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City studies new site for public works yard

CBRE ACQUIRES IVI • 3

SPECIAL REPORT • 18

FURNISHING DREAMS PAGE 2

FACES & PLACES • 35 Kate Bialo inside the Furniture Sharehouse.

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Memorabilia line lets athletes write it in ‘In Their Own Words’ BY LEIF SKODNICK lskodnick@westfairinc.com FORMER METS OUTFIELDER MOOKIE WILSON wants you to know something about the moment for which he is most remembered. “It’s not Bill’s fault,” Wilson handwrote as part of a paragraph on a 20-by-24 photo

describing the most transcendent moment of his 12-year major league career for a new line of memorabilia for Steiner Sports. In the photo, Wilson is running after hitting what announcer Vin Scully described as a “slow roller up along first, behind the bag,” seconds before the moment that every Mets fan remembers — and every Boston Red Sox Sports, page 6

BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

he letter from City Hall came on a Saturday in September. It was the first Maria La Rocca said she had heard that the city of New Rochelle was considering eminent domain proceedings and that her family’s contracting company was one of the businesses that could possibly be uprooted. “We’re not for sale,” La Rocca told the Business Journal in a phone interview last week. “We were never for sale. We never even made that an option that we were for sale.” Flavio La Rocco and Sons Inc., which has been in business for nearly 17 years, is one of 11 properties on 4.2 acres near Flowers Park being studied by the city for its potential as the site of a new Department of Public Works yard. The current dilapidated site on Main Street is to be vacated and handed over to Twining Properties pending a deal to build a mixed-use development on Echo Bay. The letter’s arrival, La Rocca said, only gave her two days’ notice of a meeting with city officials the following Monday. She said she had been told that if the site is decided to be appropriate, negotiations to buy the properties at market rate would commence with the goal of having the properties vacated by December 2015. Flavio La Rocca, Maria’s husband, said he didn’t think the situation constituted a proper use of eminent domain. He said he was New Rochelle, page 6

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n the heavy pelting rain of the December nor’easter, Kate Bialo met us outside a warehouse building that once served as a homeless shelter on the grounds of the Westchester County Airport. It stands behind a permanently parked tractor-trailer with “Al’s Moving” lettered on its side, a navigational guide for first-time visitors to Furniture Sharehouse. “We have no heat,” said Bialo, who led us to a small rear office in the county-owned building where a tiny space heater did little to remove the flesh-penetrating chill. Our coats stayed on. “You have to be a particularly hardy person to be a volunteer here. We also don’t have a toilet. We have a porta-potty.” Its green-sided shelter in the storm was visible from an office window. “A porta-potty in February is tough.” The volunteers at Furniture Sharehouse — a nonprofit whose founder and executive director is Kate Bialo — supply comfort and warmth in other forms, and human dignity as well, to the needy clients who shop there in the company of their agency case worker or victim advocate and a personal shopper from the group’s ranks of volunteers. As Elizabeth M. wrote in a thank-you letter for the furniture donations her family had received, “Now my apartment looks like someone lives here.” A grateful social worker from Westchester Jewish Community Services wrote of that comfort and dignity given her client when she told Furniture Sharehouse staff, “Lou has gone from having only four folding chairs to a house to live in.” Lou himself said the help given him on his visit to the warehouse “was instrumental in relieving the stress that I normally experience due to my housing situation.” For Nefylena Vernon Edwards, whose family “lost a lot from a house fire” in Mount Vernon, the free furniture and shopping experience at the warehouse “turned my fears into joy” and left her “overwhelmed” and teary-eyed. “Hopefully in the future when we see brighter days, we would like to donate to your company,” she wrote. “Let it be known the furniture builds not homes but families,” the thankful client was moved to proclaim. One-third of the clients with shopping appointments at the dimly lit warehouse are single mothers, Bialo said. Elderly residents of the county and victims of domestic violence, fire and other disasters also come in. “At least 60 percent of our clients are people

who are coming out of shelters,” some of them military veterans, she said. Yonkers residents, some of whom take two buses to get to the county airport, make up the largest share of clientele, followed by Mount Vernon residents. “They all have one basic thing in common,” said Bialo, a Larchmont resident. “They’re living in empty apartments. They can’t afford to buy furniture.” “It’s a hidden need,” she said. “It’s something people don’t really think about.” An attorney no longer in practice, Bialo thought about it during her time as president and community grants coordinator of the Junior League of Westchester on the Sound. Social service workers told her of their frustration that used furniture left outside their agencies by the charity-minded could not be stored and were hauled away to dumps or carted off by scavengers before they could be distributed to needy clients. Bialo thought that a shameful waste — and acted on that thought. In 2005, she began developing her idea of a shared warehouse where donations of the large furniture could be collected and freely distributed to county residents lacking in their domestic lives what most of us take for granted. She learned about furniture banks and the National Furniture Bank Association, of which Furniture Sharehouse is a member. The startup nonprofit received grants of $20,000 from Westchester County’ s emergency shelter program and $30,000 from the Junior League of Westchester on the Sound for its first year of operation. Bialo searched about two years for space for the recycling operation. In 2007, Furniture Sharehouse leased the 6,500-square-foot warehouse from the county and began collecting donations. Volunteers celebrated its grand opening soon after a nor’easter in April that year left Westchester a federal flood disaster area. Bialo opened a temporary distribution center in flood-stricken Mamaroneck and partnered with the local Washingtonville Housing Alliance and Hispanic Resource Center to replace furniture that those agencies’ clients lost in the flooding. “That was kind of a beginning,” she said. “We were able to help 65 families in 10 days with furniture.” The new nonprofit in town also used a $10,000 flood relief grant from the Westchester Community Foundation to buy new mattresses for families. “That’s the one thing we never have enough of — beds,” Bialo said. “That is our biggest need.” It is not an open-door policy that

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Furniture Sharehouse operates by. Rather, about 30 nonprofit agencies in the county pay an annual membership fee of $150 each to bring their clients to the one-stop furniture shopping center. A $25 application fee is paid by the client or a member agency on the client’s behalf. And though Furniture Sharehouse is the only organization in Westchester to put no price on the furniture selected by clients, it does charge fees of $75 for curbside delivery and $150 for its contract driver to carry the furniture into a home. Either the client or the agency must pay that charge. Some clients cancel delivery because they can’t afford the fee, Bialo said. “While it seems it’s not that much money, it’s definitely a challenge for clients to come up with it.” The warehouse is open every Wednesday and Thursday morning. To encourage donor drop-offs at the airport site that spare the nonprofit the time and expense of home pick-ups, the warehouse also is open the third Saturday of every month. “We’re open two hours,” Bialo said. “We’re able to do five to six families in two hours.” “It’s also more efficient in the wintertime — because it’s so damned cold.” For clients, it’s “once-in-a-lifetime” shopping at Furniture Sharehouse, Bialo said. No return visits for additional furniture are allowed. “Our problem is, we have a waiting list that is about six weeks long. We feel we have to help the families that haven’t been helped before,” she said. Many have been helped in their hidden yet urgent need. Bialo said the nonprofit assisted 450 families in 2013. Since its start, it has helped about 8,500 people, about half Furniture, page 4

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CBRE acquires IVI International BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

he head of IVI International Inc., a family-owned construction consulting business headquartered on the Platinum Mile in Harrison, said he expects the company to double the size of its operations in the next five years after its recent acquisition by CBRE Group Inc. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed by the two companies when announcing the deal on Dec. 8. CBRE also acquired IVI International’s related companies. Founded in 1973 as Inspection & Valuation International by Tancredi M. de Stefanis, a commercial construction contractor in Westchester, IVI has grown to include 200 employees nationwide under the direction of the founder’s sons, Carl, Mario and Mark de Stefanis. The company, which provides construction risk management, construction cost recovery, due diligence, environmental, property condition and other consulting services for the industry’s lending institutions and equity investors, has outgrown its

headquarters space on West Red Oak Lane in Harrison. The firm has provided services to lenders and investors on more than $50 billion of real estate projects across the U.S., according to CBRE. Mark de Stefanis, director of business operations, said IVI will keep its name under CBRE’s ownership “because of the goodwill attached to that name. … We want to leverage that as long as we can.” No office consolidations or staff reductions are planned at this time, de Stefanis said. IVI has regional offices in Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles and Bethesda, Md. With business growing at an expected 20 percent to 30 percent this year and the company now providing construction risk management advice on about 400 projects nationwide, “Certainly we need all hands on deck,” said de Stefanis. “We’re extremely busy.” “IVI and all its folks are coming over” to CBRE with the acquisition, said CBRE spokesman Robert McGrath, confirming that no layoffs are planned. Mark de Stefanis, who has served as president of a related IVI business, Construction Cost Recovery Inc., said the acquired com-

pany has a vast and valuable construction cost database that can be more fully leveraged through CBRE for use by real estate owners and other clients. “It allows us to open up another line of business,” he said. As a national leader in construction risk management, IVI also brings to CBRE an added service for clients that has been “relatively untapped by CBRE,” he said. CBRE officials in the announcement said IVI will complement and enhance the expertise of CBRE’s existing Valuation and Advisory Services team, including assessment and consulting professionals, in the Americas. CBRE’s advisory services division employs more than 1,700 professionals worldwide in more than 300 major metropolitan areas, the company said. “IVI has a 40-plus-year record of providing insight and analysis that helps investors, lenders and occupiers manage risk,” said Thomas B. McDonnell, president of CBRE’s Americas Valuation & Advisory Service. “Adding IVI’s accomplished team to our existing capabilities provides a highly sought after service that we can now offer our investor, developer and lender clients throughout the country.”

Mark de Stefanis will serve as senior managing director in charge of IVI’s entire operation with CBRE, he said. His brother Carl, who served as CEO of the family’s second-generation business, will provide consulting services as needed along with brother Mario. “Joining CBRE is a big win for both our clients and employees,” de Stefanis said. “CBRE affords us a significantly broader platform — both geographically and across an array of services — to serve our clients, and our people will have enhanced career development opportunities as we integrate with CBRE’s professionals across the country and around the world.” Selling the IVI business was “tough” for its family owners, said de Stefanis. “This was Carl’s baby. I helped work in it with him and Mario and grew it to where it is today. I needed some convincing” to proceed with the sale. Working 11 months on the deal with CBRE professionals, he developed trust in IVI’s new partners and owner, he said. “I certainly see in the next five years we can double the size of our operation with the CBRE platform,” de Stefanis said.

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Banquet servers sue DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Workers claim they weren’t paid overtime and tips BY LEIF SKODNICK lskodnick@westfairinc.com

even banquet waiters are suing a Tarrytown hotel and its banquet and food service managers, claiming the servers had been underpaid wages and gratuities for as long as seven years. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in White Plains, alleges the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Tarrytown and its general manager, Richard Friedman, food and beverage manager David Ribbens and two banquet managers, Norma Abdou and Nurul Haque, failed to pay the banquet servers overtime and tips, even though the plaintiffs regularly worked more than 40 hours per week and banquet customers were billed for service fees. “What we’re saying is the employer had practices in place over a long period of time that deprived our clients of the minimum wage and overtime wages they were entitled to,” said Jack Malley, a partner at Yonkers law firm Smith, Buss &

Jacobs LLP, which is representing the banquet servers in the suit. “In addition, they were not paid tips and gratuities they were entitled to, either.” According to the 25-page complaint, the seven plaintiffs, Carlos Ocampo, Igor Morozov, Jorge Villanueva, Amaury Ortiz, Plinio Retana, Manuel Calderon and Sutee Monchaitanapat, worked more than 40 hours a week, sometimes more than 60, but were paid for 40 hours each week regardless of how many hours they actually worked. They thus were denied overtime pay they were due, according to the complaint. The seven plaintiffs also claim that, according to New York labor law, the hotel failed to provide receipts for pooled gratuities collected from customers and a formula for how pooled gratuities would be distributed. Additionally, the plaintiffs allege the hotel was collecting an 11 percent “service charge,” which the plaintiffs claim under New York law must be paid to the servers unless the hotel told customers that it would not be. Since the suit was filed under the

federal Fair Labor Standards Act, it is an “opt-in” collective action, meaning current or former employees of the DoubleTree in Tarrytown wishing to file a claim in the case will be able to, provided that the court certifies there is a group of individuals with similar claims. Reached by phone, Friedman, the general manager of the hotel, declined to comment on the lawsuit and on whether he had an attorney representing him. None of the defendants had an attorney appear in the case on their behalf as of press time. As well as naming the hotel and the four managers as defendants, the suit also lists DoubleTree Hotel Systems Inc. and DoubleTree Franchise LLC, the franchisors of the DoubleTree hotel chain. A voicemail left on a media relations hotline for Hilton Worldwide, the parent company of DoubleTree Franchise LLC, was not returned. The case, styled Ocampo et al v. 455 Hospitality LLC et al, is number 7:14-vc09614 and is assigned to Judge Kenneth M. Karas.

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of whom are children. “We have given away 49,000 pieces of furniture since we’ve been open. That’s 49,000 pieces of furniture that would have gone into the waste stream. We’ve given 49,000 pieces of furniture new life.” The nonprofit’s service to the county’s needy was recognized this year by Impact100 Westchester, a year-old women’s philanthropic group, which awarded Furniture Sharehouse a $100,000 grant to buy a custom-built delivery truck for its operation. (See related story on page 7.) The new diesel truck — a manufacturer’s delay in building an 18-foot box for it has held up shipment — will allow larger loads to be picked up on each trip, “which will increase our efficiency,” Bialo said. “We’re going to organize — I won’t call it a visibility tour, but a new truck tour,” she said. Dave Vitullo, Furniture Sharehouse’s busy driver, stepped out of the storm and into the office as we spoke. “I’ve gotta unload yesterday’s,” he told Bialo. “Any beds in that batch?” she asked. “Three twins,” he said. It made for a good haul on a lousy day in Westchester.

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disappointed with the actions of the city after living in New Rochelle for 36 years, graduating from the high school and raising five children. “Having built my business by myself, I think it is unfair to have your property that you worked so hard for be pulled from under your feet with this abuse of power,” he told City Council members Dec. 2 during a meeting at which they declared the council lead agency under state environmental quality review laws. Ten businesses, a city skate park and one residential property are included in the potential site, which is now being surveyed

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fan wishes they could forget. It’s a chilly night at Shea Stadium on Oct. 25, 1986, Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. What happened seconds later, described by the next four words out of Scully’s mouth, “It gets through Buckner!” made Wilson an instant hero in New York’s baseball lore. The ball squirted under the glove of Boston first baseman Bill Buckner. Ray Knight came in to score the winning run and the Mets denied the Red Sox the 1986 World Series championship, forcing a Game 7 showdown at Shea Stadium two nights later, when the team known for boozing and brawling won the franchise’s second World Series title. For years, Buckner was an object of fan’s derision. He was frequently booed by fans at Fenway Park and elsewhere, and was released by Boston before the 1987 All-Star break. But Wilson wants fans to remember that a lot came before that ball slipped through Buckner’s wickets — that with Boston leading 5-3, Gary Carter singled with the Mets down to their last strike to start a rally. That Kevin Mitchell had a pinch hit single, and then Ray Knight singled, scoring Carter. That Red Sox reliever Bob Stanley threw a wild pitch that allowed Mitchell to score and tie the game at 5-5. It wasn’t Bill’s fault. Such thoughts are what Scarsdale resident and sports memorabilia maven Brandon Steiner hoped to capture with the new “In Their Own Words” series, which features handwritten reminiscences on photos of more than 50 great sports moments by the athletes who lived them. For Steiner, who has expanded the idea of what constitutes memorabilia to include just about everything athletes wear and use

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and inspected to determine the environmental and economic feasibility of construction there. Property owners and some homeowners from the residential neighborhood that abuts the area have teamed with some of the business owners to form a group in opposition to the proposal called New Rochelle United Against Eminent Domain. Homeowners expressed concern about how construction of the city yard, aside from potentially displacing businesses, might affect traffic or pose a safety risk to neighborhood children. Mayor Noam Bramson, a Democrat, said it was early in the process and premature

during a season, including the very grass and dirt they play on, it’s another unique idea in the memorabilia industry that links fans’ favorite moments to the player’s deepest thoughts about them. “I try to stay a fan and think of what people want. What do they want? The dirt was simple. I was looking at Derek Jeter, and only one person can get the jersey he’s wearing, but what about that dirt he’s standing on? When I got on the field, I wanted to grab some of it, and I figured I wasn’t alone,” Steiner said at a launch party for the line, held at Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse at Grand Central Terminal and attended by nearly 20 retired athletes including Wilson, Buckner, Magic Johnson, Brian Leetch and Robert Tyree. Founded in 1987, Steiner Sports has partnerships with the New York Yankees, Madison Square Garden and the Brooklyn Nets to sell team-related memorabilia, and with more than 40 athletes, including Derek Jeter, Peyton Manning, Chris Paul, Henrik Lundqvist and Joe Mauer, to market autographed items. And while Steiner Sports, now owned by OmniCom, has lost team partnerships with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers, Steiner said the ending of those partnerships was not a major misfortune. “To me, those are learning experiences. They weren’t downs, they were just — team partnerships are quirky. When you go to the West Coast, the Dodgers are a great team, don’t get me wrong, but the fan base wasn’t there to support it,” Steiner said. “Losing those teams were not big downs — economy and fans and how they react are downers, but those teams were just minor blips.” Steiner said he is generally excited about “In Their Own Words,” as he sees it as a way

to assume that the site would be deemed usable for a new city yard. “The only thing the council has voted on is that the site is potentially a property,” he said. A number of questions remain that may take the property out of consideration, not the least of which could be the estimated price tag. Anticipating the Echo Bay development several years ago, the city planned to relocate the city yard to Beechwood Avenue on the West End. The council bonded $25 million for that relocation but saw construction estimates balloon to upward of $30 million. The majority of those bonds are still tagged and available for the construction. Since the

Fifth Avenue site is only half the size of the current city yard, Bramson said even if it is chosen as the location of the new city yard the Beechwood Avenue location would still house some maintenance operations. The Beechwood Avenue location remains on the table as an alternate to the Fifth Avenue site, the mayor said, but there are no other sites under consideration that are “operationally, fiscally realistic.” City Manager Chuck Strome said at a September meeting that if the Fifth Avenue site ended up being chosen for the new city yard, New Rochelle would make “every attempt to have a friendly acquisition” of the properties there.

