’s attorney: David A. Gallo & Associates, 99 Powerhouse Road, Roslyn Heights. Defendant: Aderaldo Soares. Referee: Christopher Mangold. Sale: Nov. 28, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $498,282.

PURCHASE, 40 Pinehurst Drive.

Single-family residence; .05 acres.

Plaintiff: Citizens Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Spencer Brown. Referee: Joseph Maria. Sale: Nov. 19, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $520,341.

TARRYTOWN, 76 Chestnut St. Three-family residence; lot size: .26 acres. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, 10 Bank St., White Plains. Defendant: George Samaras. Referee: Jo-Ann Cambareri. Sale: Nov. 28, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $912,291.

VALHALLA, 20 Armand Place.

Single-family residence; lot size: .55 acres. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk. Defendant: Frank Mercando. Referee: Robert Ryan. Sale: Nov. 27, 10 a.m.

Approximate lien: $565,597.

WHITE PLAINS, 77 Walton Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: 50x100. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Schiller & Knapp, Lefkowitz & Hertzel LLP, 200 John James Audubon Parkway, Amherst. Defendant: Javier Reyes. Referee: Michaele Bermel. Sale: Non. 28, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $669,335.

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, 54 Forest Lane. Single-family residence; lot size: 100x100. Plaintiff: Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Plaintiff’s attorney: Knuckles, Komosinski & Elliot, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 506, Elmsford. Defendant: Mark Angelo Labate. Referee: Clement Patti Jr. Sale: Nov.27, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $489,994.

PATENTS Fan control system for a computer system based on a time variable rate of current. Patent no. 10,130,007 issued to Jenseng J.S. Chen, Taipei, Taiwan; Jung-Tai Chen, Taipei, Taiwan; Tsung-Yu Chen, Taipei, Taiwan; Edward YuChen Kung, Taipei, Taiwan; Tzongli Lin, Taipei, Taiwan; Bruce A. Smith, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Slam latch. Patent no. 10,129,999 issued to Brandon R. Christenson, Stewartville, Minnesota; Elias J. Rosedahl, Zumbrota, Minnesota.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Byte catching in wireless communication networks. Patent no.

10,129,791 issued to Dakshi Agrawal, Monsey; Bongjun Ko, Harrington Park, New Jersey; Franck Le, White Plains; Robert B. Nicholson, Winchester, Great Britain; Vasileios Pappas, New York; Dinesh Verma, New Castle. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Automatically navigating a mobile device to a particular electronic page based on a user’s location within a venue.

Patent no. 10,129,707 issued to Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Baltimore, Maryland; Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode, Thornton, Colorado; Dana L. Price, Surf City, North Carolina; Aaron J. Quirk, Cary, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Recovery of a network infrastructure to facilitate business continuity. Patent no. 10,129,373 issued to Mark J. Firley, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Callee condition-based communication with mobile devices. Patent no. 10,129,366 issued to Kanak B. Agarwal, Austin, Texas; Patrick J. Bohrer, Austin, Texas; Ahmed Gheith, Austin, Texas; Michael D. Kistler, Austin, Texas; Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Austin, Texas; Brian L. White Eagle, Austin, Texas; James Xenidis, Cedar Park, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Managing data storage in distributed virtual environment.

Patent no. 10,129,357 issued to Jian Hua Geng, Beijing, China; Yan Huang, Hui Zhou, China; Ke Zhu, Durham, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Optimization of computer system logical partition migrations in a multiple computer system environment. Patent no. 10,129,333 issued to Daniel C. Birkestrand, Rochester, Minnesota; Peter J. Heyrman, Rochester, Minnesota; Paul F. Olsen, Oronoco, Minnesota. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Load balancing of distributed services. Patent no. 10,129,332 issued to Xavier R. Guerin, White Plains. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Attachment of cloud services to big-data services. Patent no.

10,129,330 issued to Guillermo Cabrera, Austin, Texas; Jacob D. Eisinger, Austin, Texas; David C. Fallside, San Jose, California; Robert C. Senkbeil, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Moving a portion of a streaming application to a public-cloudbased on sensitive data. Patent no. 10,129,311 issued to Eric L. Barsness, Pine Island, Minnesota; Michael J. Branson, Rochester, Minnesota; John M. Santosuosso, Rochester, Minnesota. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Front-end protocol for server protection. Patent no. 10,129,292 issued to Clark Debs Jeffries, Durham, North Carolina; Mohammad Peyravian, Cary, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Device authentication with MAC address and time period.

Patent no. 10,129,255 issued to Seng C. Gan, Ashburn, Virginia; Gregg M. Talewsky, Branchburg, New Jersey.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Address management in an overlay network environment.

Patent no. 10,129,205 issued to Stephan Benny, San Jose, California; Amitabha Biswas, San Francisco, California; Jayakrishna Kidambi, San Jose, California. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Network client ID from external management host via management network. Patent no.

10,129,204 issued to Roger W. Nichols, Marlborough, Massachusetts, Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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Good Things Happening IONA PREP OPENS DEVLIN LIBRARY AND CENTER

Joseph D’Avanzo

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Joseph D’Avanzo has joined the law firm of Pashman Stein Walder Hayden (PSWH) in Purchase as managing partner of the Westchester office. D’Avanzo had been with the White Plains-based law firm Ledy-Gurren, Bass, D’Avanzo & Siff LLP. Michael Stein, managing partner of PSWH, noted that D’Avanzo has represented Fortune 500 corporations in commercial, entertainment, personal injury, mass tort and complex litigation.

D’Avanzo’s career includes positions at Cerussi & Spring PC, D’Avanzo Morreale PC, Schoeman Marsh & Updike and Wilson Elser LLP. He served as principal law clerk to Judge Harold Baer Jr. of the New York State Supreme Court, New York County.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from LeMoyne College and his law degree from New York Law School.

