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JANUARY 27, 2020 VOL. 56, No. 4

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A rendering of one of the possibilities for the redevelopment of the Sears location at the Cross County Shopping Center.

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Marx making a mark OWNER TAKES OVER CROSS COUNTY LEASING, WORKING ON FORMER SEARS STORE

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UNHEALTHY HEALTH CARE

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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arx Realty, which jointly owns the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers with Benenson Capital Management, is taking over leasing and management responsibilities for the 1,150,000-square-foot property. Marx is a division of New York City-based Merchants

National Properties, which has a portfolio of 67 properties in 17 states.

Mark Utreras, formerly with Newmark Knight Frank (NKF), has been made Marx’s senior director of leasing and will be responsible for leasing at Cross County. In addition, Marx plans to hire up to 10 additional leasing team members. While at NKF, Utreras served as associate director representing landlords and developers

such as RXR Realty, Muss Development and SL Green Realty. He was credited with completing retail lease transactions valued at more than $450 million.

“He will focus solely on Cross County Shopping Center, which is really the �irst time we’ve had someone dedicated to Cross County,” Craig Deitelzweig, president and CEO of Marx Realty, told the » CROSS COUNTY

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DEMOCRATS FAVOR TOLLS AS CONNECTICUT’S ROADS CALLED A ‘NIGHTMARE’

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com THE ISSUE OF HIGHWAY TOLLS IN CONNECTICUT

dominated the Stamford Chamber of Commerce’s annual legislative breakfast on Jan. 22.

Moderator Harry Carey, director of external affairs at AT&T, teased the issue throughout the hourlong panel discussion at Deloitte’s Stamford of�ice.

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The discussion pivoted to why it is an idea whose time has come.

Calling the state of Connecticut’s roads “a transportation nightmare,” state Sen. Carlo Leone (D-Stamford, Darien) made the point that, although an original bill that would have required the drivers of all vehicles to pay tolls was “a very good bill,” it did not receive the legislative

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C&W: Office leasing rises in Westchester, dips in Fairfield

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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f�ice leasing activity during 2019 in Westchester County rose about 8.4% over the level seen in 2018, while dropping about 15% in Fair�ield County, according to the fourth-quarter Westchester and Fair�ield Of�ice Market reports issued by real estate services �irm Cushman & Wake�ield (C&W).

C&W said new transactions in Fair�ield accounted for about 2.2 million square feet of leasing activity compared with 2.6 million square feet in 2018. Increases in the of�ice space supply during the year came in at 21.1% in Greenwich and 35% in Norwalk.

However, there was an overall vacancy drop in Fair�ield County from 31.8% in 2018 to 28.4% in 2019.

C&W said the largest new leases for of�ice space in Fair�ield during the fourth quarter included WWE’s lease of 415,266 square feet at 677 Washington Blvd. in Stamford, ASML’s lease of 98,907 square feet at 50 Danbury Road in Wilton and the 58,566 square feet Sema4 added at 333 Ludlow St. in Stamford.

In Westchester, C&W said signi�icant portions of new leasing activity took place in two submarkets: East I-287 and West I-287. The East I-287 submarket accounted for 36.3% of Westchester demand in 2019 while West I-287 accounted for nearly 30% of the demand.

Downtown White Plains showed a drop of

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10.1% in new transactions from 2018, with 217,584 square feet leased in 2019.

The three largest leasing transactions in Westchester during the fourth quarter were UnitedHealth Group’s lease at 1311 Mamaroneck Ave. in White Plains for 63,575 square feet, a lease for 26,139 square feet at 500 Summit Lake Drive in Valhalla taken by professional services �irm WSP and POP Displays’ lease at 1 International Drive in Rye Brook for 25,851 square feet.

C&W’s report showed an increase in vacancies in the White Plains Central Business District (CBD) submarket to 19.3% while vacan-

cies in the West I-287 submarket fell from 2018’s level by 23.8%.

Overall net absorption in Westchester remained positive in 2019 to the tune of 53,605 square feet.

Average pricing in Westchester ended the year at $28.76 per square foot, an increase of $1.17 over 2018. In Fair�ield, average rents declined by $0.95 in 2019 for an average of $31.52 per square foot.

C&W said the four key sales transactions in Westchester for 2019 were: • The purchase of the former College of New Rochelle property at 29 Castle Place by The

Masonic Hall & Asylum Fund for $32 million, or $75 per square foot.

• The sale of 100 Manhattanville Road in Purchase by Caceis to the RPW Group for $36.3 million, or $124 per square foot.

• The sale of Empire Casino and Yonkers Raceway by Yonkers Racing Corp. to MGM Resorts International for $850 million, or $4,600 per square foot.

• The sale of 200 White Plains Road in Tarrytown

by Barings to the Highstone Equity Group for $10.3 million, or $59 per square foot.

C&W said the key sales transactions in Fair�ield in 2019 were: • The sale of 600 Washington Blvd. in Stamford by the Royal Bank of Scotland to Rubenstein Partners for $163 million, or $362 per square foot.

• The sale of 1266 E. Main St. in Stamford by Keystone Property to Twenty Lake Holdings for $15.2 million, or $84 per square foot.

• The sale of 1010 Washington Blvd. in Stamford

by SL Green to New England Investment Partners for $23.1 million, or $161 per square foot.

The C&W report said Westchester had a total inventory of 23,572,384 square feet of of�ice space while Fair�ield had 38,837,246 square feet.

C&W noted that Fair�ield showed an overall increase in employment with 3,210 jobs added in 2019 while 1,355 jobs were lost in Westchester.

More time needed to sell Fairfield County homes median sale price of $270,000 was a 2.9% increase from the third quarter’s $262,500 and a 4.7% upswing from the $258,000 price from one year earlier.

More condominiums were being sold in Fair�ield County: 715 in the fourth quarter, compared with 691 in the third quarter and 673 in the fourth quarter of 2018. There were 760 active listings for condominiums, down from 1,004 in the previous quarter but up from 743 one year earlier.

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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air�ield County’s housing market in the fourth quarter featured year-over-year sales price declines and fewer single-family home sales, according to data released by Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

The average sale price in Fair�ield County for all residential properties during the fourth quarter was $576,391, down 11.1% from the third quarter’s $648,488 and down from $639,033 in the fourth quarter of 2018. The median sale price of $380,000 represented a 9.1% drop from the third quarter’s $418,000 and a 1.3% uptick from the median price of $375,00 set one year earlier.

The number of sales for all residential properties during the fourth quarter was 2,741, a decline from the third quarter total of 3,423 but an increase from the 2,632 sales in the fourth quarter of 2018. The average number of days on the market totaled 124 in the fourth quarter, compared with 106 days in the previous quarter and 113 days one year earlier.

SINGLE-FAMILY PROPERTIES

During the fourth quarter, the average sale price for a single-family Fair�ield County

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LUXURY MARKET

A house for sale in the town of Fairfield. Photo by Phil Hall.

home was $662,656, a 9.3% drop from the third quarter’s $730,574 and a 2.2% decline from the $677,398 recorded in the fourth quarter of 2018. The median single-family sale price of $436,625 was 8.1% below the $475,000 price in the previous quarter but 4% higher than the $420,000 price from one year earlier.

A total of 2,026 single-family homes were sold in the fourth quarter, a tumble from the 2,732 transactions in the third quarter but higher than the 1,960 transactions in the

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fourth quarter of 2018. Inventory levels were in decline: 3,145 properties were listed in the fourth quarter compared to 4,473 in the previous quarter and 3,429 one year earlier.

CONDOMINIUMS

In Fair�ield County’s condominium market, the average sale price in the fourth quarter was $331,953, up 2.5% from the third quarter’s $323,947 but down 4.1% from the $346,068 in the fourth quarter of 2018. The

In Fair�ield County’s luxury market — which combines single-family properties and condos — the fourth quarter’s average sale price of $2.14 million was 10.5% lower than the $2.39 million in the third quarter and 7.1% lower than the $2.3 million from the fourth quarter of 2018.

The median sale price of $1.7 million was a 6.8% drop from the $1.85 million in the previous quarter and a 5.6% slide from the $1.8 million price set one year earlier.

Among the Fair�ield County submarkets, Greenwich recorded the highest average fourth-quarter sales price for a single-family home at $2.16 million and the highest average sale price for condominiums at $893,944.

Abinanti: ‘Our roads are dangerous’ complete in upstate New York. It is going to produce 600-and-something jobs. That’s like $850,000 a job. Think about the number of roads that we could pave with that $500 million. You shouldn’t need a lunar lander to drive down (Route) 9A.” Several of�icials rejected even the possibility of a middle-class tax increase to pay for infrastructure improvements. Abinanti had a different segment of the population in mind regarding a funding source.

“There was just a report … that said there are 300 billionaires in the state of New York who are really not paying their fair share of taxes,” he said. “They have wealth that is three times the state’s annual budget, so there are people in the state who could contribute a little bit more. There are lots of different ways of �inding money for something that’s so important.”

BY GLENN J. KALINOSKI gkalinoski@westfairinc.com

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ne after another several Westchester politicians made their way to the microphone to tell anyone with a driver’s license in the county what they already know: the area’s roads are crumbling and something must be done about it.

The Jan. 17 event was a press conference presented by Rebuild NY Now at the Teamsters Local 456 Union Hall in Elmsford.

Rebuild NY Now describes itself as a partnership of supporters looking to raise awareness about issues impacting New York state’s infrastructure.

Assemblyman Thomas J. Abinanti (D-Greenburgh, Mount Pleasant) was adamant in his call for immediate road repair.

“We all agree, enough is enough,” he said. “It’s time to go forward and �ix our infrastructure.

“We’re setting an example for those who are cynics, who say government is ineffective.

The most basic thing that government can do is to make things safe. Our roads are not safe.

They are dangerous.”

A press release provided by Rebuild NY Now after the event stated that 10% of state and locally maintained bridges in New York are rated in poor condition. In 2017, the New York State Department of Transportation projected that 2,116 bridges will become structurally de�icient by 2022, reflecting an almost 100% increase since the DOT’s last evaluation in 2009.

“I hear from my constituents over and over again about the cost to repair their vehicles, and how afraid they were when they hit a pothole unexpectedly on one of our state roads,” Abinanti said. “At Macy Park (in Ardsley), not too long ago, I held a press conference with a group of female motorcyclists from the city of New York. They spoke about how one of their members totaled a motorcycle when she hit a pothole on the Saw Mill River Parkway.”

Rebuild NY Now says New York should allocate $35 billion in the 2020 budget “to stabilize the infrastructure crisis.” It also stated that crumbling roads cost the state’s drivers $1,600 annually, totaling $24 billion statewide. It added that recent studies show that every billion dollars spent on infrastructure repair and development creates more than 28,000 jobs.

“How can the state say we are going to build new bridges, we are going to �ix LaGuardia Airport, but we are going to ignore the roads and bridges that everybody uses every day,” Abinanti said. “And don’t tell me the money is not there. We could have a bond act.

“I just read that the state of New York is investing $500 million to build half of a project that a private developer is going to

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THE NEXT BIG THING Shop Tomorrows provides market for kids’ clothing

BY PHIL HALL

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n the words of Plato: “No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”

Plato didn’t dwell on perseverance in regard to children’s clothing — and one doesn’t need to be a world-celebrated philosopher to recognize how quickly kids outgrow their clothes and how expensive it can be to keep the young ones properly dressed.

Haley Lieberman, a fashion designer and stylist in the New York City entertainment industry, quickly learned that the hard way shortly after the birth of her twins in October 2017.

“I saw just how badly we needed a solution for this problem with kids’ clothing,” she lamented. “We wanted somebody else to give our clothing to — all of these clothes had value that they grew out of and were in great condition. But there was no system for resale in the children’s market. Children’s clothing has such a low MSRP that there really isn’t any resale value. So, parents wind up buying clothes retail and storing them in the basement after they were outgrown.”

Lieberman acknowledged websites like eBay listed used children’s clothing, but she observed that came with cost and quality-control concerns — sellers are getting pennies on the dollar for their merchandise and buyers run the risk of getting inferior merchandise from people they don’t know. She theorized that a system where the clothing could be passed along among trusted individuals without price tags attached would work better.

“Everybody loves a good handme-down, no matter the economic demographic,” she added. “So, I �igured, let’s �ix this broken analog system.”

In April 2018, Lieberman conceived an online platform called Reloved, which was later renamed Shop Tomorrows. Unlike e-commerce sites, Shop Tomorrows operates as a peer-to-peer network plat-

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Unlike e-commerce sites, Shop Tomorrows operates as a peer-to-peer network platform where members engage in the exchange of children’s clothing.

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Haley Lieberman, founder of Shop Tomorrows. Photo by Phil Hall.

form where members engage in the exchange of children’s clothing.

“We are the platform, but we don’t warehouse,” Lieberman said, noting the merchandise exchange is handled by the members. “What is unique is that parents are never exchanging cash among each other.

We operate on a point system. If you are a parent who has outgrown clothes, you post them on the site for a certain number of points that we help you with through our evaluation. You then use the points for other things on the site. There is no awkwardness. Instead, you give me your clothes and I say, ‘Thank you.’ ” To monetize this endeavor, Shop Tomorrows charges what Lieberman described as a “very low flat fee” on each transaction, while new parents coming to the

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site seeking to acquire rather than sell would purchase points to participate.

Shop Tomorrows enables its users to determine the parameters of participation.

“You are creating a network,” Lieberman continued. “This is not about shopping from strangers’ closets. Here, because we are socially media enabled, you can choose to shop just your friends, or your friends of friends of friends or your ZIP code. As we scale, you can shop in microcosms of your community.”

Lieberman gave Shop Tomorrows a beta test run last September and is aiming to go live with the platform in March. She is hopeful that the concept will allow her to expand its product offerings to include other items including

toys plus goods and services aimed at parents, and she would be willing to consider advertising from sustainably oriented organizations.

She believes the Shop Tomorrows approach puts her in the right place at the right time.

“We are launching at a time when being sustainable and being cost-conservative is a hot topic, so this works very well for us,” Lieberman stated. “Resale is booming and there are other communities that warehouse, but there is no peer-to-peer specializing in children’s stuff. We’re looking forward to being the �irst to emerge in the space.”

Editor’s note: The Jan. 13 edition of “The Next Big Thing?” in the Fair�ield County Business Journal omitted Phil Hall’s byline.

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Mixed-use development proposed across from Port Chester train station

BY PETER KATZ

staff indicated parking would be a subject for further discussion and expressed interest in looking into the parking demand in the area when there’s a concert at the nearby Capitol Theatre. The developer’s representatives said their studies included times when the Capitol was in use.

The developer indicated that the impact on the Port Chester public schools would be minimal with the residential aspect of the project expected to result in no more than two school-age children being added.

The properties are within Port Chester’s C5 Train Station Mixed Use Zoning District and the building would occupy an area of 6,000 square feet.

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proposal for a nine-story, mixeduse development at 30 Broad St. and 136 Irving Ave., just across from the Metro-North train station in Port Chester, will be the subject of a public hearing scheduled for Jan. 27 by the Port Chester Planning Commission.

The plan calls for the demolition of two structures and construction of a building that would contain a microbrewery/brewpub on the �irst and second f loors, about 10,000 square feet of of�ices on the second through �ifth f loors and 22 residential units on the sixth through ninth f loors.

The developers are 30 Broad Street Owners LLC and 136-138 Irving Owners LLC. The application was submitted on their behalf by Anthony B. Gioffre III of the White Plains-based law �irm Cuddy & Feder.

Gioffre, along with architect Pierre Sarrazin and traf�ic engineer Neil Linsky, spoke at the Planning Commission’s Jan. 7 meeting and said the proposed development had been presented to the village’s Traf�ic Commission, Architectural Board of Review and Zoning Board of Appeals, which granted the requisite approvals to allow the applicant to continue the review with the Planning Commission.

Gioffre had told the zoning board that 30 Broad St. is currently a two-story, mixed-use building that has a street-level restaurant and nightclub and a 12-bedroom rooming house on the second f loor. The structure at 136 Irving Ave. is a mixed-use, three-f loor structure containing commercial uses on the �irst f loor and �ive residential uses on the second and third f loors.

Gioffre said the residential units would consist of six high-ef�iciency studio apartments, 12 one-bedroom units and four penthouses. He said the operator of the brewpub would be Tim Shanley, owner of Coals restaurant, which has locations at 35 N. Main St. in Port Chester and in Bronxville. Coals is known for its pizza as well as serving craft brews on tap.

The proposed development is not required under village regulations to include any off-street parking on its site and the developer said that it does not plan to provide any.

A parking study indicated that there were 233 parking spaces available at existing street and public parking lot locations near the site and the peak demand by the building typically would come at 6 p.m. when 60 spaces would be required.

Members of the commission and village

A rendering of the building proposed for Broad Street and Irving Avenue in Port Chester.

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Cortlandt adjourns hearing on mixed-use Route 202 project until April

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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he proposal for the full build-out is too large in my opinion,” Cortlandt Town Supervisor Linda D. Puglisi told a packed public hearing as Cortlandt’s Town Board on Jan. 14 resumed looking into a zoning proposal and planned development.

The hearing had been adjourned from Nov. 17, 2019, and dealt with the creation of a Medical Oriented District (MOD) and ful�illing requirements of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) for the MOD as well as developments that have been proposed for the new zoning district. The MOD would cover approximately 34 parcels totaling 105 acres in the area of Route 202, also known as Crompond Road, including the NewYorkPresbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital.

Two developers have submitted proposals for projects within the proposed MOD. Ossining-based VS Construction is proposing a mixed-use project for approximately 28 acres consisting of a 17-acre parcel at 2003 Crompond Road, formerly known as the Evergreen Manor Hotel, and an adjacent 11-acre parcel. The Evergreen Manor property is immediately south of the hospital.

Gyrodyne LLC of St. James, New York, has proposed a project for 13.8 acres with approximately 450 feet of frontage on Route 202 and

770 feet of frontage on Lafayette Avenue.

The Evergreen Manor project would include a 120-unit assisted living residence, a 90-room hotel with 13,000 square feet of retail space, a mixed-use building with 9,000 square feet of retail and 18,000 square feet of of�ice space, a 166-unit apartment component with 152 one-bedroom units and 14 two-bedroom units and approximately 550 parking spaces for the various uses.

The Gyrodyne proposal includes 100,000 square feet of medical of�ice space, 4,000 square feet of retail, 200 residential units totaling approximately 200,000 square feet with 20 studios, 160 one-bedrooms and 20 two-bedrooms. There would be 180 parking spaces in a structure along with 383 spaces at-grade.

The proposal would include indoor and outdoor space for community events along with improved open space around Orchard Lake.

Puglisi said a report in a local newspaper misstated how the development proposal came about.

“It states in this article that the town went to these developers, to the applicants and that is incorrect. We did not seek them out,” she said. “They were the property owners of these two parcels and they came to the staff and us with their proposals.”

She also explained that her opinion about the proposal being too large came from reading emails from residents, reading environ-

A rendering of the assisted living segment of the project.

mental study documents and “my own personal beliefs.”

Attorney David Steinmetz of the White Plains-based law �irm Zarin & Steinmetz, speaking on behalf of both applicants, said it was the town’s comprehensive plan “Envision Cortlandt” that talked about zoning for medical uses and provided encouragement for the proposal.

“The two projects would generate between $4 million and $5 million in property taxes for the town,” Steinmetz said. “We have spent the better part of two years and probably a quarter of a million dollars studying the traf�ic that exists right now and the de�iciencies that exist right now. You have two major developers at the table who are willing to help the town deal with the traf�ic situation, mitigate the impacts of their own projects and �ix the problems that exist today.”

Steinmetz said the town’s traf�ic consul-

tants have proposed improvements that would cost about $3 million and the developers are willing to pay those costs.

“There are a variety of intersection improvements, traf�ic light improvements, road widening, road striping and adaptive traf�ic techniques that the town’s consultants have suggested,” he said.

Resident Stacy Rivera told the hearing, “These proposals I don’t think are going to improve the quality of life because of the magnitude.”

David Weinberger, who also lives in the area, said, “Building stuff doesn’t get better (health) care, doesn’t lower costs, doesn’t improve patient outcomes. If we want to think about improving patient outcomes and improving the quality of our lives in this community, then we need to think about something other than building things.”

Puglisi called for the hearing to be adjourned until the board’s meeting on April 17. Steinmetz pointed out that a three-month adjournment might not be appropriate since SEQRA discourages lengthy delays in the review process. He urged the board to resume the hearing in February. The town’s attorney, Thomas Wood, said that not resuming until April is justi�ied because a lot of information still needs to be received and reviewed. The board voted to adjourn the hearing until April 17.

New Rochelle takes transit-oriented development spotlight in Congress

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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ew Rochelle’s Commissioner of Development Luiz Aragon went to Washington on Jan. 16 to speak before a congressional subcommittee about bipartisan legislation known as the “Build More Housing Near Transit Act.” The bill, H.R. 4307, was introduced by U.S. Reps. Scott Peters (D-CA) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). It had 16 other sponsors from both parties.

New Rochelle was selected as the only municipality in the country to participate in the session because of its record in transit-oriented development. More than 30 projects are under construction or in development in the core of the city’s downtown.

The legislation has been endorsed by a dozen industry and consumer groups, including the National Association of Home Builders, the Mortgage Bankers Association, Habitat for Humanity, the Regional Plan Association and Up for Growth Action.

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Luiz Aragon

“They wanted to hear from us and want to use what happened here in New Rochelle as an example of what can happen across the country,” Aragon told the Business Journal. “In partnership with elected of�icials and the community we were able to put together a plan where we did attract investment and it was not only a plan that made sense but was �inancially feasible for the development sector.”

The proposed legislation would impact the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts program that funds transit projects

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such as rail and bus rapid transit through the Capital Investments Program. It would require housing feasibility assessments to be made in order to determine how and where housing units could be built near new transit stops. It also would make funding more likely if a local community changes its land-use policies to make it easier to build affordable housing as well as market-rate units.

Mike Kingsella, executive director of Up for Growth, said the legislation “would ensure that limited federal transit dollars are used not only to �inance important transit projects, but also enable additional transit-served housing for more Americans.”

The bill states, “Housing built around transit stops should target middle-income families, particularly those with 60% to 100% area median income.”

Aragon pointed out that New Rochelle requires 10% of the units in proposed projects be in the affordable category and, of the 6,300 new dwelling units approved, 800 are affordable with the city exceeding its 10% minimum.

“As you go to more urban areas like New

Rochelle, we have less land that’s available and the only option is to do what we’re doing, which is to develop vertically,” Aragon said.

Also important in bringing a plethora of transit-oriented development to New Rochelle was assuring developers that their projects could receive timely approvals, in a matter of months compared with the year or two or longer it might take in other communities.

“Our ultimate goal was to create a process that has certainty so that if someone came to New Rochelle to develop, they knew what to expect and what steps they needed to take. It does not mean that the review is not detailed and careful. The review is a quality review and equal to what will be done by a different municipality where it would take longer,” Aragon said. “We pretty much have the rules set and developers have a choice of adhering to those rules or not doing a project.”

He estimated that the population of New Rochelle will grow by about 15,000 in the coming years. Its population was estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau as being 78,742 as of July 1, 2018.

Unhealthy health care VOTERS COMPLAIN TO HAYES ABOUT $800 FOR A SINGLE GENERIC PILL, $3,000 FOR AN AMBULANCE RIDE

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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he high cost of health care and the perceived partisan inertia at the state and federal levels were the main talking points of a Jan. 21 town hall meeting featuring U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Connecticut) at the Newtown Community Center.

Describing her just-completed �irst year as a Congresswoman as “a baptism by �ire” — marked by a pair of federal government shutdowns, the Chinese trade war and the House’s impeachment vote — Hayes said she visited all 41 municipalities in her district and would continue to do so this year.

She also said her work in Washington had helped save $825,000 for her constituents and that she had been a driving force behind $200,000 in federal grants for individuals and businesses in her district, which includes Bethel, Brook�ield, Danbury, New Fair�ield, Newtown and Sherman.

And with the possibility of facing four potential Republican opponents in November — including Robert Hyde, one of the �igures in the Trump-Ukraine scandal — her appearance came before about 300 people who applauded her throughout the event.

The �irst question from the audience was about her vote in favor of opening the impeachment inquiry and for approving the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Initially skeptical about impeachment, she said that after learning details of the phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, “I had questions. I don’t know how you could see and hear what I did and not have follow-up questions.”

She added that had a Democrat president like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama similarly withheld Congressionally approved funds to a foreign government until it announced an investigation of a political opponent she would have voted the same way.

While maintaining that she tries to work in a bipartisan fashion, Hayes admitted that the atmosphere at both the state and federal level is “so hyper-partisan.”

“I don’t know what to expect when I get back (to Washington),” she said.

The National Teacher of the Year in 2016, Hayes expressed dismay and astonishment at how little many of her colleagues understand the state of education and the laws governing it. Her mere mention of the title of U.S. Secretary of Education drew some knowingly derisive laughter, even without her mentioning the secretary’s name, Betsy DeVos, who has been frequently lampooned for her apparent lack of quali�ications for, and performance, in that role.

Hayes encouraged constituents to support local teachers and administrators.

“If we are not making that investment on the front end, we will be investing on the back end, with prisons, unemployment and housing,” she said.

The skyrocketing cost of health care was mentioned by audience members, one of whom said he was being charged $800 for a single generic pill, and had

been charged $3,000 for one of his children’s ambulance rides from Danbury to Hartford. Another noted that for all the “affordability” implied by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, she had been forced to forego some insurance coverage. Another said she felt bamboozled by the Social Security and Medicare systems while caring for her husband who suffered from brain cancer.

“We have a problem with the health care system in our country — it’s broken,” Hayes declared.

Returning to her calls for bipartisanship, Hayes said, “I’m fearful that if the temperature doesn’t go down, we’re never going to get it back. We can disagree with civility.”

Even after the impeachment process concludes, she added, “We still have to live in the community.”

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Business Journal. “He’ll get to know every tenant there, every tenant who wants to be there and every tenant that we’re focused on bringing to the center.”