From left, Bill Buckner, Mookie Wilson and Brandon Steiner listen as former New York Rangers defenseman Brian Leetch describes winning the 1994 Conn Smythe Trophy.

to preserve history while athletes can say what was really on their minds. “With Mookie, we were sitting in the office and came up with this idea about Game 6. We said, ‘Nobody knows what really happened. We should go to Mookie and ask him about it,’ and that’s what spurred the whole thing on,” Steiner said. “When we’re sitting with these guys, they’re telling us a story that no one else knows.” To Wilson, what happened in the bottom of the 10th inning of Game 6 isn’t a story that no one else knows, it’s a story that everyone seems to have forgotten. “So many people, they get caught up in the moment and the only thing they remember is the last thing that happened, and the last thing that happened is the error,” Wilson told the Business Journal. “There were a lot of other things that

happened right there, so no, it wasn’t all his fault,” Wilson said of Buckner’s error and the loss that forced Boston fans to wait 18 more seasons for a World Series title. Wilson, now 23 years removed from his final major league game, said he can’t believe the expansion of the memorabilia industry. “I gave away everything. I gave it to people to auction it off for charities, or just people who wanted it,” Wilson said. “But that’s what baseball is. Let’s face it — this is New York. And I’ve been to a lot of cities, but this city embraces its athletes more than any other city.” Mookie Wilson’s 20-by-24 signed “’86 Buckner Game” photo retails for $609. And one more thing. “You probably don’t remember Paul Simon sang the National Anthem that night,” Wilson wrote at the bottom of the photo.

Impact100 raises grants and women’s awareness BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

fledgling women’s collective giving group in Westchester County that is part of a national movement in philanthropy is accepting applications from nonprofits in the county for its second year of grant awards. Founded by six women, Impact100 Westchester a year ago recruited 132 members to donate $1,000 each toward the nonprofit’s first major grant award in 2014, said Sharon Douglas, co-president of Impact100 Westchester. The organization, one of 18 independently run Impact100 charities formed by women in communities around the country since its inception in Cincinnati in 2001, aims to award high-impact or “transformational” grants for projects proposed by Westchester nonprofits that reach underserved residents, raise the profile of lesser-known organizations and point out unmet needs in the region. Its first grant award this year was $100,000. In the grant review process, Impact100 carries out another part of its mission — “to educate our members about what is going on in Westchester County outside our own bubble,” Douglas said. “It’s very hands-on and very democratic,” said Douglas, a longtime volunteer for Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization

of America. Members — the Impact100 groups seek to recruit at least 100 women who join with $1,000 donations — visit the sites of grant applicants’ proposed projects and cast equal votes at the group’s annual June meeting when selecting the top awardee from four finalists. “We have plenty of sisters” as members, Douglas said. “We have mothers and daughters. It grew especially by word of mouth.” Douglas was introduced to Impact100’s charitable work by a college friend in Philadelphia who had gotten involved in that city’s Impact100 group. As a Westchester resident, “I’ve just been bothered that we can live with so much wealth and so much poverty side by side, and no one does anything about it,” she said. She decided to import the Impact100 model to Westchester. All of the members’ $1,000 donations are applied to the grant awards, Douglas 0630 ad_Layout 1 8/25/14 2:06 PM Page 1

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northern Westchester County real estate agency is the first in the county to join Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, the residential real estate franchise brand launched last year by HomeServices of America Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, and Brookfield Asset Management. Prudential River Towns Real Estate will join the national brokerage network and begin operating as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices River Towns Real Estate in mid-December, said a spokesman for the companies. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices is operated by HSF Affiliates LLC, whose majority owner is HomeServices of America, the second-largest residential brokerage firm in the U.S. HSF also operates the Prudential Real Estate and Real Living Real Estate affiliate networks. — John Golden

using the $100,000 award to purchase the furniture bank’s own truck for pickups and deliveries. Impact100 also awarded smaller grants to help cover operating costs to three runners-up — Yonkers Partners in Education, Something Good In The World Inc., an environmental education organization in northern Westchester and Clay Art Center in Port Chester. Douglas said the group hopes to raise $150,000 this month in its second membership drive. In 2015, “We want to double our impact,” she said. The amount of the 2015 grant will be announced on Jan. 5. The grant is expected to be between $75,000 and $100,000. Awards will be announced next June. For more information on Impact100 and the online grant application process, go to the group’s website at impact100westchester.org.

said. Additional donations by members are used to cover fundraising and administrative costs. The organization reviews applications in four categories: arts and culture, education, environment and health and wellness. Volunteer committees choose a finalist from each category for the grant. Impact100 this year awarded its inaugural $100,000 grant to Furniture Sharehouse, a 7-year-old nonprofit operating at the Westchester County Airport that collects donated furniture and distributes it to formerly homeless families and other Westchester residents, some of whom have been left dispossessed by eviction from their homes, fire or flood. Some are victims of domestic violence leaving social agency shelters for independent living. (See related story on page 2.) Furniture Sharehouse directors are

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INBRIEF NYMC JOINS START-UP NY A third Westchester County college has joined Start-Up NY, a program that gives tax incentives to new businesses on school campuses across the state. New York Medical College has designated 11,800 square feet of research space on its Valhalla campus, including its new biotechnology incubator called BioInc@ NYMC, for the Empire State Development Corp. initiative. The biotech incubator will provide clients with access to lab equipment and workforce training suites while fostering collaboration between researchers, academics and entrepreneurs, according to a college press release. “Through Start-Up NY, we are linking the talent base and experience of our faculty with the energy and innovative spirit of the private sector,” said Dr. Robert W. Amler, vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice. BioInc@NYMC is a public-private enter-

prise, combining resources from the federal government, New York state, Westchester County and the college. The state provided a total of $7.9 million — from Empire State Development and the Generating Employment Through New York State Science program. The project was designated as a top priority in 2011, 2012 and 2014 by Empire State Development’s MidHudson Regional Economic Development Council. “Establishment of a tax-free zone on the campus of NYMC, amidst the biomedical research milieu of the college, will supply the critical support infrastructure that high-technology companies are seeking for their highly technical research,” said Alan Kadish, the president and CEO of the Touro College and University System, which includes NYMC. Earlier this year, Iona College and the College of New Rochelle joined the StartUp NY program. Those schools, in New Rochelle, are reviewing applications for businesses to be located on their campuses starting in 2015. Start-Up NY was pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and authorized by the state Legislature in 2013. It offers enter-

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RESTAURANTS OPEN AT CROSS COUNTY Two restaurants were set to open recently at the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers. The dining chains LongHorn Steakhouse and Olive Garden are opening locations at the shopping center, which has more than 1 million square feet of retail space. “Over the last six years Cross County Shopping Center has added nearly 50 new stores and restaurants,” said Liz Pollack, the senior manager of marketing for Macerich, Cross County Shopping Center’s

management company, in a press release. “We are continually adding new stores and dining options to meet the needs and demands of the market. The brands we are adding are family-friendly and will complement the existing mix.” The 6,359-square-foot LongHorn Steakhouse opened with a ribbon-cutting Dec. 8 with Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano. It seats more than 220 guests and will create approximately 80 to 100 jobs, according to the Macerich announcement. LongHorn Steakhouse operates more than 470 restaurants in 40 states. A ribbon-cutting Dec. 12, after press time, was scheduled to officially open the 8,334-square-foot Olive Garden restaurant, which can host more than 230 guests and will create approximately 170 jobs, according to the announcement. At the intersection of Cross County Parkway and the New York State Thruway, the open-air retail center was built in 1954. The center is anchored by Macy’s, Sears, Super Stop & Shop and National Amusement Multiplex Theatre, and has more than 100 retailers. The center is managed by Macerich, which manages 60 shopping centers nationwide.

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MEDICAL GROUP JOINS MVP HEALTH CARE The Mount Kisco Medical Group has joined the MVP Health Care network to provide services to Medicare Advantage customers in Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster and Columbia counties, the two companies jointly announced Dec. 8. Founded in 1946, the Mount Kisco Medical Group includes more than 300 physicians at 30 offices in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties. The multispecialty group practice will add 150 clinicians at nine locations as of Jan. 1, when physicians of the Mid-Hudson Medical Group are expected to individually join the Mount Kisco Medical Group after its acquisition of the Mid-Hudson group practice headquartered in Fishkill.

APARTMENTS PLANNED IN MAMARONECK The new owner of a commercial property in downtown Mamaroneck plans to convert it into a mixed-use apartment building. Palladium Management LLC in Manhattan announced on Dec. 8 that it has closed on its $1.35 million acquisition of 151 Mamaroneck Ave. in an off-market all-cash

transaction. The 14,000-square-foot retail and showroom property has Chatsworth Auction Rooms and Furniture Studios as its longtime tenant. David Roth, principal of Palladium Management, said his company plans a core and shell renovation to convert the property into 12 loft-style apartments and 3,000 square feet of retail space on Mamaroneck Avenue. Papp Architects in White Plains has been retained to design the building, he said. Palladium also acquired two smaller adjacent properties at 133 and 139 E. Prospect Ave. in the deal. The purchase “is consistent with our strategy across Westchester County — to acquire and re-imagine properties in irreplaceable locations,” Roth said in the announcement. Roth said Chatsworth Auction Rooms, a 90-year-old family-owned business, will remain in the building until the start of construction. Chatsworth’s five-level showroom has been a fixture in the building since 1938. “The tenancy for the retail portion of the building upon completion is undetermined at this point in time,” Roth said.

HOSPITAL TOPS OUT EXPANSION PROJECT

BUSINESS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS

Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck marked the completion of its Medical Arts Pavilion steel framework with a topping out ceremony this month. Hospital staff, board members and representatives of the project developer, Kirchhoff Medical Properties, watched as the final steel beam adorned with an American f lag was hoisted into place. The $47 million expansion project will add private patient rooms, state-of-the-art operating suites and doctor’s offices to the hospital, one of three Health Quest hospitals in Dutchess and Putnam counties. Project updates can be found at ndhmovinghealthcareforward.com.

The Business Council of Westchester has promoted two senior staff members to new positions in the organization. Sara James was named vice president of membership and programs and Allison Calvert was promoted to director of special events, Business Council President and CEO Marsha Gordon announced. Joining the Business Council in 2011, James most recently served as director of sales, marketing and business development. In her broadened role, she will be responsible for the development and retention of membership, identifying strategic business alliances and benefits for members and expanding the Business Council’s presence in the business and corporate community. Calvert came to the Business Council from the American Red Cross in 2012 as a special events coordinator. She coordinates and plans more than 80 events a year and also oversees budgets and outreach and manages the Rising Star Alumni Council, which includes more than 400 members. Her new role will expand those responsibilities, Gordon said. — Leif Skodnick and John Golden

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ASK ANDI

BY ANDI GRAY

Managing to keep key employees We have a couple of people who are really important to the business. We call them our key employees. It’s no joking matter — I worry about it all the time. If one of our key employees were to leave, or if something happened to them, we’d be at a huge disadvantage. How do I protect the business from something bad happening to these important individuals? THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Key employees have probably earned the right to that designation over time. Keeping people engaged is essential to the well-being of the company. Protecting the business from unexpected

events is part of any owner’s job. Know what your people want, where they’re going and how your company fits into their overall plans. Make sure to build backup solutions as part of a well-rounded contingency plan. Key employees are called that for a variety of reasons. Some have unique knowledge of the business. Others have special skills that are hard to replace. Some provide a level of support or planning that has taken a long time to figure out how to do. Some could be very valuable to competitors. When thinking about how to protect the company from the loss of a key employee, the first step is to ensure you know who is considered to be key. There are reasons why people are considered essential. The list usually includes more than the top executive. Think about who in your company might be

seriously missed or difficult to replace if they left or couldn’t make it in for work. Take time to reflect on each key individual. Is he fully engaged with the work he’s doing? Is she aware that the company values her contributions? Are plans in sync — yours for where you want to take the company, theirs for what they want to achieve. Do you even know what each key employee wants personally and professionally? Many business owners, used to being in the position of command and control, make the mistake of assuming they should map out a future for each key employee. Actually, it’s a two-way street, starting with a dialogue about the future. Have an open and frank conversation with each key person — where do they want to be in three to five years, what does their life look like, what would

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cause them to say they were satisfied, what concerns do they have. Listen carefully, without judgment. Try not to take control. Be open to the possibility that the person you’re talking to may want to go somewhere else for work sometime in the future. Tune in to what motivates each individual, and what needs each has. Think about how you can use the resources of your company to help each key individual achieve what they want as they help to get your company get where you want it to go. Be willing to think outside the box as to how you can help a key employee, but make sure it’s a fair trade. Do they want to get additional education? Offer that, with the agreement that they’ll stick around for a period of time postgraduation, or reimburse part of the tuition if they leave sooner. Planning to have a family? Consider flexible work schedules. Many key employees work long hours and have concerns that they may not be able to spend quality time with their family. Get backup so they can. Consider ways to bond people to the company. Ask every key employee about why the company is important to them. It may be how your company treats its employees. It may be about the type of work or the clients served. It may be about the community they share. Look for common themes you can build on to create a culture to bond people together. It may be possible to meet employees’ financial growth needs through profit sharing. Shares of stock may be valuable, but make sure to keep ownership internally focused by having a stock ownership agreement that requires shares to be returned to the company when the employee leaves. Make cross training a requirement for every key employee. It may take more than one employee to perform the functions of one key employee. Whatever it takes, make sure that someone can back up every key employee so that they can take a vacation, get sick, move on to learn something else or even leave the company, and the company continues to function well. Looking for a good book? Try “Retaining Your Best Employees” by Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J. Phillips. Andi Gray is president of Strate�y Leaders Inc., strate�yleaders.com, a business-consulting �irm that specializes in helping entrepreneurial �irms grow. She can be reached by phone at 877-238-3535. Do you have a question for Andi? Send it via email to AskAndi@strate�yleaders. Visit AskAndi.com for an entire library of Ask Andi articles.

THELIST: HOME HEALTH CARE AGENCIES

WESTCHESTER COUNTY

Listed alphabetically.

Barksdale Home Care Services Corp. *

327 Fifth Ave., Pelham 10803 738-5600 • barksdaleathome.com

Cabrini Care at Home **

220 E. 19 St., New York City 10003 212-995-7080 • cabrini-eldercare.org

Cabrini of Westchester

115 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry10522 693-6800, ext. 551 • cabrini-eldercare.org

Calvary Home Care and Home Hospice*

1740 Eastchester Road, Bronx 10461 718-518-2465 • calvaryhospital.org

Cancer Support Team

2900 Westchester Ave., Suite 103, Mamaroneck 10577 777-2780 • cancersupportteam.org

Dominican Sisters Family Health Service * 299 N. Highland Ave., Ossining 10562 941-1654 • dsfhs.org

The Esplanade Senior Residences *

95 S. Broadway, White Plains 10601 761-8100 • esplanadesenior.com

Family Service Society of Yonkers 30 S. Broadway, Yonkers 10701 963-5118 • fssy.org

Family Services of Westchester

1 Gateway Plaza, Port Chester 10573 937-2320 • fsw.org

Home Health Services of Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc.

845 N. Broadway, White Plains 10603 761-0600 • wjcs.com

Home Instead Senior Care

77 Tarrytown Road, White Plains 10607 2051 Baldwin Road, Yorktown Heights 10598 997-0400 • homeinstead.com/557

Rosa K. Barksdale barksdaleceo@verizon.net 1982 Patricia Krasnausky, president and CEO Natalie Carey ncarey@cabrini-eldercare.com 2002 Patricia Krasnausky, president and CEO Natalie Carey ncarey@cabrini-eldercare.com 1973 Nancy D'Agostino fnunziata@calvaryhospital.com 1899

Mary J. Zagajeski MS, RN President and CEO 1879 Doron Kathein dkathein@esplanadewhiteplains.com 1970's

Lawrence Home Care of Westchester

Phelps Hospice

701 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow 10591 366-3325 • phelpshospital.org

Vision Homecare Services Inc.

271 North Ave., Suite 304, New Rochelle 10801 576-5051 • visionhomecareservices.com

Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley *

540 White Plains Road, Suite 300, Tarrytown 10591 666-7616 • vnahv.org

VNS Westchester

(Affiliate agency: Westchester Care at Home) 360 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains 10605 682-1480 • vns.org

Visiting Nurse Association Home Health Services *

540 White Plains Road, Suite 300, Tarrytown 10591 666-7079 • vnahv.org

The Wartburg Adult Care Community - Home Health Care Services *

56 Harrison St., Fifth floor, New Rochelle 10801 278-9131 • thewartburg.org

Westchester Care at Home (Affiliate agency: VNS Westchester)

360 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains 10605 997-7912 • vns.org

trained home health aides

speech therapy

support for caregivers

respite care

skilled nursing

physical therapy

nutrition counseling

occupational therapy

hospice at home

medical equipment

flu, pneumonia prevention

private insurance

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Care transitions, wound care; pain and diabetes management; cardiac care; maternal, infant and child care; pastoral care, psychiatric nursing, social work

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Susan B. Wayne, president and CEO fsw@fsw.org 1954

Brian Trainor brian.trainor@homeinstead.com 2004

Bathing assistance and nurse assessments

Palliative home care; full range of social work services; 24-hour telephone access to a registered nurse; help with long-term planning

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Hospice Care in Westchester and Putnam

670 White Plains Road, Suite 213, Scarsdale 10583 787-6158 • lawrencehomecare.org

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Mary K. Spengler, executive director hbenedict@hospiceofwestchester.org 1992

540 White Plains Road, Suite 300, Tarrytown 10591 666-4228 • vnahv.org

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Rosalie Canosa, LCSW, director and Lucille Winton, RN, director of patient support services rcanosa@cancersupportteam.org 1978

Hospice & Palliative Care of Westchester *

311 North St., Suite 204, White Plains 10605 682-1484 • hospiceofwestchester.com

Medicare

Type(s) of insurance accepted

Blue Cross

Top local executive(s) Email address Year company established managed care

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Michele A. Quirolo, president and CEO hhs@vnahv.org 1992

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David Gentner, president and CEO info@thewartburg.org 1866

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Affordable housing, adult day service, assisted living

Additional services provided by Westchester Care at Home's affiliate agency, VNS Westchester

This is a listing of home health care services that serve the region. If you wish your service to be included in our next listing, please contact Danielle Renda at drenda@westfairinc.com Note: This list features information from our questionnaire, phone interviews with facility personnel and facility websites. * Information from 2013 listing, ** Serves Westchester County.