Alumni, from left: Stephen P. Columbia, Ellen T. Keuling, Stacy and Michael Bowe and Thomas Priore. Also, James Kevin Devlin and Thomas R. Leto.

Iona Preparatory Lower School officially opened its Devlin Library & Center for Excellence with a ribbon cutting Nov. 5 attended by educators, parents and supporters.

Brother Thomas R. Leto, president of the school, said, “We’ve been able to do something very special here, re-envisioning our space, making our program stronger and making our facilities even better for our boys. We have a lot of people to thank.”

The renovation included technology

and design upgrades, as well as a new “makerspace” to enrich project-based learning. Makerspaces provide collaborative workspace for students to explore their interests, become innovators, and solve problems. Project-based learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills while working on complex challenges. For example, seventh-graders are currently involved in advocating and fundraising for clean

water in South Sudan.

Brother James Kevin Devlin, the school’s former headmaster, spoke about his family’s commitment to education. “This Center for Excellence is both a tribute to my mother and father, Ellen and Louis, my sister Ellen and our family…. (and) a testament to all the wonderful Iona Prep teachers and students who, for over 100 years, have and continue to strive for excellence in education and assisting others,” he said.

DOCTORS HONORED AT HOSPITAL GALA

PRODUCT LAUNCHERS NAMED TO INC. LIST Product Launchers, which has offices in White Plains and Manhattan, has been named to Inc. magazine’s list of 5,000 companies for 2018. The list identifies what the magazine believes are the nation’s fastest-growing and most successful private companies.

Product Launchers, which helps introduce products in stores, catalogs and online, was ranked number 640 on the list.

“When I started Product Launchers four years ago, I could never have imagined that one day my company would be included on the same prestigious list as Pandora, Zipcar and Zappos,” said Linda Murphy, the company’s CEO. Product Launches participated in last August’s Barracuda Tank event presented

by Westfair Communications, publisher of the Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journals and WAG magazine, which highlighted up-and-coming businesses.

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From left: Tyler Keller, Jeffrey Keller, Adina Keller and Justin Keller. Photo by Peter Reitzfeld.

Two physicians with CareMount Medical were honored at Northern Westchester Hospital’s (NWH) annual gala Nov. 3, which was held at 333 North Bedford Road in Mount Kisco.

Adina and Jeffrey Keller were honored for their clinical excellence and leadership roles at the hospital. They’ve been taking

care of patients in the community for more than two decades. Their sons Tyler and Justin were among the well-wishers who attended the event.

Adina Keller is a board-certified OB/ GYN with CareMount and associate chief of OB/GYN at NWH. Her practice includes minimally invasive robotic surgery and she has

worked to educate the community about health, wellness and cancer prevention.

Jeffrey Keller is board certified in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery and is a pediatric otolaryngologist at CareMount Medical. He is currently the director of pediatric otolaryngology for the Mount Sinai Health System at CareMount Medical.

Luke Selimaj has joined Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Westchester Properties and will be based in the Scarsdale office.

He attended Salesian High School and Iona College, both in New Rochelle.

Selimaj spent several years as a licensed real estate salesperson and learned about construction from his family business.

He is fluent in Albanian and Serbo-Croatian, which the brokerage says enables him to serve a diverse clientele.

Selimaj will be handling residential and commercial properties in Westchester, the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens.

WARTBURG GOES LED Light emitting diodes, which most people know as LEDs, have surged in popularity as replacements for incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs. Their growing popularity has helped moderate the surge in demand for electricity and the costs associated with bulbs, which burn more electricity to create equivalent light output.

In Mount Vernon, Wartburg, which provides senior living and heath care services on its 34-acre campus, recently completed upgrading approximately 5,000 lighting fixtures to LEDs. About 11,000 individual LED bulbs were installed.

“We are thrilled to have completed the first phase in our energy efficiency plan and to continue implementing these upgrades throughout our campus,” said Wartburg President and CEO David Gentner. He noted that some of Wartburg’s buildings have already earned LEED certification, meaning they are exemplary in conserving energy, lowering operating costs and being healthy for occupants.

The LED initiative is expected to save Wartburg 736,004 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, eliminating 548 metric tons of greenhouse gas and saving the energy equivalent of 599,285 pounds of coal or 61,635 gallons of gasoline.

WPHPA ADDS LARCHMONT MULTISPECIALTY PRACTICE White Plains Hospital Physician Associates (WPHPA) has opened a new multispecialty medical practice at 2345 Boston Post Road in Larchmont. Five specialists will now be practicing there. This is WPHPA’s second Larchmont office; the first is at 2071 Boston Post Road.

Bernard Bernhardt is the specialist in hematology and oncology. He attended Northwestern University School of Medicine, interned at District of Columbia General Hospital and had residencies at D.C. General, New York Medical College and Montefiore Medical Center.

John Felidi, a podiatrist, went to New York College of Podiatric Medicine and had a residency at St. Barnabas Hospital.

Jeffrey Jacobson specializes in hand and plastic surgery. He attended medical school at Stony Brook University Hospital and had his residency at Georgetown University Hospital and a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dermatologist Tobi Klar received her medical education at SUNY Downstate of New York.

Elizabeth Phillips specializes in hematology and oncology. She attended the University of South Dakota School of Medicine and the University of Washington. She had an internship and residencies at Harlem Hospital Center and Montefiore Medical Center.

ANDRUS EVENT RAISES $500K More than 350 guests attended the 90th Anniversary Gala benefitting ANDRUS, the Yonkers-based nonprofit, which provides programs ranging from a special education school to community-based mental health, child care, community support and advocacy services. ANDRUS helps about 4,500 children and families each year.

The event took place at the New York Botanical Garden and raised nearly $500,000. Bryan Murphy, CEO of ANDRUS, said, “It was an extraordinary night of community, celebration, fundraising and relationship building.”