The move to bring leasing and management directly under Marx’s wing coincides with an underlying transition program to build activity at the center and bring the former Sears store back into service following its closing in July 2019. The four-story building contains about 200,000 square feet of space.

“We are actually negotiating with some of the best tenants right now in the entire country for that site and we’re thinking of breaking it up into different floors,” Deitelzweig said.

“We have various renderings of what the building could look like, but we do want to customize it due to speci�ic tenant’s desires.

There also are different schemes depending on the different sizes of the tenants, but I can tell you that it will be one of the most dynamic-looking areas in the entire center and in any center.” He did not disclose the prospects

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nor predict when leases might be signed.

Deitelzweig said although the Cross County store was the highest grossing in the U.S. for the Sears chain, the building didn’t seem physically connected to the rest of the shopping center.

“We’re going to connect it by different landscaping methods,” he said. “We will have different seating areas, different floor

areas. It will have very much a town center feel to it.”

Deitelzweig said except for the former Sears store, Cross County is about 99% leased.

He said they’ve been talking to some of the existing tenants about renewing their leases early in addition to retailers who would become new tenants.

“There are a lot of stores that are in other

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support needed to pass. Instead, the current 10-year, $19 billion CT2030 plan favored by Gov. Ned Lamont and his fellow Democrats will place tractor-trailer-only tolls at 12 locations in the state.

Leone cited a declining revenue stream from the state gasoline tax, due both to better-performing cars and the trend toward electric vehicles. While that tax has remained at 25 cents per gallon since July 2000, Leone said it would need to be raised by 13 cents “in one shot” to accomplish what the proposed tolls would do: generate an estimated $170 million to $180 million a year for the Special Transportation Fund.

As for complaints from the trucking industry that Connecticut is singling it out, Leone noted that every other state in the Northeast except Vermont has tolls of some kind, and that Rhode Island has instituted a trucks-only tolls initiative.

State Rep. Livvy Floren (R-Stamford, Greenwich) noted that earlier in the week, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced her proposed budget that showed a 66% cut in expected toll revenue spending for the current 2019-20 �iscal year. While the Ocean State expected to spend about $25 million on transportation from toll revenue by June 30, its latest projections show about $8.5 million.

The other panelists, all Democrats, spoke in favor of tolls.

Rep. Dan Fox (D-Stamford) said the current version of CT2030 meets all three of his personal requirements — increasing safety, being �inancially secure and being economic development-friendly. Rep. Matt Blumenthal (D-Stamford, Darien) said 18-wheelers do an outsized amount of damage to the state’s

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centers that are looking to leave those centers,” he said. “This center is almost a retail miracle because tenants are just dying to get into this space.”

Cross County was the �irst open-air shopping center in the U.S., opened in 1954 by developer Sol Atlas. Its history is not lost on Deitelzweig.

“We’re very mindful of our history and how emotionally people are attached to the center and it’s really part of their lives. We’re taking what’s good and making it better. It’s just really a matter of getting the right mix.

Keeping those brands that resonate with the customer and bringing in fresh brands as well,” he said.

The Cross County Shopping Center is located on 71 acres of land at the junction of the Cross County Parkway and New York State Thruway (Interstate 87). In response to a Business Journal inquiry last fall, Marx estimated that 11 million people visit the Cross County Shopping Center each year and an estimated 224,000 cars pass by the property daily. The center underwent a $250 million upgrade and modernization in 2011.

forward,” Leone said. “I think it’s moving along in the right direction.”

Floren and Bergstein accused Lamont’s administration of “holding municipalities hostage” by delaying the issuance of bonding money until CT2030 is passed. The municipalities were due to receive $30 million in July for roadwork and another $30 million this month.

None of that money has arrived.

Carey concluded the session with a “lightning round” of questions requiring one-word answers. They included:

From left: State Sen. Carlo Leone (D-Stamford and Darien), state Rep. Livvy Floren (R-Stamford and Greenwich) and state Rep. Dan Fox (D-Stamford) at the Stamford Chamber of Commerce’s annual legislative breakfast on Jan. 22. Photo by Kevin Zimmerman.

roads and out-of-state truckers must pay their fair share.

Rep. Caroline Simmons (D-Stamford) said tolls are “critical to support our economic and business growth” and by funding road and rail improvements, drivers’ quality of life will improve. Sen. Alex Bergstein (D-Greenwich, New Canaan and Stamford) said it costs the average Connecticut resident $2,700 a year in “wasted time” sitting in traf�ic or on slow-moving trains.

Bergstein bemoaned the fact that the original, all-vehicles toll plan never came up for a vote, thus depriving citizens of seeing how their legislators stood on the issue. She also said the estimated $170 million to $180 million in trucks-only revenue “is a small fraction of what is needed” to address the situation.

Asked by Carey to answer “yes or no” on whether trucks-only tolls will be a reality come May 15 — the regular legislative session is scheduled to end on May 6 — Bergstein and Floren both said “no.” Leone, Simmons and Blumenthal said “yes.” Fox said “possibly.”

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with entrepreneurs, something that Simmons said is partly addressed by the state’s Angel Investor Tax Credit Program, under which eligible companies — those that are less than seven years old and have fewer than 25 employees — can be eligible for credits of up to $1 million. She also touted the Entrepreneur Learner’s Permit program, which provides up to $1,500 in reimbursements for costs that �irst-time entrepreneurs incur in information technolo�y, biotechnolo�y and green technolo�y industries.

Leone spoke in favor of Lamont’s and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner David Lehman’s approach to wooing businesses to come to Connecticut — by offering companies incentives as they hit benchmarks after establishing themselves here. That is a change from former Gov. Dannel Malloy’s approach, which favored putting �inancial incentives up-front and having to, in Leone’s words, “claw back” money later if the original objectives were not met.

The new approach “is a little more straight-

Will sports betting be legalized by May 15?

Yes: Simmons, Blumenthal, Floren and Leone. Bergstein said it was a “strong possibility” and Fox said it was “likely.”

Will recreational marijuana be legalized

by May 15?

No: Simmons, Fox, Floren and Leone.

Blumenthal said it was “possible” while Bergstein, saying she was “vehemently opposed” to the idea, said “yes.”

Will a casino in Bridgeport be approved?

No: Bergstein, Blumenthal, Floren and Leone. Fox said it was “unlikely.”

Yes: Simmons.

Will there be tolls on all vehicles?

“In my dreams,” said Bergstein, who ultimately joined the others in saying no.

Who will be the Democratic nominee in the November 2020 presidential election?

Bergstein: Amy Klobuchar.

Simmons: Joe Biden.

Blumenthal: “The next president of the United States.”

Fox: “The winner.”

Floren and Leone: Biden.

IN BRIEF | Westchester County Callahan Construction Managers opens White Plains office Callahan Construction Managers, a Bridgewater, Massachusetts-based construction management company, has opened an of�ice in White Plains.

The new of�ice is the �irst regional outpost for Callahan, which was founded in 1954 and focuses on multifamily residential, senior and affordable housing, hospitality, life sciences, corporate of�ice, educational and retail developments in the Northeast. Within this region, Callahan’s projects have included the Danforth Apartments in Dobbs Ferry, Benchmark at Split Rock in Shelton and Maplewood in Darien.

STUDY: YONKERS IS THE SECOND-WORST CITY FOR NEWLYWEDS

Where should newlyweds set up their home after the wedding and honeymoon are behind them?

According to a study from the destination wedding resource Destify, it should not be Yonkers.

In the study of 311 cities, Yonkers placed 310th as a place for newlyweds to begin their lives together.

The city was faulted for what was characterized as a $514,200 median home value that is above the national average, coupled with a relatively tight median household income of $62,399 that makes affordable homeownership a scarce commodity. Yonkers has 13.7% of its population identi�ied as recently married.

Tricia Harte, outreach manager at Destify, said Yonkers’ zero score on the site’s affordability index meant, “the cost to support a family with one child was much more expensive than other cities across the U.S.”

IBM BREAKS RECORD FOR MOST CORPORATE PATENTS

IBM announced that its inventors received 9,262 U.S. patents during 2019, breaking the record for most patents ever awarded to a U.S. company during a single year. Last year was also the 27th consecutive year that IBM was the top company for receiving U.S. patents.

The Armonk-headquartered company was awarded more than 1,800 patents related to arti�icial intelligence technolo�y and more than 2,500 patents in cloud computing technolo�y.

The company also received patents for its quantum computing innovations and for its cybersecurity breakthroughs, including a patent in homomorphic encryption that enables users to operate on encrypted data without having to decrypt it �irst.

MOUNT VERNON, NEWBURGH, WHITE PLAINS TO RECEIVE CITIES RISE GRANTS

Mount Vernon, Newburgh and White Plains are among 10 municipalities named by New York Attorney General Letitia James as recipients of more than $8 million in grant awards allocated in the Cities for Responsible Investment and

Strategic Enforcement (Cities RISE) program.

The program �inances efforts to address blighted, vacant and poorly maintained residential properties created in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The two-phase program provides municipalities with a two-year access to an online platform designed to integrate and including code enforcement Le analyze Jardin data Du Roi records, WCBJtax liens and �ire and police data.

In thewsecond phase, 7.375” x 7.125” h the cities will work with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center 1-15-20 for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Tolemi, a social enterprise that created the BuildingBlocks platform, to upgrade code enforcement strategies and chart new hous-

ing-focused solutions.

The cities can also apply for a grant of up to $1 million to develop new housing or code enforcement programs. All 10 cities selected for the program will receive between $546,000 and $1 million to implement their code enforcement programs with an emphasis on making code enforcement more effective, ef�icient and equitable.

lawsuit that involved Connecticut and New York along with four northeastern states and New York City that challenged the EPA’s 2018 Cross-State Air Pollution Rule “Close-Out” for not controlling smog pollution emissions from states upwind from the plaintiffs.

On Oct. 1, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the coalition and found the EPA at fault for rejecting the need for upwind sources to cut their emissions of smog-forming pollution.

The new lawsuit argued that the EPA ignored a previously imposed court-ordered deadline for Dec. 6, 2018, to comply with its statutory obligation for putting plans in place to stem these pollution emissions. The attorneys general added the EPA announced it has no plans to comply with this statutory obligation.

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CONNECTICUT, NEW YORK FILE SMOG LAWSUIT AGAINST EPA

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and his New York counterpart Letitia James are joining forces in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that accuses it of ignoring its responsibility under the Clean Air Act to control upwind sources of cross-state smog pollution.

The complaint stems from a Jan. 31, 2019,

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Light it Up: Modern Trends in Corporate Interior Design

The statistics are telling. Americans spend most of their lives indoors—87 percent inside and an additional 6 percent in an enclosed vehicle. Humans weren’t meant to live without natural light, which is why the design of buildings—specifically daylight provisions—are essential to our quality of life.

Studies show that the gains of natural light exposure are immense. It increases productivity, boosts moods and improves health by creating better sleep. It is for these reasons that progressive companies are moving away from office space configured with traditional walls and investing in glass wall systems that encourage natural light to flow throughout the workspace.

“We know that artificial light has negative health effects, particularly to circadian rhythms,” says Bruce Young, Engineering Manager for Avanti Systems USA. “Fluorescent light was replaced by blue LED, but now that’s been found to cause eye strain or even retina damage.

This is one of the reasons why companies eagerly seek out solutions that integrate natural light into their workspaces.”

Glass office systems allow natural light to penetrate deeper into the office in a way that traditional walls and office wall partitions don’t— creating a more productive, healthier, eco-friendly and impressive environment.

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DYNAMIC TRENDS IN INTERIOR OFFICE DESIGN Open Workspace with a Privacy Option While an open work environment encourages collaboration, there are times when privacy is also necessary. Whether it is a project that requires a quiet space for concentration or an important meeting, glass walls offer the perfect compromise between public and private space.

“One of the most versatile options for glass conference room walls is LCD privacy smart glass,” explains Young.

This option, found in Avanti’s Lunar™ Smart Glass Partition System, utilizes Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal (PDLC) technology. The system allows the glass to completely change from transparent to translucent in one millisecond, with just a flip of a switch.

When transparent, the glass walls allow the conference room to feel like part of the larger office. When privacy is needed, they become a frosted translucent glass that still allows soft light to continue to filter through.

Young adds, “High-profile clients don’t want to be in a fishbowl, so having the ability to make a room private with a flip of a switch is quite an advantage.”

Contemporary Design Making a Statement No matter what the industry—education, health care or commercial—the market is competitive. Businesses vie for clientele and top talent, and the office environment now plays a much bigger role than it once did. For customers, there’s nothing quite like a space that feels alluring and fresh. Talent seeks out employers with open office space that encourages collaboration while still carving out comfortable niches for concentration.

In fact, a survey conducted by CORT Furniture Rental revealed that about 81 percent of office owners and managers say office space design is “very important” in terms of recruiting top talent.

Young notes, “As unfair as it may seem, prospects will judge your company’s success, competence and character based on your office environment.”

Two up-and-coming glass office partition design trends seen at the Fall 2019 GlassBuild America show were black matted framed glass and floor-to-ceiling partitions. The black matted framed glass adds a unique design focal point. The high wall glass systems, like Avanti’s Elevare™ line, create an innovative, contemporary look that allows natural light to stream in while still affording privacy and top acoustical ratings of traditional solid walls.

Sustainability with a Flexible Design As building owners try to balance cost with solutions and facility managers are tasked with ever-growing maintenance costs, designing sustainable spaces is more important now. Glass is a key contributor to energy-efficient buildings, and in new construction can assist in the LEED certification process.

Sustainability is also achieved by increasing the design flexibility.

The needs of an office are ever-changing, and remodeling to fit the current needs can be costly. Fortunately, there are options available that build flexibility into the space from the beginning via movable walls and modular systems.

Many glass modular partitions systems, like Avanti’s Transverso™ or Movare™ systems, are fully demountable and movable. This means that they can be reconfigured quickly and with little to no additional cost.

“With so many studies touting the benefits of natural light—mood, health, productivity—coupled with the advancement of technology, the costs of glass partition walls are finally coming into line with other partition options.” Young concludes. “It truly is a smart choice for innovative companies.”

About Avanti Systems USA For more than 15 years, Avanti Systems has specialized in luxury partition systems for commercial interiors. That is why, when it comes to glass walls and door systems, we are a premier architectural glazing manufacturer and top choice for architects and interior designers worldwide. Learn more at avantisystemsusa.com.

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IN BRIEF | Fairfield County Frontier Communications reportedly considering filing for bankruptcy

the company’s underwriting and portfolio management teams. Before joining Great Rock Capital, she served �ive years at GE Capital as chief risk of�icer for industrial �inance and as head of credit for GE Capital Commercial Lending & Leasing, North America.

Earlier in her career she held senior risk positions at Bank of America, including managing director of global banking and markets operational risk.

WESTPORT’S GEMSPRING CAPITAL ACQUIRES SKYLINE DISPLAYS

Frontier Communications Corp. is reportedly contemplating �iling for bankruptcy in March as part of a restructuring that would address its considerable debt.

Bloomberg News reported that the Norwalk company, which provides telecom services in 29 states, including Connecticut and New York, is exploring with its creditors ways to negotiate a prepackaged agreement before $356 million of debt payments come due on March 15.

Frontier carries a debt load of about $17.5 billion.

Bernie Han, who replaced longtime Frontier executive Daniel McCarthy as president and CEO in December, has been meeting with creditors and other advisers to discuss the plan, according to the report, which cited sources who asked for anonymity.

“Certain Frontier creditors signed con�identiality documents that restrict their ability to trade in preparation for the negotiations,” Bloomberg News reported.

The Chapter 11 bankruptcy would allow Frontier to continue operating without interruption of telephone and broadband service to its customers. The �irm has 3.73 million broadband internet subscribers and 838,000 pay-television subscribers in the U.S.

CONNECTICUT CASINOS REPORT SLOT REVENUE DECLINES FOR DECEMBER

After two consecutive months of year-over-year increases in their slot revenues, Connecticut’s tribal casinos returned to revenue declines in December.

Mohegan Sun reported slot revenues of approximately $44 million, down from the $49.7 million recorded in December 2018. The amount wagered in December, also known as the “handle,” was $546.6 million, a drop from the

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roughly $633 million reported one year earlier.

Foxwoods’ slot revenue of $33.6 million dropped from the $37 million generated one year earlier. The handle for the month was $407.1 million, down from the previous year’s $473.1 million.

Both casinos are required to pay 25% of their slot revenues to the state’s general fund.

Prior to generating revenue gains in October and November, both casinos had experienced year-over-year slot revenue declines since June 2018. The Connecticut casinos do not report their table-games revenue and do not share those earnings with the state.

$5M RENOVATION COMPLETE AT STAMFORD PLAZA

RFR has completed $5 million-plus of renovations at its Stamford Plaza of�ice campus in the downtown business district.

The company said the project has resulted in more than 100,000 square feet of new deals at the property, which consists of the 15-story, 249,000-square-foot 3 Stamford Plaza and the 15-story, 263,000-square-foot 4 Stamford Plaza. Those transactions, signed over the last few months, include leases with �inancial services �irms Viner and Finacity, recruiting �irms Korn Ferry and Indeed, and corporations Hexcel and Anvil.

Stamford Plaza is a four-building of�ice campus on Tresser Boulevard with 1 million square feet of space.

EX-GE CAPITAL CHIEF RISK OFFICER JOINS GREAT ROCK CAPITAL

Great Rock Capital, a Westport-headquartered commercial �inance company focused on middle-market lending, has hired Kathleen Auda as chief risk of�icer.

Auda will be responsible for overseeing

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Gemspring Capital, a Westport-based private equity �irm, has acquired Skyline Displays, a provider of displays, exhibits and services for trade shows and corporate events. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, Skyline Displays has clients in 30 countries. Within the U.S., the company operates 80 locations including 27 Skylineowned retail centers, four regional service centers and 45 independent dealers. One of its dealers, TradeTec in Chicago, was also acquired

by Gemspring Capital as part of the acquisition.

This marks the second time in six months that Gemspring acquired a company in this space. Last July, it acquired Rapid Displays Inc., a Chicago-based provider of point-of-purchase displays and related services.

UCONN CLAIMS TO GENERATE $5.3B IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

The University of Connecticut issued a report asserting that it is responsible for $5.3 billion in economic activity for the state, including $72 million for Fair�ield County.

The report claimed that every dollar spent

by UConn resulted in 77 cents of economic output, which equals roughly $1,500 per state resident. The report also concluded UConn is responsible for 25,900 jobs in the state and $277.5 million in state and local tax revenue.

The Storrs campus had the greatest economic impact by contributing $2.7 billion to state output, creating more than 13,000 jobs totaling $1.2 billion in labor compensation and adding $1.4 billion in value to the state’s economy.

The four regional campuses — Stamford, Waterbury, Avery Point and Greater Hartford — contributed $383 million in statewide output, more than 2,100 jobs, $187 million in labor income and $224 million in value added. The Greater Hartford campus accounted for 62% of the combined regional campuses’ output impact, followed by Stamford (19%), Avery Point (13%) and Waterbury (6%).

FAIRFIELD COUNTY DOMINATES LIST OF CONNECTICUT’S BEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Fair�ield County municipalities occupied more than half of the top rankings in the 2020 list of

American flights cut back at Tweed Airport

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merican Eagle flights out of Tweed New Haven Airport to Philadelphia are being cut back.

Operated by Republic Airways as American Eagle flights, which are booked through American Airlines, there had been three daily trips from New Haven to Philadelphia.

The airline is now offering a 6 a.m. flight on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and 6 a.m. and 12:39 p.m. flights on the other days.

The airline is maintaining its weekend service between Tweed and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sean Scanlon, the executive director at Tweed, told the New Haven Independent that the scheduling change is based on reduced demand during the winter, adding that a similar change occurred in January and February 2019.

Tweed has been seeking to expand its main runway from 5,600 feet to at least 6,000 feet to attract more commercial air traf�ic. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont supported the extension of the runway during

Tweed airport entrance. Photo by Phil Hall.

his 2018 gubernatorial campaign and has called for a second airport along the shoreline to expand air travel, although he stopped short of speci�ically citing Tweed as the airport to accommodate those goals.

In July 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a 23-page decision that voided a 2009 state statute limiting the airport’s runway to 5,600 feet, ruling that the �inal determination on its runway length lies with the Federal Aviation Administration and not the state. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for its input on the appeals court decision, asking whether the airport can sue the state under the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, as well as whether the FAA can preempt state law regarding the airport’s runway length.

IN BRIEF | Fairfield County Connecticut’s best school districts released by Niche, an online school data resource.

Niche compiled its list with a number crunch of federal and state data relating to test scores, graduation rates, SAT and ACT scores and reviews from students and parents.

Fair�ield County school districts occupied six of the top 10 rankings for the best school districts in the state, with Westport and New Canaan ranked �irst and second, Darien and Weston ranked �ifth and sixth and Wilton and Fair�ield ranked eighth and ninth.

Shelton was the lowest-ranked Fair�ield County district at No. 84.

In Niche’s category of the most diverse school districts, �ive Fair�ield County localities were in the top 10, including: Danbury (second place); Stamford (fourth place); Norwalk (�ifth place); Stratford (eighth place) and Bridgeport (ninth place).

New Canaan and Westport placed �irst and second in the category for the best place to teach in Connecticut, while New Canaan was ranked highest as the safest school district in the state. Darien and New Canaan ranked second and third as the best school district for athletes.

The Danbury ener�y company announced it has received a letter from the Nasdaq stating it has regained compliance with its minimum bid price requirement of $1 per share.

The company completed restructuring efforts in November, including naming Jason Few president and CEO in August after Chip Bottone’s sudden departure from that post.

Another Fair�ield County-based ener�y �irm — Stamford’s Revolution Lighting — was delisted from the Nasdaq in December for failing to meet the minimum bid price requirement.

STATIONERY RETAILER PAPYRUS TO CLOSE ALL STORES

The stationery and gifts retailer Papyrus is closing all of its stores, including 11 in the region.

Founded in 1950, it operates more than 260

stores in the U.S. and Canada. The Tennesseebased parent company Schurman Retail Group did not make a public announcement of the closing, but the trade publication Retail Dive obtained a letter sent last week to employees

by Dominique Schurman, the chief operating of�icer, that cited “current challenges of the retail industry” for ceasing business operations.

Within Fair�ield County, Papyrus stores are in Danbury, Greenwich, New Canaan, Stamford and Westport. New York stores are in Bronxville, Rye, West Nyack, Scarsdale, White Plains and Yonkers. Store closures are expected to occur over the next four to six weeks.

CBRE NAMED EXCLUSIVE AGENT FOR STAMFORD’S 1010 WASHINGTON BLVD.

New England Investment Partners has named CBRE as its exclusive agent for 1010 Washington

FuelCell Ener�y has regained Nasdaq listing compliance, having flirted with being delisted from the exchange.

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OPEN FOR YOUR EMERGENCY WINTER ASPHALT NEEDS

NEW CANAAN’S MACKENZIES TO CLOSE AFTER 40 YEARS AMID ‘HIGH RENT’

FUELCELL ENERGY REGAINS NASDAQ LISTING COMPLIANCE

CONNECTICUT BUDGET DEFICIT TO GROW

Connecticut’s revenues should remain stable and its emergency budget reserve, or rainy

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Mackenzies during its annual sidewalk sale last summer. Photo courtesy of Mackenzies.

Mackenzies, an independently owned candy and gift store that has been a staple of New Canaan’s retail community since 1980, is shutting down on Jan. 28.

The store at 7 South Ave. announced a going-out-of-business sale with discounts up to 50% on its inventory of candies, chocolates, party goods, books, toys and gift materials. Sieh and Heather Washington, who bought the business in August 2018, posted a sign on the store’s front door that blamed the closing on “high rent prices, other operational cost increases and decline in local shopping.”

The Washingtons acquired the business from Jim and Phyllis Weinstein, who ran it for nearly 14 years. Phyllis Weinstein penned a letter to the editor of the New Canaan Advertiser that lamented that it would be “dif�icult to imagine the town without this beloved shop,” adding that its “closing is a loss for both young and old in New Canaan.”

Blvd. in Stamford.

The property is a Class A of�ice development consisting of two interconnected buildings — one standing 11 stories, the other three stories — totaling more than 148,000 square feet. Its tenants include Horizon Paper Co., marketing consultant Nielsen Sports, BCK Capital Management LP and the nonpro�it Keep America Beautiful.

The property was acquired last November from SL Green Realty Corp. for nearly $23 million.

CBRE’s Executive Vice President Steven Greenbush and Associate Joseph Weaver will lead the marketing efforts for the property.

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day fund, should grow in the upcoming �iscal year, according to the latest projections by the Of�ice of Policy and Management and the Of�ice of Fiscal Analysis.

According to their consensus report, the state will realize about $169 million more in revenues than had been anticipated. Meanwhile, Connecticut’s budget de�icit is projected to grow from about $28 million to roughly $60 million, due in part to its recent settlement with state hospitals.

The rainy day fund, which stands at $2.5 billion, is projected to grow to $2.76 billion.

Should that amount rise to roughly $3 billion, represent-

ing 15% of annual operating costs, the state would be required to use the excess to reduce its pension debt.

SERENDIPITY LABS ADDING SIX LOCATIONS; WESTPORT SPACE OPENING THIS MONTH

Rye’s Serendipity Labs Coworking is entering six markets, reflecting what it says is the increased demand for agile of�ices. Adding more than 130,000 square feet to the company’s U.S. network, all are slated to open in 2020.

The new locations are: • A 27,500-square-foot space in the Dallas exurb of McKinney.

• A 28,331-square-foot operation in Houston.

• A 20,000-square-foot subur-

ban Memphis space.

• An 18,000-square-foot center in Dublin, California.

• A 23,000-square-foot spot in Marlton, New Jersey.

• A 16,700-square-foot operation in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton, Missouri.

Serendipity Labs is also opening two of its flexible shared of�ices this month.