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County lawmakers approve budget Critics say plan is ‘kicking the can down the road’

BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

estchester County lawmakers passed a $1.8 billion budget for 2015, avoiding layoffs and keeping the tax levy flat but drawing criticisms for a reliance on borrowing and deferred pension spending. The budget was passed by a 10-person majority of the 17-member Board of Legislators, with three Democrats joining all seven Republicans to vote in favor of the spending plan. The legislators’ final budget reduced the amount that will be borrowed to pay back-tax settlements to $5 million from the $8 million proposed by County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican. “This is a smart and responsible budget that protects the interests of all county residents,” Astorino said in a press release following the budget vote. “It strikes the right balance between taxes and services.” The budget increases spending by 0.5 percent, part of which will be offset by increases in revenue such as an anticipated 4 percent jump in sales taxes. The compromised budget included an additional $687,000 to Title XX, the county’s subsidized day care program that covers families making up to three times more than the federal poverty level. The budget will defer $15 million in mandatory pension contributions, a move that drew criticism from most board Democrats. The county will pay $76 million of its total

$91 million pension obligation but will use a state amortization program that essentially allows a municipality to borrow from Albany for its contribution to the fund, then pay back the borrowed amount with interest over 10 years. Legislator Alfreda Williams, a Greenburgh Democrat, said the borrowing would affect budgets in future years. “We are kicking the can down the road — not the long-distance road, but the very, very short road,” she said. She also criticized the budget for delaying needed repairs and foregoing strengthening social programs in favor of keeping the tax levy flat. Legislator Ken Jenkins, a Yonkers Democrat, said the budget proposal “should have been dead on arrival.” “It was structurally imbalanced when it came down to us,” he said. The administration had said during the budget process that the alternative to deferred pension payments and borrowing would be mass layoffs of up to 200 employees. Jenkins said there were other options, including increasing the tax rate — a 1 percent increase, he said, would have avoided the $5 million in borrowing. When Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the county’s bond rating last year — from its highest rating, AAA, to AA1 — it cited “structural imbalances” in budgets from prior amortization as a factor in the decision. Democratic Legislator Peter Harckham, of North Salem, said Astorino “is financing his zero perfect budget with our children’s credit card.”

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Westchester Board of Legislators Chairman Michael Kaplowitz in his office. File photo by Mark Lungariello

Even legislators who supported the budget said that the decisions made for 2015 would affect future budgets. But Republican Sheila Marcotte, a representative from Tuckahoe, said that the mandate from residents was clear — that they didn’t want tax increases. “We have done our best to deliver that,” Marcotte, the board’s Budget Committee chairwoman, said. Although the amount of county taxes to be collected will remain flat at $545 million, the impact on individual tax bills can vary based on equalization rates, which differ from municipality to municipality. County

taxes may increase or decrease on individual tax bills based on the varying rates between communities and changing assessments. County taxes make up roughly 20 percent of an average property owner’s bill — with 60 percent coming from school district taxes and the remainder coming from city, town, village and special district taxes. The Westchester budget does not affect those other aspects of a property owner’s bill. Legislators also approved $276 million in the annual capital budget for work that includes infrastructure repairs to county buildings and roadway work.

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New water rates take effect after merger BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

ater rates for many Westchester County business owners and residents jumped Dec. 5, the result of a merger between two sister companies that was approved by a state utilities regulator last month. The Public Service Commission approved rate hikes that will cost some United Water customers as much as $20 more per month by the end of a three-year period. Bills will now come monthly as opposed to quarterly. The PSC announced its decision Nov. 23, touting the rate increases as having minimized the impact on ratepayers because the agency approved a total of $10.2 million in rate increases over the three-year period while the utilities had proposed $14.4 million in increases. The PSC said it agreed to the doubedigit hike to cover increases in operational expenses and property taxes, among other costs. PSC Chairwoman Audrey Zibelman said the agreement was the result of negotiations between “normally adversarial parties.” “It will allow the company to continue to provide safe and reliable services while allowing customers the ability to budget their funds knowing rates increases will be fixed over the term Film Conversion Ad White.pdf

of the three-year rate plan, thereby balancing customer interests and the financial viability of the company,” she said. The merger combines United Water New Rochelle Inc. and United Water Westchester Inc., both of which are owned by the French conglomerate Suez Environnement. They will operate under the name United Water Westchester. The previously existing companies shared some services but said the merger will reduce administrative costs by $187,000 in the first year alone. The new company will keep two different rate districts for customers. The 144,000 customers of United Water New Rochelle, which serves areas including New Rochelle, Eastchester and Pelham, will see their water rates increase an average of 13 percent in year one of the plan, 7.5 percent in year two and 7 percent in year three. The average monthly residential bill will increase from $68.50 to $89.05 by October 2017. United Water Westchester’s 54,000 customers in Rye, Rye Brook and Port Chester will see their rates increase about 2.4 percent overall, pumping up the average residential water bill from $67.17 to $68.81 by the third year. The rate hikes would be larger for United Water New Rochelle customers because the company has more infrastructure than its counterpart, according to a spokeswoman.

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Social Security Administration renews lease

The increases were approved despite opposition from a consortium of nine local communities. Bronxville Mayor Mary Marvin, a Republican and attorney by trade, said in her weekly newsletter that the consortium would not appeal the decision because of legal costs and the unlikelihood it would be reversed based on municipal appeals case law. “After a cost-benefit analysis, we determined that these legal remedies do not make economic sense,” she said. At a public hearing at New Rochelle City Hall on Aug. 5, city resident Joyce Furfero told commission representatives she did not understand why allowing a merger meant also raising rates. “If anything, we should be lowering rates as a result of a merger,” she said. In a recent interview with the Business Journal, United Water spokeswoman Deb Rizzi said the two main cost drivers for the companies are infrastructure and capital investments. She said the company has spent an average of $1,300 per customer connection in the last five years and expects to invest heavily in upgrading infrastructure. Rizzi said as much as 27 percent of a customer’s bill goes to paying real estate and franchise taxes. “These rates meet our needs and they are substantial,” she said.

he U.S. Social Security Administration renewed its longterm lease at 297 Knollwood Road in Greenburgh, where it has been the anchor tenant for nearly 20 years. The federal agency’s 10,152-squarefoot office, opened in 1995, occupies the entire fourth floor of the fully leased 35,000-square-foot office building, according to GHP Office Realty LLC, the office building division of Houlihan-Parnes Realtors LLC in Harrison. Jamie Schwartz, executive vice president of GHP, represented the building owner in the transaction. The U.S. General Services Administration represented the Social Security Administration. — John Golden

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Wow clients with holiday gifts from local businesses

he holidays are the perfect time to let your clients and staff know how much you value them. It’s also a time when countless other businesses are doing the same and competing for brand visibility. To ensure that your brand stands out from the crowd, go beyond the trite gift basket. Instead, consider thoughtful, original gifts that also support local business this holiday season.

CULTURAL EXCHANGE

• Subscription to Manhattanville College’s Castle Conversations speaker series at Reid Castle in Purchase. Enjoy four evenings of diverse viewpoints, thoughtprovoking insights and fascinating analysis during this exclusive subscription-based speaker series. In 2015, Manhattanville College will welcome four titans who will share their keen perceptions on the dynamics shaping our world today: media luminary Arianna Huffington (March 25), legendary journalist Dan Rather (June 24), worldrenowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (Sept. 9), and Pulitzer prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin (Dec. 2). WNYC host Leonard Lopate and WQXR onair personality Elliott Forrest will serve as

event emcees. Subscriptions for the series, presented by MasterCard, start at $250 with multiple levels of VIP packages available, including intimate pre-lecture dining experiences and post-lecture receptions with the featured speakers. CastleConversations.org; 914-323-1277. • Membership at Jacob Burns Film Center. Give the gift of cinematic excellence. The Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville is a cultural institution dedicated to presenting the best of cinema. Housing a state-of-theart theater complex, a 27,000-square-foot Media Arts Lab and a residence for international filmmakers, the Jacob Burns campus provides opportunities for people of all ages to learn about the power of film. Members of the Jacob Burns Film Center become part of Westchester’s premier film community and receive benefits like discounts, complimentary tickets and invitations to intimate members-only events with notable actors and directors. Individual memberships start at $75, with packages ranging to $750. BurnsFilmCenter.org; 914-773-7663. MIND AND BODY: GET IN THE SPIRIT • Golf, exercise and spa services from Clay Health Club and Spa. Rejuvenate

your clients’ and employees’ mind, body and spirit this holiday season — they’ll be just as thankful for you as you are for them. Clay Health Club and Spa, a luxury wellness center that opened in September in Port Chester, offers an array of unique amenities including customized nutritional programs, bloodwork and hormone testing/analysis to optimize personal training, and a fitness center and full-service spa. Clay is also the only health club in the country to offer the NASAdeveloped technology Gears 3-D golf swing analysis to improve any golfer’s technique. A 60-minute golf swing evaluation is $250; massage therapy begins at $60. InsideClay. com; 914-937-5000. • Weekly deliveries of fresh produce from Field Goods. For the health-minded, bring natural, locally sourced food to their plates. Delivering to workplace and community locations in nine Hudson Valley counties, Field Goods offers subscriptions and single-week deliveries of more than 150 different varieties of local, fresh fruit and vegetables to keep clients and employees happy and healthy. Field Goods works with farmers who pride themselves on growing the best tasting varieties, many of which are not available in the grocery stores. Subscriptions

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• Famous Brownies with a mission from Greyston Bakery. Supporting a cause this holiday season is one sweet form of gratitude that a client or employee will certainly appreciate. Renowned for making the brownies in Ben & Jerry’s chocolate fudge ice cream, Greyston Bakery operates under the mantra “We don’t hire people to make brownies, we bake brownies to hire people.” For more than 30 years, the bakery has maintained a unique open hiring policy, offering employment opportunities to those in need of a second chance. Greyston’s “do-good” brownies come in four delectable varieties — chocolate fudge, pumpkin spice blondie, brown sugar blondie and toasted coconut — and are available in a variety of gift boxes, including a customizable keepsake birchwood box that can display company logos. Gift packages range from $7 to $75. Greyston.com; 914-375-1510. Stacey Cohen is president of Co-Communications Inc. in Mount Kisco, with satellite of�ices in Connecticut and New York City. She can be reached by email at stacey@cocommunications.com or by phone at 914-666-0066.

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Forum Explores ObamaCare One Year Later The Business Council of Westchester has launched an exciting new program that offers business leaders and members of the community exotic trips to Portugal, Ireland and India. The trips begin next year and are a great way to see the world while traveling with friends, family and colleagues. And with prices as low as $3,000 for 10 days, it’s a deal that’s hard to beat. “We’ve put together a top-notch program that the most discerning travelers would appreciate,” said Marsha Gordon, president and CEO of The Business Council of Westchester. “We’re working with businesses that have had tremendous success – across the country and internationally – and we’re excited to offer this travel program to the people of Westchester.” The Business Council is partnering with Collette Travel and Indus Travel and all of the arrangements are being handled by Caprice Travel Agency, a Business Council member based in Yonkers.

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Incredible India: March 19-29, 2015. This 10 day tour of India explores the three highlights of North India: Delhi, Jaipur and Agra. Guests will explore the Amber Fort at Jaipur, visit the incredible Taj Mahal at sunrise, and marvel at Delhi’s impressive architecture and history while taking advantage of business networking opportunities. Sunny Portugal: May 15-24, 2015. Enjoy a historic land of the great explorers while discovering ancient castles, Roman ruins, groves of lemon and almond trees and quaint whitewashed villages, not to mention the country’s kind and friendly people. Highlights include Cascais, Lisbon, Jeronimo’s Monastery, Fatima, Monsaraz, and the Alentejo countryside as well as two winery tours and five UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Shades of Ireland: November 3-12, 2015. Travel to the magical Emerald Isle while enjoying the landscapes of rolling hills and warm Irish villages. Visit Dublin, Waterford, Killarney and Limerick as this comprehensive tour introduces Ireland’s natural beauty, rich history and most importantly, its hospitable culture. Dublin, Kilkenny, Waterford Crystal, Blarney Castle, Ring of Kerry, Cliffs of Moher and Galway are among the stops. “Traveling with peers provides great opportunities to build personal and business relationships,” Gordon said. “Very often, travel introduces people to new cultures and provides us with a global awareness, which is great for personal and professional growth.” For more information contact John Ravitz at the Business Council at 914-948-0110 or jravitz@westchesterny.org or Michele Weis at Caprice Travel Agency Inc at 914-237-8500 or miche911@gmail.com.

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The Affordable Care Act one year after its launch was the focus of a highly informative and wellattended breakfast seminar held by The Business Council of Westchester. The Forum, which was held November 19 at the DoubleTree Hotel Tarrytown, featured a top-notch panel of experts including an official from the Obama Administration. The Keynote Speaker was Dennis E. González, Executive Officer, Office of the Secretary, Region II, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Gonzalez reported that one-third of eligible Americans who were previously uninsured are now insured since the Affordable Care Act’s rollout. He also noted that the federal government’s healthcare marketplace website has been working well, since open enrollment began on Nov. 15. The featured panelists included Elisabeth Benjamin, Vice President of Health Initiatives, Community Service Society of New York; Craig Hauben, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, North Shore LIJ CareConnect; Danielle Holahan, Director of Policy and Planning, New York Health Benefit Exchange; Guy Leibler, President, Simone Healthcare Development, and Mary Jane D. O’Connell, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Fordham School of Professional & Continuing Studies.

Pictured, from left, Craig Hauben of North Shore LIJ CareConnect; Elisabeth Benjamin of Community Service Society of New York; Danielle Holahan of New York Health Exchange; Keynote speaker Dennis E. González of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Guy Leibler of Simone Healthcare Development; Mary Jane D. O’Connell of Fordham University; Business Council of Westchester President and CEO Marsha Gordon, and Business Council of Westchester Executive Vice President John Ravitz.

Holahan of the New York Health Benefit Exchange said nearly 1 million New Yorkers enrolled in the exchange in 2014. A statewide total of 3,106 businesses with 50 or fewer employees enrolled with insurance carriers offering plans on the exchange. Hauben of North Shore-LIJ said healthcare providers are looking into different ways of providing services to keep costs down. He noted that North Shore-LIJ recently launched its own insurance company called CareConnect to cut out middleman costs and provide a more personalized care.

is developing mixed-use environments to take advantage of “people places” and provide a quality experience for the patient and co-visitors. O’Connell noted that Fordham is developing a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration that is designed for healthcare professionals for advancement in middle and upper management or for transitioning into healthcare from outside the industry. “We were very fortunate to have such a distinguished panel for this year’s Forum,” said John Ravitz, Executive Vice President of The Business Council of Westchester.

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Dancing with the Rising Stars Alumni of The Business Council of Westchester’s Rising Stars program came together at White Plains Performing Arts Center on November 13 for a friendly competition.

Called Dancing with the Rising Stars, this event benefitted two local food charities: Westchester Coalition for the Hungry and Homeless and The Food Bank for Westchester. A half-time performance featured the Westchester Knicks dancers. 1. Dancers, from left, John Zanzarella & Amanda Ready; John & Diane Durante; Won Choe & Antoinette Klatzky; Marvin Vasquez & Michelle LaFond; and Lauren Brady & Judeson Saintil. 2. Won Choe & Antoinette Klatzky. 3. Winners Amanda Ready and John Zanzarella with instructor Donna Clark of On My Toes. 4. From left, Jerry McKinstry, Maria Bronzi, Marsha Gordon, John Zanzarella, Amanda Ready, Jamie Johnson, Jim Giangrande, Andrew Castellano, and Kurt Kannemeyer.

Seen on the Biz Scene 5. More than 50 business leaders recently attended the BCW’s President’s Circle reception held December 1. The event was held at Westchester Magazine’s Dream Home in Tower Two of the Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester in White Plains. From left, Peter Herrero of New York Hospitality Group, Marie Herrero of Mortgage Master, Renee Brown of C. W. Brown and Doug Singer of Falcon & Singer P.C.

6. State Education Commissioner John King, second from right, met with BCW members and area educators on Dec. 1 at the BCW’s offices. The meeting was part of an ongoing dialogue about providing students with the education and skillset to be effective in the future workforce. 7. The Business Council’s annual holiday party, held Dec. 4 at the Westchester Marriott, was a big success. From left, American Christmas CEO Fred Schwam; BCW ChairmanElect Anthony Justic; BCW President and CEO Marsha Gordon; and BCW Chairman Stephen Jones. American Christmas provided decorations for the party.

8. Among those attending BCW’s annual holiday party were, from left, Westchester County IDA Executive Director Jim Coleman; Ann Fabrizo of ArtsWestchester; ArtsWestchester CEO Janet Langsam; Jean Marie Connolly of BNY Mellon Wealth Management; and Stephanie Weston of Peoples United Bank.