Levitt-Fuirst Insurance was honored for its consistent efforts supporting ANDRUS. Co-presidents Ken Fuirst and Jason Schiciano accepted on behalf of the company.

“ANDRUS is a life-changing organization for the families it serves,” said Schiciano.

BRIDGING THE TALENT GAP

Alexis Glick

From left: OJ Yizar, manager, Westchester Career Center; Bridget Gibbons; LaTasha Hamlett-Carver, program specialist, Westchester Career Center; Thom Kleiner; Allison Madison; Orane Barrett, Kool Nerd Club; Joseph DiCarlo; Sterling Jasper; and Jeanne Maloney.

Ruth Mahoney

The Westchester-Putnam Workforce Development Board presented a symposium covering ways to bridge the talent gap and provide career paths with state-of-the-art technology, innovative training approaches, resources and services to youth, adults and employers. The event took place at the Mount Vernon Career Center.

Moderated by Allison Madison, president of Madison Approach Staffing, members of the panel represented all facets of

local workforce development. Panelists included Bridget Gibbons, director, Westchester County Office of Economic Development; Thom Kleiner, director, Westchester-Putnam Workforce Development Board; Sterling Jasper, owner of Express Employment Professionals; Jeanne Maloney, an assistant dean at Westchester Community College; Orane Barrett of the Kool Nerd Club; and Joseph DiCarlo, chief talent and engagement officer for Westmed.

“A lack of qualified workers impacts us as a business and affects the economy and our ability to deliver quality health care, because if we don’t have the right people, we can’t grow,” DiCarlo said.

Recommendations included earlier career exploration at the high school level and informing high school students of real-world job opportunities and alternative career pathways utilizing community colleges and BOCES for certifications and credentials.

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE THE HOLIDAYS If your humming a holiday tune and seeing a growing number of holiday lights, gift merchandise in store windows and more and more cars filling parking spaces at malls, maybe it’s a tipoff that the holiday season is here. And if there are any doubts, there was a recent preview of the holiday “Lights of Wonder” show at the Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla.

The show is set to open Nov. 23. It runs through Dec. 31.

Westchester County Executive George Latimer was among those joining Westchester Parks Foundation (WPF) Chairperson Joanne Fernandez and Executive Director Joe Stout for what was billed as the official kickoff of the holiday season in Westchester.

The light show is part of WPF’s larger “Winter Wonderland” event at the dam. Proceeds benefit WPF and help fund its advocacy and investment in the preservation, conservation, use and enjoyment of the 18,000 acres of parks, trails and

WALKING IN HER SHOES The Women’s Leadership Council of United Way of Westchester and Putnam (UWWP) will be celebrating women in philanthropy with “A Walk in Her Shoes” day Dec. 4, beginning with a breakfast event, sponsored

by PepsiCo, scheduled from 8 to 10 a.m. at Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill in Tarrytown.

Ruth Mahoney, KeyBank’s market president in the Capital region, will be honored with the 2018 Woman of Distinction Award. Mahoney is a board member of the United Way of New York State and a founding member of UWWP’s Women’s Leadership Council.

The keynote speaker will be former NBC “The Today Show” anchor and Fox News and Fox Business News executive Alexis Glick who now serves as CEO of GENYOUth, a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing child health and wellness in partnership with the National Football League and the National Dairy Council.

Alana Sweeny, president and CEO of UWWP, said, “Ruth and Alexis are not only incredibly accomplished women who have forged impressive careers for themselves, but they’ve helped to lead the way for other women by supporting and inspiring them to greater things.”

More information and tickets at uwwp. org/wlcbreakfast.

Previewing the ‘Lights of Wonder’ show were, from left, Santa Claus, Westchester County Executive George Latimer and Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins.

open spaces within the Westchester County Parks system.

Santa will be at “Winter Wonderland,” the outdoor ice rink will be

open, 10 rides will be operating at FUNderland Village and a decorated tree, more than 40 feet tall, will be on display.

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Facts & Figures HUDSON VALLEY

Ensuring that a composed message is being sent to the appropriate recipient. Patent no.

10,129,199 issued to Alaa Abou Mahmoud, Dracut, Massachusetts; Gregory P. Dracoulis, Boston, Massachusetts; Peter E. Stubbs, Georgetown, Massachusetts; Steven J. Ulrick, Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Identifying relevant content contained in message streams that appear to be irrelevant.

Patent no. 10,129,193 issued to Alaa Abou Mahmoud, Dracut, Massachusetts; Paul R. Bastide, Boxford, Massachusetts; Fang Lu, Billerica, Massachusetts. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million Dunning Hospitality LLC, Elmsford, as owner Lender: Greater Hudson Bank, Monroe. Property: 41 Dunning Road, Wallkill. Amount: $9 million. Filed Nov. 8.

Fallkill Commons LP, et al, as owner. Lender: CPC Funding SPE 1 LLC. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $9.2 million. Filed Nov. 5.

Riley Road Windsor LLC, Stamford, Connecticut, as owner. Lender: Celtic Bank Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 425 Riley Road, New Windsor. Amount: $10 million. Filed Nov. 2.

SENIOR CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR MCC Non-Ferrous Trading, Inc. d/b/a Metallica Commodities in White Plains, NY to h&le the contracts admin. by applying thorough knowledge of contracting prcdrs, acqstn prncpls, country regs & compliance, industry techn. terminology, mining mngmnt, & gdlns appl. to intrntnl trade of all nonferrous metals, incl. in the commrcl reclng of residues & byproducts resulting from mining/metallurgical & processing industries.

Identifies contract issues & responds to a variety of complex inquiries. Advises on comrcl, oprtnl & supply chain risks assctd with contracts.

Reviews bids. Crdints prep. & prdctn of formal cost/price proposals. Advises re: contractual rights & obligations & provides intrprttn of terms & conditions. Participates in cost & pricing assessment w/ mngmnt & customer reps, incl. price hedging & mntrng of price variations & risk.