The 23,000-square-foot location at 55 W. Boston Post Road in Westport, owned

by Homeclear Serendipity Westport LLC and operated

by Serendipity Labs, was set to open on Jan. 23. The other is a 34,000-square-foot location in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

— Kevin Zimmerman and Phil Hall

Immediate access to the Merritt Pkwy and the Super 7 Expressway Binding Brauerei USA Inc. Markit North America, Inc. Multimedia Healthcare Communications, LLC OperationsInc, LLC

XPO Logistics exploring potential sales or spin-offs

Ten Bank Street WHITE PLAINS, NY At the White Plains Transportation Center CohnReznick LLP Edelman Financial Services LLC Evolution Markets, Inc. Merchants Fastener Corp.

STV Incorporated

500 Mamaroneck Avenue HARRISON, NY Immediate access to I-95 and the Hutchinson River Pkwy Class Action Refund LLC JDS Therapeutics, LLC Maguire Insurance Agency, Inc. d/b/a Philadelphia Insurance Company

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Cushman & Wakefield John Altieri Steve Baker Kevin Foley David Hoffman Adam Klimek Gerry Lees Mike McCarthy William Montague

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he board of directors of Greenwich transportation titan XPO Logistics has authorized a review of strategic alternatives, including the possible sale or spin-off of one or more of its business units.

“XPO is the seventh-best-performing stock of the last decade on the Fortune 500, based on Bloomberg market data,” Chairman/CEO Bradley Jacobs said. “The share price has increased more than tenfold since our investment in 2011. Still, we continue to trade at well below the sum of our parts and at a signi�icant discount to our pure-play peers. That’s why we believe the best way to continue to maximize shareholder value is to explore our options, while remaining intensely committed to the sat-

isfaction of our customers and employees.”

XPO said it has not set a timetable for completion of the review process and has not determined which, if any, business units would be sold or spun off. It noted, however, that it does not intend to sell or spin off its North American less-than-truckload unit.

The �irm has retained Goldman Sachs & Company LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as its �inancial advisers and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as its legal adviser to assist with the review process.

XPO Logistics also hired Kurt Rogers as chief legal of�icer and corporate secretary.

Rogers, who will begin his new job at the Greenwich-headquartered company on Feb. 3, was previously at Stericycle Inc. where he served as executive vice president and general counsel since 2017.

He was previously chief legal of�icer of cloud communications leader Vonage Holdings Corp., and earlier in his career was a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP and at Latham & Watkins LLP. XPO also promoted Karlis Kirsis to senior vice president and European chief legal of�icer. Kirsis joined XPO in 2016 and led the company’s legal matters as corporate counsel since 2017.

Prior to XPO, he was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and was an associate editor with the Latvian media site Policy.lv. Kirsis’ new title takes effect on Feb. 3.

IN COURT | Bill Heltzel Responsibility for maintaining Doral Arrowwood in limbo

The front of the resort. Photo by Bob Rozycki.

Anderson Hill Road Capital LLC may not replace U.S. Bank, for now, as the plaintiff in a mortgage foreclosure action against the Doral Arrowwood resort.

Anderson Capital claims it has acquired U.S. Bank’s original $75 million mortgage on the property, but Westchester Supreme Court Justice Gretchen Walsh denied the company’s motion to take over the bank’s foreclosure case.

“There is insuf�icient evidence to establish that Anderson Capital is the current holder or assignee of the note,” Walsh ruled on Jan. 16.

The Doral Arrowwood Conference Center and Hotel closed on Jan. 12.

Walsh scheduled a hearing for Feb. 11 to determine who shall be responsible for the costs of “operating and preserving the property.”

“I will not allow this property to be abandoned,” Walsh told lawyers who had gathered in her courtroom on Jan. 7 to discuss how to wind down the affairs of the Rye Brook resort.

There were two issues before the court then: a motion by court-appointed receiver Kirby D. Payne’s attorney to relieve him of his duties, and a request by Anderson Capital to take U.S. Bank’s place as the mortgage

holder and plaintiff in a foreclosure action.

As to discharging Payne, “not happening today,” Walsh said. She said she needs an accounting of the funds and a plan to pay creditors and secure the property.

Payne said at the Jan. 7 hearing that Doral Arrowwood has about $1.5 million in cash, $1.4 million in projected collections and expenses of $6.6 million.

As to Anderson Capital, Walsh told its attorney, Thomas Decea, she needs more proof that the company actually owns the mortgage.

Decea said that his client should not be required to keep up the property.

Actually, Walsh said, it does.

“Your client went into this with their eyes wide open,” she said. “If they didn’t want to take responsibility … they shouldn’t have purchased the note.”

Walsh adjourned the hearing for two days and urged all parties to work on a plan for the property.

The impending closing was disclosed last month in court documents.

“Due to the lack of funding,” Payne stated in a Dec. 24 af�idavit, the property “is in dire �inancial condition. … Jan. 12 is the date the last major pro�itable group

checks out of the hotel before a period of slow business where additional losses and obligations are incurred.

“Based on the present �inancial condition … and in my professional judgment, the hotel operation must cease no later than Jan. 12.”

Benchmark Hospitality of Westchester, the Woodlands, Texas, company that manages the resort, �iled a Department of Labor notice stating that 275 employees will lose their jobs.

U.S. Bank of Minneapolis �iled the foreclosure in March, demanding $58.6 million. Payne was appointed at an emergency hearing the following day, and he immediately began �ixing deferred maintenance problems to protect the value of the 114-acre, 393-room property.

He told the Westchester County Business Journal that business would continue as normal and no one would notice any differences.

But Doral Arrowwood continued to run de�icits, according to an af�idavit by Payne’s attorney, James J. Veneruso.

Several times, Payne asked for, and received, more funds from the lender to keep the property operating.

By Dec. 11, Veneruso stated, Payne needed nearly $1

million to operate the resort and meet its expenses. Payne asked for more funds, but on Dec. 19, according to Payne’s af�idavit, the lender advised him that, “effective immediately, it would not provide the requested funding.”

Payne had also forwarded his funding request to DCCA LLC, the family company that owns the resort, but he received no response.

“I cannot now properly, effectively and fully carry on my duties,” Payne stated, “and therefore it is imperative that I be immediately discharged as temporary receiver.”

When Doral Arrowwood opened in 1983 it was a conference center for Citibank.

In 1986, the Kaskel, Blum and Schragis families bought the property, expanded the hotel and developed its reputation as a premier conference and recreation resort.

The families managed Doral Arrowwood until 2015 when they hired Benchmark to run it. A year ago, DCCA sued Benchmark, claiming it had mismanaged the resort.

U.S. Bank was alerted to the lawsuit and �iled the foreclosure action.

Payne had proposed a plan for an “orderly closing of business operations”

by Jan. 12. A skeleton staff would continue working for a month to notify groups, guests, vendors and to close the books.

“On the date of closing hotel operations,” he stated, “there will be suf�icient funds to pay the hotel’s employees their current pay and some other obligations of the hotel. However, there will be insuf�icient funds to pay other obligations or to properly shut down systems and physically secure the mortgaged property.”

JOINT VENTURE SUES NEW ROCHELLE’S GREENS AT CHERRY LAWN PARTNER FOR $5M

The joint venture that developed The Greens at Cherry Lawn in New Rochelle has sued a partner for $5 million

for allegedly stealing funds.

WN Weaver Street III LLC has �iled a complaint in Westchester Supreme Court against Theodore Weinberg and three of his companies. The complaint does not disclose the name or names of the joint venture individuals who brought the lawsuit.

“As a result of an investigation,” the complaint states, “it was learned that Weinberg personally siphoned millions of dollars from the project.”

Weinberg’s attorney, Leonard Benowich, responded with a motion to dismiss the case. The charges are barred by the statute of limitations because the alleged wrongdoing happened more than three years ago, he argued, or are legally insuf�icient, duplicative or not recognized by New York law.

WN Weaver Street was formed in 2006 to build and sell multimillion-dollar homes on Weaver Street at the northern end of New Rochelle near Scarsdale.

We i n b e r g , of Mamaroneck, conceived the project and managed dayto-day operations until last May, when SIR Cherry Lawn Associates LLC, a Delaware company, exercised its right to replace him as the managing member.

The “associates” of SIR Cherry Lawn are not identi�ied.

WN Weaver’s new management accuses Weinberg of absconding with the proceeds of home sales, creating false requisitions to a lender, falsifying bank statements, concocting phony invoices, bouncing checks, stealing construction equipment, charging homebuyers for work that was never completed, failing to pay real estate taxes and using partnership funds to pay personal expenses.

From 2007 to 2014, he allegedly caused homebuyers to make millions of dollars in payments to his Andrea Lane Associates Corp., instead of to the joint venture, for extra features.

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In 2013 and 2014, according to the complaint, Weinberg invoiced the joint venture for $472,408 for work that was not done.

In 2018, he purportedly “duped” the buyers of a home into signing a contract with his Cherry Lawn Development LLC for $388,030 of extras that were included in the base price.

Also in 2018, he allegedly submitted invoices to the joint venture from a company known as East End Co. The invoices were not genuine, the complaint states, and the funds were used to pay a debt owed by Weinberg’s Hartsdale Development LLC to East End. WN Weaver accuses its former founder and managing partner of fraud, conversion and breach of �iduciary duty.

Benowich argues that all of the causes of action must be dismissed.

“In an effort to spice up its fact-bereft complaint,” Benowich argues, “Weaver has resorted to larding the complaint with allegations of ‘fraud’ and ‘fraudulent intent,’ even though Weaver has failed to allege that it was defrauded in any way.”

WN Weaver is represented by Manhattan attorneys Donald F. Schneider and Andrew V. Achiron.

AAA CARTING SAYS PELHAM STEERED MORE EXPENSIVE CONTRACT TO COMPETITOR

AAA Carting and Rubbish Removal Inc. has sued the village of Pelham over a trash hauling contract it claims was “corruptly” awarded to another company.

AAA Carting’s $1.95 million bid to haul garbage for two years was rejected as “non-responsible,” according to a letter the village sent to the carting company last year. Instead, the contract went to Oak Ridge Hauling LLC of Danbury, Connecticut, on a bid that was $384,478 higher for two years and $514,820 higher for four years. » IN COURT JANUARY 27, 2020

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“The acceptance of the higher bid is a needless waste of taxpayers’ money and is not justi�ied,” according to the complaint �iled Jan. 3. in Westchester Supreme Court. “The unjusti�iable determination of the village leads to the inescapable inference that its goal was to corruptly steer the contract to a more desirable and higher-priced hauler.”

AAA Carting of Cortlandt Manor has been in the trash business for 25 years, Pasquale L. Cartalemi Jr., the president, stated in an af�idavit.

It hauled garbage for Pelham from 2010 to 2014, when R&S Waste Services, operated

by Joseph Spiezio III, got the contract. But

Westchester County suspended R&S’ solid waste license and the village had to �ind a new hauler.

The request for bids for hauling garbage, bulk trash, recycling and organic waste was published in October. Bids were opened in November, and AAA Carting was the apparent low bidder.

Two weeks later, Village Administrator Omar T. Small noti�ied the company that its bid was rejected as nonresponsible.

AAA Carting had failed to submit resumes of supervisors. It had answered “no” to a labor question. It had nine violations with Date: the Westchester County Solid 1/27/2020 Waste Commission since 2017 compared to Passionate Bankers oneFocus:

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It claims the resumes were submitted before the contract was awarded.

The village did not specify which of the four questions to which AAA answered “no” was improper: whether it had veri�ied background information for each employee; tested employees for their command of English; experienced any strike or work stoppage; and maintained a contingency plan for a work stoppage.

“We are not union,” AAA Carting wrote under one of its answers. It claims it is not required by law to verify background information on employees or to verify their command of English.

“All of the questions,” according to the complaint, “were truthfully and properly answered.”

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“It is my experience that every waste hauler in Westchester County has been issued violations by the commission,” Cartalemi states in his af�idavit. “Unless the violations result in the suspension or revocation of a waste hauler’s license, they … cannot be the basis to �ind a bidder to be nonresponsible. Otherwise, every waste hauler in the county would be precluded from bidding on public contracts.”

AAA Carting has contracts with New York state, New York City, Westchester County, White Plains, New Rochelle and several other municipalities in the Hudson Valley.

“Not once in the last 25 years has AAA Carting been found nonresponsible,” the complaint states.

The company claims that Pelham violated a state law that is meant to prevent a municipality from contriving subjective rationales to justify awarding a contract to a higher bidder.

The village also violated its own laws, according to the complaint, by not establishing the need for a costlier option and explaining how the award is expected to result in savings.

The complaint asks the court to annul the Oak Ridge contract and award it to AAA Carting.

The lawsuit names Oak Ridge and the seven village trustees as defendants. Only trustee Ciro Greco responded to a request for comment, with the cryptic phrase, “piece of work,” referring to the previous garbage hauler.

AAA Carting is represented by Manhattan attorneys John D. D’Ercole and Nicholas Caputo.

HOUSE FORECLOSURE ENTANGLES CHEF BONNIE SARAN’S ‘LITTLE’ EATERIES

A foreclosure on a house owned by chef Bonnie Y. Saran has involved her “Little” empire of popular eateries.

Susan C. Gutman of Pompano Beach, Florida, �iled the foreclosure action against Saran, Little Bonnie & Company LLC, Little Kabab Station Inc., Little Mumbai Market Inc. and Little Drunken Chef Inc. on Jan. 6 in Westchester Supreme Court.

The complaint states that the restaurants have an interest or lien on the property.

Saran’s “Little” concept has made a big impression with the opening of six restaurants in eight years. Little Kabab Station, a 12-seater on East Main Street in Mount Kisco, was the �irst in 2011. Martha Stewart tweeted and blogged about Saran, according to a 2017 story in Edible Hudson Valley magazine, and Bill and Hillary Clinton became regulars.

In quick succession she opened Little

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Spice Bazaar and Little Crepe Street in Mount Kisco, Little Mumbai Market in Pleasantville and Little Drunken Chef in Mount Kisco and White Plains.

In 2017, Little Bonnie & Co. bought a Mount Kisco house from Gutman for $675,000 as an investment property.

Little Bonnie & Co. mortgaged the property with Gutman for $630,000, and Saran personally guaranteed the debt.

The monthly payment was set at $3,577, and Little Bonnie & Co. was also required to

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pay tax assessments and water and sewer charges.

Gutman’s attorney, Anthony J. Pieragostini, sent a notice of default in October, claiming that Saran had missed the September payment and had been late on four previous payments.

As of December, according to the complaint, Little Bonnie & Co. had failed to pay $29,124 in real estate taxes for two years, missed the December mortgage payment and had not paid water and sewer charges.

Gutman depends on the mortgage payments for her living expenses, Pieragostini stated in the default notice, “and this is causing an extreme problem.”

Saran did not immediately respond to email and telephone messages asking for her side of the story.

Gutman is demanding that the house be sold to cover the mortgage debt, and that Saran and Little Bonnie & Co. make up the difference for any amounts still owed after the sale.

COUPLE SUES WELLS FARGO TO HONOR REDUCED SALE PRICE OF DAMAGED NEW ROCHELLE HOUSE

A couple that agreed to buy a New Rochelle house for $705,000 is demanding that

Wells Fargo Bank stick to a $140,000 price reduction negotiated after the house was damaged.

Daniel and Aviva Gordon of Riverdale sued Wells Fargo, Heritage Real Estate Services in Mount Vernon and real estate broker Sylvia Woods on Jan. 8 in Westchester Supreme Court.

The Gordons “have been ready, willing and able to complete this transaction and purchase of property,” the complaint states.

“However, in light of the casualty losses the property sustained … the purchase price of the property must be reduced.”

The 4,132-square-foot house was built in 1924 on a quarter-acre lot at 20 Trenor Drive in the Wyka�yl Park neighborhood.

It has six bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms.

The median value of houses in the neighborhood is $924,000, according to Realtor. com, and nearby houses have sold for as much as $1.3 million. The Trenor Drive house sold for $945,000 in 2013.

The 2013 buyer defaulted on a $756,000 mortgage with Wells Fargo, and the bank foreclosed on the property in 2017 and acquired it at a public auction in 2018.

The Gordons agreed to buy it “as is” for

$705,000 last February and they made a $70,500 down payment. The closing was scheduled for April 8.

But before the closing a tree fell on the house and mold developed inside.

Woods and the Gordons worked out a new deal, reducing the price by nearly 20%, to $565,000.

The Gordons claim that Woods was acting as Wells Fargo’s agent and the new agreement amounted to a novation — a replacement contract where all concerned parties agree to the change.

But Wells Fargo repudiated the deal and put the house back on the market for $664,900.

The couple accuses Wells Fargo, Heritage and Woods of breach of contract and, as to Woods and Heritage, tortious interference with a contract.

They are demanding that Wells Fargo honor the revised price or that the original price be reduced to compensate for the property damages.

Neither Wells Fargo nor Woods immediately responded to requests for their sides of the story.

The Gordons are represented by Paul M. Sod of Lawrence in Nassau County.

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AS A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, I’M ALWAYS SCARED WE WON’T HAVE ENOUGH SALES. LAST MONTH I NEEDED HELP IN THE OFFICE AND HAD TO PULL ONE OF OUR SALESPEOPLE TO HELP OUT IN THE OFFICE. THE WORK NEEDS TO GET DONE AND THERE’S NO ONE ELSE TO DO IT. BUT I’M SURE THAT WE’LL PAY A PRICE IN TERMS OF LOWER SALES A FEW MONTHS FROM NOW. HOW DO WE GET IT ALL DONE AND KEEP OUR EYE ON WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT? THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: De�ine what’s most important and live by that. Calculate the cost/bene�it ratio of each task and �igure out the payoff you’ll get from each assignment you hand out. Prioritize sales — that’s where money comes from to solve problems. Don’t let people hide behind excuses.

Often business owners jump from one priority to the next and say they feel like they’re trying to plug holes in a leaky dam. Step back and take a look at what really is a top priority. Use the measures of revenue and pro�it.

That means customers and more customers come �irst.

When thinking about assignments, consider what each assignment actually produces in terms of revenue and pro�it. Look for activities that only produce small amounts and see if you can eliminate them.

I see people spending time on things that won’t get them where they want to go.

If a company needs more money, the opportunity to solve the problem is right in front of them. It’s called sales.

If cash flow is short, get your people out talking to more prospects. Staying back in the of�ice to help with paperwork won’t do anything to bring in additional revenue. But sales calls most likely will. And with additional revenue you’ll be able to hire more of�ice staff. In the meantime, ask existing of�ice staff to put in a few extra hours of overtime and explain that they’re doing their part to keep salespeople out on the road looking for more revenue.

I see people spending time on things that won’t get them where they want to go. If a company needs more money, the opportunity to solve the problem is right in front of them. It’s called sales.

Make sure your people have a sales system that works. Look to top performers, read books, meet regularly to brainstorm best practices, get experts in to help you. Maximizing output for the time that people put into sales and organizing support — people, systems, tools — will make a big difference in the payoff your company gets. If you’re going to dedicate yourself and others to working in sales, do everything you can to get the most out of it.

Sometimes people will volunteer for “extra” duty as a way to avoid doing the things they �ind dif�icult to do. Make sure that priority assignments you hand out get done �irst. Track top-priority activities. In sales, track how many contacts are being made, how many introductory meetings are completed, how

many needs analyses and proposals get prepared as well as the frequency of scheduled and completed closing meetings.

Not sure how to track sales activities.

Get your sales team together and brainstorm.

Look at what your top performers are doing. Use a standard software program to set up rows of prospects and columns of activities and ask people to put dates in when they complete each task. Set goals for the number of activities to complete each month. Meet a couple times each month to review progress and talk about what else needs to happen. Keep the spotlight on the things that are most important and only accept volunteers when the basics are on schedule or ahead of where they need to be.

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hile Westchester and Fair�ield are not far from Wall Street and the international banking behemoths that help the world’s economy grow, the counties are home to community bank of�ices, a category that recently has been a focus for some federal regulators.

Michelle W. Bowman, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, discussed community banks during a speech she delivered to the 2020 Economic Forecast Breakfast of the

Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 16. She emphasized their importance as local lenders.

Likewise, when the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago held its 13th annual Community Bankers Symposium in Chicago in November 2018, Jelena McWilliams, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), had made it plain that the FDIC wanted to see community banks prosper.

McWilliams was sworn in as chairman on June 5, 2018, for a �ive-year term. She had been chief legal of�icer with Fifth Third Bank of Cincinnati and previously

Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C.

worked in the U.S. Senate as chief counsel and deputy staff director with the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

The FDIC’s State Pro�ile for the third quarter of 2019 had the Poughkeepsie-

Newburgh-Middletown market sixth on its list of largest deposit markets in New York. The FDIC said there were 29 institutions in that market with deposits totaling $15.378 billion.

The FDIC ranked the

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk market at the top of its banking pro�ile in the State Pro�ile for Connecticut. It showed 30 institutions with a total of $48.906 billion in deposits.

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areas of this country where one can drive for hours without encountering a town,” McWilliams told the Chicago gathering. “It is a local bank in these small towns across America that �inances the construction of town parks; loans money to the third-generation farmer to once again plant this year’s crops; and provides the town’s newest family with the ability to start a small business that one day may be run by their grandkids.”

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their lending or exited the mortgage market altogether.

“These developments concern me for several reasons. Home mortgage lending has traditionally been a signi�icant business for smaller banks, and the decline in this business threatens a part of the banking industry that plays a crucial role in communities.

Bankers who are present and active in their communities know and understand their customers and the local market better than lenders outside the area. Because of their local knowledge and customer relationships, they are often more willing to help troubled borrowers work their way through dif�icult times,” Bowman said.

Bowman was a former state banking commissioner in Kansas and was a vice president of her family’s bank in Kansas, the Farmers & Drovers Bank. In September, she was con�irmed by the U.S. Senate to a full 14-year term as the community bank representative on the Federal Reserve Board after having been nominated by President Donald Trump.

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be a key factor supporting growth in housing activity. As reported in the latest Summary of Economic Projections, released in December, most FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) participants see the current target range for the federal funds rate as likely to remain appropriate this year as long as incoming information remains broadly consistent with the economic outlook,” she said.

U.S. homebuilding activity by the private sector has been on a solid foundation, according to statistics released Jan. 17 by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. An esti-

mated 1,289,800 housing units were started in 2019, representing a 3.2% increase over the number of starts in 2018. There had been 1,368,800 housing units authorized by building permits during 2019, a 3.9% increase from the year before.

“My colleagues and I at the Federal Reserve pay close attention to developments in the housing sector, in part, because it has historically been such an important driver of economic growth,” Bowman said.

The FDIC’s McWilliams said that as the primary federal government agency supervising the majority of community banks, her agency has a unique perspective on the challenges those banks face.

“Community banks provide personal, relationship-based services in communities across the country. They tend to understand the unique characteristics of the local economy, businesses and customers, and play a vital role in meeting the credit needs of local consumers, governments and small businesses,” she said.

McWilliams noted that as of mid-2018, banks with assets of less than $10 billion were responsible for about 50% of small-sized loans made to businesses. She said that in 627

counties in the U.S., the only banking of�ices are ones operated by community banks.

“These banks �ill gaps and are essential to providing banking services to local communities that may not be served by larger banks,” McWilliams said.

She pointed out that the overwhelming majority of U.S. banks, 5,408 of the 5,542 banks insured by the FDIC, held less than $10 billion in assets as of mid-2018.

At the FDIC’s Commercial Real Estate Conference in New York City on Nov. 6, 2019, McWilliams reported that as of 2019’s second quarter, banks held about $2.4 trillion in commercial real estate loans.

“None of us can accurately predict when, where or how the next downturn in the economy, or in the commercial real estate sector, will occur. However, we do know that commercial real estate holds challenges for the banking industry, including potential boomand-bust cycles and asset/liability mismatches,” McWilliams said. “Today, retail and of�ice space are currently undergoing signi�icant evolutions as an increasing share of retail shopping moves online. This evolution provides opportunity, but it also brings uncertainty to the lending environment.”

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Across the border, Traynor observed Connecticut’s problems are not being shared.

“Massachusetts is 352% ahead of where they were in 2007,” he said. “There’s something wrong here. They’re not fracking up in Massachusetts.”

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Traynor challenged the business professionals in the town of Fair�ield to follow the example set in Cambridge, citing the presence of Fair�ield University and Sacred Heart University as a tool to achieve that goal.

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“We’re importing smart kids from all over the place. They are here for four years and we do a great job educating them, but we need to hold on to them. Our town

“Even if you’re in manufacturing, 71% of the manufacturing business in Connecticut is advanced manufacturing,” he said, pointing out that manufacturing programs conducted at Bridgeport’s Housatonic Community College channeled students into careers where they earn $65,000 to $75,000 per year. “Connecticut is one of the leaders in high-tech, high-thinking, high-brainpower industries. And it’s not just biotech, but it’s manufacturing across the board.” » WAGE GROWTH

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Traynor’s presentation also considered the wider economy. He predicted the 2020 economy will moderate, with a “fairly subdued” stock market that will probably not mirror the upward motion of 2019.

Yet, he did not believe this would be problematic.

“A slower economy means the economy can continue growing for a longer time period,” Traynor explained. “If we were growing at 3% to 4%, the Fed would have both feet on the brakes and interest rates would be moving up more dramatically. By growing a little bit more slowly, this gives the Fed more time to say, ‘Let’s keep this party going.’ This is a very positive sign. Growing slowly at this point in the economy is very good.”

John Traynor addressing the Fairfield Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Phil Hall.

Traynor cautioned that any uptick in unemployment could be a harbinger of problems ahead.

“When unemployment goes down and then starts going up, you generally have a recession soon thereafter,” he warned. “So, we keep an eye on the unemployment rate. We’re not looking for an absolute number, but at a direction. If we get to 3.5% and we start to get to 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8, that gets us a little bit nervous as an indicator of what’s going forward.”

Traynor also said the 2020 election is making some business professionals nervous.

“I do know that if we see a change in Washington in the House, in the Senate and in the White House, we are going to see some changes in legislation,” he said. “What does this mean if I am a businessperson? I am

going to sit on my hands because I have no idea what my tax rate is going to be and I have no idea what business depreciation is going to be.”