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SPECIAL YEAR-END REVIEW: REPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SOLAR, ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL

2014: A YEAR OF RENEWALS BY HOWARD E. GREENBERG

estchester County is still “rearranging the deck chairs” in its office market. As in the past, virtually all our leasing activity is intra-county. But there are signs that the diversification of the market into the medical and biotech sectors is helping to shore up occupancy levels, and increased interest in multifamily development will provide housing alternatives for a younger workforce that could be a key to attracting new companies to the county in the future. Leases of under 5,000 square feet, which have traditionally been more than 80 percent of the deals here, have declined in number this year. It would appear that smaller companies are being conservative in their commitments. Consequently, the inventory of small office spaces has increased. The midsize deals, between 5,000 and 10,000 square feet, have increased in number, but the larger deals — between 25,000 and 50,000 square feet — are way off last year’s total. The largest lease of the year was MasterCard’s expansion and renewal at 100 Manhattanville Road for 121,000 square feet. This is a major commitment to the county, as is PepsiCo’s total renovation of its headquarters in Purchase. While the final figures will not be in until mid-January, we will have negative absorption for 2014, and leasing velocity has been very slow this year. The great majority of our leases have been renewals, some with expansions. Medical was the star of 2013, but it has taken a break in 2014, as the hospitals and physician groups figure out how to use all of the space they have leased and purchased. This sector could ramp up again in 2015 as new hospital alliances are finalized. The leasing activity and absorption figures for the first three quarters of the year have been lackluster, with net absorption of negative 168,000 square feet through the third quarter, according to Karolina PardoAlexandre, research manager at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. She told me that during the third quarter, Westchester had declines in leasing activity in the Western submarket of 55 percent, in

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the White Plains Central Business District of 39 percent and in the Eastern submarket of 18 percent. These figures represent a 14.6 percent decline from the second quarter and 20.5 percent decline from last year. Only the Southern and Northern submarkets posted leasing gains through Q3. Back on the market IBM continues to give back space to the market, as it has been doing for decades. But these days, it is on the campuses it owns in Armonk and Somers. In 2012 it put approximately 200,000 square feet of its space on the market in Somers, and in 2013, it put an additional 285,000 square feet on the market at its Armonk headquarters. The entire 287,000-square-foot MBIA campus in North Castle is on the market for sale. And Chappaqua Crossing, the former headquarters of Reader’s Digest, has had some leasing activity but is still struggling to lease hundreds of thousands of square feet of office space. These properties represent well over 1 million square feet of space on the inventory that is skewing the vacancy rates higher. We have had only one lease of more than 100,000 square feet so far this year, and two leases between 50,000 and 100,000, so there is not a high level of demand for large blocks of space. One of the largest leases of the year was MBIA’s 85,000 square feet at Centre at Purchase. With the bond insurance company’s North Castle campus on the market, it will be interesting to see who lands there. It could be a corporate headquarters or some alternative use. The vacancy of the former campus means that the new MBIA lease is really a negative 202,000 square feet of absorption for the market. Distress and success A number of office buildings have fallen into financial distress or receivership after losing major tenants. The 3 Westchester Park Drive property, formerly 3 Gannett Drive, is in receivership after Heritage Realty Services defaulted on its mortgage following the loss of its anchor tenant, Wilson Elser, to RPW Group’s 1133 Westchester Ave. The 1311 Mamaroneck Ave. property went

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back to its lender after a stint in receivership and was purchased at a discount by its former owner, Onyx Equities. Onyx is reportedly in the process of buying the complex on the south side of Route 287, at 1111 and 1129 Westchester Ave., that currently is masterleased by Jones New York and occupied by that company and by PepsiCo for swing space while its Purchase headquarters is undergoing a major renovation. White Plains Plaza, at 1 N. Broadway and 445 Hamilton Ave., lost law firm Jackson Lewis to 44 S. Broadway — 44,000 square feet for the firm’s lawyers group — and 1133 Westchester Ave. — 23,000 square feet for its administrative group. There have been some successes as well. Faros Properties has exceeded all expectations in its lease-up of 120 Bloomingdale Road — also bought out of receivership — and has reportedly agreed to sell 555 Theodore Fremd Ave. in Rye at a significant profit after improving occupancy in that asset.

GHP has purchased Taconic Corporate Park in Yorktown at a very favorable price from its lender. With low-cost bases in these distress purchases, new owners can afford to do necessary renovations and still offer competitive rents. Brian Carcaterra of CBRE is leasing agent for the 1.5 million-square-foot Normandy portfolio in the 287 East submarket. He reports his firm has been pleased with its year. But its activity has been composed primarily of renewals, some with expansions and early commitments by tenants to longer lease terms. Its retention rate was over 90 percent, which is very impressive in this market. Overall, the portfolio has signed about 125,000 square feet of leases, with documents being negotiated for an additional 75,000 square feet. Its goal for 2015 is to supplement this year’s success with new transactions. Dannon is currently in the market for Renewals, page 20

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about 120,000 square feet, as the end of its term nears at its Hillside Avenue building in Greenburgh. It too is looking for a way to keep everyone on as few floors as possible, and is reportedly focusing on the huge 44,000-square-foot floors at 44 S. Broadway in the White Plains CBD. Acadia Realty Trust has signed a lease for about 29,000 square feet at 411 Theodore Fremd Ave. in Rye. This represents an interesting dynamic, as it will leave its current space at 1311 Mamaroneck Ave., which has been in receivership, for a building that had its economic problems years ago, that has been sold to new ownership and has recapitalized. U.S. Alliance Credit Union in Rye has also signed for about 10,000 square feet at this building. A fairly quiet CBD A couple of bright spots in the White Plains Central Business District include increased leasing activity at the Ritz-Carlton office space, where luxury women’s wear shop Mary Jane Denzer leased the prominent retail space this year, and continued subleasing success by Alliance Bernstein at 1 N. Lexington Ave. Argus Information and Advisory Services, a company that provides

analytics and information to consumer banks and their regulators, is reportedly taking an additional 33,000 square feet of the Alliance Bernstein space, after doubling its size to 50,000 square feet when it relocated into that space a few years ago. Fortistar Capital renewed and expanded to 18,266 square feet in direct space at 1 N. Lexington. The Westchester Bank is establishing its new headquarters at 12 Water St. in about 11,000 square feet. It will occupy 25 percent of the building and will have exterior signage rights. But activity in the CBD in general has been quiet this year. Large CBD sublease spaces continue to languish, including the 42,000-square-foot Pearson Education sublet at 10 Bank St. and the 44,000-square-foot Arcadis sublet at 44 S. Broadway. Mack-Cali has invested money in its CBD properties for exterior upgrades to 1 Water St. and 1 Barker Ave., as well as lobby upgrades at 50 Main St. and demolition of vacant spaces. John Barnes of Reckson/S.L. Green tells me it had strong activity in its CBD buildings. Soon Reckson hopes to be over 90 percent leased at the Ritz-Carlton office space. It has done well at 360 Hamilton Ave., where it did an approximately 20,000-squarefoot renewal/expansion with Arch Capital

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Services, and 140 Grand St. is now in the mid-90s occupancy. He tells me it did very well in small deals and small-deal renewals portfoliowide. Route 119 deals In the largest investment sale of 2014, Mack-Cali has sold its entire Route 119 office portfolio — consisting of 200 and 220 White Plains Road and 555, 565, and 570 Taxter Road — to Keystone Property Group. This reduces the firm’s office portfolio by about 600,000 square feet. Mack-Cali has been hired to do the leasing, space planning, construction and legal work for the new owner. With the shrinkage of its footprint, its

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remaining Mack-Cali Westchester portfolio is now over 90 percent occupied, with particularly strong activity this year in its flex and industrial space. Its office space in Yonkers is full, with a 19,000-square-foot renewal with Progressive Insurance this year. Greg Frisoli of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank is leasing agent for RXR’s portfolio on the Route 119 corridor in the West submarket. He tells me it had a pretty good year, primarily with internal renewals and expansions. The flagship deal was a 15,000-squarefoot expansion by Prestige Brands at 660 White Plains Road, bringing it to a total of about 58,000 square feet. Greg feels there is interest by larger tenants in keeping most

or all of their employees on one floor — not an easy feat in our market when your office needs get over 25,000 square feet. RXR finally lost Bayer Pharmaceuticals, which occupied most of 555 White Plains Road, after an announcement about three years ago that it would consolidate its operations in New Jersey. The building will need significant refurbishment, but it is one of only a few buildings on the west side that has a large block of space available, so it will get inspected by those companies that want the location and will have few, if any, other places to go. Reckson’s First Niagara Bank lease at 520 White Plains Road in Tarrytown was one of the largest deals of the year and one of the few that represented fresh absorption to the market. A healthy health care market The first new building constructed in the county since the mid-1980s will open early next year at Harrison Corporate Park, recently renamed Purchase Professional Park. Its entire 85,000 square feet is preleased to Westmed. The 114,000-square-foot Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has opened at 500 Westchester Ave. And buildings like 440 and 450 Mamaroneck Ave., 550

and 600 Mamaroneck Ave. and others continue to lease space to new medical tenants, which are boosting their occupancy. New York Medical College is in process of renovating 17 Skyline Drive, a 248,000-sqaure-foot building it purchased from Mack-Cali in 2013, and it has just opened a biotech incubator building on its campus. A 184,000-square-foot portfolio of multitenant medical office buildings at 222-244 Westchester Ave. was sold by ProMed to Healthcare Trust of America for a whopping $350 per square foot, which is “telephone numbers” compared with what office buildings are selling for today. The biotech sector continues to grow in the county. Regeneron, named the best company to work for by Science magazine again this year, occupies about 600,000 square feet of primarily purpose-built laboratory buildings at Landmark at Eastview. There is apparently demand for vacant space in the complex coming from companies out of the area. Acorda Therapeutics, the anchor tenant at Ardsley Park, expanded by 25,500 square feet earlier this year. And the North 60 project is reportedly moving forward in an effort to create a new medical and biotech park on county-owned land in Hawthorne.

A dearth of new tenants Glenn Walsh of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represents RPW Group as leasing agent, among many other building owners. His take on the market is consistent with his colleagues in that it was primarily renewal-based. He sees smaller companies being very conservative and opting generally for shorter-term renewals rather than long-term commitments. When that is the business plan, it is difficult for them to relocate to another building, as landlords cannot afford to build out space for short lease terms. Generally, he feels that tenants in the market are shuffling around within the county, looking for slightly better economics or upgrades to nicer buildings with more amenities. But, as usual, there is a dearth of new, inbound tenants that would actually increase space absorption and bring new support businesses with them. The Manhattan office market is very strong now, and the delta between its rents and Westchester rents is as big as it has ever been, but we are still not seeing our fair share of Manhattan tenants migrating north to Westchester. Landlords, while all needing deals, are trying to get enough net effective rent — the rent they actually put in the bank after free

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that consist almost exclusively of workstations rather than private offices. Instead of the old formula of three to five people occupying 1,000 square feet of space each, these new layouts can often accommodate six to eight people in the same amount of space. Office building parking lots are more crowded as a result of this trend. Ultimately, this will restrict buildings from leasing, as they will not have enough parking spaces available to lease the last 10 to 20 percent of space in their buildings.

Office park housing Normandy Realty and Toll Brothers are partnering to bring multifamily to the office parks along the Platinum Mile. They have applied to Harrison for a zoning change to permit construction of more than 400 units of housing for both millennials and empty nesters on the site of 103/105 Corporate Park Drive. The 103 building has literally been boarded up for probably a decade, while 105 has only one tenant. This project has the potential of turning 200,000 square feet of obsolete and primarily empty office space into a live/work/

play community with walkways connecting it to the adjacent Lifetime Fitness facility as well as ground-floor retail for services, restaurants and entertainment uses. Given that there are no residential neighbors to oppose the project, logic would dictate that it receives approval in a timely manner. It would be attractive to the surrounding corporate parks to have housing literally within walking or shuttle distance for employees. This park has already moved in new directions with the Hyatt House suite hotel, a child care center and two buildings purchased by biotech company Histogenetics for its own use. It is fitting that the oldest office park on the Platinum Mile could be the first one to morph into a totally new environment. Building for commuters Buildings on the Platinum Mile that provide private shuttles from the White Plains Metro-North station are being forced to increase the capacity of those shuttles to serve the increased number of workers commuting by train. Glenn Walsh feels we need a new gateway to the county at the White Plains station. Developer Louis Cappelli had a proposal several years ago to redevelop the entire area, but it got shelved during the recession. Imagine the boon to our market if the White Plains rail station had a Grand Central Terminal-like retail and restaurant component connected to it! That would provide a great new gateway to the city, as well as much-needed dining options for the office buildings that are near the station. Plans are in the study stage now. TOD, transit oriented development, is hot. New Rochelle just announced it will hire a partnership including Renaissance Downtowns and RXR Realty to plan for the redevelopment of the area around its train station. Harrison has recently approved AvalonBay to construct new multifamily housing and parking structures around its train station. LCOR is finalizing approvals

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for its new apartment buildings two blocks from the White Plains Metro-North station. The attractions of these projects are walkable communities with services, restaurants, and nightlife with direct access to the train for commutation and trips to New York City. The developers believe these buildings will attract empty nesters, as well as young professionals. There are also new luxury multifamily projects in late stages of construction in White Plains off Maple Avenue that are being constructed in the new modular method, where fully finished units, with walls, kitchens, bathrooms in place, are literally stacked on top of one another. The Cambria Suites hotel, also a modular construction, is now open and operating in the White Plains CBD and has capped off the redevelopment of the entire block of Main Street between City Center and North Broadway. Retail is also pretty vibrant. Two examples are the 20,000-square-foot store on Route 119 in White Plains that was vacated by Staples and immediately reconstructed for a CVS, while across the street, the retail space formerly occupied by the bankrupt Loehmannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chain was quickly leased by Saks Off 5. There are a lot of good things happening in our market. Biotech companies, along with new medical offices, cancer treatment centers, and urgent care centers are occupying laboratory, office and retail spaces. Older office building inventory continues to be repurposed. New multifamily development, both suburban and transit-oriented, should attract and retain young professionals, as well as provide product for empty nesters who want to stay here. The Westchester County real estate market has significant development activity in many different product types, and that is a healthy sign for the future. Howard E. Greenberg is president of Howard Properties Ltd. in White Plains. He can be reached at howard@howprop.com or 914-997-0300.

Mamaroneck approves transit-focused rezoning BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

he village of Mamaroneck approved a transit-oriented development rezoning of its Washingtonville neighborhood, going against the recommendations of a prominent village commission and foregoing creating an environmental impact statement. Mamaroneck Mayor Norman Rosenblum, a Republican, said he believed the board of trustees had done its due diligence and that it wasn’t worth paying for environmental studies because that would be something undertaken and paid for by future developers of the area. He also said he disagreed with the concerns of Mamaroneck’s Harbor and Coastal Zone Management Commission about flooding in the region. “This has been going on for three years,” he said at the trustees’ meeting Nov. 24, during which the new zone was approved. “We have answered all the questions.” Residents raised concerns at two public hearings on the rezoning that included traffic impacts and the possibility that it could make flood levels worse in an area that sits on the confluence of three small rivers and

has flooded dramatically several times in the last decade. John Hostetter, a former trustee, questioned the areas targeted for the rezoning, saying its boundaries did not make logical sense. “It doesn’t seem like anybody really in the community is gung ho for this except for the people on the board and their consultant and the village attorney who seemed to be advocating for it,” he said. Consultant BFJ Planning, based in Manhattan, had conducted a transit-oriented development study for the village, and estimated that the rezone could actually reduce the amount of impermeable surfaces at maximum buildout levels and ease flooding conditions. Linda Whitehead, a counsel for the village, had expressed her opinion that an environmental impact statement was not needed prior to the rezone. Trustee Andres Bermudez-Halstrom, a Democrat who lives in Washingtonville, said the evidence of the need for the change was in the lack of construction in the neighborhood while other areas of the village buzz with activity and interest. “Logically, if the current zone that’s there now worked, people would be developing but they’re not,” he said.

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The area targeted for the rezone centers around the village’s Metro-North station and is expected to encourage redevelopment of properties long discouraged from seeking permits due to a hodgepodge of zoning. The rezoning reduces the amount of nonconforming lots in the zone from 85 percent to 35 percent, according to Frank Fish of BFJ. The change creates an overlay zone in the area around the village’s main thoroughfare, Mamaroneck Avenue, and allows for mixed-use buildings in the corridor. Bonuses would be included for developers that construct affordable housing units in residential buildings or build retail or restaurant space on the ground floor of residential buildings, which would be limited to four stories or less. The area, within a quarter-mile of the train station, is expected to be an attractive option for educated millennials looking for

walkable communities and access to public transportation to Manhattan. The changes would reduce minimum lot requirements from 20,000 square feet to 7,500 square feet in the overlay zone, and would reduce lot depth by 50 yards. By boosting conformity, village officials said they expect many building owners would renovate or rebuild once they no longer need to seek variances or special permits for the work. The rezone also comes with requirements for green building, flood mitigation measures and payment into a neighborhood stabilization fund for projects within the overlay zone. It also offers bonus allotments to ensure that a grocery store remains in the neighborhood — there is an A&P on Mamaroneck Avenue near the Interstate 95 juncture.

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New group looks to give residents seat at Playland table BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

he last time Playland’s marketing budget increased, the Berlin Wall still stood, Bill Clinton was still the governor of Arkansas and country singer Taylor Swift hadn’t even been born. The park is owned by Westchester County, and the county government didn’t add a cent to the $550,000 allotted each year for Playland marketing for 26 years — until now. This month, county lawmakers agreed to increase Playland’s marketing budget by $300,000 for 2015, after a rebound season in 2014 that saw revenues up 24 percent, to $8.7 million, and 77,000 more visitors than 2013, according to county figures. The marketing boost came after calls from a grassroots organization whose members say Playland isn’t broken, just neglected.