Maintains awareness of regltr & market changes & their impact on intrntnl contracts.

Bachelor’s degree in Intrntnl Bsns, Trade or closely related, plus 3 years of previous exper. in the position offered or related mngng purchase contracts for mining products in Latin America & sale contracts for mining products to Asia. All apps & resumes submit via email to hrAdministration@metallicacc.com

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Valley Christian Church of Hopewell Junction, as owner.

Lender: Ulster Savings Bank. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $2.4 million. Filed Nov. 7.

Below $1 million Aubrey, Daniel, as owner. Lender: Rhinebeck Bank. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $277,500. Filed Nov. 8.

Clapp Hill Road LLC, as owner.

Lender: Salisbury Bank and Trust Co. Property: in Beekman. Amount: $600,000. Filed Oct. 31.

Demuth, Miriam et al, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank.

Property: in Washington. Amount: $266,144. Filed Oct. 26.

Dietrich, Robert W., Warwick, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $365,500. Filed Nov. 2.

Hogar Community Reinvestment LLC, et al, as owner. Lender: Goldman Sachs Bank USA. Property: in East Fishkill. Amount: $75,036.

Filed Oct. 30.

Field Service Technician (Elmsford, NY). Perform installations, maintenance, srvc., & repair of high precision machines incl PC-based machines at customer locs. throughout US & Canada. Customer Svc & train client on products. Must be willing to travel 75% of time in US & Canada. 3 positions available. Req: 3 yrs exp. Send resumes to Alex Webb, Willemin-Macodel, Inc., 5 Westchester Plaza, Elmsford, NY 10523.

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Bridgestone Retail Operations LLC, Nashville, Tennessee. Seller: SMBC Leasing and Finance Inc., New York. Property: in Wallkill.

Amount: $2 million. Filed Oct. 25.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Allan Rappleyea, Poughkeepsie. Property: 10 Drew Court, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $482,500. Filed Oct. 17.

Hawkins Estates LLC, Monroe.

Seller: Raymond E. Plote, et al, East Dundee, Il. Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $600,000. Filed Oct. 26.

HJK Properties LLC, Walden, as owner. Lender: Libertyville Capital Group II LLC, Montgomery.

Property: Route 94, Unit 1, Chester.

Amount: $150,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Candlestick MHC LLC, Skokie, Illinois. Seller: Candlestick Park LLC, Newburgh. Property: in Newburgh.

Amount: $4.4 million. Filed Oct. 25.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Nancy J. Schneider, Washingtonville. Property: 2 Sycamore Court, Highland Mills 10930.

Amount: $496,672. Filed Oct. 29.

Hoang and Nguyen Bros LLC, Newburgh. Seller: David Rider, New Windsor. Property: 29 Park Hill Drive, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $113,000. Filed Oct. 25.

HJK Properties LLC, Walden, as owner. Lender: Libertyville Capital Group II LLC, Montgomery. Property: Route 94, Chester. Amount: $250,000. Filed Nov. 8.

N.D.G. Associates Inc., New Windsor. Seller: SV Apartments LLC, et al, New York City. Property: in New Windsor. Amount: $13.2 million. Filed Oct. 26.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Elizabeth K. Cassidy, Warwick. Property: 14 Mary Cane Road, Greenwood Lake 10925. Amount: $123,015. Filed Oct. 29.

Hot Diggity Dog Inc., as owner.

Lender: Wallkill Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $200,000. Filed Nov. 2.

Diamond Home Remodeling LLC, Bergenfield, New Jersey. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 1 Carvel Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $227,908.

Filed Oct. 19.

Below $1 million

Healy, Paul, as owner. Lender: Westchester Modular Homes Construction Corp. Property: in Dover.

Amount: $150,000. Filed Oct. 19.

Industrial House LLC, Newburgh, as owner. Lender: FTF Lending LLC, Cleveland, Ohio. Property: 47 Lander St., Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $186,089. Filed Oct. 30.

Jahn, Nancy, Warwick, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Warwick.

Amount: $225,000. Filed Oct. 26.

Lavallie, Andrew Thomas, et al, Columbus, Ohio, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in New Windsor.

Amount: $395,250. Filed Nov. 2.

Pritchard, David Michael, et al, Chester, as owner. Lender: New Gen Construction Inc., Campbell Hall.

Property: 48 Boville Court, Chester 10918. Amount: $530,000. Filed Oct. 31.

Vellenga, Christopher, et al, Pine Bush, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Crawford. Amount: $320,000.

Filed Nov. 9.

YDF Investments Inc., as owner.

Lender: Wallkill Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $303,750. Filed Oct 23.

DEEDS Above $1 million 300 Forest Road LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: Louis M. Cerqua, Monroe.

Property: 300 Forest Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Oct. 24.

Arji Ventures LLC, Hopewell Junction. Seller: Travani Enterprises LLC, Smithtown. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $1 million. Field Oct. 24.

198 Hooker Ave LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Seepece Inc., Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $612,500. Filed Oct. 19.

61 Washington Terrace Newburgh LLC, Hopewell Junction.

Seller: Arji Ventures LLC, Hopewell Junction. Property: in Newburgh.

Amount: $500,000. Filed Oct. 24.

AJK Remake LLC, Poughquag.

Seller: Maude Emerson Cook, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $135,000. Filed Oct. 17.

AMG Plus Realty LLC, Monroe.

Seller: Todd Kelson, New Windsor. Property: 47 Hardenburgh Road, Pine Bush 12566. Amount: $232,600. Filed Oct. 23.

Bank of America N.A. Seller: Gerald Jacobowitz, Walden. Property: 5 Christopher Court, Middletown 10941. Amount: $300,000. Filed Oct. 22.

Bank of America N.A. Seller: Lisa J. Felicissimo, Monroe. Property: 31 Apple Lane, Westbrookville 12785.