Traynor pointed to a trend that keeps incumbents in of�ice, giving President Donald Trump another four-year term.

“If real wage growth is growing a little bit above 1.4%, the president gets re-elected,” he said. “The only two presidents who didn’t get re-elected — Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush — were below the line. Right now, it is at 2.46%. The message to President Trump is: if you want to get re-elected, keep this economy growing. Focus on lowering the concern about tariffs and trade and calm down a little bit on the tweets — but I don’t think we’ll ever get that to stop.”

Acquisitions drive success at People’s United Financial

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batch of hefty acquisitions led to a year of growth for Bridgeportbased People’s United Financial.

The parent company of People’s United Bank reported higher profits in the fourth quarter and for 2019 compared to �igures from the previous year.

Net income increased to $137.5 million, or $0.31 per share, last quarter compared with $132.2 million during the same period in 2018.

Year-over-year income jumped to $520.4 million from $468.1 million in the prior year.

“It was another noteworthy year for People’s United as we acquired two banks and a specialty �inance company,” said People’s United CEO Jack Barnes in a statement.

Barnes also said the company saw a 20% increase in full-year operating earnings from a year ago.

People’s United reported $552.1 million in operating earnings for the year compared to $461.4 million in 2018.

Earnings increased to $158.8 million last quarter from $134.2 million in the same period in the previous year.

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Barnes attributed the growth to the company’s 2019 transactions.

People’s United kicked off the spring by purchasing Massachusetts-based BSB Bancorp Inc., the holding company of Belmont Savings Bank, in April in a $327 million stock transaction.

The Bridgeport-based company concluded its year by completing its acquisition of United Financial Bancorp, parent company of United Bank, in Hartford. The $759 million deal closed in November, pushing People’s United Financial well beyond its longstanding goal of reaching $50 billion in assets.

According to Barnes, People’s United has shot up to almost $60 billion in assets over the last decade.

People’s United Bank has more than 400 retail locations in New England and New York that offer commercial and retail banking.

Barnes said in a previous interview with Hearst Connecticut Media that the company would continue to look at opportunities to grow its presence in the Hartford and Spring�ield, Massachusetts, markets.

Jordan Grice is a staff reporter with Hearst Connecticut Media and can be reached at jordan.grice@ hearstmediact.com.

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Among the legislation she is most proud espite the turmoil sweeping the of include funding for construction of the nation’s capital, bipartisanship is new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, funding for still alive and well in Washington. police, firefighters and EMT workers in the That was the upbeat message from veteran Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey as aftermath of September 11, funding for after-school programs and expansion of she addressed an audience of more than 150 business professionals at the Business Pell Grants to help low-income students Council of Westchester’s KeyBank Speaker graduate from college with less debt.

Series program held January 17 at Tappan “What an honor it has been to be in a position Hill in Tarrytown. where in spite of a lot of the noise that goes on TV, we really do for the most part work “We were able to negotiate a bipartisan together in a bipartisan way, especially on fiscal year 2020 spending bill that really appropriations. I’ve always said there are does make critical investments in our legislators and there are appropriators. If communities, whether it’s education, we don’t work together and pass legislation infrastructure, security, defense and then shame on all of us,” she said. biomedical research. It was a really good bill and I was very proud of that,” BCW President and CEO Marsha Gordon said Lowey, who serves as Chairman noted that when Lowey started her career of the powerful House Appropriations in the House the number of women in Committee. “The news may be filled with Congress was only 7 percent. In addition all kinds of gossip but we continue to do to being the first woman to chair the our work and we have a lot more work to House Appropriations Committee, she do,” she added. is also the first woman to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Lowey, who is retiring at the end of this Committee. “You are a role model for year after having served 32 years in women’s leadership, and particularly Congress, listed a number of important government. Can you give us your advice bills that have recently passed in the to the women in this room who are House including: eliminating the cap on interested in making a career in public state and local tax deductions; reducing service,” she said. prescription drug prices by giving the federal government the power to Lowey replied, “There are some people negotiate directly with drug companies, in life who see a problem and say I wish I and requiring universal background could help you and just move on. I have checks for gun purchases. However, she always felt, and I think I learned this from noted that these bills still need approval my mother who was a real activist in the by the Republican controlled Senate.

community, that when you see a problem you have a responsibility to do something about it. Sometimes you can do it just by yourself. Sometimes you have to organize a group. But the important thing is to know that you have a responsibility that is bigger than just yourself,” she said.

As a fitting tribute to Lowey’s many years of service in Congress, the BCW announced at the conclusion of the program the establishment of the Nita Lowey Scholarship seat in the BCW’s Star Power program. The scholarship will be given each year to a deserving not-for-profit professional. The inaugural award was presented to Victoria Baldini, Executive Assistant to the CEO of ANDRUS in Yonkers. Star Power is a professional development program designed to help build self-knowledge, relationship know-how and communication skills needed to launch and maintain a successful career.

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The BCW Data Exchange provides the latest demographic research to help guide smart business decisions. The LEAP program, a one-of-a-kind initiative, gives members direct access to lobbying efforts at the county, state and national levels on issues that directly affect their businesses.

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GOOD THINGS Westchester County STOP THE BLEED KITS FOR WHITE PLAINS SCHOOL DISTRICT

Ira J. Bedzow

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UNESCO BESTOWS CHAIR OF DISTINCTION FOR GLOBAL WORK IN BIOETHICS ON NYMC

MARIST COLLEGE EVP JOINS CENTRAL HUDSON’S BOARD

New York Medical College (NYMC) has been awarded the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair in Bioethics.

The chair is part of an international network of universities and research centers committed to improving ethics education in medical schools. As part of the mandate of the UNESCO Chair, NYMC will develop programs to educate and raise awareness among decision-makers, specialists, researchers, jurists and journalists, the general public and specific target groups.

Ira J. Bedzow, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at NYMC, has been named chair of the program.

White Plains Hospital donated Stop the Bleed kits to the White Plains School District.

The kits will be available in White Plains schools throughout the district and will be placed near defibrillator units already available in schools. Stop the Bleed

kits include tourniquets and wound-packing equipment and are designed to help save lives in the event of a bleeding emergency. White Plains Hospital and the White Plains School District have teamed up to provide ongoing Stop the Bleed training to its staff.

White Plains Hospital and school district officials, from left: Sean Lews, school district security; Joseph Ricca, school district superintendent; Dr. Erik Larsen, assistant director, EMS and emergency preparedness; Ed Tangredi, director of emergency management; Dr. Farrukh Jafri, assistant director of education and simulation emergency department; Maggie Racioppo, nurse coordinator at the school district; and Kate Lopez, hospital senior director of marketing.

FIRST YOUTH POET LAUREATE IN COUNTY APPOINTED WESTCHESTER AWARDED GRANT FOR INNOVATIVE CLIMATE ACTION PLANNING Westchester County, along with five of its villages, one town and two cities, have been awarded a $100,000 grant to administer a collaborative working group to complete individual government operations, greenhouse gas inventories and climate action plans that will outline emissions reduction targets, strategies and projects.

Westchester County’s project team will include municipal staff and appointed members from its Climate Smart Communities Task Force.

PUBLIC/PRIVATE SUPPORT FOR ARTS & CULTURE Westchester County Executive George Latimer and the Westchester County Board of Legislators joined with ArtsWestchester to announce that 48 Westchester arts organizations are the recipients of matching funds from the Art$WChallenge grant program.

This matching grant program, made possible with $205,000 of Westchester County support, provides much-needed funding for arts and culture in Westchester County.

The 48 arts organizations raised $353,189 in new private funds through the 2019 Art$WChallenge program. Together with the matching county funds, the program successfully leveraged a total of $558,189 for arts and culture in Westchester last year.

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Geoffrey L. Brackett, an executive vice president with Marist College, has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp, which serves New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley.

Brackett brings three decades of leadership experience to Central Hudson.

He has served as executive vice president of Marist College since August 2010.

LIONS AND SEDONA TEAMWORK

From left: George Latimer, Danielle Kohn and DaMia Harris-Madden.

County Executive George Latimer and Executive Director of the Westchester County Youth Bureau Dr. DaMia Harris-Madden appointed Westchester County’s first Youth Poet Laureate.

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Scarsdale High School, and she will work with the Westchester County Youth Bureau to increase appreciation for reading and writing among her peers in collaboration with local libraries, schools and youth development

programs.

Kohn, who has been writing poetry since she was in the second grade, brings her poetry to hospitals, nursing homes and drug treatment centers across Westchester County.

The Larchmont Mamaroneck (LM) Lions worked this month with Mamaroneck’s Sedona Taphouse to support The Fuller Center in New Rochelle whose mission is to provide housing for those who deserve, yet could only dream of owning a home.

Every Monday in January, Sedona’s Steak Out for Charity donated $2 from every special $8 steak lunch or dinner to The Fuller Center. The LM Lions matched every $2 donation, up to a total of $1,000.

NWH OPENS CENTER FOR HEALTHY LIVING

Nicole Peragine

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COLLEGIATE ORCHESTRA INSTITUTE LAUNCHES AT MUSIC CONSERVATORY

NEW PEEKSKILL CITY MANAGER

The Music Conservatory of Westchester in White Plains is launching its Collegiate Orchestra Institute, a new opportunity and training ground to prepare serious collegiate music students for professional careers.

Over a four-week period starting July 21, the Collegiate Orchestra Institute will offer rehearsals, sectionals and master classes with virtuoso string players, giving students the opportunity to advance their skills and form collegial relationships with other developing professionals. A culminating performance will take place Aug. 12.

“Every serious college music student finds that high-quality festival experiences during the summer months lead to tremendous growth,” Conservatory Associate Dean of Programs and Director of the Collegiate Orchestra Institute Nicole Peragine said.

The tuition is $500 with a $50 registration fee. The rehearsals will meet during evening hours from 4 to 7 p.m.

To see qualifications and audition requirements, visit https://musicconservatory.org/music-lessons-classes/ collegiate-orchestra-institute

From left: Registered dietitian Amy Rosenfeld, certified health coach Mary Beth Gierlinger and health care navigator Lauren Selsky at the produce department of Whole Foods. Photo courtesy of Brianna Miller.

Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH) has opened its Center for Healthy Living (CHL) next to Whole Foods Market at 480 Bedford Road in Chappaqua at the Chappaqua Crossing property.

The community resource for health

and wellness offers a variety of ongoing programs and monthly health care themes and kicks off its educational program for diet season, a 12-week weight management and wellness class.

In addition to health care navigation

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and referrals, the CHL will offer a wide variety of community health education programs.

CHL program development will be led

by Lauren Selsky, health care navigator, and Amy Rosenfeld, a registered dietitian.

WESTHAB ANNOUNCES FULL OCCUPANCY IN NEW ROCHELLE

REVIEWING 2019 OFFICE MARKET AND 2020 OUTLOOK More than 150 commercial property owners and brokers were on hand for the annual State of the Market Luncheon presented by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Westchester (BOMA) on Jan. 9 at the Crowne Plaza in White Plains. Moderator Robert Weisz, CEO of RPW Group, provided a positive outlook for the Westchestermarket.

“I predict that the next five to 10 years are going to be the most successful period that Westchester has seen probably in the last 50 years. Everything is going in the right direction,” he said.

Night to Shine 2019, held at Mill Creek in Hopewell Junction.

Poughkeepsie’s Odyssey Church will serve as one of the 671 churches around the world registered to host Night to Shine 2020.

This event, sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation, will be held at local churches across the globe simultaneously on Friday, Feb. 7. Night to Shine is a prom-night experience for people with special needs ages 14 and older. It will be held at Mill Creek Caterers in Hopewell Junction.

Westhab has announced that a newly renovated building at 21 Fountain Place in New Rochelle has reached full occupancy. The building, which formerly served as student housing for Monroe College, received a substantial renovation to provide affordable and transitional housing for 52 families. The building is being leased by Westhab from Palladium Management with a contract from Westchester County to provide on-site management and social services for the tenants.

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The City Council of the city of Peekskill announced the appointment of Andrew Stewart as city manager succeding Richard Leins on Jan. 27.

Stewart served three terms as town supervisor of the town of Orangetown in Rockland County from 2012 to 2017.

OTTAWAY MEDAL HONOREE CHOSEN Linda S. Muller, president and CEO of Cornerstone Family Healthcare, is the 2020 Ottaway Medal recipient.

Named in honor of Ruth and James Ottaway, philanthropists and business leaders dedicated to improving the quality of life in Orange County, the Ottaway Medal is awarded each year to a citizen who embodies their community leadership and commitment.

Since 1991, Muller has served at the helm of Cornerstone with a mission to ensure that every person in the community has access to quality health care. Under her leadership, Cornerstone operates in 16 medical facilities in four counties.

The Ottaway Medal ceremony and dinner is slated for Thursday, April 30 at 5:30 p.m. at Anthony’s Pier 9 in New Windsor.

B&G CLUB OF MOUNT VERNON NEW YOUTH BOARD MEMBERS The Boys & Girls (B&G) Club of Mount Vernon has appointed Cynthia Davida Lamptey and J. Mellonie Magdelano to its Youth Member Board of Directors.Davida Lamptey is a translator at the United Nations Secretariat. Magdelano is an HR manager at Montefiore Hospital.

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GOOD THINGS Westchester County CARVER CENTER’S GRANT FROM STERLING NATIONAL BANK

Elizabeth (Liz) Boucher

VETERAN RE PRO JOINS HOULIHAN LAWRENCE Elizabeth (Liz) Boucher, a veteran real estate professional with more than two decades of sales and managerial experience, has joined Rye Brook-based Houlihan Lawrence as manager of its Katonah brokerage.

Formerly, Boucher was branch manager of Coldwell Banker’s Scarsdale office. Prior to that, she was Coldwell Banker’s branch manager in Larchmont.

PRINCETON REVIEW NAMES IONA ONE OF BEST BUSINESS SCHOOLS

From left: Colleen Kane, Lucy Amicucci and Anne Bradner.

The $5,000 grant to Carver Center in Port Chester from Sterling National Bank Charitable Foundation will support the center’s after-school programming

at John F. Kennedy Magnet and Thomas A. Edison elementary schools, and a program for middle-school students and teens at the Carver Center.

Lucy Amicucci, foundation director, presented the award to Anne Bradner, CEO, and Colleen Kane, chief advancement officer, of the Carver Center.

SECOND LIFE FOR GLASSES

WCA APPOINTS 12 BOARD MEMBERS AND VICE CHAIR Joining the Westchester County Association’s (WCA) Board of Directors are: Kara Bennorth, executive vice president and chief administrative officer, WMCHealth.

John Cooney Jr., executive director, Construction Industry Council of Westchester & Hudson Valley Inc. Sarah Reynard Epifano, senior director, business development, Skanska USA. Lindsay Farrell, president and CEO, Open Door Family Medical Center.

Seth M. Mandelbaum, managing partner, McCullough, Goldberger & Staudt LLP. Kevin J. McCarthy, managing director of brokerage services, Cushman & Wakefield.

Stephen J. McCulloch Jr., senior director, Houlihan-Parnes Realtors LLC. Frank P. Micalizzi, regional president, M&T Bank.

Jim O’Connor, vice president of corporate development, Empress Ambulance Services.

Deborah Novick, director, BioInc@NYMC. Robin White, director, New York City and Westchester external affairs, AT&T. Teresita Wisell, vice president and dean, workforce development and community education, Westchester Community College.

Susan Fox, president and CEO of White Plains Hospital and a WCA board member, has been appointed as vice chair of the WCA’s board of directors.

Appointed to the WCA’s executive committee of the board of directors are: Paul Adler, chief strategy officer and associate real estate broker, Rand Commercial.

Chris Fisher, managing partner, Cuddy & Feder LLP. Tim Hall, president, Mercy College.

PARKS FOUNDATION ELECTS NEW CHAIRPERSON Iona College’s LaPenta School of Business will open in early 2020.

Iona College in New Rochelle has one of the nation’s most outstanding business schools, according to The Princeton Review.

The news comes as Iona College prepares to open its new state-of-the-art LaPenta School of Business in early 2020, which will more than double the school’s existing space on campus.

From left: Larchmont/Mamaroneck Lions Diane Oldham, Carolyn Gallaher and Phil Oldham.

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The Larchmont Mamaroneck Lions brought thousands of collected eyeglasses to the Lions Trenton New Jersey Recycle Center.

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ticipated in the recycle process, which will result in cleaned and like-new prescription glasses for those in need around the world.

The glasses were collected by Sound Shore Lions clubs in Larchmont, Mama-

roneck, New Rochelle and Rye. They were also collected as part of the Larchmont Chamber Cares December program and by Westchester County Legislator Catherine Parker.

The Westchester Parks Foundation (WPF), announced Seth M. Mandelbaum, managing partner with McCullough, Goldberger & Staudt LLP in White Plains, as its new chairperson of the Board of Directors.

Since 2015, Mandelbaum served as the WPF’s vice chairman and has been a member of its Board of Trustees since 2011. Mandelbaum’s appointment comes after Joanne Fernandez’s announcement to step down as chairperson after six years. Jane Solnick, director of public affairs at Con Edison, will take over as WPF’s vice chairperson.

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Karen Stuart

Christopher Reenock

FUTURE 5’S NEW DIRECTOR OF STUDENT EXPERIENCE

EQUITY ANALYST/ M&A BANKER JOINS CARTER MORSE & GOODRICH

Karen Stuart has joined the Future 5 team as director of student experience.

Future 5 is a not-for-profit organization that helps motivate low-income high school students in Stamford to reach their full potential. Stuart was director, office of student services, at Monroe College.

SCRUM50: AD AGE’S 2020 ‘BEST PLACES TO WORK’ LIST Scrum50, a marketing agency in South Norwalk, was named one of the Top 25 Agencies for the Best Places to Work List in Ad Age within the size category of up to 200 employees.

Based on employee and employer feedback compiled by a third party, the list takes into account the happiness of employees along with key factors, including benefits, inclusion and employee development.

BROKERAGE MANAGER NAMED FOR WILLIAM PITT SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY Jim Gricar has assumed the role of brokerage manager for William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty in Westport.

Gricar brings to the firm more than 20 years of real estate sales and managerial experience in Manhattan, Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County.

He served as head of sales at Houlihan Lawrence where he was responsible for 30 offices in New York and Connecticut.

Christopher Reenock has joined Carter Morse & Goodrich (CMG) in Southport as a director.

Reenock has spent his investment banking career advising family- and founder-owned businesses and corporate management teams across a variety of engagements.

Jericho Brown

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield will host poet Jericho Brown at a masterclass workshop and poetry reading on Thursday, Feb. 13 at the Museum. Registration is required for both events at shop.aldrichart.org In the masterclass workshop, from 1 to 3 p.m., Brown will help students

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ets whose examples might lead them to a further honing of their craft.

From 7 to 9 p.m., Brown will conduct a poetry reading followed by a Q&A and a book signing. Ridgefield’s Books on the Common will be on-site selling his latest poetry collection, “The Tradition.”

PROMOTIONS AT WILSON ELSER Nicole R. Cuglietto and Matthew D. Valauri, attorneys from Wilson Elser’s Stamford office, have been promoted to partner status.

They are among the 25 attorneys the law firm has promoted.

Cuglietto provides claims management, insurance coverage analysis and risk management services to insurers for professional lines.

Valauri has extensive litigation experience working with insurance carriers and transportation and other companies in defending claims for personal injuries, wrongful death, etc.

Information for these features has been submitted by the subjects or their delegates.

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generate new work through a set of unconventional exercises that keep their ears open and fingers moving. The workshop engenders new ideas about writing and as there is a profound relationship between reading poetry and writing it, participants will read, discuss and even recite the work of several po-

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YOUNG WRITERS’ COMPETITION AT LMMM The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum (LMMM) in Norwalk will launch its seventh annual Young Writers’ Competition on Feb. 17.

The competition titled “What in The Mansion is This?” will close June 5. The competition is open to all third to eighth grade students in the tri-state area.

Ten rare and/or unusual artifacts will be part of this year’s young writers’ competition. Students must identify these unfamiliar objects from LMMM’s permanent collection by providing detailed descriptions and historical research or by writing a fictional story on some of the objects correctly identified. Winners will be chosen based on correct identification, research and most well-written description of the objects, or most well-written, fictional story based on the correct identification and research on the objects. All descriptions must be in keeping with the historical period that the objects belong to.

The stories will be picked up from contestants and their teachers on Friday, June 5, and competition winners will be notified by mid-September.

For more information, contact Education Program Director Iliana Begetis or Education Coordinator Charles Hill at 203-838-9799, ext. 6, or email education@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com.

CHARITABLE PROGRAM HELPS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PLANS

Jenny C. Koerner

CHOYCE PETERSON WELCOMES OFFICE MANAGER Jenny C. Koerner has been hired as office manager for Choyce Peterson Inc. in Norwalk, a full-service commercial real estate brokerage firm.

With 10 years of office support experience in law and medical firms, Koerner will be responsible for general business operations and will play a critical role in advancing team objectives through data management and marketing support.

E.J. Ferraro, assistant athletic director of campus recreation at Iona College in New Rochelle, and Laura Saggese, founder of Wrap For A Cause. Photo courtesy Wrap For A Cause.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become such a key driver of business success that Newsweek recently put out a list of America’s Most Responsible Companies for the very first time.

Laura Saggese, co-founder of Wrap For A Cause, is a trailblazer in the creation of authentic CSR programs.

“The buying, investing and employment decisions of many millennials are increasingly guided by a brand’s socially

conscious initiatives,” explained Saggese. “Corporate charitable giving has been around for decades, but only now is there a proven link between a business’ social commitment and the bottom line.”

However, people don’t just want to hear about a corporation’s support of a charity or issue. They demand to see it in action. That insight, combined with Saggese’s extensive corporate and philanthropic experience, inspired her

to create the not-for-profit Wrap For A Cause program that addresses the three areas of corporate social responsibility: environmental, social and corporate governance.

Saggese explained that a Wrap company sponsorship not only includes a donation to the charity of their choice, but when a college or university fleet van is used, the school also receives a donation. The designated charity also

earns 10% of the net proceeds from Wrap For A Cause after covering the cost of the design, manufacturing and application of the vinyl decals.

A Wrap For A Cause sponsorship requires a minimum three-month campaign commitment with a price range from $2,500 to $5,000 per month based on vehicle size.

For more, visit wrapforacause.org or call 888-392-9729.

FOUNDATION SOURCE NAMES MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR NORTH CENTRAL REGION

Theresa Hopkins-Staten

LEADERSHIP CHANGE AT EVERSOURCE FOUNDATION Theresa Hopkins-Staten has been named the new president of the Eversource Energy Foundation.

She will oversee the energy company’s social responsibility programs to ensure their continued alignment with the company’s overall mission and philanthropic strategy.

Headquartered in Fairfield, Foundation Source, the nation’s largest provider of support services to private foundations, has appointed Charlie Tallard as managing director for its north central region, including Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana.

Tallard works with financial advisers, attorneys, CPAs, single- and multifamily offices, corporations, existing foundations and philanthropically inclined individuals regarding the benefits of a private foundation. He has experience in both financial services and business development.

Tallard spent more than 24 years at FactSet Research Systems, a company that provides financial data and analytic tools.

BANK FOUNDATION ACCEPTING GRANT APPLICATIONS First County Bank Foundation in Stamford is accepting applications for its annual CommunityFirst grant program.

Eligible nonprofit organizations must submit their applications online by March 31.

To be eligible for consideration, organizations must serve the communities of Stamford, Norwalk, Darien, Fairfield, Greenwich, New Canaan, Westport and neighboring communities in Bridgeport, and have nonprofit tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

To view examples of past grant recipients and to complete an online grant application, visit the bank’s website at https://www. firstcountybank.com/application-process.

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BANKRUPTCIES Manhattan El San Juan City Island on 5th Ave LLC New York. Chapter 11, Voluntary.

Attorney: Norma E. Ortiz. Filed Jan. 16. Case no. 20-10103-jlg.

Smooth Medical PC New York.

Chapter 7, Voluntary. Attorney: Moshie Solomon. Filed Jan. 14. Case no. 20-10083-shl.

White Plains Spring Valley NY Realty LLC Spring Valley. Chapter 11, Voluntary.

Attorney: H. Bruce Bronson Jr. Filed Jan. 14. Case no. 20-22071-rdd.

Poughkeepsie Sgh Chhina LLC Pawling. Chapter 11, Voluntary. Attorney: Anne J. Penachio. Filed Jan. 14. Case no. 20-35047cgm.

COURT CASES A.J. Trucco Inc. filed by Ariel Schelmetty. Action: Seeking $200,000 for Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Neil H. Greenberg. Filed Jan. 15. Case no. 1:20-cv-00386-VSB. AK Steel Holding Corp. filed by Jacob Spuhler. Action: Securities Exchange Act. Attorney: Juan Eneas Monteverde. Filed Jan. 16. Case no.

1:20-cv-00444-PKC. Alpha UX Inc. filed by Michelle Chu. Action: Job discrimination (sex).

Attorney: Veronica S. Jung. Filed Jan. 19. Case no. 1:20-cv-00497.

Chamarac Inc. filed by Philip Burr.

Action: Job discrimination (age). Attorney: Lewis Howard Chimes. Filed Jan. 15. Case no. 1:20-cv-00390-LAP.

Items appearing in the Fairfield 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: Larry Miles c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 701 Westchester Ave, Suite 100 J White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3699

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Colliers International New York LLC filed by Matthew Benham. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Jan. 15.

Case no. 1:20-cv-00414-CM. Diacron USA LLC filed by Louise Brinskelle. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Leopold Raic Jr. Filed Jan. 14. Case no. 1:20-cv-00316PAE-DCF. Freshly Inc. filed by Linda Segatto.

Action: Federal question: employment discrimination (sex). Attorney: Melissa Alexis Rodriguez. Filed Jan. 15. Case no. 1:20-cv-00372-LGS. Google Inc. filed by Ernest Calvino Jr. Action: Federal question. Attorney: Ernest Calvino Jr. Filed Jan. 16.