Deirdre Curran is one of the organizers of the Friends of Playland, a nonprofit advocacy group for the park that formed in October. The additional marketing funds were a small victory, she said, with the longterm goal giving the public a seat at the table as a re-invented Playland is negotiated. “It is amazing: A lot of people for a long time felt they were watching a train wreck and there was nothing they can do for it,” Curran said. “They are really excited there’s something now.” County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, came into office in 2010 with the stated goal of getting county government out of the business of running an amusement park. His administration said attendance was declining, revenues were down and that the park needed to find year-round uses outside of the amusement park. But Playland enthusiasts such as Curran

have contended all along that with some needed investment and better park management, Playland could be restored to the reputation it had early in its 80-year history. A turnaround in attendance and revenue would follow with only minor changes in management, such as food service, and in improvements in infrastructure. “Why is Playland always held to a different standard than other parks?” Curran said. “Why is Playland expected to turn a profit and when it doesn’t it’s called a money hole? Why does Playland have to become a yearround destination — Are you going to open the golf courses in the winter?” Astorino chose a Rye-based nonprofit called Sustainable Playland Inc. to take over management of the park last year, but SPI backed out earlier this year after backlash from the community over its management plan, which included scaling back the amuse-

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TO GET INVOLVED As a registered 501(c)(3), the Friends of Playland is accepting tax deductible donations via mail: Friends of Playland, P.O. Box 36, Rye, NY 10580. For more information, visit: Friendsofplayland.org Facebook.com/FriendsOfPlayland Twitter.com/frenzofplayland

ment function and building a year-round, 82,500-square-foot field house. The field house became a rallying cry for residents of the city of Rye, where Playland is located, with locals saying it was out of character for the neighborhood and would bring an influx of traffic in what has traditionally been the Playland offseason. The Friends support modifications of offseason programs, including possible holiday events, Curran said, but are leery of major shifts such as a field house. Rye’s City Council recently asserted its decision-making authority over any construction at the park, a move which the county disagrees with. Any future building or rebuilding may be contingent on the city and the county finding consensus in their turf dispute. With SPI out of the picture, the county is considering two other private operators, Central Amusement International LLC and Standard Amusements Inc., both of which want to focus on the amusement park piece of the 80-acre park. The county executive’s office meanwhile is in a holding pattern until it analyzes recommendations in a forthcoming report to be filed by consultant Biederman Redevelopment Ventures Corp. The report, which cost the county $100,000, was expected by November but has yet to be filed. A representative from the county executive’s office said the report should be in hand by the end of the year. What the exact focus of the Friends will be as advocates, volunteers or advisers will depend on how some of these situations play out. Curran said the group looks to be the voice of a segment that has mostly been missing in the various discussions: the average residents of Westchester who love Playland. “None of us are going to have any financial interest in construction or what will happen in the park,” she said. “We don’t have any other agenda or ulterior motives. We just care about the park and we want to see it run properly. We don’t want to manage the park.”

FACTS& FIGURES BANKRUPCTICES MANHATTAN Aero Lounge Inc. 645 Washington Ave., Miami, Fla. 33139. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Douglas J. Pick. Filed: Dec. 5. Case no. 14-13342-mg.

WHITE PLAINS A Merchandise LLC. 50 W. 23 St., New York 10010. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gregg M. Galardi. Filed: Dec. 7. Case no. 14-23684-rdd. AMG Direct LLC. 50 W. 23 St., New York 10010. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gregg M. Galardi. Filed: Dec. 7. Case no. 1423685-rdd. DACCS Inc. 50 W. 23 St., New York 10010. Represented by Gregg M. Galardi. Filed: Dec. 7. Case no. 1423686-rdd. dELiA*s Assets Corp. 50 W. 23 St., New York 10010. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gregg M. Galardi. Filed: Dec. 7. Case no. 14-23680-rdd. dELiA*s Distribution Co. 50 W. 23 St., New York 10010. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gregg M. Galardi. Filed: Dec. 7. Case no. 14-23682-rdd. dELiA*s Group Inc. 50 W. 23 St., New York 10010. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gregg M. Galardi. Filed: Dec. 7. Case no. 1423681-rdd dELiA*s Inc. 50 W. 23 St., New York 10010. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gregg M. Galardi. Filed: Dec. 7. Case no. 14-23678-rdd.

Items appearing in the Westchester County Business Journal’s On The Record section are compiled from various sources, including public records made available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken. Questions and comments regarding this section should be directed to: Bob Rozycki c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 3 Westchester Park Drive, Suite G7 White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3680

dELiA*s Operating Co. 50 W. 23 St., New York 10010. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gregg M. Galardi. Filed: Dec. 7. Case no. 14-23683-rdd. dELiA*s Retail Co. 50 W. 23 St., New York 10010. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gregg M. Galardi. Filed: Dec. 7. Case no. 1423679-rdd.

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Doubletree Franchise LLC et al. Filed by Carlos Oncampo, Igor Morozov, Jorge Villanueva, Amaury Ortiz, Plinio Retana, Manuel Calderon and Sutee Monchaitanapat. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorneys: John Joseph Malley and Vincent Volino. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 7:14-cv-09614KMK.

N&G Corp. 96 W. Railroad Ave., Garnerville 10923. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Michael A. Koplen. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 14-23670-rdd.

Enter�y Nuclear Operations Inc. et al. Filed by Jay Kosack. Action: federal question. Attorney: Amy L. Bellantoni. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 7:14-cv-09605-UA.

RP & MM Holding Inc. 2047 Boston Post Road, Larchmont 10538. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by RP & MM Holding Inc. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 14-23669-rdd.

Halmar International LLC. Filed by the Annuity, Pension, Welfare and Training Funds of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 14-14B, AFL-CIO. Action: E.R.I.S.A. – employee retirement. Attorney: James Michael Steinberg. Filed: Dec. 3. Case no. 7:14-cv-09521-CS.

Silver Realty Equities LLC. 18 S. Main St., Spring Valley 10977. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Silver Realty Equities LLC. Filed: Dec. 9. Case no. 14-23703rdd.

COURT CASES Aikler Asphalt Paving Inc. Filed by the trustees of the Operating Engineers Local 137, 137A, 137B, 137C and 137R Annuity, Pension, Welfare and Apprenticeship Skill Improvement and Safety Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A. Attorney: Giacchino James Russo. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 7:14-cv-09607-VB. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Kami M. Hickman. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Bobby J. Bell and Tyler C. Vail. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 7:14-cv-09584-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Rezzma I. Singh. Action: personal injury. Attorneys: Bobby J. Bell and Tyler C. Vail. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 7:14-cv09586-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Andrea Staples. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Andrew W. Hutton, Mark B. Hutton and Blake A Shuart. Filed: Dec. 3. Case no. 7:14cv-09522. Bowman Cleaners Inc. Filed by Seung Pyo Hong. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Hyunkweon Ryu. Filed: Dec. 8. Case no. 7:14-cv-09666-KMK. Corel Corp. Filed by Disk Authoring Technologies LLC. Action: patent infringement. Attorney: Dmitriy A. Kheyfits. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 7:14-cv-09583-KMK.

Hwang LLC. Filed by the trustees of the National Retirement Fund. Action: E.R.I.S.A. Attorneys: Stephanie Myers Bersak and David C. Sapp, Jr. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 7:14-cv-09557-VB. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. Filed by Karl Gawrych. Action: diversity-notice of removal. Attorney: Christopher Barry Turcotte. Filed: Dec. 3. Case no. 7:14-cv09540-KMK. ONE2ONE Communications LLC. Filed by Insight Communications Co. L.P. Action: diversitybreach of contract. Attorney: Jeffrey I. Carton. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 7:14-cv-09618-CS. Protein Sciences Corp. Filed by Robert McEvoy. Action: collect unpaid wages. Attorneys: Lloyd Robert Ambinder, Jeffrey Kevin Brown, Suzanne Brooke Leeds and Michael Alexander Tompkins. Filed: Dec. 3. Case no. 7:14-cv09548-VB.

Undisputed Sports Bar & Grill LLC. Filed by J & J Sports Productions Inc. Action: Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984. Attorney: Paul Joseph Hooten. Filed: Dec. 4. Case no. 7:14-cv-09619KMK.

DEEDS Above $1 million 15 Crescent Road LLC, Larchmont. Seller: John Jeffrey Jackson, Easton, Md. Property: 15 Crescent Road, Mamaroneck. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Dec. 2. 22 East 116th Street LLC, Tuckahoe. Seller: Glen Tobias, et al, New York. Property: 22 Hampton, Scarsdale. Amount: $3.8 million. Filed Dec. 5. 92 Main LLC, et al, White Plains. Seller: Spec Realty Group LLC, Yonkers. Property: 92 Main St., Greenburgh. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Dec. 3. Bank of America N.A. Seller: Francis J. Malara, White Plains. Property: 309 Succabone Road, Bedford. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed Dec. 5. Brite Avenue Development Corp., Scarsdale. Seller: Matthew Taubin, et al, Scarsdale. Property: 56 Brite Ave., Scarsdale. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed Dec. 3.

Below $1 million 10 South Pearl Street LLC, Port Chester. Seller: Town of Rye, Port Chester. Property: 10 Pearl St., Rye. Amount: $925,000. Filed Dec. 5. 127 Bedford Road Katonah LLC, Goldens Bridge. Seller: Robert Finne and Company Inc., Pound Ridge. Property: 127 Bedford Road, Bedford. Amount: $675,000. Filed Dec. 3. 1405 Realty LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Sang Soon Park, Yonkers. Property: 405 S. Broadway, Yonkers. Amount: $550,000. Filed Dec. 5. 15 Adams Place Inc., Sherman, Conn. Seller: Anne Julia Penachio, White Plains. Property: 1 Inwood Place, New Rochelle. Amount: $241,000. Filed Dec. 3.

31 Properties LLC, New York City. Seller: Shirley Coleman, Disputanta, Va. Property: 17 N. Terrace Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $120,000. Filed Dec. 3. 7 Highview Terrace LLC, Millwood. Seller: Virginia Whitehead Francis Trust, Philadelphia, Penn. Property: 7 Highview Terrace, Somers. Amount: $450,000. Filed Dec. 5. 86 East Main Street Corp., Elmsford. Seller: Jay Inc., Elmsford. Property: 86 E. Main St., Greenburgh. Amount: $867,500. Filed Dec. 4. 913 Old Country Rd Inc., Elmsford. Seller: Donna Robinson, Elmsford. Property: 913 Old Country Road, Greenburgh. Amount: $225,000. Filed Dec. 2.

15 Clinton Street LLC, Rye Brook. Seller: David G. Gallo, Armonk. Property: 15 Clinton St., Rye. Amount: $250,000. Filed Dec. 5.

913 South LLC, Peekskill. Seller: 913 South Street Inc., Yorktown Heights. Property: 913 South St., Peekskill. Amount: $175,000. Filed Dec. 4.

15 South Pearl Street Parking LLC, Port Chester. Seller: Town of Rye, Port Chester. Property: Pearl St., Rye. Amount: $925,000. Filed Dec. 5.

923 South Street LLC, Peekskill. Seller: 913 South Street Inc., Yorktown Heights. Property: 923 South St., Peekskill. Amount: $225,000. Filed Dec. 4.

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Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Eric Fayer, White Plains. Property: 55 Sanford St., Rye. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Dec. 5. Lyonspride 14 N Bway LLC, Yonkers. Seller: 14 North Broadway LLC, et al, Tarrytown. Property: 14 N. Broadway, Greenburgh. Amount: $2.9 million. Filed Dec. 5.

Spring Valley Beauty Supplies Inc. Filed by Pedro Serrano. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorneys: Adam Arthur Biggs and Alexander Todd Coleman. Filed: Dec. 3. Case no. 7:14-cv-09549-NSR.

The Village of Tarrytown, Tarrytown. Seller: The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, New York. Property: 20 Gracemere Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $1 million. Filed Dec. 5.

Toyo Food Inc. Filed by Thomas E. Perez. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorneys: Evan Reid Barouh, Jeffrey Scott Rogoff and M. Patricia Smith. Filed: Dec. 3. Case no. 7:14-cv-09520-CS.

Wood Garden Associates LLC, Tuckahoe. Seller: Woodland II Associates LLC, New York. Property: 1 Woodland Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed Dec. 4. Woodland II Associates LLC, Tuckahoe. Seller: GAT Enterprises Inc., New York City. Property: 22 Hampton Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed Dec. 3.

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NEWSMAKERS [PLUS AWARDS AND EVENTS] HGAR GRANTS WISH

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB APPOINTS OZER TO POST

From left, Vicky Gonzalez, Scott Gunst, Kerri Stretch, John Chewens, HGAR Make-Wish Committee chairperson Kathy Milich, Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley CEO Tom Conklin, HGAR CEO Richard Haggerty, Jeanette Smith, Michelle Gilliard, Mary Prenon and Sadiki Pierre.

The Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) MakeA-Wish Committee presented a check for $12,600 to MakeA-Wish Hudson Valley at the

Wish House in Tarrytown. The donation represents the proceeds from a recent fundraising cocktail party held at the Clubhouse at Patriot Hills in Stony Point. In ad-

dition to this summer’s HGAR Garage Sales held by 25 offices in the four-county area, HGAR raised a total of more than $23,000 for the organization this year.

GREATER HUDSON VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM APPOINTS VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCIAL PLANNING Jill Embler has been appointed vice president of financial planning by The Greater Hudson Valley Health System (GHVHS) in Middletown. Her scope of responsibility includes direct oversight of long-range financial planning and forecasting, along with the planning and implementation of business intelligence and reporting. Embler will also facilitate the formation of data governance and informatics efforts. Prior to joining GHVHS, Embler served as vice president of financial planning and decision support at

Mount Sinai Health System (formerly Continuum Health Partners Inc.) in New York City. At Mount Sinai, she was responsible for strategic business planning, business intelligence and analytics for hospital and physician segments as well as strategic market and population health analysis. Embler earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Pace University and her Master of Science degree in public administration from New York University. She has more than 20 years of experience in financial planning and analytics.

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being named head of the BCDD, Robinson was the director for the school psychology program at Baylor for 13 years where he guided the program to national recognition from the National Association of School Psychologists. Previously he was the senior policy advisor and chief of staff to the

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nior vice president of resource development and community engagement at United Way of Westchester and Putnam, leading unique fundraising and programming projects for human health services. She additionally held the position of regional vice president of the Manhattan office of the American Cancer Society, where she led initiatives involving advocacy, family patient services, and fundraising. Ozer has had a career in commercial real estate and law for more than 20 years, completing $5 billion in deal value, concentrating on the needs of Fortune 500 corporations and property owners. She held senior positions, including managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle.

HVHC CITED AS A ‘TOP PERFORMER’

NEW BOARD MEMBERS AT IONA Iona College has announced that two new members will join its board of trustees in January. Eric L. Robinson is an associate professor in the educational psychology department and director of the Baylor University Center for Developmental Disabilities (BCDD). Prior to

Chappaqua resident Alyzza Ozer has been appointed chief development officer by the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester (BGCNW). Ozer, an attorney who specializes in innovative nonprofit fundraising and marketing, brings nearly 30 years of essential experience in both for-profit and nonprofit sectors. “I am elated and honored to be part of an organization that has such powerful impact on our community by improving the futures of our kids,” Ozer said. “For six consecutive years, 100 percent of our at-risk high school seniors have graduated on time with their peers, gone to college and received many scholarships. This is one of many examples of the club’s unparalleled returns on investment, making it a vital part of this community.” In her new role, Ozer will help foster a culture of philanthropy within the club and surrounding communities, lead staff and volunteers to expand fund development, and spearhead the implementation of strategies to develop donors as well as fi nancial, volunteering and mentoring contributions to support the Club. Previously, Ozer served as se-

president at Iona. Margaret C. Timoney is the managing director of Heineken Ireland and has been with the company since 1998. While a student at Iona she was a member of the women’s basketball team and still holds the alltime leading scorer record.

The Joint Commission, the accreditor of health care organizations in the United States, has recognized Hudson Valley Hospital Center (HVHC) in Cortlandt Manor as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures in its 2014 annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety.” The recognition is for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance for care related to heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. HVHC is one of 1,224 hospitals in the U. S. to achieve the 2013 Top Performer distinction. “Delivering the right treatment in the right way at the right time is

a cornerstone of high-quality health care. I commend the efforts of Hudson Valley Hospital Center for its excellent performance on the use of evidence-based interventions,” said Mark R. Chassin, president and CEO, The Joint Commission. John C. Federspiel, president of HVHC, said the hospital was able to achieve this distinction due to the hard work and dedication of its clinical staff. “We are among the leading hospitals in the region when it comes to safety and quality care. Hudson Valley Hospital Center is proud to be named a Top Performer as it recognizes the teamwork and dedication of our entire hospital staff.”

MEDICAL GROUP ADDS BILINGUAL FAMILY DOCTOR Jennifer K. Vazquez-Bryan, a bilingual family medicine physician, has joined Middletown-based Orange Regional Medical Group Department of Primary Care and will play an important role in further establishing the practice. Vazquez-Bryan, who is fluent in Spanish, will be an asset to serving the growing Spanish-speaking community, according to a statement from the group. Prior to joining the medical group, Vazquez-Bryan was at Columbia Valley Community Health in Wenatchee, Wash. A graduate of Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she earned her medical degree and multiple awards, including Dis-

tinction in Service to the Community and Excellence in Family Medicine, Vazquez-Bryan also holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College and completed her internship and residency at Swedish Family Medicine in Seattle, Wash. A member of the American Academy of Family Medicine, one of the largest national medical associations of family doctors, Vazquez-Bryan has been widely published and recognized for altruistic work promoting health care in impoverished areas. She is widely traveled and has spent

extensive time with native groups in Guatemala, Mexico, Kenya and Alaska developing programs that benefit those communities.