Amount: $149,658. Filed Oct. 18.

BGRS LLC, Burr Ridge, Illinois.

Seller: Anna D. Okoniewski, et al, Monroe. Property: 16 Moulton Circle, Monroe 10950. Amount: $324,000. Filed Oct. 30.

Elizabeta Inc., Greenwood Lake.

Seller: Netsectech Partners Inc., Pearl River. Property: 57 Windermere Ave., Greenwood Lake 10925.

Amount: $400,000. Filed Oct. 23.

Emerald PJ LLC, Chestnut Ridge.

Seller: O’MC Holdings LLC, Maspeth. Property: in Port Jervis.

Amount: $150,000. Filed Oct. 25.

Joe Allan Builders Inc., Wappingers Falls. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Property: 21 Linden Drive, Walden 12586. Amount: $146,000. Filed Oct. 26.

Everything That is Consulting Inc., Middletown. Seller: Luigi Morsella, et al, Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

Property: Shoddy Hollow Road, Otisville 10963. Amount: $55,000.

Filed Oct. 26.

Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC, Ewing, New Jersey. Seller: Jessica Lynn Vinall, Poughkeepsie. Property: 196 Oak Ridge Road, Hopewell Junction 12533. Amount: $255,000.

Filed Oct. 17.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Jeffrey Albanese, Goshen. Property: 106 Creamery Pond Road, Sugar Loaf 10981. Amount: $632,297. Filed Oct. 29.

Limaj Properties LLC, New City.

Seller: Philip Velie, et al, Hopewell Junction. Property: 32 Anthony St., Middletown 10940. Amount: $77,500. Filed Oct. 22.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Denise Lisch, et al, Washingtonville. Property: 17 Wood Road, Chester 10918. Amount: $382,988. Filed Oct. 26.

Mgondal Holding LLC, Port Jervis. Seller: MTA Properties LLC, Putnam Valley. Property: in Greenville.

Amount: $75,000. Filed Oct. 23.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Mark D. Stern, Goshen, Property: 16 Dubois St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $168,300.

Filed Oct. 23.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Mark D. Stern, Goshen. Property: 19 Mountain View, Woodbury 10930. Amount: $307,612. Filed Oct. 29.

BJP Investment Trust, Chappaqua. Seller: Matthew J. Martin, Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis.

Amount: $34,500. Filed Oct. 26.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Michael Blustein, Goshen. Property: 26 Culvert St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $193,890.

Filed Oct. 25.

Broad Homes LLC, Gainesville, Florida. Seller: Vincent James Blasone, et al, New Windsor. Property: in Blooming Grove. Amount: $70,000. Filed Oct. 25.

G and G Meadows Inc., Monroe.

Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 11 Henry Court, Pine Bush 12566. Amount: $268,275. Filed Oct. 30.

Brookfield Relocation Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona. Seller: Jimmy Lee Feasel, Warwick. Property: 11 Warwick Turnpike, Warwick 10990. Amount: $405,000. Filed Oct. 29.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Vivian Ocasio, New Windsor. Property: 6 Marshall Drive East, New Windsor 1255. Amount: $200,000. Filed Oct. 29.

GKB Properties LLC, Chester.

Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 19 Angola Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson 12518. Amount: $155,457. Filed Oct. 30.

MM Flo LLC, Marlboro. Seller: Sami Kuka, Windermere, Florida.

Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $200,000. Filed Oct. 25.

Monsey Affordable Homes Inc., Nanuet. Seller: Michael Sachs, Highland Mills. Property: in Woodbury.

Amount: $4,000. Filed Oct. 24.

Motus Magna Inc., Monticello.

Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 16 South St., Walden 12586. Amount: $82,500. Filed Oct. 25.

Mount Ivy MHC Corp., Stony Point. Seller: K and M Mobile Home Court Inc., Stony Point. Property: 1 Station Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Amount: $60,000. Filed Oct. 26.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Fred W. Schaeffer, Poughkeepsie. Property: 41 Kelsey Road, Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $234,000. Filed Oct. 15.

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Facts & Figures National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Francis E. Mullek Jr., et al, Middletown. Property: 357 Mount Orange Road, Middletown 10940. Amount: $415,000.

Filed Oct. 22.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Seller: Patricia L. Campanaro, Hopewell Junction. Property: 26 Balding Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $353,000. Filed Oct. 17.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Seller: Sandra Noonan, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 23 Ferris Lane, Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $182,500.

Filed Oct. 16.

Newnew York Development LLC, Middletown. Seller: Ann V. Corbett, et al, Floral Park. Property: County Highway 11, Otisville 10963.

Amount: $247,500. Filed Oct. 30.

North St. Middletown Associates LLC, Middletown. Seller: Lee Zoldan, Middletown. Property: in Middletown. Amount: $255,000.

Filed Oct. 23.

Northern Enterprise NY LLC, Cornwall. Seller: Emily A. Cajigas, Middletown. Property: 21 Marc Terrace, Monroe 10950. Amount: $119,200. Filed Oct. 30.

State of New York Mortgage Agency, New York City. Seller: Roland Talmadge, et al, Godeffroy.

Property: 14 Grove St., Godeffroy 12729. Amount: $57,713. Filed Oct. 18.

Orange Bank and Trust Co., Middletown. Seller: Carla Wise, Goshen.

Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $108,448. Filed Oct. 24.

Stoney Farm LLC, Keyport, New Jersey. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 957 Route 32, Highland Mills 10930. Amount: $303,271. Filed Oct. 25.

Pinecrest Enterprises Inc., Montgomery. Seller: Edward V. Mabee, Middletown. Property: in Wallkill. Amount: $50,000. Filed Oct. 24.

Simoco LLC, Yorktown Heights.

Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 90 Osborne Hill Road, Unit B8, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $63,000. Filed Oct. 18.