Case no. 1:20-cv-00464-UA. Hellas Journal Inc. filed by John Callan. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Richard Liebowitz.

Filed Jan. 17. Case no. 1:20-cv-00492.

Maison Premiere Corp. filed by Cedric Bishop. Action: Americans With Disabilities Act – Civil Enforcement Actions. Attorney: Justin Alexander Zeller. Filed Jan. 14. Case no.

1:20-cv-00337-VEC. Marriott International Inc. filed by Evelyn Elmrharri. Action: Diversity action. Attorney: Gregory E. Brower. Filed Jan. 14. Case no.

1:20-cv-00325-CM. Midland Credit Management Inc. filed by Shifra Gordon. Action: Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney: Raphael Deutsch. Filed Jan. 17. Case no. 7:20-cv-00470-CS. MLB Advanced Media LP filed by Andreas Von Der Au. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Jan. 16. Case no.

1:20-cv-00456-ALC. Moscot Holdings LLC filed by Ed Lefkowicz. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Joseph Anthony Dunne. Filed Jan. 16. Case no.

1:20-cv-00437-PKC. NY Waterway Tours LLC filed by Marianela Susana. Action: Diversity action. Attorney: Patrick J. O’Connor. Filed Jan. 16. Case no. 1:20-cv-00455-ER.

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Segal Co. filed by Donnie Ely. Action: N/A. Attorney: Robert Paul Lewis. Filed Jan. 15. Case no.

1:20-mc-00028-GHW.

2 Waters Edge LLC, Rye. Seller: Charles M. White, Rye. Property: 2 Waters Edge, Rye. Amount: $989,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Trader Joe’s Co. filed by Veronica Sanders. Action: Seeking $5 million for diversity – fraud. Attorney: Spencer Sheehan. Filed Jan. 19. Case no.

1:20-cv-00496.

20 Ferndale Realty LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Ann Elizabeth Lohrfink, Carmel. Property: 20 Ferndale St., Yonkers. Amount: $625,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Verizon Connect Inc. filed by James Badillo. Action: Seeking $5 million for unsolicited telephone sales. Attorney: Philip Lawrence Fraietta. Filed Jan. 17. Case no.

7:20-cv-00480-NSR.

200 Maple Corp., White Plains.

Seller: George Froyton, Scarsdale.

Property: 48 Davis Ave., White Plains. Amount: $810,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Wells Fargo Clearing Services LLC filed by John S. Agostino. Action: Petition to vacate arbitration award. Attorney: Christopher Donald Warren. Filed Jan. 15. Case no.

1:20-cv-00357-CM.

DEEDS Above $1 million 124 Mamaroneck Avenue LLC, Bronx. Seller: 18 West 125 LLC, Yonkers. Property: 124-128 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Amount: $3 million. Filed Jan. 15.

62-64 Gramatan Avenue LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: Yea Hwa Liao, Mount Vernon. Property: 62 Gramatan Ave., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $1 million. Filed Jan. 15.

BKB Eastchester LLC, Bronxville.

Seller: 291-293 Main Street LLC, Eastchester. Property: 291-293 Main St., Eastchester. Amount: $1.2 million.

Filed Jan. 17.

Cherry Lawn Holdings LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Cornella D’Onofrio, New Rochelle. Property: 815 Weaver St., New Rochelle. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Jan 15.

Grey Manor LLC, Tarrytown. Seller: River Towns Estates LLC, Huntington. Property: 12 Carriage Trail, Greenburgh. Amount: $6.2 million.

Filed Jan. 13.

JD Katonah Holding Company LLC, Somers. Seller: 16 Katonah Avenue Corp., Katonah. Property: 120 Katonah Ave., Bedford. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed Jan. 15.

Prizm Associates Inc. filed by Tiffany Graham. Action: Job discrimination (unlawful employment practices) Attorney: David Seth Halsband. Filed Jan. 17. Case no.

7:20-cv-00461-CS.

Pebbles Properties 20G Inc., New Rochelle. Seller: 18-28 Webster Avenue LLC, New Rochelle. Property: 28 Webster Ave., New Rochelle.

Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 15.

Renue Systems of New YorkNew Jersey LLC filed by Martin Sierra. Action: Notice of removal.

Attorney: Francis James Giambalvo.

Filed Jan. 15. Case no. 1:20-cv-00399KPF.

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11 VBY LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Michael F. Gravense, et al, Yonkers.

Property: 11 Van Buren St., Yonkers.

Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 14.

FASNY Holdings LLC, Ardsley.

Seller: Joan C. Salwen, Scarsdale.

Property: 1061 Old Post Road, Bedford. Amount: $544,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Schwarz Brothers LLC, Pelham.

Seller: Charles R. Winkler, Portland, Oregon. Property: 1000 Esplanade, Pelham. Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Fation Realty Inc., Mamaroneck.

Seller: C and G Holding LLC, Carmel. Property: 51 Plain Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $700,000. Filed Jan. 14.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Eric Rios, Port Chester. Property: 32 Pilgrim Drive, Rye. Amount: $538,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Melanie Finkel, White Plains. Property: 100 Highpoint Drive, 806, Greenburgh. Amount: $364,727. Filed Jan. 17.

55 Ridge Equity LLC, White Plains. Seller: Timothy Groth, Ardsley. Property: 55 Ridge Road, Greenburgh. Amount: $400,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Form.01 LLC, Chappaqua. Seller: Peter Kazur, Montauk. Property: 119 Depeyster St., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $315,000. Filed Jan. 14.

56 Midland Avenue LLC. Seller: William B. St. John, et al, Rye. Property: 56 Midland Ave., Rye. Amount: $975,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Francin1 Inc., Elmhurst. Seller: Roque Zambrano, Peekskill.

Property: 351 Smith St., Peekskill.

Amount: $150,000. Filed Jan. 16.

95 Eay LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Westhab Inc., Yonkers. Property: 95 Elliott Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $650,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Galvanize Residential Group LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: HSBC Bank USA N.A. Property: 722 Bedford Road, North Castle. Amount: $732,920. Filed Jan. 14.

AJ Cortlandt LLC, Chester, New Jersey. Seller: Beaver Brook Cortlandt LLC, White Plains. Property: Furnace Dock Road, Cortlandt.

Amount: $209,620. Filed Jan. 15.

Gatsby 1030 LLC, Ossining. Seller: Aditya Acharya, Brooklyn. Property: 69 Harney Road, 7A, Eastchester.

Amount: $285,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Barnsten Inc., Buffalo, Wyoming.

Seller: Dan Grundman, South Salem. Property: 935 Protano Lane, Mamaroneck. Amount: $770,000.

Filed Jan. 14.

GiLa Development Realty Corp., Pelham. Seller: Charles R. Winkler, Portland, Oregon. Property: 1000 Esplanade, Pelham. Amount: $820,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Cooper Lane LLC, Larchmont.

Seller: Mark Teply, Olympia, Washington. Property: 32 Colonial Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $850,000.

Filed Jan. 13.

H20 Solutions LLC, Ossining.

Seller: Lou Di Loreto Inc., Katonah.

Property: 171 Croton Ave., Ossining.

Amount: $255,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Couts Properties Ltd., New Rochelle. Seller: 18-28 Webster Avenue LLC, New Rochelle. Property: 18 Webster Ave., New Rochelle.

Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Cramm LLC, Eastchester. Seller: Robert Lysaght, Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Property: 15 Park Place, Eastchester. Amount: $750,000. Filed Jan. 17.

E and E Estates LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 141 Linn Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $337,370. Filed Jan. 16.

Eureka3 Home Buyers LLC, Garrison. Seller: Janet DaCosta, Peekskill. Property: 114 Wells St., Peekskill. Amount: $184,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Harrison, Harrison.

Seller: The Presbyterian Church of Harrison, Scarborough. Property: 1409 Shelbourne Ave., Rye. Amount: $100,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Igloo Series III REO LLC, Scottsdale, Arizona. Seller: John M. Perone, Larchmont. Property: 54 Dutch St., Cortlandt. Amount: $309,000.

Filed Jan. 13.

Joe Bellamy Construction Inc., Yorktown Heights. Seller: Howard N. Druschen, Yorktown Heights.

Property: 379 Hallocks Mill Road, Yorktown. Amount: $392,500. Filed Jan. 15.

Morningside Avenue Realty LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: 111 Morningside Corp., Yonkers. Property: 111 Morningside Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $994,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Noam 119 LLC, New City. Seller: 119 Linden LLC, New City. Property: 119 Linden St., Yonkers. Amount: $525,000. Filed Jan. 14.

PL Capital Partners LLC, White Plains. Seller: Kevin Hymes, Armonk. Property: 3 Evergreen Row, North Castle. Amount: $639,000.

Filed Jan. 16.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Massimo DiFabio, Purchase. Property: 21 Fairway, Mount Vernon. Amount: $352,098. Filed Jan. 14.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Lisa M. Bluestein, Scarsdale. Property: 24 Helena Ave., Cortlandt. Amount: $476,031. Filed Jan. 16.

FORECLOSURES ELMSFORD, 37 S. Lawn Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Aldridge Pite, 40 Marcus Drive, Melville. Defendant: Jorge Barriga.

Referee: June Colthirst. Sale: Feb. 5, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $562,258.

THORNWOOD, 103 W. Lake Drive.

Single-family residence; lot size: .25 acres. Plaintiff: Ocwen Loam Servicing LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin LLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury. Defendant: George Irizarry. Referee: Robert Ryan. Sale: Feb. 5, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. MOUNT VERNON, 117 E. Cedar St. Single-family residence; lot size: .15 acres. Plaintiff: US Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Sheldon May & Associates, 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre. Defendant: Colin Brown.

Referee: Michele Bermel. Sale: Jan. 29, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $686,064.

MOUNT VERNON, 195 Langdon Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .15 acres. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Gross Polowy, 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville. Defendant: Charles Miller. Referee: Charles D’Agostino. Sale: Jan. 30, 10 A.m. Approximate lien: $651,699.

NEW ROCHELLE, 185 Pelham Road. Single-family residence: lot size: .08 acres. Plaintiff: Federal National Mortgage Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Kathleen Nienstedt. Referee: Charmaine Miles. Sale: Jan. 29, 10:30 a.m.

PEEKSKILL, 10 Carlton Court. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Homebridge Financial Services. Plaintiff’s attorney: Sheldon May & Associates, 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre. Defendant: Renee Hanna. Referee: Eve Bunting Smith.

Sale: Feb. 6, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $309,908.

Facts & Figures PORT CHESTER, 402 Irving Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .21 acres. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Eba Cardenas. Referee: Andrea DeGaetano. Sale: Jan. 31, 10 a.m.

Approximate lien: $754,924.

SCARSDALE, 1 Winding Lane.

Single-family residence; lot size: .17 acres. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Ethel Holzberg. Referee: Lawrence Thomas Schiro. Sale: Jan. 29, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $827,492.

YONKERS, 15 Huron Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .17 acres. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin LLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury. Defendant: Susan Figueroa. Referee: David A. Gallo.

Sale: Jan. 30, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, 3154 Douglas Drive. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: US Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Eileen Handler. Referee: John Brickman. Sale: Jan. 29, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $655,410.

JUDGMENTS Bethel Home Care Services, Croton-on-Hudson. $24,756 in favor of Leahy Company Inc., Mount Kisco. Filed Jan. 14.

Boleros Lounge Inc., Bronx. $105,245 in favor of BJ’s Bar and Entertainment Corp., New City. Filed Jan. 14.

Captech Inc., North White Plains. $25,801 in favor of North White Prop LLC, New York City. Filed Jan. 13.

Kitchen Chen Inc., Staten Island. $98,412 in favor of Papanicolaou Properties Ltd., Chappaqua. Filed Jan. 17.

N-East Side Contracting Inc., Harrison. $660 in favor of Racanelli Construction Company Inc., Uniondale. Filed Jan. 14.

Orfino’s Restaurant, Briarcliff. $1,143 in favor of Sony Orza Bakery Ltd., New Rochelle. Filed Jan. 17.

PCI Industries Corp., Mount Vernon. $194,990 in favor of Teamsters Local Pension, Elmsford. Filed Jan. 16.

Sublime Food and Beverage Corp., Peekskill. $4,816 in favor of Carey and Walsh Inc., Briarcliff Manor. Filed Jan. 16.

Tommy’s North Avenue Auto Body Inc., New Rochelle. $3,247 in favor of Battiato and Battiato Inc., New Rochelle. Filed Jan. 17.

LIS PENDENS

Schoenfelder, Joey, et al. Filed

by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $750,000 affecting property located at 63 Tripp St., Mount Kisco 10549. Filed May 15.

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

Singer, Richard, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $500,000 affecting property located at 2 Sage Terrace, Scarsdale 10583. Filed May 15.

Bagley, Carol Ann, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $370,400 affecting property located at 71 Longdale Ave., White Plains 10607. Filed May 14.

Solly, Henry, et al. Filed by JA Funding Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $760,000 affecting property located at 316 and 325 E. Third St., Mount Vernon. Filed May 16.

Ballard, Robert Jr., et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $437,750 affecting property located at 15 Greendale Ave., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed May 15.

Mechanic’s Liens

D’Iorio, Thomas, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $239,000 affecting property located at 4 Emerson Court, Katonah 10536.

Filed May 14.

60 West Broad Street Inc., as owner. $25,000 as claimed by Ross Window Corp., Mount Vernon.

Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed Jan. 16.

Northern Westchester Hospital Association, as owner. $20,314 as claimed by American Wood Installers Inc., Commack. Property: in Mount Kisco. Filed Jan. 14.

Giorgi, Robert, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $360,000 affecting property located at 6 Payne Ave., Bedford Hills 10507. Filed May 14.

Westchester Community Opportunity, as owner. $54,098 as claimed by Vitello Sewer Water Main Heating, Bronx. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed Jan. 14.

Hernandez, Juan, et al. Filed by Wilmington Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $608,000 affecting property located at 921 Grant Ave., Pelham 10803.

Filed May 15.

NEW BUSINESSES

Loewenberg, Rania R., et al.

Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1 million affecting property located at 60 Cherry St., Katonah 10536. Filed May 15.

Muldoon, Catherine, as executrix and trustee of the last will and testament of Barbara E. Muldoon, et al. Filed by Keybank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $115,000 affecting property located at 115 Devries Ave., Sleepy Hollow 10591. Filed May 16.

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

Partnerships A and A Quality Painting, 16 Woodcrest Ave., White Plains 10604, c/o Angel D. Florentin and Felix A. Bordon. Filed Sept. 30.

Sole Proprietorships All Town Taxi, P.O. Box 402, Tarrytown 10591, c/o Freddy Arrieta. Filed Sept. 30.

Muldoon, Catherine, as executrix of the estate of Barbara E. Muldoon, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 115 Devries Ave., Sleepy Hollow 10591. Filed May 15.

Arce Digital, 215 Park Ave., Yonkers 10703, c/o Josue Arce. Filed Sept. 27.

Ortiz, Edwin, et al. Filed by Citizens Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $245,471 affecting property located at 2 Springdale Road, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed May 14.

Best Mold Solutions, 554 N. Terrace Ave., Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Omar Gonzalez. Filed Sept. 30.

Azucar Communications, 17 N. First St., Courtlandt Manor 10567, c/o Natacha Ginocchio. Filed Sept.

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Cada, 25 Highland Ave., White Plains 10606, c/o Carmen A. Sanchez. Filed Sept. 27.

Catherine Kline Consulting, 112 Mountain View Road, Cortlandt Manor 10567, c/o Catherine Kline.

Filed Sept. 27.

Communicate Speech Services, P.O. Box 445, Bronxville 10708, c/o Gisella Vanessa Curiouso- Vilchez.

Filed Sept. 30.

Community Concepts Consulting, 11 Villa Drive, Peekskill 10566, c/o Teena Lewis. Filed Sept. 27.

Elby Management, 370 Central Park Ave., 4T, Scarsdale 10583, c/o Larisa Boreiuk. Filed Sept. 27.

Hair When You Need, 354 S. Seventh Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Nikeisha N. Lewis. Filed Sept. 30.

Joshua’s Services, 1600 Spring Valley Road, Ossining 10562, c/o Michael Reyes. Filed Oct. 1.

KP Painting, 923 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 249, Ardsley 10502, c/o Jannette Lugo. Filed Sept. 30.

Lisa J. Schwarz Physical Therapy, 35 Abington Ave., Ardsley10502, c/o Lisa J. Schwarz. Filed Sept. 30.

Marilyn Berisiartua, 20 Welcher Ave., Peekskill 10566, c/o Marilyn S. Berisiartua. Filed Oct. 1.

Mastermind Enterprises, 29 S. 10th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Nabill Ellias. Filed Sept. 30.

Multi-Line Driving Academy, 787 Yonkers Ave., Yonkers 106704, c/o Essam Abdelkhalek. Filed Sept. 27.

River Fresh Detailing, 25 Ehrbar Ave., Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Erin Foster. Filed Sept. 30.

Sladeworks, 195 Warren Ave., Hawthorne 10532, c/o David J. Gifford.

Filed Oct. 1.

Write This, 16 Studio Arcade, Apt. 3B, Bronxville 10708, c/o Eduardo Petersen. Filed Sept. 27.

PATENTS Adding conversation context from detected audio to contact records. Patent no. 10,542,114 issued to Hernan A. Cunico, Holly Springs, North Carolina; Asima Silva, Holden, Massachussetts. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Cable management for enclosures. Patent no. 10,542,631 issued to Eric A. Eckberg, Rochester, Minnesota; Stephen P. Mroz, Rochester, Minnesota; Paul W. Schaefer, Rochester, Minnesota; Sandra J. Shirk/ Heath, Rochester, Minnesota; Christopher L. Tuma, Mantorville, Minnesota. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Cooling structure for electronic boards. Patent no. 10,542,636 issued to Paul F. Bodenweber, Kingston; Kenneth C. Marston, Poughquag; Kamal K. Sikka, Poughkeepsie; Hilton T. Toy, Hopewell Junction; Randall J. Werner, Poughkeepsie; Jeffrey A. Zitz, Poughkeepsie. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Data communication in a clustered data processing environment. Patent no. 10,542,111 issued to David R.H. Kelsey, Waterlooville, England. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Data transfer in a federated publish/subscribe system. Patent no.

10,542,108 issued to Christopher R. Gibson, Hampshire, England; Graham White, Hampshire, England.

Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Enhancing graph visualization with supplemental data. Patent no. 10,542,176 issued to Lukasz G. Cmielowski, Cracow, Poland; Tymoteusz Gedliczka, Cracow, Poland; Kamil Smoron, Krzeszowice, Poland; Andrezej J. Wrobel, Cracow, Poland. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Fan reconfiguration and displacement due to a failed or failing fan. Patent no. 10,542,634 issued to William J. Anderl, Rochester, Minnesota. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Integrating applications with endpoints using dynamic port negotiation. Patent no. 10,542,097 issued to Matu Agarwal, Bangalore, India; Subramanian Krishnan, Mysore, India; Nagarjuna Surabathina, Andhra Pradesh, India. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Listing service registrations through a mobile number. Patent no. 10,542,400 issued to Silpi Dhua, Kolkata, India; Sujoy Sett, Kolkata, India. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Pausing functions of an assistant device during an active telephone call. Patent no.

10,542,480 issued to Lisa Seacat Deluca, Baltimore, Maryland; Jeremy A. Greenberger, San Jose, California. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Plausible obfuscation of user location trajectories. Patent no. 10,542,424 issued to Supriyo Chakraborty, White Plains; Raghu K. Ganti, Elmsford; Mudhakar Srivatsa, White Plains; Omer Tripp, Campbell, California. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

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Printed circuit board with routing of a conductor and dielectric strands. Patent no. 10,542,618 issued to Yanyan Zhang, Austin, Texas; Lloyd Andre Walls, Austin, Texas; Jinwoo Choi, Austin, Texas; Mehdi Mohamed Mechaik, Austin, Texas. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Real-time modifiable text captioning. Patent no. 10,542,323 issued to Philip J. Chou, Poughkeepsie; Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy, Pleasant Valley; Christine D. Mikijanic, Monroe; Conner W. Simmons, Hopewell Junction. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Relationship-centric portals for communication sessions. Patent no. 10,542,055 issued to Michael N. Abernethy Jr, Pflugerville, Texas; Gabriel A. Cohen, San Mateo, California; Ronald E. Craig, Pittsboro, North Carolina; Travis M. Grigsby, Austin, Texas. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Snippet augmentation for videos. Patent no. 10,542,299 issued to Vijay Ekambaram, Chennai, India; Ramasuri Narayanam, Guntur, India; Nitendra Rajput, Gurgaon, India; Yedendra B. Shrinivasan, Yorktown Heights. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Social network content prioritization. Patent no. 10,542,113 issued to Paul R. Bastide, Boxford, Massachusetts; Matthew E. Broomhall, Goffstown, New Hampshire; Robert E. Loredo, North Miami Beach, Florida. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Wire-spring retained heatsink installation and removal tool.

Patent no. 10,542,638 issued to John.

R. Harris, Houston, Texas; Robert G. Stevens IV, Houston, Texas; Bryan P. Teague, Alvin, Texas. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million Deerfield Commons LP, Warwick, as owner. Lender: New York State Housing Finance Agency, New York City. Property: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 Edward Diana Way, Wallkill.

Amount: $27.7 million. Filed Jan. 14.

Deerfield Commons LP, Warwick, as owner. Lender: New York State Housing Finance Agency, New York City. Property: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 Edward Diana Way, Wallkill.

Amount: $20 million. Filed Jan. 14.

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Facts & Figures Below $1 million Build Green Now LLC, Jersey City, New Jersey, as owner. Lender: Patch of Lending LLC, Sherman Oaks, California. Property: 74 Foxhall Ave., Kingston 12401. Amount: $80,000.

Filed Jan. 13.

Cabrera, Victor, New Windsor, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $184,670. Filed Jan. 15.

Carr, John R., et al, as owner.

Lender: Rhinebeck Bank. Property: in Red Hook. Amount: $454,240.

Filed Jan. 14.

Cuddebackville Service Center Inc., Cuddebackville, as owner.

Lender: Catskill Hudson Bank, Kingston. Property: 989 Route 209, Cuddebackville 12729. Amount: $585,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Davenport, Robin, et al, Stone Ridge, as owner. Lender: Rondout Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 9 Kiff Road, Stone Ridge. Amount: $200,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Encarnacion, Starlyn Ogando, Greenwood Lake, as owner. Lender: Homestead Funding Corp., Albany.

Property: 52 W. Jeanibo Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $254,680. Filed Jan. 14.

Ferguson, John, et al, Goshen, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Hamptonburgh. Amount: $533,878.

Filed Jan. 17.

Fox, Brett H., Olivebridge, as owner. Lender: Farm Credit East ACA, Middletown. Property: in Olive.

Amount: $300,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Hickory New LLC, Monsey, as owner. Lender: Lima One Capital LLC, Greenville, South Carolina.

Property: 16 Mandigo Place, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $48,900.

Filed Jan. 14.

Johnson, Jennifer M., et al, as owner. Lender: Primelending. Property: in Pawling. Amount: $293,550.

Filed Jan. 10.

Lanwin Forest Ridge LLC, Hopewell, New Jersey, as owner.

Lender: Manna Dells LLC, Vero Beach, Florida. Property: 35 Copper Rock Road, Newburgh. Amount: $303,750. Filed Jan. 16.

Lanwin Olympia Cornwall LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson, as owner.

Lender: TEG Federal Credit Union, Poughkeepsie. Property: Lot 2 Riley Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Amount: $366,750. Filed Jan. 16.

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Machado, Nelson Jr., Woodridge, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Plattekill. Amount: $305,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Matt Johnston Builders Inc., Montgomery, as owner. Lender: Libertyville Capital Group II LLC, Montgomery. Property: Plains Road, Shawangunk. Amount: $220,000.

Filed Jan. 13.

Moore, Jason, et al, Warwick, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $675,500. Filed Jan. 16.

Sangemino, Daniel A., as owner.

Lender: Mahopac Bank. Property: in Stanford. Amount: $270,750. Filed Jan. 14.

DEEDS Above $1 million Deerfield Commons Housing Development Fund Company Inc., Middletown. Seller: Warwick Properties Inc., Warwick. Property: in Wallkill. Amount: $1.8 million.

Filed Jan. 14.

MDC Coast 21 LLC, San Diego, California. Seller: Cole QC Middletown Main New York LLC, Phoenix, Arizona. Property: in Middletown.

Amount: $9 million. Filed Jan. 17.

Poughkeepsie Hopewell Junction LLC, Toledo, Ohio. Seller: HP New York Dutchess LLC, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Property: 1910 South Road, Poughkeepsie and 1955 Route 52, Hopewell Junction.

Amount: $31.5 million. Filed Jan. 14.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Emily A. Barile, Mahopac.

Property: 2010 Coleman Drive, Garrison 10524. Amount: $3.3 million.

Filed Jan. 16.

ZDM Realty LLC, Stanford, California. Seller: Absolute Property Holdings LLC, Brewster. Property: 214 Sinpatch Road, Wassaic. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Jan. 15.

ZDM Realty LLC, Stanford, California. Seller: Absolute Property Holdings LLC, Brewster. Property: 6 Putnam Ave, Brewster. Amount: $2.3 million. Filed Jan. 17.

Below $1 million 128 Main Street Brewster LLC, Patterson. Seller: Charles D’Agostino, Pleasantville. Property: 128 Main St., Southeast 10509. Amount: $162,000. Filed Jan. 14.

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17 Old Unionville Road Wallkill LLC, Cornwall. Seller: Faye T. Branca, Plattekill. Property: in Plattekill.

Amount: $7,500. Filed Jan. 15.

180 Developers LLC, Ellenville.

Seller: Barbara Kaufman, Mount Vernon. Property: 2 Warren St., Ellenville 12428. Amount: $70,000.

Filed Jan. 14.

181 OSY LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Bragada LLC, Poughquag. Property: 46 Benkard Ave., Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $255,000. Filed Jan. 17.