DANZIGER & MARKHOFF EXPANDS TO LONG ISLAND Danziger & Markhoff LLP, a law and actuarial fi rm, has been joined by Pension Design Services Inc. (PDS) owned by Steven I. Alin. Danziger & Markhoff has been in

White Plains since 1960 and will now open its second office in PDS’ Melville office. Drawing on Alin’s 40 years of business experience, PDS has always been on the leading edge of retirement plan

design concepts that best suit the needs of any size business. PDS’ staff along with Alin, an enrolled actuary, will continue to operate out of Danziger & Markhoff ’s Melville office.

has earned a reputation as the home of charitable New Yorkers who share a passion for the city and its suburbs. The trust supports an array of effective nonprofits that help make the City, Westchester and Long Island vital and secure places to live and work, while building permanent resources for the future. The trust formed the Westchester Community Foundation in 1975 to encourage local philanthropy. Westchester residents – from teachers to entrepreneurs – make the foundation’s work possible, by setting up donoradvised funds or by establishing permanent funds to help local nonprofits. During Marsh’s time, the Foundation has given out more than 1,100 grants to Westchester nonprofits through a competitive grants process. Marsh, a resident of Peekskill, began her career in Westchester, working in several county departments before becoming director of employment and training for Putnam County. Her 30 years of experience in the nonprofit field includes executive posi-

In honor of National Prematurity Awareness Month and World Prematurity Day, Hailey’s Hope Foundation (HHF) recently dedicated its first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Family Resource Room at Orange Regional Medical Center’s Rowley Family Birthing Center. A special ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at which Orange Regional honored HHF for its support in helping its NICU families and babies. Over the past two years, the foundation has provided more than $40,000 in funding, including the renovation and design of the new Family Resource Room now used by parents with babies hospitalized within Orange Regional’s NICU. Hailey’s Hope Foundation is a local nonprofit organization that

supports families with premature and critically ill babies who are hospitalized in New York-area NICUs. “Life in the NICU is stressful and takes a huge toll on families. As a former NICU mom of four premature babies, I know how important it is to have a quiet, special place to unwind, recharge and regroup,” said Donna Zion, vice president of HHF. “We are extremely fortunate to have Hailey’s Hope Foundation support our NICU services and families of NICU patients. The new NICU Family Resource Room will benefit parents who are in need of privacy and comfort during their newborn’s stay with us,” said Orange Regional President and CEO Scott Batulis.

WPH CITES DOCTORS FOR EXCELLENCE White Plains Hospital recently recognized 13 of its physicians and surgeons for excellence in patient satisfaction. They include surgeons Paul Fragner, Mark Gordon, Seth Neubardt, Robert Reiﬀel, Jack Stern, Carl Weber, Kaare Weber, Philip Weber and Mia Wright. Gastroenterologists recognized include Robert Fath, Steven Fink, Seth Gendler and Bryan Green.

MARSH TO RETIRE FROM WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION Catherine Marsh, who has overseen the growth of the Westchester Community Foundation as it became one of the largest funders of nonprofits in the county, will retire as executive director in June 2015. Under Marsh’s leadership for the past 15 years, the foundation has distributed more than $45 million to Westchester nonprofits. Permanent charitable funds have expanded to include those for health and human services, community development, the environment and the arts. In addition, the foundation now has endowed funds for programs to benefit two communities: Ossining and Tarrytown. “Catherine Marsh has left an indelible mark on the community,” said Theresa Kilman, chairperson of the foundation board. “We’ll miss Catherine’s passion for helping everyone in Westchester and her role as the ‘go-to’ person on many issues.” The foundation is a division of The New York Community Trust, which

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According to the Press Ganey Co., the largest vendor in the country that measures patient satisfaction, these doctors all ranked in the top 10 percent in the nation for ambulatory surgery patients. This is not the first recognition for White Plains Hospital’s excellence in patient satisfaction. Earlier this year, Healthgrades recognized the hospital for performing in the top 5 percent nationally in patient experience.

Information for these features has been submitted by the subjects or their delegates. tions at Federated Employment and Guidance Services in New York City and as mid-Hudson Director for Volunteers of America. Before joining the foundation, she served as a managing director at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City. While at the Westchester Community Foundation, she taught nonprofit management as an adjunct professor at Manhattanville College. The foundation has formed a committee to seek a replacement for Marsh.

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FACTS & FIGURES ATB Five Properties LLC, Purchase. Seller: Bruce Bozeman, Mount Vernon. Property: 625 Waverly, Mamaroneck. Amount: $360,000. Filed Dec. 5.

Seaside Cookman LLC, Thornwood. Seller: Paul M. Allen, Somers. Property: 549B Heritage Hills, Somers. Amount: $330,000. Filed Dec. 2.

Colt Construction Corp., Yonkers. Seller: Sun West Mortgage Inc., Cerritos, Calif. Property: 182 Pembrook Drive, Yonkers. Amount: $247,500. Filed Dec. 3.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Christopher Meagher, White Plains. Property: 49 Lincoln Ave., Rye. Amount: $713,457. Filed Dec. 4.

Damji Holdings Corp., White Plains. Seller: Enzo Lombardi, et al, Yonkers. Property: 71 Hyatt Place, Yonkers. Amount: $260,000. Filed Dec. 5.

JUDGMENTS

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Alan Singer, White Plains. Property: 12 John Dorsey Drive, Cortlandt. Amount: $383,274. Filed Dec. 3. Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Daniel J. Cappiello, et al, Boynton Beach, Fla. Property: 646 Rachel Drive, Yorktown. Amount: $416,999. Filed Dec. 2. FSB Properties Inc., Lake Success. Seller: Bruce L. Bozeman, Mount Vernon. Property: 33 S. Fourth Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $527,552. Filed Dec. 5. FSB Properties Inc., Lake Success. Seller: Theodore John Brundage, Harrison. Property: 57-59 Armett St., Rye. Amount: $552,983. Filed Dec. 5. Grand Street Acquisition Inc., Mamaroneck. Seller: Elvira H. Ritch, et al, Yonkers. Property: 201 Grand St., Mamaroneck. Amount: $220,000. Filed Dec. 4. Hobby Street LLC, Rye Brook. Seller: 9 Hobby Street LLC, New Rochelle. Property: 9 Hobby St., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $330,000. Filed Dec. 5. HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Bruce Trent, Irvington. Property: 132 W. Second St., Mount Vernon. Amount: $608,604. Filed Dec. 2. Linvic Corp., Croton-on-Hudson. Seller: Theodore Stein, Bellevue, Wash. Property: 3 Gabriel Drive, Cortlandt. Amount: $197,000. Filed Dec. 2. Mag CV Pleasantville LLC, Chappaqua. Seller: Devon Service New York LLC, Phoenixville. Property: 110 Washington Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $605,000. Filed Dec. 2. Patriot Land Beautiﬁcation LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Woodrick Partners Inc., Thornwood. Property: 546 Commerce St., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $325,000. Filed Dec. 2.

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Elt Wireless Corp., Poughkeepsie. $15,260 in favor of Hyper Link Inc., Mount Vernon. Filed Dec. 8. MCBL LLC, Harrison. $58,146 in favor of Center Rock Inc., Berlin, Pa. Filed Dec. 2. MDT Tire Corp., Pelham Manor. $83,640 in favor of National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. Filed Dec. 2. New JK Dry Cleaners Inc., Mount Vernon. $2,911 in favor of 130 Circle Valet Corp., Mount Vernon. Filed Dec. 2. Northeast Landscape Associates Inc., Harrison. $18,536 in favor of Package Development Company Inc., Stormville. Filed Dec. 1. Westchester Sports Inc., Buchanan. $9,436 in favor of Precision Shooting Equipment Inc., Tucson, Ariz. Filed Dec. 8.

FORECLOSURES CROTON-ON-HUDSON, 39 Olcott Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC; 25 Northpointe Parkway, Amherst. Defendant: Scott Callahan. Referee: Charles D’A gostino. Sale: Dec. 17, 3 p.m. Approximate lien: $584,917.95. HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, 98 Mendhan Ave. Single-family residence; .21 acre. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Sheldon May & Associates, 516-763-3200; 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre. Defendant: Jeff Tiedrich. Referee: Robert Huffay. Sale: Dec. 18, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $214,973.17. PURCHASE, 11 Sylvanleigh Road. Single-family residence; 2.72 acre. Plaintiff: Country Bank. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Warren Cohen; 107 Lake Ave., Tuckahoe. Defendant: Kip Konigsberg. Referee: Loren Glassman. Sale: Dec. 17, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $2,326,426.22.

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SOUTH SALEM, 39 Fields Lane. Manufacturing building; 4.19 acre. Plaintiff: ARS Investors II 20121 HUB LLC. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Norris Mclaughlin & Marcus; 875 Third Ave., New York City. Defendant: Swoosh LP. Referee: Marjorie Siegel. Sale: Dec. 15, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $988.848.02. WHITE PLAINS, 19 McKinley Ave. Two-family; .11 acre. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP; 2 State St., Rochester. Defendant: Maria Charria. Referee: David Gallo. Sale: Dec. 18, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $648,240.81. YONKERS, 31 Minetta Place. Vacant land; .03 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk. Defendant: Geraldine Tartaglione. Referee: Henry Neale. Sale: Dec. 19, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $473,003.34. YONKERS, 68 Croton Terrace. Single-family residence; .01 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-7591835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Esther Tarazi. Referee: Michael Khader. Sale: Dec. 15, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $272,467.87.

LIS PENDENS The following filings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed. Araujo, Juan, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $324,000 affecting property located at 16 William St., Ossining 10562. Filed April 3. Botero, Olga, et al. Filed by MidFirst Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $220,000 affecting property located at 1-1 Granada Crescent, White Plains 10603. Filed April 7. Brennan, Dennis, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 236 Marylou St., Yonkers 10703. Filed April 4. Flynn, Joan, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $382,000 affecting property located at 720 Palmer Ave., Mamaroneck. Filed April 4.

Gianopoulos, Anastasia, et al. Filed by Webster Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $525,000 affecting property located at 182 Finch Road, North Salem. Filed April 4.

Shashoua, Kenneth, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $650,000 affecting property located at 1107 North Ave., New Rochelle 10804. Filed April 3.

Grande, Salvatore, et al. Filed by Emigrant Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $155,000 affecting property located at 12 Audrey Ave., Mount Vernon. Filed April 3.

Thomas, Charmaine R., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $357,000 affecting property located at 4 Charles St., White Plains 10606. Filed April 4.

Hernandez, Saleema, et al. Filed by MidFirst Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $313,523 affecting property located at 26 Saratoga Ave., Yonkers 10705. Filed April 7. Hymes, Kevin C., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $750,000 affecting property located at 3 Evergreen Row, Armonk 10504. Filed April 3. McCormick, Suzanne V., et al. Filed by Taron Partners LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,000 affecting property located at 231 Clinton Ave., Dobbs Ferry. Filed April 4. McNulty, John, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $437,500 affecting property located at 545 Palmer Road, Yonkers 10701. Filed April 3. Miglioranzi, Jose, et al. Filed by OneWest Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $440,000 affecting property located at 6 Pitt St., Port Chester 10573. Filed April 3. Mitchell, Bobbie J., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $140,000 affecting property located at 32 S. 11th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed April 7. Multari, Sophia L., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,000 affecting property located at 9 Sycamore Road, Lincolndale 10540. Filed April 4. Pechnikov, Vyacheslav, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $110,000 affecting property located at 23 Cherry Place, Lake Peekskill 10537. Filed April 3. Pezzola, Daniel, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $484,000 affecting property located at 157 Amackassin Terrace, Yonkers 10703. Filed April 4.

Veneziano, Anthony F. Jr., et al. Filed by KeyBank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.2 million affecting property located at 3 Leisure Farm Drive, Armonk 10504. Filed April 3.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Avitzur, Orly, et al, as owner. $42,213 as claimed by WRS Environmental Services Inc., Yaphank. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Dec. 4. Castle Port Chester LLC, as owner. $178,356 as claimed by CCC Renovation Inc., Long Island. Property: in Rye. Filed Dec. 2. Kaplan, Ruth T., et al, as owner. $6,285 as claimed by Singer Holding Corp., Elmsford. Property: in White Plains. Filed Dec. 2. Molina, Jesus A., as owner. $3,000 as claimed by Cimco Construction and Masonry Inc., New Rochelle. Property: in Eastchester. Filed Dec. 2. Nikolaos Realty Corp., as owner. $184,801 as claimed by Allstate Installations LLC. Property: in Yonkers. Filed Dec. 5. Nikolaos Realty Corp., as owner. $277,080 as claimed by Allstate Installations LLC. Property: in Yonkers. Filed Dec. 5. Russo, Elizabeth, et al, as owner. $23,035 as claimed by Bruzzese Home Improvements LLC, New Rochelle. Property: in Eastchester. Filed Dec. 4. Tarrytown Waterfront II LLC, as owner. $123,930 as claimed by Shawnlee Construction LLC, Plainville. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Dec. 5. Tarrytown Waterfront II LLC, as owner. $209,564 as claimed by Shawnlee Construction LLC, Plainville. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Dec. 5.

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

Partnerships MCK International/Olivia Marie, 62 W. Fourth St., Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Constance McKnight and Olivia McKay. Filed July 16. The Landscaper, P.O. Box 773, Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Eduardo Alvarez and Darwin Alvarez. Filed July 16.

Sole Proprietorships A and C Construction and Landscape, 116 Terrace Ave., Port Chester 10573, c/o Efrain Villa. Filed July 16. Asheford Consulting, 114 Loomis Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Chad Asheford. Filed July 18. B. Loved Entertainment, 38 Cortlandt Ave., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Angelique Francis. Filed July 18. Building A Legacy Today, 50 N. Broadway, No. 142, Tarrytown 10591, c/o Laura Roman Lopez. Filed July 15. Chacon Construction, 105 West St., Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Juan M. Chacon. Filed July 16. G and O General Construction, 62 Circuit Road, New Rochelle 10805, c/o Geisel Vaneza Osorio. Filed July 17. Gio’s Auto Repair, 1 School Repair, Yonkers 10701, c/o Giovanni Santiago. Filed July 17. Groom Spot, 3 Fisher Ave., Tuckahoe 10707, c/o Julie Zwisdak. Filed July 17. Indian Grocery Halal Meat and Fish, 4 Randolph St., Yonkers 10705, c/o Kamroul Hasan. Filed July 17. Joma Maintenance Service, 139 Sickles Ave., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Morris Hunter. Filed July 18. Maz Connect, 15 Brady Ave., New Rochelle 10805, c/o Masroor Malik. Filed July 16. New Rochelle Muslim Community, 116 Guion Place, New Rochelle 10801, c/o John J. Nashid. Filed July 18.

FACTS & FIGURES Painting Etc., P.O. Box 464, Hartsdale 10530, c/o John Quantararo. Filed July 18. Rise and Shine Family Day Care, 232 Bradley Ave., Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Eulalie Beckford. Filed July 16. Sheetal Gheewala, 104 Edgecliff Terrace, Yonkers 10705, c/o Sheetal Gheewala. Filed July 15. Simpson Construction Service, 615 Warburton Ave., Yonkers 10701, c/o Michael Simpson. Filed July 16. Ulisses General Flooing, 41 Chester St., Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Ulisses H. De Andrade. Filed July 18.

PATENTS The following patents were issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Oﬃce in Washington, D.C. Automated time-to-value measurement. Patent no. 8,910,146 issued to Nnaemeka I. Emejulu, Austin, Texas; Andrew J. Lavery, Austin, Texas; Ye Liu, Belmont, Mass.; and Mario A. Maldari, Longmont, Colo. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Compiling source code for debugging with variable value restoration based on debugging user activity. Patent no. 8,910,126 issued to Cary L. Bates, Rochester, Minn.; Justin K. King, Rochester, Minn.; and Lee Nee, Rochester, Minn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Generating code that calls functions based on types of memory. Patent no. 8,910,136 issued to Cary L. Bates, Rochester, Minn.; Nicholas P. Johnson, Rochester, Minn.; Justin K. King, Rochester, Minn.; Lee Nee, Rochester, Minn.; and Siobhan M. O’Toole, Seattle, Wash. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Methods and systems for automatically determining conﬁguration parameters. Patent no. 8,910,189 issued to Arun Kwangil Iyengar, Yorktown Heights; and Jian Yin, Bronx. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Monitoring software performance. Patent no. 8,910,125 issued to Guy L. Guthrie, Austin, Texas; Randall R. Heisch, Georgetown, Texas; Venkat R. Indukuru, Austin, Texas; and Aaron C. Sawdey, Cannon Falls, Minn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Performing a global barrier operation in a parallel computer. Patent no. 8,910,178 issued to Charles J. Archer, Rochester, Minn.; Michael A. Blocksome, Rochester, Minn.; Joseph D. Ratterman, Rochester, Minn.; and Brian E. Smith, Rochester, Minn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Processor exclusivity in a partitioned system. Patent no. 8,910,159 issued to Ronald N. Hilton, Holladay, Utah. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. System and method for real time secure image-based key generation using partial polygons assembled into a master composite image. Patent no. 8,910,260 issued to Tamer E. Abuelsaad, Somers; William K. Bodin, Austin, Texas; David Jaramillo, Lake Worth, Fla.; and Nader M. Nassar, Yorktown Heights. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. System for distributed task dispatch in multi-application environment-based on consensus for load balancing using task partitioning and dynamic grouping of server instance. Patent no. 8,910,176 issued to Bruce Gilbert Lindsay, San Jose, Calif.; Roger C. Raphael, San Jose, Calif.; and Paul Sherwood Taylor, Redwood City, Calif.; Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. User datagram protocol (UDP) packet migration in a virtual machine (VM) migration. Patent no. 8,910,164 issued to Eli M. Dow, Norwood; James P. Gilchrest, Poughkeepsie; Steven K. Schmidt, Essex Junction, Vt.; and Jessie Yu, Wappinger Falls. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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Below $1 million A.J. Empire Builders Inc., Salisbury Mills, as owner. Lender: Northeast Community Bank, White Plains. Property: 51 Hill View Drive, Florida. Amount: $275,000. Filed Dec. 4. Elman, Andrea, Middletown, as owner. Lender: M&T Bank, Buffalo. Property: 1036 Highway 211, Mount Hope. Amount: $118,068. Filed Dec. 5.