SJF 1984 LLC, Monroe. Seller: Mary Babcock, et al, Chester. Property: in Harriman. Amount: $100,000. Filed Oct. 25.

Storm King Art Center, New Windsor. Seller: Edmond Streich, et al, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Property: in Cornwall-on-Hudson. Amount: $80,000. Filed Oct. 18.

Superfield LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: George H. Carrothers Jr., Milan.

Property: 502-504 and 516 Field Road, Milan. Amount: $900,000.

Filed Oct. 19.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Paul Brite, Newburgh. Property: 8 Pilgrim Lane, Washingtonville 10992. Amount: $600,044.

Filed Oct. 30.

Too Blue Eyes LLC, Florida. Seller: 51 McEwen LLC, Warwick. Property: in Florida. Amount: $240,000.

Filed Oct. 23.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Margarita Ioannidis, New Windsor. Property: 87 Keats Drive, New Windsor 12553.

Amount: $341,583. Filed Oct. 25.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Larry Wolinsky, Walden. Property: 53 Quassaick Ave., New Windsor 12553.

Amount: $471,646. Filed Oct. 29.

Town of Pleasant Valley, Pleasant Valley. Seller: Antigone Realty LLC, Bronx. Property: 1903 Route 44, Pleasant Valley 12569. Amount: $700,000. Filed Oct. 16.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Lewis Sceppaquercia, et al, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Property: 175 Seaman Road, Stormville 12582.

Amount: $305,000. Filed Oct. 15.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Roland Bloomer, Newburgh. Property: 70 Johnes St., Nebwurgh 12550.

Amount: $380,780. Filed Oct. 30.

Transportation Holdings LLC, New Hampton. Seller: Ralph Martucci Jr., Middletown. Property: in Minisink. Amount: $270,500. Filed Oct. 29.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Victor Muscietta, et al, White Plains.

Property: 8 Warren Drive, Hopewell Junction 12533. Amount: $531,000.

Filed Oct. 19.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Alan L. Joseph, Goshen. Property: 27 Lexington Hill, Unit 3, Harriman 10926.

Amount: $206,811. Filed Oct. 26.

VIP Partners LLC, Newburgh.

Seller: Nidal Jaber, Valley Cottage.

Property: 46 Williams St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $270,000.

Filed Oct. 25.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Anthony LoBiondo, Newburgh. Property: 12 Vincent Lane, Walkill 12589.

Amount: $629,511. Filed Oct. 19.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Jacqueline T. Martin, Poughkeepsie. Property: 55 W. Forest Trail, Holmes. Amount: $717,000. Filed Oct. 19.

WH Mutual Inc., White Plains.

Seller: Gjergj Domgjoni, Blauvelt.

Property: 37 and 55 Lake Arkin Drive, Greenville 12771. Amount: $650,000. Filed Oct. 23.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Dianne Braun Hanley, Katonah. Property: 132 Old Route 22, Dover Plains 12522.

Amount: $155,000. Filed Oct. 19.

Wallkill Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association, Wallkill.

Seller: John G. Cornell, Newburgh.

Property: in Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Amount: $276,211. Filed Oct. 23.

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LEGAL NOTICES Giacinto Realty Holdings LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/19/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 671 Bronx River Rd., Unit 5K, Yonkers, NY 10704. General Purpose. #61905

Melike Trucking LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/25/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 14 Martens Place, C-2, Mount Vernon, NY 10550. General Purpose. #61911

Rubenstein & Cohen LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/5/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 155 White Plains Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591.

General Purpose. #61906

Notice of Formation of Nantahala Strategies, LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/14/18. 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, 25 Neperan Rd. Apt 3, Tarrytown, NY 10591.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61912

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ROYAL UNISEX SALON, LLC. Arts of Org filed with the State of NY (SSNY) on 8/28/2018. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to:Careta Ali, 255 E Prospect Ave. Apt 1F, Mount Vernon NY 10550.

Purpose: any lawful purpose or activity. #61907 Notice of Formation of SECOND DERIVATIVE INVESTORS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/23/2014. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC to Francis J. Saldutti, 149 Old Stone Hill Rd., Pound Ridge, NY 10576. Purpose: any lawful purpose or activity. #61908 Pac Your Bags LLC. Filed 5/14/18 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 100 South Bedford Road, Ste 340, Mount Kisco, NY 10549 Reg. Agent: United States Corporation Agents, Inc. @ 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: all lawful #61909 Gilbertís Global LLC. Auth. filed SSNY 8/17/18. LLC org. in DE 6/21/18. Princ. off loc & addr: Westchester Co, 1 Carstensen Rd, Scarsdale, NY 10583. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. may be served & shall mail proc. to CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808, reg. agt. Cert. of Form on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful purpose. #61910

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Notice of Application for Authority to do business in New York of MCCARTNEY STUCKY LLC (ìLLCî).

Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State (ìSSNYî) 10/10/18.

LLC formed in Missouri (ìMOî) 8/30/18. Office location is Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of such process to LLC at 411 Theodore Fremd Ave., Suite 206 South, Rye, NY 10580. Office address in MO is 330 W. 47th St., Suite 250, Kansas City, MO 64112. Copies of Articles of Organization of LLC are on file and may be obtained from the Secretary of State of MO, 600 W. Main St., Jefferson City, MO 65101.

Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful business or purpose. #61913 Notice of the formation of JOHN HAMM CONSTRUCTION DEVELOPMENT LLC. Art. Of Org, filed with SSNY on 8-27-18, SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process for any lawful purpose, to: the LLC, 1 Glenwood Ave, Yonkers, NY 10701. #61916 FURNITURE AMERICAN PLUS, LLC. Arts.of Org. filed with the Secy of STAte of NY (SSNY) on 9/28/18.