201810WY-28 LLC, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 11 Sunset Court, Carmel 10512.

Amount: $228,375. Filed Jan. 15.

211 Hudson Place LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: Herman Leonhardes, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Property: in Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Amount: $400,000. Filed Jan. 14.

220 Carpenter Road LLC, Clinton Corners. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 22 S. Cross Road, LaGrangeville 12540. Amount: $194,000. Filed Jan. 13.

56 Main LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: PE Main Street LLC, Poughkeepsie.

Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $425,000. Filed Jan. 9.

62 Marian LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 62 Marian Court, Warwick 10990. Amount: $165,842. Filed Jan. 14.

Acrei LLC, New York City. Seller: Anne Penachio, Harrison. Property: 47 Monhagen Ave., Middletown 10940. Amount: $120,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Adam MK Holdings LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Antar Capital LLC, Poughkeepsie. Property: 188 Smith St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $150,000. Filed Jan. 14.

American International Relocation Solutions LLC, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania. Seller: Maurice Dery, et al, Putnam Valley. Property: 24 N. Meadow Lane, Putnam Valley 10579.

Amount: $610,000. Filed Jan. 16.

B.A.B. Property New York LLC, Highland Mills. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 45 Sherman Drive, Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $127,000. Filed Jan. 14.

BasCa LLC, Ellenville. Seller: Mohi Uddin Khan, Ellenville. Property: 30 Park St., Ellenville. Amount: $52,500. Filed Jan. 14.

Bender Lots LLC, New Hampton.

Seller: Valor Acquisition LLC, New York City. Property: in Minisink.

Amount: $205,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Blue Stream New York Inc., Thompsonville. Seller: Cary G. Rosner, et al, Monroe. Property: 14 Julien Court, Woodbury. Amount: $1,000.

Filed Jan. 16.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Raymond A. Cote, Carmel. Property: 9 Northway, Lake Peekskill 10537. Amount: $203,051.

Filed Jan. 13.

Champion Properties Inc., Hyde Park. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Property: 11 Ash Lane, Hyde Park 12538.

Amount: $92,500. Filed Jan. 14.

DFJ Realty New York Inc., Carmel. Seller: EMTK Realty Corp., Carmel. Property: in Carmel. Amount: $875,000. Filed Jan. 13.

JJKMMS Emergency Response LLC, Marlboro. Seller: Rolando Raya, et al, Cypress, Texas. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $50,000.

Filed Jan. 16.

DLA Associates LLC, Newburgh.

Seller: J. Isaac and Associates LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 43 Beacon St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $180,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Larsen Property Development LLC, North Locust Valley. Seller: Timothy So, Clintondale. Property: 18 West St., Newburgh. Amount: $225,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Dolphin Southern Properties LLC, Bronx. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Property: 236 Mennella Road, Poughquag 12570. Amount: $188,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Lexigabs LLC, Poughkeepsie.

Seller: LVS Enterprises LLC, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $30,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Chess Realty New York Inc., Monroe. Seller: Nicole L. Hanaburgh, Highland Mills. Property: 3 Spruce Drive, Woodbury. Amount: $230,000. Filed Jan. 15.

City Vision National Revitalization LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 39 Colonial Drive, Mahopac 10541. Amount: $210,000.

Filed Jan. 14.

City of Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, as city clerk treasurer of the city of Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $8,917. Filed Jan. 17.

City of Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, as city clerk treasurer of the city of Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $18,874. Filed Jan. 17.

Double R Capital Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Craig M. Wallace, Poughkeepsie. Property: 112 Brannon Place, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Amount: $194,500. Filed Jan. 14.

Dwight D. Johns Inc., Brooklyn.

Seller: Lloyd Sandiford, Beacon.

Property: 54 Liberty St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $149,500. Filed Jan. 15.

City of Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, as city clerk treasurer of the city of Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $5,792. Filed Jan. 17.

Eighteen Homes Realty LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 217 Pine Island Turnpike, Warwick 10990. Amount: $198,000. Filed Jan. 17.

City of Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, as city clerk treasurer of the city of Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $16,687. Filed Jan. 17.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Mark E. Wright, Beacon. Property: 456 Oscawana Lake Road, Putnam Valley 10579.

Amount: $436,892. Filed Jan. 14.

City of Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, as city clerk treasurer of the city of Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $9,234. Filed Jan. 17.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Ronald Sher, White Plains. Property: 19 Friendship Lane, Red Hook 12571. Amount: $409,000. Filed Jan. 10.

City of Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, as city clerk treasurer of the city of Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $16,232. Filed Jan. 17.

Feed and Grain LLC, Warwick.

Seller: Warwick Valley 29 West LLC, Warwick. Property: in Warwick.

Amount: $325,000. Filed Jan. 17.

City of Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, as city clerk treasurer of the city of Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $1,084. Filed Jan. 17.

City of Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, as city clerk treasurer of the city of Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $21,454. Filed Jan. 17.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Nancy J. Schneider, Washingtonville. Property: 22 Victory Lane, Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $213,259. Filed Jan. 15.

Five Oak Realty LLC, Pawling.

Seller: KCEE LLC, Wappingers Falls.

Property: in Pawling. Amount: $227,500. Filed Jan. 10.

Gama Realty Corp., Tuckahoe.

Seller: VRE Carmel LLC, Westlake, Texas. Property: 1819 Route 6, Carmel. Amount: $50,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Hickory New LLC, Monsey. Seller: PennyMac Corp., Moorpark, California. Property: 16 Mandigo Place, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $158,000. Filed Jan. 14.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Donald Cappillino, Pawling. Property: 10 Gary Place, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Amount: $214,000. Filed Jan. 14.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Jay Rosenblatt, Goshen. Property: 272 Arcadia Road, Goshen 10924.

Amount: $316,959. Filed Jan. 14.

LWF LLC, Stamford, Connecticut. Seller: Terri Fusco, Dover Plains. Property: in Dover. Amount: $220,000. Filed Jan. 13.

MJD Contracting Corp., Yorktown Heights. Seller: Elizabeth P. Wang, Poughkeepsie. Property: 18 Partridge Lane, Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $300,000. Filed Jan. 17.

MJT Ventures Inc., Circleville.

Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Property: in Newburgh.

Amount: $76,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Moonriver Properties LLC, Port Jervis. Seller: Ronald Raspa, et al, Goshen. Property: 80 E. Main St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $120,000.

Filed Jan. 14.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Paul S. Ernenwein, Poughkeepsie. Property: 7 Martin Road, Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $194,500. Filed Jan. 15.

NJCC-NYS CRF REO Susidiary LLC, Houston, Texas. Seller: Julie Ann Weinstein, New City. Property: 19 Lancer Drive, Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $160,000. Filed Jan. 15.

PJNY Holdings LLC, Hollis Hills.

Seller: Pearl Lipton, New Hyde Park.

Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $50,500. Filed Jan. 17.

Rackman Realty Corp., Jamaica.

Seller: 503 Broadway Newburgh LLC, Lynbrook. Property: 503 Broadway, Newburgh. Amount: $360,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Retac LLC, Chester. Seller: Patrick Shaughnessy, Chester. Property: in Chester. Amount: $162,300. Filed Jan. 17.

River Valley Homes LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Maria Thomas, Forest Hills. Property: in Newburgh.

Amount: $133,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Facts & Figures SDF Capital LLC, Mamaroneck.

Seller: Garvin C. Wells, et al, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $133,000. Filed Jan. 14.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Robert W. Fink, Goshen. Property: 19 Kensington Way, Middletown 10940.

Amount: $145,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Black Bear Solutions LLC, High Falls. $20,657 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

Highland Mini Market Inc., Highland. $1,034 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

Serenity Realty Inc., Armonk.

Seller: Herbert H. Chaves, New York City. Property: Shindagen Hill Road, Carmel 10541. Amount $7,500. Filed Jan. 14.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Robert McManus, Warwick. Property: 116 Four Corners Road, Warwick 10990.

Amount: $196,832. Filed Jan. 17.

Blue Arrow Too LLC, Pine Island. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Hudson Valley All-Pro Paving Inc., Pine Bush. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

St. Joseph’s Rehabilitation Center Inc., Saranac Lake. Seller: Catharine Street Community Center Inc., Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $191,000.

Filed Jan. 15.

St. Joseph’s Rehabilitation Center Inc., Saranac Lake. Seller: Catharine Street Community Center Inc., Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $459,500. Filed Jan. 15.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Samuel Brooke, Poughkeepsie. Property: 55 Craig Lane, Dover Plains 12522.

Amount: $282,500. Filed Jan. 10.

VAR Properties New York LLC, Brewster. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 7 Xenia Road, Patterson 12563.

Amount: $65,00. Filed Jan. 17.

Wang Yu Inc., Newburgh. Seller: Wayne Sauer, Salt Point. Property: in Salisbury Mills. Amount: $115,000.

Filed Jan. 15.

Staging Hudson Valley LLC, Hopewell Junction. Seller: Wilmington REO LLC, Whitestone. Property: 1 Marshall Drive, Hyde Park.

Amount: $118,500. Filed Jan. 13.

Wassaic Holdings Corp., Yonkers.

Seller: NYC REO LLC. Whitestone.

Property: 134 Old Route 22, Amenia.

Amount: $49,000. Filed Jan. 10.

Stevee Excavation Inc., Wingdale. Seller: Mercurio Mazzotta, et al, Patterson. Property: Sheldon Road, Dover. Amount: $15,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Wanda Negron, White Plains. Property: 33 Mead Ave., Beacon 12508. Amount: $282,500. Filed Jan. 9.

Stormville Mountain I LLC, Holmes. Seller: Samuel P. Brooke, Poughkeepsie. Property: 1065 Route 292, Holmes. Amount: $213,000.

Filed Jan. 15.

Wilmington Trust N.A. Seller: Robert C. Hertman, Middletown.

Property: 1644 Route 300, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $280,000.

Filed Jan. 14.

Strategi Realty Fund LLC, Anaheim, California. Seller: Bruce D. Townsend, Walden. Property: 73 Lake Trail, Greenwood Lake 10925.

Amount: $331,016. Filed Jan. 14.

Wilmington Trust N.A., New York City. Seller: Francis D. Terrell, Peekskill. Property: 302 Driftway Lane, Unit 7-302C, Brewster 10509.

Amount: $254,850. Filed Jan. 16.

Success Realty Group LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: FND Realty Group LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Property: 15 and 17 Overlook Terrace, Walden 12586. Amount: $44,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Sunny Lane NY LLC, Monroe.

Seller: Miriam Porgesz, Monroe.

Property: 18 Sunny Lane, Highland Mills 10930. Amount: $145,000.

Filed Jan. 16.

TEG Federal Credit Union, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Michael D. Kranis, Poughkeepsie. Property: 31 Overlook Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $120,000. Filed Jan. 14.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Alan L. Joseph, Goshen. Property: 122 Cooper St., Monroe 10950. Amount: $245,946. Filed Jan. 15.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Colleen A. McCormack, Fishkill. Property: 2242 New Hackensack Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $547,000.

Filed Jan. 13.

JUDGMENTS A and G Distribution Corp., Middletown. $1,142 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Abdullah’s Transport LLC, Middletown. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

American Concrete Cutting LLC, Cornwall. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Angel’s Renovation Inc., Newburgh. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Avocado Inc., Cornwall-on-Hudson. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Brem Associates Inc., Warwick. $1,066 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Cigar Box Studios Inc., Marlboro. $69,835 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

Closeout Galore Inc., Newburgh. $1,557 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Content Analytics Inc., West Point. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Divraj Inc., Kingston. $535 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

Dollar Chain Corp., Monroe. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Foaminator Spray Foam LLC, Middletown. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Golden Oak Contracting Inc., Pine Bush. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Goshen Laundry Associates LLC, Goshen. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Grant Street Factory Inc., Walden. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Harriman Auto Spa Services Inc., Harriman. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Haverstraw Subway Inc., Chester. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

ID and ATA LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Janeyliz Creationz Inc., Middletown. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Knapp Consultants Inc., Rock Tavern. $2,855 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

KNL Inc., Monroe. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Koja Industries LLC, Pine Island. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

L and C Deli Store, Newburgh. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Latinos American Grill Inc., Monroe. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Lopez Contracting, Walden. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Manhattan Programmers LLC, Warwick. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Meal’N1 Corp., Monroe. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Dec. 26.

MTZ Discount Store Inc., Newburgh. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

No Limit Distributors Inc., Newburgh. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

YF Builders Corp., Monroe. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Out of Warranty Inc., Newburgh. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

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Overlook Farms Inc., Milton. $637 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

Ricas Comidas Inc., Monroe. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Silver Star Farms Inc., Middletown. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Stacey Pools and Landscaping Corp., Highland Mills. $1,090 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Dec. 26.

The Aura Bright Clothing Corp., New Windsor. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Trueway Direct Inc., Monroe. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

TV Con Queso Inc., Newburgh. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Uncle Moe’s Munchies Deli, Newburgh. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Walden Contracting Inc., Newburgh. $1,038 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

Wiltwyck Real Estate LLC, Kingston. $511 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

Ye Olde Warwick Book Shoppe LLC, Warwick. $1,087 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 26.

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

Any unknown heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of the late Margaret P. Shultis, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $37,600 affecting property located at 485 Wilbur Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed Jan. 17.

Argo, Dean, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $206,208 affecting property located at 6443 Route 55, Wingdale 12594.

Filed Jan. 10.

Ashby, Bernardo, et al. Filed

by NewRez LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $160,768 affecting property located at 7705 Chelsea Cove North, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed Jan. 14.

Barba, Maria, et al. Filed by 1900 Capital Trust II. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $308,661 affecting property located at 121 Lake Shore Road, Greenwood Lake 10925. Filed Nov. 15.

Bolton, Henry L., et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $117,160 affecting property located at 8 Bartlett St., Ellenville 12428.

Filed Jan. 16.

Breslin, Cynthia M., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 72 Waterstone Road, Greenwood Lake 10925. Filed Nov. 14.

Brewer, Michelle, as possible heir to the estate of Janice Lifer, et al. Filed by Rondout Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $91,000 affecting property located at 60 S. Manor Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed Jan. 14.

Card, Andrew, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $131,250 affecting property located at 26 Route 97, Port Jervis 12771. Filed Nov. 19.

Carson, Jeremy, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $277,777 affecting property located at 17 Bethel Place, Pine Plains 12567.

Filed Jan. 10.

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Facts & Figures Darby, Anthony, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $336,000 affecting property located at 19 Oak Ridge Road, Middletown 10940.

Filed Nov. 14.

Houghtaling, Darrell, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $246,039 affecting property located at 123 S. Plank Road, Westtown 10998. Filed Nov. 19.

Martz, Lisa Marie, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $175,000 affecting property located at 23 Tor Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Jan. 8.

Verrier, Victor H., et al. Filed by Hudson Valley Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $193,000 affecting property located at 335 E. Kerley Corners Road, Tivoli 12583. Filed Jan. 15.

Defreece, Bryant, et al. Filed

by NewRez LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 6 Virginia Circle, Newburgh 12550. Filed Nov. 14.

Jno-Baptiste, Magdelene, et al.

Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $483,877 affecting property located at 17 Willella Place, Newburgh 12550. Filed Nov. 14.

MB Homes of Newburgh LLC, et al. Filed by Lakeland Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.2 million affecting property located at 698 Highway 1, Warwick 10969. Filed Nov. 15.

Zappolo, Margaret, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 3858 Route 52, Holmes 12531. Filed Jan. 8.

O’Neil, Karen Colette, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 751 Route 284, Westtown 10998. Filed Nov. 15.

Deslandes, Everton J., et al. Filed

by MSM Services Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $45,000 affecting property located at 221 N. Clinton St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Jan. 15.

Duggan, Brian P., et al. Filed

by Sterling National Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 49 Beers Drive, Middletown 10940. Filed Nov. 15.

Fletcher, Peter, et al. Filed by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $442,500 affecting property located at 1 Shinglekill Court, Sparrow Bush 12780.

Filed Nov. 19.

Gagliano, Louis, et al. Filed by Midfirst Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $99,460 affecting property located at 3 Hook Road, Unit 41C, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Jan. 9.

Gillespie, Donna M., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 7 Kings Drive, Wallkill 12589. Filed Nov. 15.

Gizzi, Vincent A., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $115,500 affecting property located at 12 Haight Road, Poughkeepsie.

Filed Jan. 13.

Graham, Peter Case, as guardian ad litem for the respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $60,000 affecting property located at 1 Ida Lane, Ellenville 12428. Filed Jan. 14.

Gregorec, Anna, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $87,547 affecting property located in Newburgh. Filed Nov. 14.

Hopper, Elizabeth, et al. Filed by FMJM RWL II Trust 2013-A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $209,000 affecting property located at 517 Park Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed Nov. 14.

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Joyce, Declan, et al. Filed by Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $166,528 affecting property located at 6 Stephen Drive, Saugerties 12477. Filed Jan. 10.

Koehler, Kenneth, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $289,418 affecting property located at 37 Red Maple Way, New Windsor 12553. Filed Nov. 15.

LaRosa, Stephen, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $277,377 affecting property located at 120 Highland Ave., Maybrook 12543. Filed Nov. 13.

Leighton, Matthew, et al. Filed by USAA Federal Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $141,691 affecting property located at 46 Park Ave., Greenwood Lake 10925. Filed Nov. 13.

Levine, Ben, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 209 Orrs Mill Road, Salisbury Mills 12577.

Filed Nov. 13.

Lombardi, Richard, et al. Filed

by New Residential Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $265,000 affecting property located at 7 Arthur Place, Goshen 10924. Filed Nov. 19.

Mack, William, et al. Filed by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $240,000 affecting property located at 10 Dodge Road, Pawling 12564.

Filed Jan. 8.

Maderia, Christopher J., et al.

Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $414,981 affecting property located at 27 Hawthorne Drive, Monroe 10950. Filed Nov. 15.

Marchmon, Victor G., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $107,092 affecting property located at 132 N. Miller St., Newburgh 12550. Filed Nov. 19.

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Palau, Joseph, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $287,000 affecting property located at 233 Hill Road, Goshen 10924. Filed Nov. 14.

Ras, Jaqueline, as heir to the estate of Margaret A. Lemily, et al.

Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $625,500 affecting property located at 61 Clinton Road, Tuxedo Park 10987. Filed Nov. 15.

Ritchie, Joseph, et al. Filed by Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $113,390 affecting property located at 3 Vodrazka Lane, Hopewell Junction 12533.

Filed Jan. 14.

Rivera, Angel, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $273,946 affecting property located at 19 Mechanic St., Carmel 10512.

Filed Jan. 15.

Three of Style, 37 Maiden Lane, Goshen, c/o Jennifer Kang and Joyce Kang. Filed Jan. 15.

Merchandise Mania, 5 Langton Mews, Middletown 10940, c/o Aaron James Reed. Field Jan. 10.

Sole Proprietorships

Mobile Power Equipment Repair, 9 Revere Cicrle, Washingtonville 10992, c/o Frank Morrison.

Filed Jan. 14.

10 Of A Kind, 18 Mohonk Ave., New Paltz 12561, c/o Tristan McInerney Judd. Filed Jan. 15.

Netmax, 305 Hurley Ave., Kingston 12401, c/o Todd A. Berardi. Filed Jan. 14.

Mechanic’s Liens

114 Service, 76 Brookside Ave., No. 701, Chester, c/o Tomaso A. Tiseo.

Filed Jan. 13.

Bathrick, Constance P., et al, as owner. $108,069 as claimed by Koerner Construction LLC, Red Hook.

Property: 15 Chestnut St., Rhinebeck. Filed Jan. 14.

Nurse Rachels Dose-Tracker, 246 Beattie Road, Washingtonville 10992, c/o Eugenia Moskowitz. Filed Jan. 14.

114 Towing, 76 Brookside Ave., No. 701, Chester, c/o Tomaso A. Tiseo.

Filed Jan. 13.

Liao, Wendy, as owner. $5,000 as claimed by Topnotch Home Enhancements, Hopewell Junction.

Property: 34 E. Van Buren Way, East Fishkill. Filed Jan. 13.

Morey, Jon H., as owner. $13,866 as claimed by Durante Rentals LLC, Flushing. Property: 360 Sinpatch Road, Wassaic. Filed Jan. 14.

Poidomani, Chevy M., et al, as owner. $179,412 as claimed by Excelsior Estate Homes LLC, Ramsey, New Jersey. Property: 150 Sycamore Drive, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Filed Jan. 17.

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

Stewart, Jessica, et al. Filed by NS161 LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $94,500 affecting property located at 18 Ponckhockie St., Kingston 12401. Filed Jan. 16.

Partnerships

Teitelbaum, Hershel, et al. Filed

by NewRez LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $310,500 affecting property located at 11 Pine Hill Road, Monroe 10950.

Filed Nov. 13.

Estes Plumbing and Excavation, 1694 Frost Valley Road, Oliverea 12410, c/o David E. Estes and Abigal M. Estes. Filed Jan. 10.

The public administrator of Orange County as administrator of the estate of Julia Coles, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $232,750 affecting property located at 62 Grove St., Greenwood Lake 10925. Filed Nov. 19.

Tompkins, Micah, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $191,931 affecting property located at 255 Charwill Drive, Clinton Corners 12514. Filed Jan. 9.

A About Time Rides, 215 South St., Marlboro 12542, c/o Dana L. Olsen and Michael L. Olsen. Filed Jan. 13.

Golden Ladle Merchandise, 33 Winding Ridge Lane, Middletown, c/o Jonathan B. Bunagan and Jennifer R. Bunagan. Filed Jan. 10.

JPPCF, 1515 Hawthorn Way, New Windsor, c/o John E. Perez and Paula C. Perez. Filed Jan. 13.

JT Cleaning Service, 11 Booth Road, Chester 10918, c/o Johanny Pozo-Cruz and Tara Ham. Filed Jan. 14.

Loverchio’s Cleaning Services, 21 South St., Marlboro 12542, c/o Diane Rose Loverchio and Victoria L. Loverchio. Filed Jan. 13.

Aprende A Ser Feliz, 130 North St., Middletown 10940, c/o Alejandra Morales Animas. Filed Jan. 15.

AR Anything, 9 Wenmar Drive, Newburgh 12550, c/o Arbri Bengsi.

Filed Jan. 14.

Paul Mones Productions, P.O. Box 488, Bearsville 12409, c/o Paul S. Mones. Filed Jan. 10.

Richard Burrows Trucking, 132 Ford Lea Road, Westtown, c/o Richard Travis Burrows. Filed Jan. 10.

Short Strawman Productions, 76 Old Route 213, High Falls 12440, c/o Michael J. Burke. Filed Jan. 13.

Aunt Deb’s Letter Art Photography, 4 Cynthia Court, Florida 10921, c/o Deborah A. Supenski. Filed Jan. 10.

Sweet Fenton’s, 863 W. Saugerties Woodstock Road, Saugerties 12477, c/o Laura J. McEvoy. Filed Jan. 15.

Beautiful Winks, 45 Birch St., Apt. 2B, Kingston 12401, c/o Sarah E. Yolles. Filed Jan. 15.

Switch It Up, 55 Depew Road, Apt. 4, High Falls 12440, c/o Tyler R. McNamara. Filed Jan. 10.

C and J Builders, 136 W. Pier Pont, Kingston 12401, c/o Joseph J. Candelario. Filed Jan. 10.

The CS Senga House, 1131 Main St., Malden 12453, c/o Jeremy Stanifer.

Filed Jan. 16.

Caribbean Taste, 89 Franklin St., Kingston 12401, c/o Tracy Albert Thomas, Sr. Filed Jan. 13.

The Santini Homestead Farm, 219-229 Mount Zion Road, Marlboro 12542, c/o Steven R. Santini. Filed Jan. 16.

Catskill Home Staging and Design, 49 Plochmann Lane, Woodstock 12498, c/o Laura Alison Warren. Filed Jan. 16.

Clark Computer, 22 Washington Ave., Port Jervis 12771, c/o Scott Clark. Filed Jan. 14.

Concierge Capital, 10 Wilson Place, Cornwall-on-Hudson 12518, c/o Rowland Thomas. Filed Jan. 15.

Deals All Day with Jay Jay, 20 Grant Drive, Monroe 10950, c/o John Jay Read. Filed Jan. 13.

Floor Fixer, 132 Union St., Montgomery 12549, c/o Matteo Bennie.

Filed Jan. 10.

Lakeside Pet Lounge, 573 New York 17M, Monroe, c/o Lia Massimo.

Filed Jan. 10.

Martina Contracting, 55 Brigham St., Kingston 12401, c/o Joshua M. Martino. Filed Jan. 13.

Todd Korn Plumbing, 4 Evergreen Drive, Middletown, c/o Todd Michael Korn. Filed Jan. 10.

Village’s Laundry and Dry Cleaners, 174 Canal St., Ellenville 12428, c/o Mohi U. Khan. Filed Jan. 10.

Worship Catskills, 2440 Route 28, Glenford 12433, c/o Sara Jean Villard. Filed Jan. 10.

YDKATSK, 69 Charlotte Lane, Middletown 10940, c/o Gregory Ruben Colon Jr. Filed Jan. 14.

Facts & Figures BUILDING PERMITS Commercial 84 West Park Place LLC, Stamford, contractor for 84 West Park Place LLC. Perform replacement alterations at 84 W. Park Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $63,250. Filed Aug. 15.

Affordable Tents LLC, Stamford, contractor for the city of Stamford.

Perform a private party at 1040 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed Aug. 19.

BLT Management LLC, Stamford, contractor for Waterfront Office Building LTD. Perform replacement alterations at 62 Southfield Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $112,750.

Filed Aug. 23.

Castro, Carlos O., Stamford, contractor for Nilo Huyhua. Convert attic to bedrooms and bathroom at 35 Woodland Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $110,080. Filed Aug. 19.

City of Stamford, contractor for the city of Stamford. Set up for a private party at 1040 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $1. Filed Aug. 22.

City of Stamford, contractor for the city of Stamford. Set up for a private party at 100 Bridge St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $1,900. Filed Aug. 22.

City of Stamford, contractor for the city of Stamford. Set up for a private party at 1040 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $1,000.