796 Broadway Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Ritva M. Poom, Ulster Park. Property: in Esopus. Amount: $75,000. Filed Dec. 2. A.J. Empire Builders Inc., Salisbury Mills. Seller: Highview Estates of Orange County Inc., Salisbury Mills. Property: in Florida. Amount: $50,000. Filed Dec. 4. Agape Homes Inc., Middletown. Seller: Olga Sorokowsky, et al, Bronx. Property: in Wallkill. Amount: $22,500. Filed Dec. 3.

Deminard Enterprises LLC, Highland. Seller: Minard Farms LLC, Clintondale. Property: in Lloyd. Amount: $800,000. Filed Dec. 3. Fannie Mae. Seller: Glen Plotsky, Port Jervis. Property: 127 Orchard St., Monroe 10950. Amount: $252,985. Filed Dec. 3. Fannie Mae. Seller: Judith L. Lubinsky, Campbell Hall. Property: 37 Townsend Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $340,863. Filed Dec. 3.

Lanwin Forest Ridge LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson, as owner. Lender: TEG Federal Credit Union, Poughkeepsie. Property: 10 Copper Rock Road, Newburgh. Amount: $300,900. Filed Dec. 4.

American International Relocation Solutions LLC, Pittsburgh, Pa. Seller: Steven Hawkins, et al, Pleasant Valley. Property: 70 Travis Road, Pleasant Valley 12538. Amount: $249,000. Filed Dec. 2.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Property: 9 Guymard Turnpike, Middletown 10940. Amount: $147,073. Filed Dec. 8.

Marra, Alexander B., Hurley, as owner. Lender: M&T Bank. Property: 56 Schildknecht Road, Hurley 12443. Amount: $274,000. Filed Dec. 1.

Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Seller: Judith L. Lubinsky, Campbell Hall. Property: 11 Lexington Hills 9, Harriman 10926. Amount: $321,393. Filed Dec. 3.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: John Bach, Goshen. Property: 54 New York Ave., Middletown 10940. Amount: $266,651. Filed Dec. 2.

McClabb, Jill, et al, as owner. Lender: Rhinebeck Bank. Property: in Rhinebeck. Amount: $310,000. Filed Dec. 5.

Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Seller: Sarah E. Sholes, Poughkeepsie. Property: 189 Church St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $442,000. Filed Dec. 1.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: John C. Cappello, Walden. Property: 183 Eagleton Drive, Unit 18C, Monroe 10950. Amount: $345,816. Filed Dec. 2.

Chester Agricultural Center LLC, Keene, N.H. Seller: Thomas J. Zangrillo, Chester. Property: Meadow Road, Chester. Amount: $435,000. Filed Dec. 2.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: John J. Revella, Walden. Property: 240 W. Main St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $273,167. Filed Dec. 2.

Citizens Bank N.A. Seller: Charles P. Obremski, Cornwallon-Hudson. Property: in Chester. Amount: $217,348. Filed Dec. 8.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Oreste Decimo, et al, Seattle, Wash. Property: 33 Grove Drive, Tuxedo Park 10987. Amount: $332,942. Filed Dec. 3.

Newburgh Community Land Bank Inc., Newburgh, as owner. Lender: County of Orange Office of Community Development, Middletown. Property: 13 Chambers St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $478,353. Filed Dec. 8.

DEEDS Above $1 million 238 HM Ave Developers Corp., New York City. Seller: Hooker Avenue Properties LLC, Pleasant Valley. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $3.6 million. Filed Dec. 3. Boulder Pointe Apartments LLC, Lodi, N.J. Seller: Country View Manor LP, Maitland, Fla. Property: in Wawayanda. Amount: $18.4 million. Filed Dec. 5. JBT Holdings LLC, Chicago, Ill. Seller: Wolftec Inc., Kingston. Property: in Kingston. Amount: $5.2 million. Filed Dec. 2.

Citizens Bank N.A. Seller: Juliana LoBiondo, Newburgh. Property: in Middletown. Amount: $124,338. Filed Dec. 8. City of Middletown, Middletown. Seller: Felipe Gutierrez, et al, Vails Gate. Property: 45-53 North St., Middletown 10940. Amount: $235,000. Filed Dec. 8. City of New York, New York City. Seller: James G. Levins III, Rutland, Vt. Property: in Olive. Amount: $323,843. Filed Dec. 3. Clintondale Holdings LLC, Saddle River, N.J. Seller: Realty A.R.T., et al, Highland Mills. Property: 583 Route 32, Unit 2L, Highland Mills 10930. Amount: $50,000. Filed Dec. 4.

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Below $1 million

Bram Property Corporation Inc., New York. Seller: Housing and Healthcare Finance LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Property: 2817 Albany Post Road, Montgomery. Amount: $6.2 million. Filed Dec. 8.

282 Mountainview Drive LLC, Monroe. Seller: John B. Swift III. Property: 308 Museum Village Road, Blooming Grove. Amount: $600,000. Filed Dec. 5.

CWI Landholdings LLC, Walden. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 67 Ulster Ave., Walden 12586. Amount: $72,890. Filed Dec. 4.

796 Broadway Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Ritva M. Poom, Ulster Park. Property: in Esopus. Amount: $400,000. Filed Dec. 2.

Darilee Custom Homes Inc., Holmes. Seller: Fredric Shaffren, et al, Hopewell Junction. Property: in East Fishkill. Amount: $42,500. Filed Dec. 1.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Todd A. Kelson, New Windsor. Property: 22 Bush Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $126,628. Filed Dec. 8. Flagstar Bank F.S.B. Seller: Peter C. McGinnis, Poughkeepsie. Property: 68 N. Farm Drive, Dover 12522. Amount: $487,500. Filed Dec. 2. Focolare Movement, Women’s Branch, et al, Hyde Park. Seller: Joan Duggan, Hyde Park. Property: in Hyde Park. Amount: $230,000. Filed Nov. 26. Hans Redl LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Daniel J. McCabe, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Pleasant Valley. Amount: $135,000. Filed Dec. 5. Hans Redl LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Daniel J. McCabe, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Pleasant Valley. Amount: $135,000. Filed Dec. 5. Hudson Homestead Group LLC, Kingston. Seller: Mary J. Palladino, Kingston. Property: in Kingston. Amount: $30,000. Filed Dec. 1.

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Jlevi LLC, Fishkill. Seller: Irene P. McGrath, Cold Spring. Property: in Fishkill. Amount: $290,000. Filed Dec. 2. Jmarkmng LLC, Marlboro. Seller: Linda Joy Nardone, Highland. Property: in Lloyd. Amount: $300,000. Filed Nov. 28. JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Michael L. Fox, Walden. Property: 210 Greenwich Ave., Goshen 10924. Amount: $449,519. Filed Dec. 8. Key Bank N.A. Seller: Gerard J. Pisanelli, Poughkeepsie. Property: 4 Traver Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Amount: $195,000. Filed Nov. 26. Merritt 33 Corp., Millbrook. Seller: Christopher Colomello, Millbrook. Property: in Millbrook. Amount: $260,000. Filed Dec. 3. Nased Corp., Monroe. Seller: Leslie Baum, Walden. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $100,000. Filed Dec. 5. Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Seller: Thomas A. Brucher Jr., Glen Spey. Property: 9 Guymard Turnpike, Middletown 10940. Amount: $145,800. Filed Dec. 8. Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Seller: Wolf Perl, Monroe. Property: 33 D Tanager Road, Blooming Grove 10950. Amount: $96,000. Filed Dec. 3. Northern Dutchess Properties LLC, New York City. Seller: Bernardo Mongil, et al, Pine Plains. Property: in Amenia. Amount: $350,000. Filed Dec. 1. Oak Home Property LLC, Ann Arbor, Mich. Seller: Duncan M. Schmitt, et al, Woodstock. Property: in Woodstock. Amount: $120,000. Filed Dec. 4. Premier Contracting Inc., Highland. Seller: Frederick N. Trainor, Highland. Property: in Plattekill. Amount: $32,000. Filed Dec. 3. RBS Citizens N.A. Seller: Donald Cappillino, Pawling. Property: 1336 Salt Point Turnpike, Pleasant Valley 12569. Amount: $199,000. Filed Nov. 28. Slate Hill Farms LLC, Lake Bluff, Ill. Seller: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Mount Hope. Amount: $75,000. Filed Dec. 5. Thomas Allen Corp., Kingston. Seller: Edward Hill Enterprises Inc., Kingston. Property: in Kingston. Amount: $100,000. Filed Dec. 2.

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FACTS & FIGURES Tryd Estates LLC, Highland Mills. Seller: Beirach Moshe Gardens Inc., Monroe. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $360,000. Filed Dec. 5.

Brother John Pizza Inc., Napanoch. $15,979 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 4.

Veitch Real Estate Holding Company Inc., Centerport. Seller: Mark A. Gossoo, et al, Naples. Property: in Shandaken. Amount: $89,000. Filed Dec. 1.

Brown Brothers United Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

VFC Properties 18 LLC, Waco, Texas. Seller: Geoffrey Chanin, Goshen. Property: 1102 Route 17K, Montgomery. Amount: $200,000. Filed Dec. 3. Yedid Properties LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: Timothy J. Esker, et al, Middletown. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $83,000. Filed Dec. 8.

JUDGMENTS

Candlewood LLC, Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Choice National Mortgage Corp., d.b.a. American Homestead Mortgage, Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

123 Discount Store Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Citywide Appliance Repairs Inc., Highland. $961 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1.

211 Pit Stop Inc., Ellenville. $907 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1.

Committee to Elect Julian Schreibman, Stone Ridge. $1,171 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1.

ABP Contracting Corp., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. AJM Security and Home Automation Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

DCO Realty Company Inc., d.b.a. Crossley Associates, Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Eurotek Imports LLC, New Windsor. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

All Aspects Renovations LLC, Westtown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Evolving Media Network LLC, Kingston. $2,310 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 4.

Anton’s on the Lake Hotel Company Inc., Greenwood Lake. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Executive Building Development NYC LLC, Greenwood Lake. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

B.A.B. Group V LLC, Saugerties. $1,778 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 4.

Fine Home Builders Inc., Highland. $560 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 4.

Barry Reuhl Contracting Inc., Cornwall-on-Hudson. $1,031 in favor of New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

First Impressions Printing Services Inc., Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

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G and G Rooﬁng and Siding Inc., Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Gefen Plastic Inc., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Hansen Custom Homes Inc., Port Jervis. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Hudson Historics LLC, Warwick. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Hudson Valley Fashion Studio and Workroom Inc., Kerhonkson. $492 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 4. JB Tech Solution Inc., Chester. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Jerry’s Mini Golf and Café Inc., New Paltz. $3,722 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 4. Johansen and Sons Inc., Saugerties. $158 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1. Jordans Landscaping Inc., Walden. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Joscon Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. KJ Fire and Iron Works Inc., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. KKL Pizza Inc., d.b.a. Levato’s Pizza, Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Ladyﬁngers LLC, Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Latino Foods Inc., Florida. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Malvai Enterprises Inc., Kingston. $1,018 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1. Mid Hudson Heinz Plastics USA Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Robles and Associates Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Wallace and Berry Associates Inc., Goshen. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Rosita’s Mexican Restaurant Inc., Kingston. $328 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1.

Wayne and Wayne Attorneys at Law, Walden. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Santini’s Lawn Care Shop, Marlboro. $214 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Dec. 1. Saugerties Petroleum Inc., Kingston. $47,132 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 4.

Mid Hudson Plastic Surgery Center P.C., Kingston. $411 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1.

Savona and Son’s Inc., Kingston. $64,017 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 4.

Mina’s Kitchen 26 Corp., New Windsor. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Sulmas Restaurant Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Next Level Soccer Inc., Newburgh. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Suzanne Meszoly and Associates Inc., Kerhonkson. $675 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1.

Nordahl Hardwood Flooring Inc., Pine Bush. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

T. Farrugia Construction Corp., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

OEM Run Inc., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

T.J.E. Cleaning Service, Wallkill. $5,175 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1.

Orange County Dental Center, Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Pete’s Rite-Way Plumbing Inc., Marlboro. $548 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1. R. Bittman Blacktopping Inc., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. RF Michel Enterprises Inc., d.b.a. Len-Rich Mobile Repairs, Gardiner. $3,750 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 1.

Tass of New York Inc., Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Tiﬀany’s Catering and Restaurant Corp., Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. TLC Swimming Pools Inc., Highland Mills. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Tortilleria Parvinci Inc., Middletown. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

Whisper Wind Farm Ltd., Pine Island. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. William Street Management Group Inc., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Y and G Well Done Insulation Corp., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26. Yoim Beyoimoi Inc., Monroe. $1,031 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 26.

LIS PENDENS The following filings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed. Accomando, Robert C., et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $129,400 affecting property located at 21 Bush Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed May 23. Acevedo, Eric, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $218,300 affecting property located at 9 Kearney Drive, New Windsor 12533. Filed May 23. Andryshak, Angela R., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $123,025 affecting property located at 428 Freetown Highway, Modena 12548. Filed Dec. 3. Any unknown heirs, devisees, distributees or successors in interest of the late Marion Finston, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $194,750 affecting property located at 3 Kalina Drive, Saugerties 12477. Filed Dec. 2.

FACTS & FIGURES Biddle, Maria Teresa, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 115 Ridgebury Hill Road, Slate Hill 10973. Filed May 29.

Feiner, Esther Z., et al. Filed by Caliber Home Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 567 Manorville Road, Saugerties 12477. Filed Dec. 2.

Jarvis, Regina C., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $144,320 affecting property located at 3 Hook Road, Unit 53, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Nov. 19.

Monitto, Bruce A., et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $223,500 affecting property located at 289 Crestwood Court, Fishkill 12524. Filed Nov. 21.

Peters, Ernest, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $105,000 affecting property located at 78 Fiero Road, Malden-on-Hudson 12453. Filed Dec. 1.

Schwendemann, Joseph, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 23 Duelk Ave., Monroe 10950. Filed May 28.

Bruck, John F., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $186,202 affecting property located at 243 Clifton Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed Dec. 1.

Figueroa, Peter F., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 60 Clancy Ave., New Windsor 12553. Filed May 27.

Kelly, Elizabeth, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $458,800 affecting property located at 283 Grog Kill Road, Willow 12495. Filed Dec. 3.

Morales, Jessi-Marie, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $177,745 affecting property located at 13 Harrison St., Middletown. Filed May 23.

Sciarrotta, Charles, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $174,055 affecting property located at 10 River St., Port Jervis 12771. Filed May 29.

Gabino, Victor, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $156,550 affecting property located at 402 Ivy Hill Road, Walden 12586. Filed May 23.

King, Frank, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,400 affecting property located at 3334 Route 52, Pine Bush 12566. Filed Dec. 2.

Murphy, Erika, et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $164,000 affecting property located at 196 Weed Road, Pine Bush 12566. Filed Dec. 2.

Petion, Farah, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 47 Joshua Drive, Blooming Grove 12721. Filed May 28.

Smith, William S., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $132,000 affecting property located at 106 Patio Road, Middletown 10941. Filed May 29.

Girdauskas, Edward, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 3 Cross Way, Wingdale 12594. Filed Nov. 20.

Klemowitz, Robert P., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $206,000 affecting property located at 24 Renton Road, Circleville 10919. Filed May 23.

Pinkston, Clarence E., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $220,500 affecting property located at 23 Orchard Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Nov. 19.

Guerra, Sigfredo, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $170,050 affecting property located at 231 Robinson Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed May 29.

Kundel, Sandra, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $350,000 affecting property located at 73 Mandalay Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Nov. 24.

Haas, James B., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $145,000 affecting property located at 3148 Route 52, Pine Bush 12566. Filed Dec. 2.

Marcojohn, Michael, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,000 affecting property located at 8 W. Dogwood Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Nov. 21.

Carchidi-Albano, Margaret, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $25,000 affecting property located at 1683 Berme Road, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed Dec. 4. Carey, Douglas W., et al. Filed by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $188,000 affecting property located at 3 Elizabeth Lane, New Windsor 12553. Filed May 28. Castillo, Moises, et al. Filed by Quicken Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $304,735 affecting property located at 6 Sawyer Way, Wallkill 12589. Filed Dec. 1. Chang, Keun, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $332,000 affecting property located at 302 Schunnemunk St., Monroe 10950. Filed May 28. Curry, Glen T., et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $212,000 affecting property located at 48 Morris Drive, Newburgh 12550. Filed May 23. Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ancona, Leyna, et al. Filed by GMAC Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 24 Little Brooklyn Road, Warwick 10990. Filed May 28. Eckerson, Damian, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $156,000 affecting property located at 44 Sproat St., Middletown 10940. Filed May 29. Elman, Christopher, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $168,802 affecting property located at 211 Route 209, Port Jervis 12771. Filed May 29. Erlichson, Michel, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 262 Warn Ave., Pine Bush 12566. Filed May 29.

Handley, Debra, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $258,000 affecting property located at 316 Saint Andrews Road, Montgomery 12586. Filed May 29.

Marine, Lawrence, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $193,070 affecting property located at 31 Roslyn St., Ellenville 12428. Filed Dec. 4.

Harden, Ida M., et al. Filed by Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 70 Orange St., Port Jervis 12771. Filed May 23.

Mercado, Gilbert Jr., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $147,009 affecting property located at 1668 Route 9, Unit 9A, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Nov. 21.

Hathaway, Timothy L., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $160,000 affecting property located at 45 Derrenbacher St., Kingston 12401. Filed Dec. 2.

Miller, Mark, et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $98,000 affecting property located at 628 Depot Hill Road, Poughquag 12570. Filed Nov. 21.

Hendricks, Christopher, et al. Filed by LNV Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $403,000 affecting property located at 26 Parkway, No. 28, Goshen 10924. Filed May 27.

Miller, Michael P. Sr., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $362,600 affecting property located at 2743 Albany Post Road, Montgomery 12549. Filed May 29.