Off Loc: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent upon whom proccess may be served and shall mail copy to LLC c/o 32 Park Ave. Apt 3A White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: all lawful #61917

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of HarleyVine Design LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/7/18. Offc.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Amy R. Ecker, 47 London Ter., New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61918 Notice of Formation of Little Mademoiselle, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/23/18. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 118 Pinesbridge Road, Katonah, New York 10536. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61919 North No South LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/18/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to LLC c/o 21 Pines Bridge Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. General Purpose. #61920 Notice of formation of SDC SOLAR I, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/24/18.

Office loc. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to: Anna Parker 471 Milton Rd. Rye, NY 10580.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61922 Notice of Formation of SR Life and Leadership Coaching LLC. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/19/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 6 Bird Lane, Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: all lawful. #61924 Notice of Formation of Gate House Lane, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/2014.

NY Office location: WESTCHESTER County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, 501 East 79th Street, #10E, New York, New York 10075.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #61925

Old Quarry Farm, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/17/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 272 Hardscrabble Rd., North Salem, NY 10560. General Purpose. #61926

Adem And Sadri Raci LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/26/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 30 Granite Springs Rd., Granite Springs, NY 10527. General Purpose. #61932

The Annual Return of the The Karen E Kohler Charitable Foundation For the calendar year December 31, 2017 Is available at its principal office located at 752 North Street, Ste 9B, Greenwich, CT 06831-3107 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Trustee of the Foundation is Karen E. Kohler #61927

Irv. Broadway LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/2/2018.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 315 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591.

General Purpose. #61933

Lincoln Ave WH LLC Filed 10/18/18 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 4 Wendover Road, Eastchester, NY 10709 Purpose: all lawful #61928 Luceno Project Management, LLC has filed articles of organization with the Secretary of State of NYS on 11/02/2018. The offices of this company are located in Westchester County, NY. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served.

The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is 110 Travers Ave, Mamaroneck, NY 10543.

The company is organized to conduct any lawful business for which limited liability companies may be organized. #61929 Notice of Formation of Pro Carpenters, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/12/2018. 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,33 Hawley Street Apt 1,White Plains,NY,10606 . Purpose: any lawful purpose #61930 120 Saw Mill, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/31/2018.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to: 89 Edison Ave., Mt. Vernon, NY 10550. General Purpose. #61931

Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, # TBA has been applied for

by La Concha Restaurant Corp. to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 2 W Main Street, Elmsford, NY 10523. #61934 NOTICE OF ANNUAL REPORT - Notice is hereby given that the 2017 report for the year-ending December 31, 2017 of Akindale Rehabilitation & Land Conservation Fund is available for inspection at its principal office, 287 King Street, Chappaqua, New York 10514 during regular, business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days after the date of this publication.

The Foundationís principal manager is Bruce Oberfest, Trustee, 914-238-3800. #61935 NOTICE OF ANNUAL REPORT - Notice is hereby given that the 2017 report for the year-ending December 31, 2017 of the Hettinger Foundation is available for inspection at its principal office, 287 King Street, Chappaqua, New York 10514 during regular, business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days after the date of this publication.

The Foundationís principal manager is William R. Hettinger, Trustee, 914-2383800. #61937 NOTICE OF ANNUAL REPORT - Notice is hereby given that the 2017 report for the year ending December 31, 2017, of the Gregory and Vera Kiernan Foundation is available for inspection at its principal office, 191 King Street, Chappaqua, New York 10514, during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days after the date of this publication.

The Foundationís principal manager is Gregory Kiernan, trustee, 914-8619222. #61939

NOTICE OF ANNUAL REPORT - Notice is hereby given that the 2017 report for the year ending December 31, 2017, of the The Meyer Foundation is available for inspection at its principal office, c/o Bruce Oberfest & Associates, P.O. Box 318, Chappaqua, New York 10514, during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days after the date of this publication. The Foundationís principal manager is Bruce Oberfest, 914-238-3800. #61942 NOTICE OF ANNUAL REPORT - Notice is hereby given that the 2017 report for the year ending December 31, 2017, of the Michel David-Weill Foundation is available for inspection at its principal office, c/o Bruce Oberfest & Associates, P.O. Box 318, Chappaqua, New York 10514, during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days after the date of this publication. The Foundationís principal manager is Michel David-Weill,914-238-3800. #61944 NOTICE OF ANNUAL REPORT - Notice is hereby given that the 2017 report for the year ending December 31, 2017, of The Gary W. Parr Family Foundation, Inc. is available for inspection at its principal office, 174 East Lake Road, Tuxedo Park N.Y. 10987, during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days after the date of this publication.

The Foundationís principal manager is Gary W. Parr, President, 212-822-0800. #61945 Notice of formation of SUCCULENTS, ETC. LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/19/2018. Office loc. Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to Succulents, Etc. LLC, 7 Larch Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61946

Notice of Formation of 4145 PARK AVE LLC. Principal office Westchester County.

Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent for service of process. SSNY ∑ shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 273 Devoe A venue, Yonkers, NY 10705. Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on November 22, 2016.

Purpose: Any lawful act(s). #61947 Fruchter Law PLLC. Art. of Org. filed 11/9/18. Office in Rockland Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to: 25 Robert Pitt Drive, Ste. 209G, Monsey, NY 10952.

Purpose: Law #61948 The Articles of Organization of Palmer Developers, LLC (the Company ) were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on October 3, 2018. The office of the Company is located in Westchester County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served.