Filed Aug. 23.

Claris Construction Inc., Stamford, contractor for Empire Storage LLC. Construct a storage facility at 11 Leon Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $6,200,000. Filed Aug. 23.

Complete Dismantling Services LLC, Stamford, contractor for Summer Street Property LLC. Demolish commercial building at 733 Summer St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $222,500. Filed Aug. 20.

Items appearing in the Fairfield 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: Larry Miles c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 701 Westchester Ave, Suite 100 J White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3699

Empire Telecom USA LLC, Stamford, contractor for Girls Scout of Connecticut Inc. Install antennas at 69 Guinea Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $25,000. Filed Aug. 16.

The Home Depot USA Inc, Stamford, contractor for Bhullar Roop, et al. Replace a window at 70 Strawberry Hill Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $789. Filed Aug. 19.

MM Home Projects, Stamford, contractor for Margaret Gilman.

Renovate bathroom and install shower at 44 Strawberry Hill Ave., Unit 9C, Stamford. Estimated cost: $5,700. Filed Aug. 26.

Northeast Tent Productions, Stamford, contractor for Stamford Yacht Club. Set up for a private party at 97 Ocean Drive West, Stamford.

Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Aug. 21.

NUCONN Dismantling LLC, Stamford, contractor for 84 West Park Place LLC. Renovate men’s hair salon at 84 W. Park Place, Stamford.

Estimated cost: $234,000. Filed Aug. 19.

Pavarini North East Construction Company LLC, Stamford, contractor for ESRT Metro Center LLC. Perform replacement alterations at 429 Washington Blvd., Stamford.

Estimated cost: $1,161. Filed Aug. 22.

RMS Construction LLC, Stamford, contractor for 1719 LLC. Construct a new commercial building at 17 Diaz St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $1,500,000. Filed Aug. 22.

Stamford Washington Office LLC, Stamford, contractor for Stamford Washington Office LLC. Prepare for installation of freight elevator at 677 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $850,000.

Filed Aug. 21.

Trinity Stamford PSW, Stamford, contractor for Trinity Stamford PSW. Perform replacement alterations at 66 Summer St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $1,240,000. Filed Aug. 22.

Wernert Construction Management LLC, Stamford, contractor for Young Men’s Christian Association of Stamford. Remove and re-roof 10 Bell St., Unit 2, Stamford. Estimated cost: $237,500. Filed Aug. 19.

White, Charles E., et al, Stamford, contractor for Charles E. White. Perform replacement alterations at 101 Lafayette St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Aug. 19.

Residential Charling, James C., Stamford, contractor for James C. Charling. Replace doors at 91 Halpin Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $500. Filed Aug. 23.

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Krieger, Matthew, Stamford, contractor for Matthew Grieger. Set up for a private party at 611 Westover Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $1,733. Filed Aug. 23.

Trileski, Val, et al, Stamford, contractor for Trileski Val, et al. perform maintenance of pool at 31 Maplewood Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $2,500. Filed Aug. 19.

Docimo, Rocco, Stamford, contractor for Rocco Docimo. Replace doors at 44 Liberty Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $4,000. Filed Aug. 21.

Lamonica, Brian, Stamford, contractor for Brian Lamonica. Install a generator at 58 Old Colony Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $6,805.

Filed Aug. 26.

Valiant Builders LLC, Stamford, contractor for Michael Butler. Finish basement at 117 Silver Hill Lane, Stamford. Estimated cost: $54,015.

Filed Aug. 19.

DTF Rosemount LLC, Stamford, contractor for Stephen J. Devoe, Renovate kitchen and laundry at 120 Van Rensselaer Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $90,000. Filed Aug. 22.

Lyons, Phyllis E., Stamford, contractor for Phyllis E. Lyons. Remove in-ground swimming pool at 252 Brookdale Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed Aug. 23.

Villwell Builders I LLC, Stamford, contractor for Rosa Kelly. Remove and re-roof 37 Saint George Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $7,200.

Filed Aug. 20.

Dugan, Kevin C., Stamford, contractor for Timothy Edward Muessle. Install generator and connect propane tank at 202 June Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $16,000.

Filed Aug. 22.

Marr, Richard C., et al, Stamford, Contractor for Richard C. Marr. Convert carport to garage at 291 Thunder Hill Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $10,080. Filed Aug. 15.

Vinylume Inc, Stamford, contractor for Nicolas Alonso Alarcon. Install vinyl siding at 126 Seaside Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $28,125.

Filed Aug. 21.

Max Construction Contractor LLC, Stamford, contractor for Carmen M. Failla. Construct a spa at 151 Wellington Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $112,850. Filed Aug. 23.

Vitikov, Konstantin, Stamford, contractor for Trileski Val, et al. Expand deck at 31 Maplewood Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $9,960.

Filed Aug. 19.

Erner, Barry, Stamford, contractor for Barry Erner. Install hot tub at 15 Red Bird Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $13,500. Filed Aug. 23.

New York Connecticut Solutions LLC, Stamford, contractor for Charles Armistead. Repair structure at 19 Hazel St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $73,428. Filed Aug. 19.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Stamford, contractor for Peter G. D’Onofrio. Install roof-mounted panels at 559 Hope St., Unit B, Stamford. Estimated cost: $9,147. Filed Aug. 15.

G&S Renovations LLC, Stamford, contractor for Jerome E. Alper.

Remodel bathroom, kitchen and change windows at 29 Russet Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $438,960.

Filed Aug. 26.

Pietrzak, Michael J., Stamford, contractor for Selhi Kanwalpreet.

Replace windows, front door and patio doors at 23 Stamford Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $60,000.

Filed Aug. 27.

Walls, Jonathan R., et al, Stamford, contractor for Jonathan R. Walls. Install a hot tub at 79 Butternut Lane, Stamford. Estimated cost: $6,500. Filed Aug. 20.

G&S Renovations LLC, Stamford, contractor for Henry Silverstein.

Remove and install new kitchen cabinets at 129 Dannell Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $68,000. Filed Aug. 26.

Pro Custom Solar LLC, Stamford, contractor for George E. Uzar. Install roof-top solar panels at 106 Frederick St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $16,789. Filed Aug. 16.

Woodside Carpentry LLC, Stamford, contractor for Alexander Rafailov. Add new footings at 9 Fieldstone Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $7,520. Filed Aug. 20.

Pro Custom Solar LLC, Stamford, contractor for George E. Uzar. Install roof-top solar panels at 106 Frederick St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $15,650. Filed Aug. 16.

COURT CASES

Design Builders & Remodeling Inc., Stamford, contractor for Jeffrey A. Blomberg. Renovate kitchen and replace windows at 42 Bartina Lane, Stamford. Estimated cost: $80,000.

Filed Aug. 16.

Duggan, Ian A., Stamford, contractor for Matthew A. Reinhard.

Remove and re-roof 32 Pulaski St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $15,836.

Filed Aug. 21.

The Home Depot USA Inc., Stamford, contractor for RYF Susan Hazlett. Replace windows at 21 Revonah Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $1,242. Filed Aug. 21.

The Home Depot USA Inc., Stamford, contractor for Barbara Paulding. Replace windows at 105 Woodmere Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $17,003. Filed Aug. 21.

Home Exteriors LLC, Stamford, contractor for Michael Cembrola.

Finish roof at 138 Saddle Hill Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $12,900.

Filed Aug. 22.

Przypek, Kevin V., Stamford, contractor for Sean Adrian. Install a new generator at 227 Thornwood Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $6,297.

Filed Aug. 23.

Seitaridis, Harry, et al, Stamford, contractor for Harry Seitaridis.

Remodel single-family home at 1 Cypress Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $240,000. Filed Aug. 20.

Kapusta Jr., Richard E., Stamford, contractor for Richard E. Kapusta Jr. Construct bathroom in garage at 137 Knox Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Aug. 19.

Sky View Builders LLC, Stamford, contractor for Eighth Street LLC. Convert one-family dwelling to a two-family dwelling at 38 Eighth St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $150,000.

Filed Aug. 20.

Knight & Grabowski Construction LLC, Stamford, contractor for Hopkins Eibhlis & Joseph. Perform a demolition of interior sheetrock at 424 Taconic Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Aug. 15.

Stephen Gidley Inc., Stamford, contractor for Doo David Fong Revocable Trust. Replace asphalt shingle roof at 116 Wood Ridge Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $8,750. Filed Aug. 19.

Bridgeport Superior Court Ferreira, Emanuel Jose, Trumbull. Filed by Tatiana Fingeret, Shelton. Plaintiff’s attorney: Green & Gross PC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no.

FBT-CV-19-6091386-S. Filed Nov. 7.

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Darien LLC, et al, Rockville, Maryland. Filed by Sergio A. Castro, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Varrone & Varrone, Trumbull. Action: The plaintiff was an invitee of the defendants. While walking to his car he slipped on ice and fell to the ground suffering severe injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-196091198-S. Filed Nov. 1.

Harris, Carlton, Stratford. Filed

by Jose Diaz, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Miller Rosnick D’Amico August & Butler P., Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate.

Case no. FBT-CV-19-6092222-S. Filed Dec. 6.

Mabe, Sara J., et al, Swanzey, New Hampshire. Filed by Joy Colon, Trumbull. Plaintiff’s attorney: Wofsey Rosen Kweskin & Kuriansky LLP, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-196092142-S. Filed Dec. 3.

Metro-North Commuter Railroad Co., New Haven. Filed by Shanta McKinney, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bloomenthal & Trow LLC, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff exited the train, when suddenly she was caused to slip on ice that had accumulated on the platform causing her to suffer injuries. The fall was caused by the negligence of the defendant for not keeping the premises safe. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBTCV-19-6092317-S. Filed Dec. 10.

Danbury Superior Court Cvijetnovic, Sladjan, et al, Lake Forest, Illinois. Filed by Jay B. Pearce, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Alan Barry Center for Law and Justice LLC, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196034424-S. Filed Nov. 20.

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Facts & Figures Jimenez, Valentina Maria, et al, Danbury. Filed by Lau Kwok, Milford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Law, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196034042-S. Filed Oct. 18.

Route Six Exchange LLC, et al, Danbury. Filed by Marian Schwindeman, Redding. Plaintiff’s attorney: Berchem Moses PC, Westport.

Action: The plaintiff was a business invitee of the defendants when she slipped on ice and suffered severe injuries. The fall was caused by the negligence of the defendants for not keeping the premises safe. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196034548-S. Filed Dec. 2.

Mena, Sofia, New York, New York.

Filed by Marcello Gasparini, Yonkers, New York. Plaintiff’s attorney: Wofsey Rosen Kweskin & Kuriansky LLP, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-196044050-S. Filed Oct. 15.

Shilling, Lynn, et al, Norwalk.

Filed by Salvatore Mattera, Norwalk.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Harris Harris & Schmid, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no.

FST-CV-19-6044433-S. Filed Nov. 12.

Sakelles, Billy, Danbury. Filed by Charlene Malone, Elmsford, New York. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Law, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196034422-S. Filed Nov. 20.

Starbucks Corp., et al, Hartford.

Filed by Don Bari, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Goldman Gruder & Woods LLC, Trumbull. Action: The plaintiff was an invitee of the defendants and was attempting to enter the premises, when he slipped on ice and fell violently to the ground suffering severe injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate.

Case no. FST-CV-19-6044869-S. Filed Dec. 11.

Volpintesta, Emily, Bethel. Filed

by Moya Spaulding, Miami, Florida.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Jacobs & Wallace PLLC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff was a pedestrian and suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196034307-S. Filed Nov. 12.

The Greenwich Library, et al, Greenwich. Filed by Valentina Mislivets, Bristol. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Pickel Law Firm LLC, Stamford.

Action: The plaintiff was an invitee of the defendants and while walking on the upper deck she slipped on ice and suffered severe injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-196044797-S. Filed Dec. 9.

Stamford Superior Court Jahns, David W., et al, New Canaan. Filed by Ambrosio Landscape Solutions LLC, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Zeldes Needle & Cooper, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff provided construction services on the premises of the defendants. In order to secure payment, plaintiff filed a mechanic’s lien. The sum due to the plaintiff remains unpaid and the defendants breached the contract by failing to pay the balance due. The plaintiff claims foreclosure of the lien, possession of the premises, monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate.

Case no. FST-CV-19-6044812-S. Filed Dec. 9.

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DEEDS Commercial 1100 East Putnam Avenue LLC, Bangor, Maine. Seller: Stanley Rand, Darien. Property: 1100 E. Putnam Ave., Riverside. Amount: $1. Filed Sept. 20.

99-103 Mill Street LLC, Carmel, New York. Seller: Morgan Jenkins, Stamford. Property: 103 Mill St., Greenwich. Amount: $920,000.

Filed Sept. 20.

Abasin Ventures LLC, Greenwich.

Seller: TCP Realty LLC, Greenwich.

Property: 72 Havemeyer Place, Greenwich. Amount: $1. Filed Sept.

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Denardo, Diane J., Greenwich.

Seller: 190 Shephill LLC, Old Greenwich. Property: 190 Shephill Road, Riverside. Amount: $1,150,000. Filed Sept. 13.

Fisher, Mark Steven, Greenwich.

Seller: BSR CT LLC, Greenwich.

Property: 167 Byram Shore Road, Greenwich. Amount: $1,950,000.

Filed Sept. 18.

Fleurise, Jean-Jacques Pierre, Bridgeport. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB, Irvine, California. Property: 205 Eckart St., Bridgeport. Amount: $170,000. Filed Aug. 1.

Godlewski, Vitold and Barbara Godlewska, Stamford. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Property: 225 Eden Road Stamford. Amount: $527,100. Filed Aug. 28.

GPFS LLC, Greenwich. Seller: Joseph F. Skowron and Cheryl L. Skowron, Greenwich. Property: 16 Doubling Road, Greenwich. Amount: $10. Filed Sept. 24.

Grant, Carlton and Keron Grant, Bridgeport. Seller: MTGLQ Investors LP. Bridgeport. Property: 609 Evers St., Bridgeport. Amount: $284,001.

Filed Aug. 1.

Graziosi, Anzelmo, Stamford. Seller: 2 Seitz Lane LLC, Cos Cob. Property: 4 Seitz Lane, Cos Cob. Amount: $750,000. Filed Sept. 20.

Horseneck Property LLC, Greenwich. Seller: Marian Kendall Moore, Greenwich. Property: 24 Maher Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $1. Filed Sept.

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Innovative Technologies Leasing LLC, Stamford. Seller: Avex Construction LLC, Stamford. Property: 5 Hillandale Ave., Stamford. Amount: $2,150,000. Filed Aug. 26,

Persaud, Kevin Yogesh and Narinee Persaud, Jamaica, New York.

Seller: 170 Davenport Street LLC, Bridgeport. Property: 170 Davenport St., Bridgeport. Amount: $202,000.

Filed Aug. 1.

Freshwater, Guy and Michele Morck, Stamford. Seller: Kevin M. Segalla and Michele M Segalla, Norwalk. Property: 176 Ocean Drive West, Stamford. Amount: $2,080,000. Filed Aug. 29.

Rock Shore Enterprises LLC, Old Greenwich. Seller: Karen A. Sadik-Khan, Johns Island, South Carolina. Property: 41 Binney Lane, Old Greenwich. Amount: $1. Filed Sept.

13.

Garcia, Keila, Waterbury. Seller: Vidal J. Avila and Mabel Avila, Bridgeport. Property: 856 Pearl Harbor St., Bridgeport. Amount: $164,194. Filed Aug. 1.

Neuray, Patricia and Dario Raciti, Malibu, California. Seller: Paulo Camargo and Renata Duarte, Greenwich. Property: 15 Wycliff Road, Greenwich. Amount: $2,010,000.

Filed Sept. 16.

Gillen, Andrew J., Hartsdale, New York. Seller: Donna Walker, Bridgeport. Property: 274 Indian Field Road, Bridgeport. Amount: $256,250. Filed Aug. 1.

Pennant, Marvin, Bronx, New York. Seller: Tamara Blonzac, et al, Bridgeport. Property: 62 Denver Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $85,000.

Filed Aug. 2.

Hall, Jeremy R. and Elan M. Millhauser, Stamford. Seller: Gregory W. Schulte and Mary Alice Schulte, Greenwich. Property: 28 Revere Road, Greenwich. Amount: $1,335,000. Filed Sept. 13.

Piedrahita, Alexander, et al, Danbury. Seller: Yvonne N. Weiss, Stamford. Property: 51 Loughran Ave., Stamford. Amount: $560,000.

Filed Aug. 30.

Trevisani, Dino A., Old Greenwich. Seller: 10 West Crossway LLC, Old Greenwich. Property: 10 West Crossway, Old Greenwich. Amount: $10. Filed Sept. 16.

Wolf Teton LLC, Greenwich. Seller: CS LIM LLC, New York, New York.

Property: Parcel E, Lake Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $97, 200. Filed Sept.

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Residential Alger, Jaime Lynn, Stamford. Seller: Kristen Cuddy, Stamford. Property: 174 Pepper Ridge Road, Stamford.

Amount: $655,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Berman, Harvey E. and Lynn L. Berman, Stamford. Seller: Wilgem Villavicencio and Catherine Villavicencio, Stamford. Property: 0 Dann Drive, Stamford. Amount: $534,950.

Filed Aug. 30.

Berman, Nina and Ronald Berman, Stamford. Seller: Eric S. Lepore, Stamford. Property: 154 Pepper Ridge Road, Unit 13, Stamford.

Amount: $735,000. Filed Aug. 29.

Brown, Daniel V. and Paula A. Brown, Stamford. Seller: Michael LaMagna and Nina Marie LaMagna, Stamford. Property: 20 Mountain Trail, Stamford. Amount: $674,000.

Filed Aug. 29.

Jacobs, Michelle L., Brooklyn, New York. Seller: Bridgeport Property Enterprises LLC, Redding. Property: 592 Laurel Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $267,800. Filed Aug. 1.

Carrasco, Lasnier and Labidania Manzueta, Port Chester, New York.

Seller: Jonathan Shapiro, Middletown. Property: 14 Dale Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $665,000. Filed Sept.

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Kenneth G. Kolok Revocable Trust, Greenwich. Seller: Kenneth G. Kolok, Greenwich. Property: 79 View Street West, Greenwich.

Amount: $1. Filed Sept. 17.

Coppola, Adam, Stamford. Seller: Edward B. Lynn and Siri E. Lynn, Stamford. Property: 385 Woodbine Road, Stamford. Amount: $460,000.

Filed Aug. 29.

Mayer, Kevin A. and Lisa A. Mayer, Beverly Hills, California. Seller: 146 East Elm Street LLC, Yonkers, New York. Property: 146 E. Elm St., Greenwich. Amount: $2,450,000.

Filed Sept. 18.

Cruz, Stalin, New York, New York. Seller: Fernando A. Bernardo, Bridgeport. Property: 1348 Sylvan Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $209,000.

Filed Aug. 2.

Meyers, George A. and Alida E. Meyers, Greenwich. Seller: Felitia Opuszynski Lee Revocable Living Trust, Greenwich. Property: 21 Summit Road, Riverside. Amount: $1,550,000. Filed Sept. 17.

Docimo, Salvatore and Marisa Docimo, Stamford. Seller: Shirley Beauleau, Wilton. Property: 2437 Bedford St., Unit 21-2, Stamford.

Amount: $285,000. Filed Aug. 29.

Haney, Kim and Brendan Haney, Old Greenwich. Seller: Bruce George McAra, Old Greenwich. Property: 12 Hendrie Drive, Old Greenwich.

Amount: $1,450,000. Filed Sept. 18.

Keating, Daniel and Amy Pannesco, Stamford. Seller: Daniel B. Simpson and Jennifer Ann Cippola, Stamford. Property: 169 Knox Road, Stamford. Amount: $570,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Kwon, Patrick H., Quincy, Massachusetts. Seller: Eligio Alexis Hernandez, Cocoa, Florida. Property: Unit 3, Linden Terrace Condominium, Stamford. Amount: $269,000.

Filed Aug. 29.

Llivicota Paguay, Maria Juana, Bridgeport. Seller: Betty Pharr and Sandra Peck, Bridgeport. Property: Maple St., Bridgeport. Amount: $175,000. Filed Aug. 1.

Lucherini, Richard F. and Brittney Woitowitz, Stamford. Seller: Mallikarjuna R. Goli and Sunitha Goli, Stamford. Property: 17 Sherwood Road, Stamford. Amount: $582,500. Filed Aug. 30.

Martinez, Joshua and Zaina Rodriguez, Bridgeport. Seller: Ana Paula Novais- Goncalves. Bridgeport. Property: 1492 North Ave., Unit 112, Bridgeport. Amount: $145,000.

Filed Aug. 2.

McCarthy, William J. and Cathy M. McCarthy, Stamford. Seller: Kevin Lillis and Janna Lillis, Stamford. Property: 12 Larkspur Road, Stamford. Amount: $805,000. Filed Aug. 27, Mohan, Vaibhav, New York, New York. Seller: Matthew H. Etkind and Laura A. Etkind, Stamford. Property: 85 Camp Ave., Unit 10E, Stamford.

Amount: $432,500. Filed Aug. 29.

Moore, Stephanie D., Fairfield.

Seller: Cheryl Dunn, Bridgeport.

Property: 3300 Park Ave., Unit 8.

Bridgeport. Amount: $246,000.

Filed Aug. 2.

Rabelo, Guilherme, Bridgeport.

Seller: Marie N. Kabongo, Milford.

Property: 60 Golden Rod Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $200,000.

Filed Aug. 1.

Remesic, Paul John, Greenwich.

Seller: Philip Espinosa and Lauren Capizzi Espinosa, Riverside. Property: 37 Sheephill Road, Unit 16, Riverside. Amount: $651,250. Filed Sept. 16.

Romero, Jefferson, Port Chester, New York. Seller: Rong Zheng, Bayside, New York. Property: Unit 1023C, Woodside Green Condominium, Stamford. Amount: $186,000. Filed Aug. 29.

Salvatore, Jr. Antonio, Norwalk.

Seller: Joann DeLuca, Stamford.

Property: 284 Loveland Road, Stamford. Amount: $400,000. Filed Aug. 27.

Scherban, David S. and Rachel L. Scherban, Mamaroneck, New York. Seller: Christopher J. Baker and Karen A. Baker, Stamford. Property: 124 Russet Road, Stamford. Amount: $660,000. Filed Aug. 29.

Silva, Samuel F., Norwalk. Seller: Barbara Basney, Stamford. Property: 309 Wildwood Road, Stamford.

Amount: $670,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Skowron, Joseph F. and Cheryl L. Skowron, Greenwich. Seller: Maxine F. Blesenbach and James H Evans, Old Greenwich. Property: 21 Binney Lane, Old Greenwich.

Amount: $4,200,000. Filed Sept. 24.

Smyth, Christopher and Elizabeth K. Smyth, Stamford. Seller: Guy Freshwater and Michele Morck, Stamford. Property: Lot A, Map13813, Stamford. Amount: $1,350,000. Filed Aug. 29 Sorese, Denise, Riverside. Seller: Denise R. Sorese, Greenwich. Property: 47 Crawford Terrace, Riverside.

Amount: $1. Filed Sept. 17.

Facts & Figures Sosnow, Peter and Elizabeth Sosnow, Darien. Seller: Graciette M. Austin, Trumbull. Property: 26 Taylor St., Stamford. Amount: $690,000.

Filed Aug. 28.

Otero, Samuel, et al. Creditor: Federal National Mortgage Association, Greenville, South Carolina. Property: 1071 Kossuth St., Bridgeport.

Mortgage default. Filed Dec 24.

Thomas, Todd D. and Christina C. Jessurun, Stamford. Seller: Nicole Carpenter, Stamford. Property: Lot 6, Map 12280. Stamford. Amount: $975,000. Filed Aug. 26.

Prakash Jr., Harry, et al. Creditor: The Bank of New York Mellon, Anaheim, California. Property: 26 Overland Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Dec 18.

Tromba, Gloria P., Stamford.

Seller: Gloria Tromba, Stamford.

Property: 49 Ogden Road, Stamford.

Amount: $1. Filed Aug. 30.

Rojas, Cecilia M. Creditor: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 21 Jones Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 2.

Ward, Barbara A., Stamford.

Seller: Herbert M. Briggs and Mary H. Bonnette, Stamford. Property: 59 Dolphin Cove Quay, Stamford.

Amount: $1,325,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Salas, Jose, et al. Creditor: US Bank Trust NA, San Diego, California.

Property: 162 Sheridan St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Dec 18.

Wen, Shirley and Haocai Wen, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Seller: Susan V. Arturi, Greenwich. Property: 33 Woodside Drive, Greenwich.

Amount: $1. Filed Sept. 23.

Williams, Terence, et al. Creditor: HSBC Bank USA NA, Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Property: 122 Polk St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Dec 18.

Yang, Hyuk Jae and Ji Hye Han Yang, Brooklyn, New York. Seller: Rodolfo Castilla, Montevideo, Uruguay. Property: 10 Ridge Road, Cos Cob. Amount: $920,000. Filed Sept.

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Zusy, Mark L. and Amy J. Zusy, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Seller: Charles A. Chimera, New Canaan.

Property: 20 Church St., Greenwich.

Amount: $750,000. Filed Sept. 17.

FORECLOSURES Gant, Bianca, et al. Creditor: Trustee for the Registered Holders.

Property: 60 Hudson St., Bridgeport.

Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 7.

Gilford, Marlene D., et al. Creditor: US Bank Trust NA, San Diego, California. Property: 138 Suburban Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default.

Filed Jan. 7.

Mathews, Raymond, et al. Creditor: Benchmark Municipal Tax Services LTD, Bridgeport. Property: 122 Park Terrace, Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 6.

Ortiz, Jesus, et al. Creditor: Benchmark Municipal Tax Services LTD, Bridgeport. Property: 397 Dover St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Dec. 26.

Ortiz, Jesus, et al. Creditor: Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Greenville, South Carolina. Property: 138 Burroughs, Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 9.

Otero, Isabel, et al. Creditor: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Anaheim, California. Property: 1087 Kossuth St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Dec. 30.