Nabizadeh, Navid, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $344,000 affecting property located at 98 Cromwell Hill Road, Monroe 10950. Filed May 28. Negron, Edwin Jr., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $255,500 affecting property located at 32 Capital Drive, Washingtonville 10992. Filed May 28. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell, William, et al. Filed by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $242,000 affecting property located at 75 Main St., Otisville 10963. Filed May 27. Obie, Kiamesha T., et al. Filed by Habitat For Humanity of Greater Newburgh Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $69,248 affecting property located in Newburgh. Filed May 28. Pacheco, Jasmine, et al. Filed by LPP Mortgage Ltd. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $223,200 affecting property located at 4604 Whispering Hills Drive, Chester 10918. Filed May 27. Padula, Michael J., et al. Filed by Hudson City Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $275,000 affecting property located at 24 Alder Terrace, Warwick. Filed May 27. Paige, Aaron, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $182,320 affecting property located at 74 Robinson Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed May 29. Palacios, Marco T., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $301,979 affecting property located at 17 Creamery Road, Circleville 10919. Filed May 27.

Potenzieri, Henry F., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $201,500 affecting property located at 118 Mills Ave., Wallkill 10941. Filed May 28.

Smythe, Salvatore A., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 501 Pine Hill Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed Nov. 20.

Power, Garrett, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $288,000 affecting property located at 9 Ayers Court, Circleville 10919. Filed May 28.

Space, Walter R., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $261,250 affecting property located at 64 Wileman Ave., Walden 12586. Filed May 29.

Purdy, Ronald D., et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $209,000 affecting property located at 203 Whiteport Road, Kingston 12401. Filed Dec. 3.

Swift, Robin Leigh, et al. Filed by GMAC Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $155,700 affecting property located at 111 Indian Trail, Maybrook 12543. Filed May 23.

Racanelli, Claire A., as executrix of the estate of Louis F. Racanelli, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $52,500 affecting property located at 93 S. Lander St., Newburgh 12550. Filed May 28.

Taylor, Barbara, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $152,600 affecting property located at 277 Lake Osiris Road, Walden 12586. Filed May 29.

Roman, Jodi A., et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $164,999 affecting property located at 82 Lake Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed May 23. Schatz, Robbin A., et al. Filed by NRZ Pass-Through Trust IV. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $136,000 affecting property located at 36 Chapel St., Ellenville 12428. Filed Dec. 4. Schiavone, Frank, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $262,000 affecting property located at 21 Millers Lane, Wingdale 12594. Filed Nov. 20.

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Terpening, Gene, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $160,000 affecting property located at 15 Terps Lane, Port Jervis 12771. Filed May 23. Thompson, Michele, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $340,000 affecting property located at 121 E. Searsville Road, Montgomery 12549. Filed May 29. Trival-Hopkins, Marie Therese, individually and as surviving spouse of Andrew W. Hopkins Jr., et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $198,400 affecting property located at 15 Maurice Lane, Newburgh 12550. Filed May 29.

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FACTS & FIGURES Velez, Luis, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 9 Jones St., Port Jervis 12771. Filed May 23. Warren, Jennifer L., individually and as executrix of the estate of David J. Warren, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $406,125 affecting property located at 1 Knapp Terrace, Goshen 10924. Filed May 23.

Williams, Michael I., et al. Filed by Fifth Third Mortgage Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $259,971 affecting property located at 30 Garfield Place, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Nov. 21. Wilner, Jamie H., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $108,000 affecting property located at 276 Temple Hill Road, unit 2503, New Windsor 12553. Filed May 27.

Yarpezeshkan, Arya, et al. Filed by Everhome Mortgage Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $219,200 affecting property located at 21 Maple St., Cornwall 12518. Filed May 27. Yorke, Patrick, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $192,000 affecting property located at 108 Country Club Drive, Florida 10921. Filed May 27.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Gardner, Michael, et al, as owner. $11,693 as claimed by Alfredo LDC Fox Meadow Farms Ltd., Armonk. Property: Poughquag. Filed Dec. 4. Gardner, Michael, et al, as owner. $40,975 as claimed by Alfredo Property Management Inc., Somers. Property: Poughquag. Filed Dec. 4. Katzenstien, Eileen, et al, as owner. $825 as claimed by Lunati Builders Inc., New Paltz. Property: in New Paltz. Filed Dec. 4.

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Ross Homes of Orange County Inc., as owner. $3,500 as claimed by Madeira Framing Co., Kearny, N.J. Property: 49 Donnelly Farm Road, Montgomery. Filed Dec. 8. Ross Homes of Orange County Inc., as owner. $9,748 as claimed by Madeira Framing Co., Kearny, N.J. Property: 48 Donnelly Farm Road, Montgomery. Filed Dec. 8. Ross, Donald C., et al, as owner. $3,800 as claimed by Madeira Framing Co., Kearny, N.J. Property: 232 McManus Road, New Hampton. Filed Dec. 8. Southgate Enterprises LLC, as owner. $27,800 as claimed by John Falvella Inc., Montgomery. Property: 2677 Route 17M, Goshen 10924. Filed Dec. 2.

NEW BUSINESSES

Kirana Productions Inc., d.b.a. Nancy Kamen, 283 Vly Atwood Road, Stone Ridge 12484. Filed Dec. 4.

Imagine This, 1392 Kings Highway, Sugarloaf 10981, c/o Debra Ann Femiak and Carrie Ann Elizabeth Wood. Filed April 4. J and K Backﬂow Services, 209 Robbins Road, Howells 10932, c/o Kimberly Eherts and Walter Eherts Jr. Filed April 3.

Sole Proprietorships

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Eco Trash Removal, 251 Prospect Road, Blooming Grove 10950, c/o Manuel R. Aleixo. Filed April 4. Exeride, 1666 Route 211 W., Otisville 10963, c/o Catherine M. Neumann. Filed April 7.

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Brothers Investment Group Two, 52 Hatfield Lane, Goshen 10924, c/o Frederick C. Dana III and Patrick K. English. Filed April 4.

David Laks Productions, 5401 Route 212, studio A, Mount Tremper 12457, c/o David C. Laks. Filed Dec. 1.

Glitter Creek Design, 46 Esopus Ave., Kingston 12401, c/o Maridyth A. Wells. Filed Dec. 3.

Partnerships

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Dare To Dream, 1711 Route 17A, Florida, c/o Anne Glenn-Fellenzer. Filed April 8.

Gibson Auto, 10 Riverview Drive, New Paltz 12561, c/o Daniel Gibson. Filed Dec. 3.

The House is You Inc., d.b.a. Wellness Décor, 651 Lakes Road, Monroe 10950. Filed Dec. 4.

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Cooper-Meier Designs, 5 Wallace Drive, Highland Mills 10930, c/o Juergen Meier. Filed April 3.

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Pickwic Corp., d.b.a. Scrub – a – Dub Car Wash, 143 N. Chestnut St., New Paltz 12561. Filed Dec. 4.

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Client Management Services, 45 Lake Ave., Middletown 10940, c/o Nikia Francesca Drewe. Filed April 8.

Barry’s Boutique and Books, 1256 Route 212, Saugerties 12477, c/o Barry Samuels. Filed Dec. 2. Citidiamond, P.O. Box 401, Modena 12548, c/o Anthony W. Orlando Jr. Filed Dec. 2.

New Inspiration, 101 North St., Middletown 10940, c/o Rosa N. Vega. Filed April 8. No Place Like Your Home, 56 Union St., Montgomery 12549, c/o Jennie L. Leonard. Filed April 3. Orient Asia Foods, 99 Hawkins Drive, Montgomery 12549, c/o Dong Fang. Filed April 7. P.S. Confections, 951 Goshen Turnpike, Circleville 10919, c/o Julie Palmer. Filed April 8. Pine Hill Arms Hotel, 288 Main St., Pine Hill 12465, c/o Robert Thomas Konefal. Filed Dec. 4. Ricashea Hobbies, 1189 Route 212, Saugerties 12477, c/o Christopher A. Dellachiesa. Filed Dec. 2. Shade Woody Skin Services, 7 Orchard St., Middletown, c/o Shade Woody. Filed April 3. Top Beauty, 38 Chevron Road, No, 102, Monroe 10950, c/o Yoel Landau. Filed April 4. Training Safety Institute, 121 Little York Road, Warwick 10990, c/o George R. Haas. Filed April 3. Van Dervoort Remodeling, 246 Eatontown Road, Greenville, c/o Maureen Van Dervoort. Filed April 3.

LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Formation of HBMB LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/2014. Office location: Westchester. SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, 19 Boulder Brook Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful activity. #59685 NOTICE OF FORMATION: CUFFED?, LLC Art of Org filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/25/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, PO BOX 40 Bronx, NY 10470. Purpose: any lawful purpose #59686 MAMARONECK MEDICAL, PLLC, a Prof. LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/22/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 933 Mamaroneck Ave., Ste 102, Mamaroneck , NY 10543. Profession to be practiced: Medicine. #59691 J.M. AQUINO PSYCHOLOGIST PLLC, a Prof. LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/27/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 10 Rye Ridge Plaza, Ste 214, Rye Brook, NY 10573. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Psychology #59692 Notice of Formation of CATS CATS CATS PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/1/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 21 The Crossing at Blind Brook, Purchase, NY 10577. Purpose. Any lawful act or activity. #59693 Notice of Formation of CM Mental Health Counseling, PLLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/16/2014. Office location: Westchester County. U.S. Corp. Agents Inc. designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn NY, 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59694

Notice of formation of PLLC: Nolan Landscape Architects, PLLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/9/2014. Location: Westchester County. SSNY design. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Practice of the profession of Landscape Architecture. #59696 PRD ENTERPRISES LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/30/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 26 Ramona Court, New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59698 OLIN DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/03/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 578 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59699 ATI, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 10/03/2014 FICT NAME: ATI, LLC OPERATIONS. Office loc: Westchester County. LLC formed in CT on 01/12/2010. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 34 Industrial Park Place , Middletown, CT 06457. Address required to be maintained in CT: 34 Industrial Park Place Middletown CT 06457. Cert of Formation filed with CT Sec. of State, Commercial Recording Div., P.O. Box 150470, Hartford, CT 06115. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59700 SHN Strategies LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ NY Sec. of State (SSNY) on 11/3/14. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to Uwa Emumwen, 2 Grant Way, White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: Any lawful activity #59702

JOHNSON LAW FIRM, PLLC, a Prof. LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/21/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Geoffrey Johnson, Esq., Ste 207, 106 Corporate Park Dr., White Plains, NY 10604. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Law #59703 Notice of Application for Authority of KIM KAISER AND ASSOCIATES, LLC filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/22/2014. Formed in Delaware 11/04/2004. Office location: Westchester County. The SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The principal office location, and the address SSNY shall mail copy of process to, is 151 Centre Avenue # 1-A, New Rochelle, NY 10805. The office address required to be maintained in Delaware is c/o National Corporate Research Ltd., 615 S. Dupont Highway, Dover, Delaware 19901. The name of the authorized officer in Delaware where a copy of the LLCís Articles of Organization is filed is Delaware Secretary of State, Division of Corporations, 401 Federal St., Suite 4, Dover, Delaware 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity #59704 Notice of formation of GROWING MINDS CHESS ACADEMY LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/18/14. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 80 Carrollwood Dr Tarrytown, NY 10591. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose #59705 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF #Marketing Services, LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy of State of NY on 10/17/14, Office loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Lyons McGovern LLP, 399 Knollwood Rd, Ste 216, White Plains, NY 10603.Purpose: Any lawful activity #59706

Notice of Formation of AeriaLab LLC Art. of Org.filed with SSNY on 9/24/14. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC 624 White Plains Rd. #245 Tarrytown, NY10591. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59707 FOUR M BAKERY OF WHITE PLAINS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/04/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: James Bitzonis, 7 Renaissane Square, 5th Fl., White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59708 THE CENTER FOR VISUAL MANAGEMENT LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/21/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 150 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown, NY 10591. Reg Agent: Barbara Kotsaminidis-Burg, 109 Sunfish Landing, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59709 BLACKBIRD REALTY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/05/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 58-64A Maurice Ave, Maspeth , NY 11378. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59710 Notice of formation of Chirico Realty Group LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10-27-14 Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent for LLC for service of process, SSNY shall mail process to: Chirico Realty Group LLC, 24 Bronxville Glen Drive, # 4-14 Bronxville, NY 10708. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59712 Notice of Formation of Booked Parties, LLC, Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/07/2014. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O Booked Parties, LLC, 15 Leroy Place, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59713

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: Summit JV LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/10/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 200 Business Park Dr, Ste 203, Armonk, NY 10504, which is the principle business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful activity. #59715 BENT NAIL PRODUCTIONS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/19/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ross Chambers, 1110 Hudson Ave., Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59716 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CBSI, LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy of State of NY on 11/19/14, Office loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Celtic Building Supplies, 33 Mostyn Street, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any lawful activity #59718 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Crannog, LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy of State of NY on 11/19/14, Office loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY shall mail process to: Damien Quinn,33 Mostyn Street, Yonkers, NY 10701.Purpose: Any lawful activity #59719 CAPITAL HAVEN, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/20/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 22 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532. Reg Agent: Edward D. Heben, 22 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59720

SHARP STONE HOLDINGS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/18/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: John Sharp, 82 Wharton Drive, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59721 Notice of Formation Sahil Siri LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 11/25/2014. Off. Loc.: Westchester Cnty. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o the LLC, 1 Oak Way, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59724 Notice of Formation Flying44 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 11/20/2014. Off. Loc.: Westchester Cnty. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o the LLC, 607 Mallard Way, Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59725 Name of Limited Liability Company (LLC): AP ORGANIZING SOLUTIONS LLC. Date of filing Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 10/29/14. The LLC is located in Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served is to the principal business location at c/o 157 Orchard Rd 3M Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510. Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity #59726 PVW CONSULTING LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/18/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jonathan M Wells C/O Gilbride Tusa Last ET AL, 31 Brookside Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59727

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Notice of formation of CC SOLUTIONS GOVERNMENT SERVICES LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/21/14. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 75 GRANDVIEW BLVD. YONKERS, NY 10710. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose #59731 DESIGN & REMODELING SPECIALISTS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/23/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Odilardo Jose Faria Junior, 557 North Ave, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59732 DIAS TRANSIT LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/26/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mary Kaloedas, 4 Shipman Ave., Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose #59733 Notice is hereby given that an on-premises license, #TBA has been applied for by RJLR Restaurant Corp to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 887C-F Yonkers Avenue Yonkers, NY 10704. #59734 Notice of Formation of Marcelino Consulting LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/10/2014. Office Location: 666 N.Terrace Ave Mount Vernon, New York 10552.SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Christian Rodriguez 666 N. Terrace Ave, Mount Vernon, New York 10552. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59735 Notice of Formation of Halcyon Jewelry, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/2014. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Halcyon Jewelry, LLC 18 Park Trail, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59736

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LEGAL NOTICES Name of LLC: Movement Tapestries, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Sec. of State 10/28/14. Office location: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Douglas Burack, Lutz & Carr, 300 E. 42nd St., 8th Floor, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity. #59737 THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE GOLUB FAMILY FOUNDATION, INC for the year ended 11/30/14 is available at its principal office located at 7 Trailís End Chappaqua, NY 10514 914.238.4440 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is Gerry Golub #59738

Notice is hereby given that an Application for an On-Premises Liquor License Serial No. 1282178 has been applied for by the undersigned in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 187 189 East Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, N Y 10530, Westchester County; /s/ VEGA MEXICAN LLC #59739

Notice of formation of IMFORMATIO, LLC. Art. of org. filed with SSNY?on 11/24/14. Off. location: Westchester County. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 2828 Broadway 9E, New York, NY 11024. Purpose: Any lawful activity. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. #59741

Notice of Formation of East Rocks Technology LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/23/2014. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy to 243 Knollwood Ave., Mamaroneck, NY, 10543 Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59740

Notice of Formation of Suflay, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNYon 9/10/14. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agentof LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Suflay, 1002 Main St, Peekskill, NY 10566.Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59742

THERAPYCARE PT SERVICES PLLC, a Prof, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/05/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 129 Main St., Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Physical Therapy. #59743

Notice of Formation of MITCHELL WILK DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/21/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 31 Purchase St., Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59745

Notice of Formation of IYOBOSA STUDIOS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/13/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 316 N. Broadway, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59744

Notice of Formation of HARRISON CAPITAL GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/17/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Charles E. McBain, 111 Calvert St., Harrison, NY 10528. Purpose. Any lawful act or activity. #59746

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Notice of formation of LEVITT-FUIRST & JDM, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/05/14. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1 Executive Blvd Ste 370 Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any lawful purpose #59747 Notice is hereby given that an Application for an On-Premises Liquor License Serial No. 1282283 has been applied for by the undersigned in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 844 Scarsdale Ave., Scarsdale, N Y 10583, Westchester County; /s/ SCARSDALE PIZZA INC #59748

WHITE PLAINS ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/04/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 105 South Bedford Rd., Ste. 330, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: To practice the profession of Dentistry. Ad # 59697

FACES& PLACES LAW FIRM MARKS 30 YEARS

McCullough, Goldberger & Staudt LLP, one of the region’s leading law firms whose expertise has helped guide and shape Westchester County’s development, business and municipal landscape, held a reception at its White Plains office Nov. 14 to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Photos are from left unless otherwise indicated.

1. Back row: James Staudt, Seth Mandelbaum and Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett. Front row: Bill Mooney, county director of economic development; Charles Goldberger of MGS, Linda Whitehead of MGS, Frank McCullough of MGS, county legislator George Oros and Ned McCormack, county communications director.

2. James Staudt of MGS and Mike Divney of Divney Tung Schwalbe. 3. Marissa Brett and William Mooney Sr. of the Westchester County Association. 4. Wayne Esannason and Carolyn DeSiena of the village of Scarsdale and Meredith Leff and Seth Mandelbaum of MGS. 5. Lori Lee Dickson of the village of Ossining and Linda Whitehead of MGS. 6. Charles Goldberger of MGS and Marsha Gordon of The Business Council of Westchester. 7. James Houlihan of Houlihan-Parnes Realtors, Frank McCullough of MGS, Carl Austin of Austin Corporate Properties and Michael Spicer of St. Joseph’s Medical Center.

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