The post office address within or without the State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company served upon him or her is: 25 Round Hill Drive, Yonkers, New York 10701. The Company was formed for any lawful business purpose or purposes permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Act. # 61914 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GERM JAIL LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/2018. Office location: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is: JACQUELINE NEW 37 NETHERMONT AVE WHITE PLAIN NY 10603 The principal business address of the LLC is: 37 NETHERMONT AVE WHITE PLAINS NY 10603.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity # 61915

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

Supreme Court, Westchester County to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described

INDEX NO. 2410/18 PETITION OF FORECLOSURE AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE OF TAX LIENS BY THE TOWN OF RYE BY ACTION IN REM 2018 PROCEEDING

NICHOLAS C. MECCA, being duly sworn, affirms as true, deposes and says under the penalties of perjury as follows:

by a foreclosure proceeding in rem. Such action and proceeding is brought against the

upon the attorney for the Town of Rye setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his

real property only, and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such list. No personal

or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure. Such answer must be filed

judgment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

in the office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Town of Rye on or

This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have

before the date above mentioned as the last day for redemption. In the event of failure to

an interest in the real property described in such list of delinquent taxes. Such persons

redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person(s)

are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such list of delinquent taxes has been filed

shall be forever barred and foreclosed of all his or her right, title and interest and equity

in the Office of the Enforcing Officer, the Receiver of Taxes of the Town of Rye, and

of redemption in and to the parcel described in such list of delinquent taxes and a

will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the

Judgment of Foreclosure may be taken by default.

last day for redemption.

Dated:

The above-captioned proceeding is hereby commenced to enforce the

Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property

payment of delinquent taxes or other lawful charges which have accumulated and become

and the legal right thereto may, on or before said date, redeem the same by paying the

liens against certain property. The parcels to which this proceeding applies are attached

amount of all such unpaid tax liens and unpaid taxes thereon including all interest and

hereto and made a part hereof, identified as Schedule A.

penalties and other legal charges included in the lien which are against such real property,

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 14th of September, 2018, the

computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to

Receiver of Taxes, hereinafter the Enforcing Officer of the Town of Rye, pursuant to law,

NICHOLAS C. MECCA, Receiver of Taxes, Town of Rye, 222 Grace Church

filed with the Clerk of Westchester County, a Petition of Foreclosure against various

Street, Port Chester, New York 10573. In the event that such taxes are paid by a

parcels of real property for unpaid tax liens. Such Petition and Notice of Foreclosure

person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be

pertains to the parcels on the list attached hereto and made a part hereof.

entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property

The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as February 01, 2019.

described in such list of delinquent taxes are hereby notified that the filing of such list

Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of

constitutes the commencement by the Town of Rye of an action and proceeding in the

real property described in such list of delinquent taxes may serve a duly verified answer

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White Plains, New York SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 _________________________________ NICHOLAS C. MECCA Receiver of Taxes Enforcing Officer TOWN OF RYE 222 Grace Church Street Port Chester, New York 10573 914-939-3558

_________________________________ JEFFREY M. BINDER, ESQ Attorney for the Town of Rye 690 North Broadway - Suite 205 White Plains, New York 10603 914-946-3191

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STATE OF NEW YORK : COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER :

ss:

141.52-1-19

On the 12th day of SEPTEMBER, 2018 before me personally appeared NICHOLAS C. MECCA, the Receiver of Taxes and Enforcing Officer for the Town of Rye to me known to be the individual described herein and who executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. ________________________________ NOTARY PUBLIC

23 Touraine Avenue

Blue Mountain Partners LLC 9 Evon Court Scarsdale, NY 10583

$100,900.17

$ 142.21-2-7

22-28 Exchange Place

All NY Holdings LLC 342 North Main Street Port Chester, New York 10573$

$194,397.21

1 142.22-1-15

242 Westchester Avenue

Blue Mountain Partners LLC 9 Evon Court Scarsdale, NY 10583

$106,275.06

142.30-1-23

49 Oak Street

All NY Holdings, LLC 342 North Main Street Port Chester, NY 10573

$170,315.87

142.54-1-34

5 Leonard Street

Blue Mountain Partners LLC 9 Evon Court Scarsdale, NY 10583

$113,673.60

142.61-1-7

301 Midland Avenue

Blue Mountain Partners LLC 9 Evon Court Scarsdale, NY 10583

$123,940.52

124.74-1-3

1099 King Street

John & Jean Stratton 1099 King Street Greenwich, CT 06831

154.42-1-56

308 Melbourne Avenue

Estate of Betty Jean Young 308 Melbourne Avenue Mamaroneck, NY 10543

$105,536.00

155.37-1-20

1448 E. Boston Post Road

BFT Holdings LLC 1448 E. Boston Post Road Mamaroneck, NY 10543

$51,887.07

RYE BROOK

SCHEDULE A LIST OF DELINQUENT TAXES PORT CHESTER PARCEL ID 135.76-2-11

PROPERTY LOCATION 169 Fairview Avenue

$ 785.62 136.39-1-43

28-½ Pilgrim Drive

136.64-1-27

604 North Main Street

OWNER NAME/ ADDRESS

$71,718.03

William J. & Drayton Gerety 4 Tonetta Circle Norwalk, CT 06855

$20,507.91

Albert & Patricia Alexander 604 North Main Street Port Chester, NY 10573

$45,085.45

$ 785.6 $ 7,455.85 136.69-2-58 71-73 Elmont Avenue

Blue Mountain Partners LLC 9 Evon Court Scarsdale, NY 10583 $ 3,664.33 136.79-1-5 154 Highland Street 154 Highland Avenue Realty LLC 31 Columbus Avenue $ 785.62 New Rochelle, NY 10801 435 West Street

All NY Holdings LLC 435 West Street Port Chester, NY 10573

141.36-2-13

107 South Regent Street

Blue Mountain Partners LLC 9 Evon Court Scarsdale, NY 10583

Fee

$ 5,721.4

$123,755.59

$ 785.6`

141.36-1-18

$1,009.16

RYE NECK

DELINQUENT AMOUNT AS OF 7/31/18

Edixon Galindo & Mireya Rojas 169 Fairview Avenue Port Chester, NY 10573

$ 6,356.9514.01

Fee

$53,031.97

Fee

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Fee

Fee

$136,706.14

$111,329.45 $ 4,049.06

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