JUDGMENTS Burrus, Terrance, Bridgeport. $817, in favor of Naugatuck Valley Radiology Associates PC, Southbury, by the Law Offices of Philip H. Monagan, Waterbury. Property: 375 Remington St., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 18.

Campos, Jr. Gonzalo, Bridgeport. $101, in favor of AG Investment LLC, Trumbull, by John R. Bryk, Bridgeport. Property: 404 Wells St., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 26.

Collazo, Wesley, Bridgeport. $4,977, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by London & London, Newington. Property: 516 Indian Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 18.

Dieudele, Dossous, Bridgeport. $4,804, in favor of Capital One Bank (USA) NA, Richmond, Virginia, by London & London, Newington.

Property: 2612 North Ave., Unit E18, Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 18.

Floy, Christopher M., Bridgeport. $7,830, in favor of Capital One Bank (USA) NA, Richmond, Virginia, by London & London, Newington.

Property: 58 Lakeview Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 18.

Gayle, Henry, Bridgeport. $1,720, in favor of The United Illuminating Company, New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 46 Pacific St., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 30.

Gibbs, Danville, Bridgeport. $3,113, in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by Schreiber Law LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 119 Ashton St., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 30.

G-Lap LLC, Bridgeport. $12,263, in favor of American Express National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah, by Mark Sank & Associates LLC, Stamford.

Property: 1071 William St., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 30.

Gonzalez, Monique, Bridgeport. $812, in favor of LVNV Funding LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada, by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 964 Hancock Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 30.

Leung, Yvonne H., Bridgeport. $6,806, in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Schreiber Law LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 200 Court D., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 30.

McDonald, Clasate, Bridgeport. $4,449, in favor of Capital One Bank (USA) NA, Richmond, Virginia, by London & London, Newington.

Property: 106 Steuben St., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 18.

McLeod, Barbara, Bridgeport. $1,511, in favor of The United Illuminating Company, New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 83 Laurel Place, Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 30.

Melendez, Doris I., Bridgeport. $2,718, in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Schreiber Law LLC, Salem, New Hampshire.

Property: 500 N. Summerfield Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 30.

Montalvo, Johelia, Bridgeport. $5,101, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by London & London, Newington. Property: 306 Red Oak Road, Bridgeport.

Filed Dec. 18.

Mulgrave, Kevin R., Bridgeport. $4,334, in favor of Bank of America NA, Charlotte, North Carolina, by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 77 Hillcrest Road, Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 18.

Rolles, Andreus, Bridgeport. $4,275, in favor of Capital One Bank (USA) NA, Richmond, Virginia, by London & London, Newington.

Property: 193 Beechwood Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 18.

Smalls, Jacqueline, Bridgeport. $864, in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, Norfolk, Virginia, by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 34 Woodmont Ave., Bridgeport.

Filed Dec. 30.

Steer, Richard A., Bridgeport. $4,609, in favor of Capital One Bank (USA) NA, Richmond, Virginia, by London & London, Newington.

Property: 466 Savoy St., Bridgeport.

Filed Dec. 18.

Young, Yvonne, Bridgeport. $4,931, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by London & London, Newington. Property: 348 Wilmot Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Dec. 18.

LIENS

Miller, Eric, 13 Robins Square South, Norwalk. $5,073, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Federal Tax Liens Filed

Morrell, Glen A., 20 Wayfaring Road, Norwalk. $15,123, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Alvarado, Jorge, P.O. Box 2071, Norwalk. $79,212, civil proceeding tax.

Filed Nov. 5.

Morris, John A., 1 E Beach Drive, Norwalk. $20,251, civil proceeding tax. Filed Oct. 28.

Bianchi, Edward K., 2 Meadow St., Norwalk. $3,428, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Neil-Hinds, Olga, 100 San Vincenzo Place, Unit 41, Norwalk. $17,378, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Creegan, Colleen E., 77 W. Rocks Road, Norwalk. $54,716, civil proceeding tax. Filed Oct. 28.

Dailey, Mark and Patricia L. Dailey, 9 Morehouse Lane, Norwalk. $13,125, civil proceeding tax. Filed Oct. 28.

Dailey, Mark, 9 Morehouse Lane, Norwalk. $121,380, civil proceeding tax. Filed Oct. 28.

Gabriel Tenore Contractor LLC, 133 Picketts Ridge Road, Norwalk. $7,795, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Gatt, Peter C. and Meghan M. Gatt, 26 Thomas St., Norwalk. $6,849, civil proceeding tax. Filed Oct. 28.

Janosov, Devin W., 130 Main St., Unit C3, Norwalk. $115,312, civil proceeding tax. Filed Oct. 28.

Kelly, Alan J., and Karyn Kelly, 901 Main Ave., Norwalk. $26,281, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Pascarelli, John and Lesley Celentano, 11 Marc St., Norwalk. $21,669, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Pelle-Simms, Maria C., 30 Glasser St., Norwalk. $401, civil proceeding tax. Filed Oct. 28.

Philips, Lynne M., 8 Nolan Cottage, Norwalk. $1,562, civil proceeding tax. Filed Oct. 31.

Prophet, Andrew, 42 Lincoln Ave., Norwalk. $72,379, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Toro, Clara, 49 Wilton Ave., Norwalk. $10,148, civil proceeding tax.

Filed Nov. 5.

Wells, Kyle R., 26 Belden Ave., Unit 2207, Norwalk. $44,976, civil proceeding tax. Filed Oct. 28.

Wilson, Kim, 90 Murray St., Norwalk. $12,259, civil proceeding tax.

Filed Nov. 5.

Mechanic’s Liens

Bell Jr., Samuel F., et al, Fairfield.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank NA. Property: 497 Westport Turnpike, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Nov. 22.

Briggs, Lucius G., et al, Fairfield.

Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank NA. Property: 94 Bailey Road, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Nov. 22.

Debrosse, Delpilar, et al, Fairfield. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Mill City Mortgage Loan Trust 2018-4. Property: 26 Reynolds Drive, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed Nov. 8.

Flynn, Eileen A., et al, Fairfield.

Filed by Korde & Associates PC, New London, for New Residential Mortgage LLC. Property: Unit B-1, Ridgewood Condominium, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Nov. 8.

Forte, Frank V., et al, Fairfield.

Filed by Glass & Braus LLC, Fairfield, for Select Portfolio Servicing Inc. Property: 184 Sigwin Drive, Fairfield.

Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Oct. 1.

Fritz, Nancye, et al, Fairfield. Filed

by Alan R. Spirer, Westport, for John Q. Adams. Property: Unit 100 Sunny Ridge Condominium, Fairfield.

Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Nov. 12.

Gimand, Morten, et al, Fairfield.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for M&T Bank.

Property: 1677 Bronson Road, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Oct. 31.

53 Edgewater Drive LLC, Old Greenwich. Filed by Sunstone Construction Services LLC, by Marc C. Paradis. Property: 53 Edgewater Drive, Old Greenwich. Amount: $7,445. Filed Oct. 16.

Golding, John J., et al, Fairfield.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Property: 531 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield.

Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Oct. 4.

Fletcher Development LLC, et al, Norwalk. Filed by Westport Glass Company Inc., by Dennis Grimaldi. Property: 98 Glenwood Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $45,401. Filed Sept. 30.

Howe, Lisa M., et al, Fairfield. Filed

by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Property: 86 French St., Fairfield.

Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Nov. 1.

Machette, Marc and W. Sawyer Machette, 22 Flicker Lane, Norwalk. $10,207, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Task Capital Milbank LLC, Greenwich. Filed by Stamford Forge LLC, by Christopher Salvatore. Property: 141 Milbank Ave., Greenwich.

Amount: $30,382. Filed Sept. 13.

Melchor, Oscar and Delfina Vallinas, 8 Godfrey St., Norwalk. $37,889, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Kelb, Janice, et al, Fairfield. Filed

by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association. Property: 146 Nichols Ave. Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed Oct. 2.

LIS PENDENS

Kenez, Robert E., 9 Peter St., Norwalk. $32,611, civil proceeding tax.

Filed Nov. 5.

Kunkel, Robert N. and Marilyn Kunkel, 4 Norman Ave., Norwalk. $20,030, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Licursi, Robert and Mary Ellen Malavet, 199 Gregory Blvd., Unit F8, Norwalk. $11,401, civil proceeding tax. Filed Nov. 5.

Merriman, K.N. and L. Cooper-Merriman, 8 Senga Road, Norwalk. $12,620, civil proceeding tax.

Filed Oct. 28.

215 Paddock Hill Lane 29 LLC, Fairfield. Filed by Schnitzler Law LLC, Fairfield, for Angel X Investments LLC. Property: 215 Paddock Hill Lane, Unit 29, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage.

Filed Nov. 13.

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Luther, Anthony E., et al, Fairfield.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Property: 65 Sterling St., Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Oct. 9.

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Facts & Figures Michno, Frank A., et al, Fairfield.

Filed by Bershtein, Volpe & McKeon PC, New Haven, for Richard G. Parker and Carrie E. Parker. Property: 233 Samp Mortar Drive, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed Oct. 7.

Seymour, Kristen, Fairfield. Filed

by Marinosci Law Group PC, Warwick, Rhode Island, for US Bank National Association. Property: 76 Arbor Terrace, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage.

Filed Nov. 15.

Blohm, Alena and Bryce Thompson, Norwalk, by Jeffrey W. Tuccio.

Lender: City National Bank, 350 S. Grand Ave., 5th Floor, Los Angeles, California. Property: 384 Flax Hill Road, Norwalk. Amount: $550,875.

Filed Aug. 5.

McCormick, James Matthew and Eileen McCormick, Fairfield, by Felicia B. Watson. Lender: KeyBank National Association, 127 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio. Property: 60 Sasco River Lane, Southport.

Amount: $1,015,404. Filed Aug. 1.

Orth, Paige M., Fairfield. Filed

by Graverobbers LLC, Stamford, for Geoffrey E. Orth. Property: 259 Jeniford Road, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed Oct. 24.

Shay, Tara L., et al, Fairfield. Filed

by Milford Law LLC, Milford, for Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Property: 229 Alberta St., Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed Nov. 25.

Chavez, Carlos A., Fairfield, by Vanessa Molla Kuduk. Lender: Members Credit Union, 126 E. Putnam Ave., Cos Cob. Property: 73 Division Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $30,000.

Filed Aug. 1.

Minieri, Brett and Molly Glover, Norwalk, by Pamela Papzidis.

Lender: Warshaw Capital LLC, 2777 Summer St., Suite 306, Stamford.

Property: 11 Norman Ave., Norwalk.

Amount: $479750. Filed Aug. 5.

Owen Associates LLC, et al, Fairfield. Filed by Zeldes, Needle & Cooper PC, Bridgeport, for Malon Construction LLC. Property: Lot 70, Fair Acres, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Nov. 20.

Sprague, Dena, et al, Fairfield.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank NA. Property: 123 Pease Ave., Southport. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Oct. 22.

Defala, Steven P. and Sharon T. Defala, Norwalk, by Richard L. Mintz. Lender: Citizens Bank NA, 1 Citizens Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island. Property: 101 Sunrise Hill Road, Norwalk. Amount: $280,000.

Filed Aug. 5.

Morin, Lisa P. and Danny C. Morin, Norwalk, by John J. Bove.

Lender: HomeServices Lending LLC, 2700 Westown Pkwy., Suite345, West Des Moines, Iowa. Property: 126 W. Rocks Road, Norwalk.

Amount: $380,000. Filed Aug. 5.

LEASES

Duffy, Elyse, Norwalk, by Sharon M. Jones. Lender: HSBC Bank USA NA, 452 Fifth Ave., New York, New York. Property: 15 Perry Ave., Unit A1, Norwalk. Amount: $145,000. Filed Aug. 5.

Palumberi, Michael and Jennifer Skinner, Fairfield, by Steven C. Antragnani. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank NA, 101 N. Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls, South Carolina. Property: 249 Pell Meadow Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $650,000. Filed July 31.

Palmieri, Angelo, Fairfield. Filed

by Sullivan & Laliberte LLC, Milford, for Rosa Palmieri. Property: 93 Millspaugh Drive, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed Oct. 10.

Platow, David and Tyler Platow, Fairfield. Filed by Glass & Braus LLC, Fairfield, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 42 Brookview Ave., Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Sept. 27.

Reid, Daniel G., et al, Fairfield.

Filed by Korde & Associates PC, New London, for Newrez LLC. Property: 2246 N. Benson Road, Fairfield.

Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Nov. 26.

Salamon, Margaret A., et al, Fairfield. Filed by Harlow, Adams & Friedman PC, Milford, for General Electric Employees Federal Credit Union. Property: 46 Harris St., Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Oct. 10.

Purisic, Nadzija, by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc, Bridgeport. property: 100 Court D, Building 92, Apartment 22, Bridgeport. Term: 35 years, commenced Dec. 23, 2019. Filed Jan. 6.

Quashie, Selby and Eslyn Titus,

by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: 100 Court D, Building 77, Apartment 23, Bridgeport. Term: 35 years, commenced Nov. 27, 2019.

Filed Dec. 19.

MORTGAGES Binderberger, Sarah M. Fairfield,

by Felicia B. Watson. Lender: Loandepot.com LLC, 26642Towne Centre Drive, Foothill Ranch, California.

Property: 76 Jeniford Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $436,000. Filed Aug. 1.

Scopelliti, Geraldine, et al, Fairfield. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for HSBC Bank USA National Association. Property: 135 Alden St., Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Oct. 25.

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Show Bizz Clean, 36 Fairfield Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Donald L. Flamer. Filed Oct. 10.

MJD Visuals, 71 Aiken St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Matthew DeCola. Filed Oct. 30.

Silvermine BOG, 95 N. Seir Hill Road, Norwalk 06850, c/o Club Silvermine, Filed Dec. 4.

NKS Elite Transportation, 26 Ferris Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Kamal M. Shah. Filed Dec. 9.

Skull & Combs Company LLC, 100 N. Water St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Jason Bunce. Filed Nov. 25.

Ochoa Cleaning Services LLC, 28 Morton St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Luis Ochoa Mejia. Filed Oct. 18.

Sothow Publishing, 4 Daskams Lane, Norwalk 06851, c/o Andre Kononenko. Filed Dec. 12.

OKSA, 21 Spring Hill Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o Oksana Murafa. Filed Dec. 20.

PATENTS

One Lane One Vision (OLOV) Entertainment, 24 Taylor Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Ishwa Entzminger.

Filed Dec. 4.

Holtz, Kevin W. and Jennifer A. Holtz. Fairfield, by Joann T. Sterling.

Lender: Fairfield County Bank, 150 Danbury Road, Ridgefield. Property: 72 Rita Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $200,000. Filed Aug. 1.

Theodoridis, John, Norwalk, by Dana Eric Friedman. Lender: First County Bank, 117 Prospect St., Stamford. Property: 14 Howard Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $330,000. Filed Aug. 5.

Loffredo, John J. and Laura Loffredo, Fairfield, by Lori M. Orus.

Lender: Primelending a Plains Capital Company, 18111 Preston Road, Suite 900, Dallas, Texas. Property: 215 Horseshoe Lane, Fairfield.

Amount: $625,000. Filed Aug. 1.

Toropov, Igor and Anna Toropova, Fairfield, by Francis A. Caldwell.

Lender: American Neighborhood Mortgage Acceptance Company LLC, 700 E. Gate Drive, Suite 400, Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Property: 84 Edison Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $155,000. Filed Aug. 1.

Pounds Company, 21 Camp St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Johnny L. Pounds. Filed Oct. 23.

Valenzano, Michael H., Norwalk,

by Azim Cherney. Lender: Quicken Loans Inc., 1050 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Property: 76 Rowayton Woods Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $315,000. Filed Aug. 5.

Punn Stuff, 364 Highland Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Geoffrey Knapp.

Filed Nov. 19.

McCawley, Matthew and Caitlin McCawley, Fairfield, by Justin L. Galletti. Lender: Bank of America NA, 101 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 497 Davis Road, Fairfield. Amount: $600,000. Filed Aug. 1.

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Meredith Court Commons, 6 Meredith Court, Norwalk 06854, c/o Lela Tsitsishuili. Filed Oct. 18.

Stukes, Barbara A., Norwalk, by Antonio Faretta. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 1111 Polaris Pkwy., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 61 Spring Hill Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $30,000. Filed Aug. 5.

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Shadow Media, 47 Ivy Place, Norwalk 06854, c/o Dayvon Derrice Smith. Filed Dec. 10.

Filsinger, George and Lois M. Johnston. Norwalk, by Lindsey Edouard. Lender: Bank of America NA, 100 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 50 Aiken St., Unit 472, Norwalk. Amount: $50,000. Filed Aug. 5.

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Melillo Maintenance, 855 Main St., Bridgeport 06604, c/o Affineco LLC. Filed Oct. 28.

NEW BUSINESSES Kerb Home Care Services LLC, 65 Cedar St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Marie Tarline Cayau. Filed Oct. 3.

La Fuente Family Restaurant & Tikal Bakery LLC, 280 Connecticut Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Aparicio Martinez. Filed Dec. 18.

Magic Nail Salon of Norwalk, 10 Main St., Norwalk 06851, c/o T-P LLC. Filed Oct. 30.

Magic Nail Salon of Norwalk, 10 Main St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Khanh Du Dile. Filed Oct. 30.

Orjim Painting Services LLC, 12 Burwell St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Orlando Cabalero. Filed Oct. 2.

Palmer’s Electric Motors & Pumps Inc., 40 Osborne Ave., Norwalk 06855, c/o Mike Peterson. Filed Dec.12.

Pandora, 100 N. Water St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Michaels Inc. Filed Dec. 20.

Premier Maintenance, 855 Main St., Bridgeport 06604, c/o Affineco LLC. Filed Oct. 28.

Pure by Shasha, 26 Belden Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o Frantz Cadet.

Filed Nov. 17.

R & S General Auto Repairs LLC, 20 School St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Santos Garcia. Filed Dec. 13.

Ray’s Painting and Drywall, 20 Grove St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Ramon Rosales. Filed Dec. 11.

Red Hook Seafood Boil & Bar, 19 N. Water St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Seafood & Bar Inc. Filed Dec. 5.

Seventh Sense Botanical Therapy, 100 N. Water St., Norwalk 06854, c/o GGB Beauty LLC. Filed Oct. 21.

Creation of variable cut files for package design. Patent no.

10,540,453 issued to Reiner Eschbach, Webster; Stephen C. Morgana, Rochester. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk.

Ground fault circuit interrupter using frequency recognition and measurement. Patent no.

10,541,526 issued to Thomas James Batko, Wallingford; Joseph Michael Meady, Stratford. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Machine reading method for dialog state tracking. Patent no.

10,540,967 issued to Julien Perez, Grenoble, France. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk.

Nonbisphenol-A emulsion aggregation toner and process. Patent no. 10,539,896 issued to Kimberly D. Nosella, Mississauga, Canada; Guerino G. Sacripante, Oakville, Canada; Edward G. Zwartz, Mississauga, Canada; Michael Steven Hawkins, Cambridge, Canada. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk.

Predictive sea state mapping for ship motion control. Patent no. 10,538,299 issued to John D. Venables, Monroe; Christopher M. Pappas, Saint Leonard, Maryland; Benton H. Schaub Jr., Gambrills, Maryland. Assigned to Naiad Maritime Group Inc., Shelton.

System and method for image specific illumination of image printed on optical waveguide. Patent no. 10,539,732 issued to David C. Craig, Pittsford; ChuHeng Liu, Penfield. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk.

Vapor deposition and recovery systems for ink-based digital printing. Patent no. 10,538,076 issued to Francisco Zirilli, Penfield.

Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk.

LEGAL NOTICES Master Media Advisors LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/25/2019.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 58 Holly Pl., Larchmont, NY 10538. General Purpose. #62431 Martino Properties, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/23/2010.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 21 Virginia Ln., Thornwood, NY 10594. General Purpose. #62432 Notice of Formation of Four Sigma Tutoring LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/16/19.

Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: David Tong, 60 Cross Pond Road, Pound Ridge, NY 10576. Purpose: any lawful activity #62433 Mastracci Mesiti-Ceas Architecture Engineering P.L.L.C. Art. of Org. filed 11/27/19. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for process and shall mail to Reg. Agent: Thomas Law Firm, 175 Varick St, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: Any lawful activity #62434 CATSKILL CREEK BAKING COMPANY LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/11/19. 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, 947 Orchard St. Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: any lawful purpose #62435 Riverside Sleep Medicine, PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/20/2019.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Rajendra M. Rampersaud, 78 Vermont Terrace, Tuckahoe, NY 10707.

Purpose: Medicine. #62437

Notice of Formation (LLC). Name: 94 SKOOL STREET LLC. Articles of Organization filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/20/2019. Office location: Westchester COUNTY. NY DOS shall mail copy of process to: THE LLC, 94 SCHOOL STREET, YONKERS, NY 10701 . Purpose: Any lawful activity #62439 Sorriso Holdings LLC (the LLC) filed Articles of Organization with N.Y. Sec. of State on 12/11/19.

Office is in Westchester Co.; Sec. of State designated as agent for service of process, a copy of which it shall mail to the LLC at 66 W. Lincoln Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York 10550. The purpose of the LLC is any legal purpose. #62440 Brett Harvey Real Estate Ventures LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/16/2019.

Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Brett Harvey, 10 Old Jackson Ave., Hastings On Hudson, NY 10706.

General Purpose. #62441 Mindful Being, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/19/19. 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, 12 Shelley Ave, Valhalla NY 10595.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62442 Notice of formation of HATED ROYALTY LLC filed with SSNY on 1/3/2020. 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, P.O. Box 358 Yonkers, NY 10710.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62443 J2I Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/2/2019.

Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2 Hickory Dr., Rye, NY 10580. General Purpose. #62444

Notice of Formation of BWIZP Consultancy, LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on November 7, 2019. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. Address to which the SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC: BWIZP Consultancy, LLC, 88 Wendover Road, Yonkers, NY 10705.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62445

SUNSUP PROPERTY SOLUTIONS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 11/25/2019.

Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to LLC c/o 7 Granada Crescent #22 White Plains NY 10603.

Purpose: all lawful. #62450

NubianBiz, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 12/26/19. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail copy of process to LLC at 161 Pearsall Drive, Mt. Vernon, NY 10552.

Purpose: all lawful. #62446

Notice of Formation of Winter Orchid, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on November 18, 2019. Office Location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 3147 E. Main Street #396, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62453

Notice of Formation of Dunamis Transaction Advisors LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/20/19. Ofc. Loc: Westchester Cty. United States Corporation Agents designated as agent upon whom process may be served.

USCA shall mail process to the LLC, 5 Cerf Ln, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62447 Nicole Bugnacki LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/15/2019.

Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 60 Inningwood Rd., Ossining, NY 10562.

General Purpose. #62448 Himmat & Daya Holdings, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/8/2020.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 51 Penn Blvd., Scarsdale, NY 10583. General Purpose. #62449

GAK Capital LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 06/22/2018.

Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to LLC c/o 26 Howe Place Bronxville, NY 10708. Purpose: all lawful. #62454 GAK Advisors LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 12/02/2019.Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to LLC c/o 26 Howe Place Bronxville, NY 10708. Purpose: all lawful. #62455 Notice of Formation of GALLO PAINTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/19. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 222 Purchase Street, Suite 235, Rye, NY 10580.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62456

Notice of Formation of WESTCHESTER DEMOLITION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/19.

Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 333 Mamaroneck Avenue, Ste 396, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62457 Notice of Formation of WESTCHESTER BATHROOM REMODELING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/7/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o James Henson, 487 East Main St., Suite, 155, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62458 Notice of Formation of WESTCHESTER KITCHEN REMODELING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/7/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o James Henson, 487 East Main St., Suite, 155, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62459 Aerial Uprising LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/14/2020.

Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 161 Orchard Road 1s Briarcliff Manor NY 10510-1030 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62460 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #1324862 has been applied for by DU Scarsdale LLC to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC Law at 49 53 57 Spencer Pl Scarsdale NY 10583 #62461

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Notice of LLC formation: Lebron Contractors LLC. filed with SSNY on 09/27/2019. Off. Loc. Westchester County US Corp. Agents designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail copies c/o 7014 13th Ave Ste. 202 Brooklyn, NY 10598.

Purpose: all lawful. #62462 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME CLICK IT TECHNOLOGY, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/03/2019.

Office location: Westchester County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 35 Sterling Ave., Floor 2, Yonkers, New York 10704, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #62463 YELLOW LADDER CONTRACTING LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served.

Address to which the SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC: Yellow Ladder Contracting LLC, 81 Pondfield Road, #296 Ste. D, Bronxville, NY 10708. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62464 LL Piping LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/15/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 385 Mclean Ave., Apt. 10B, Yonkers, NY 10705.

General Purpose. #62465 Notice of Formation of Manny’s Painting, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/14/20. 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, 5 Elm St, Apt 1, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62466

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51-52 65 Place, LLC. Filed 12/17/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 66 Oregon Rd Pob 330, Mount Kisco, NY 105494710 Purpose: all lawful #62467 407 3rd Street Associates LLC. Filed 12/16/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 399 Knollwood Road, Suite 318, White Plains, NY 10603 Purpose: all lawful #62468 Cramm LLC. Filed 12/18/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 49 Lakeshore Dr, Eastchester, NY 10709 Purpose: all lawful #62469 Jestam 2 LLC. Filed 12/2/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 344 White Plains Rd, Eastchester, NY 10709 Purpose: all lawful #62470 274 Woodworth Realty LLC. Filed 11/22/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 51 Central Ave, Ossining, NY 10562 Purpose: all lawful #62471 3200 East Main Street LLC. Filed 11/4/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 654 N Division St, Peekskill, NY 10566 Purpose: all lawful #62472 The Cuisinest LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/6/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 740 Commerce St., Apt. 2B, Thornwood, NY 10594. General Purpose. #62473 Mount Kisco Physical Therapy & Chiropractic, PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/15/2020.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 103 S. Bedford Rd. Ste. 109, NY 10549. Purpose: Chiropractic and Physical Therapy. Ad # 62474

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