The Business Journals - Week of February 6, 2023

15-STORY BUILDING PROPOSED NEXT TO CAPITOL THEATRE IN PORT CHESTER

BY PETER KATZ Pkatz@westfairinc.com

The New York City-based applicant North Pearl Holding LLC (c/o Titanium Realty Group) is proposing to build a 15-story 190-unit apartment building adjacent to The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester. The Capitol, designed by famous theater architect Thomas Lamb, was constructed in 1926 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Last year it was added to the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation’s Historic Business Preservation Registry.

The Capitol has been operating as a highly successful concert and performance venue featuring some of the biggest names in music and entertainment today.

Attorney Anthony B. Gioffre III of the White Plains-based law firm Cuddy & Feder told the Port Chester Planning Commission that the proposed development “will not have any adverse impacts” on the theater and that the proposal incorporates “several building design elements to compliment The Capitol.”

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Lawmakers quizzed by Stamford business community on electric rates, taxes and housing

BY JUSTIN MCGOWN jmcgown@westfairinc.com

Deloitte recently hosted the Stamford Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Breakfast in their Elm Street offices, enabling the city’s business community to speak with a panel of local legislators on the state gov-

ernment’s business-focused policies.

The panel was moderated by Harry Carey, who is both a director of the Stamford Chamber of Commerce and AT&T’s director of external affairs. After making the introductions, Carey began the conversation about Connecticut’s economic status by asking State Sen. Ryan Fazio — the panel’s sole Republican lawmaker - about electric rates, noting that “it

is not just a consumer issue, it’s a business issue as well.”

“I think all members on the energy committee understand that the current rise in electricity rates is a disaster for Connecticut, and Connecticut’s economy,” Fazio replied. “Connecticut historically was a major high tech manufacturing hub but with the high input STAMFORD 4

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Maggie Haberman: Don’t write Trump off for 2024

BY PHIL HALL Phall@westfairinc.com

Former President Donald Trump is seeking to regain his old job, and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman is back on his trail covering his latest campaign.

In a virtual event sponsored by the Jay Heritage Center in Rye, Haberman — who chronicled Trump’s rise to presidential power in the book “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” published last October by Penguin Press — observed that it is a mistake to write off Trump as a viable candidate.

“I think people are underestimating him,” Haberman said. “I don’t think that that means people should overstate him. He is a diminished presence in our public consciousness and in our discourse — that doesn’t mean he will stay that way.”

Trump was the first Republican to announce his bid for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, which Haberman viewed as a strategy to “essentially freeze the field and keep anybody from coming after him.” But while Trump is trying to put the spotlight on his future, Haberman noted he is carrying a surplus amount of political baggage.

“We can’t forget whenever we write about him that he is facing a criminal investigation in Georgia, in New York, two Justice Department investigations, plus a blizzard of lawsuits — which are normally his specialty to file against other people,” she continued. “I don’t know what this all looks like in terms of a Trump campaign through the course of 2023.”

Haberman acknowledged that other Republicans have been touted as potential candidates for the presidency, but none have been eager to dive into the race. She pointed out that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is “the person who most Republicans talk about in terms of having a hunger for somebody who’s not Trump, and that is real in that party,” but she added he is “completely untested on the

national stage.” She predicted former South Carolina Gov. Nikkie Haley was “likely to be the next person to jump in” while South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have also been viewed as potential candidates.

However, Haberman noted a Republican Party trend of hyping candidates who either stumble once on the campaign trail — most notably former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who “seemed great until he started talking in debates” — or who just fizzle in the spotlight, such as former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Haberman pointed out that a possible Biden-Trump rematch in 2024 would be historic as the first time when both major party candidates are being investigated by special counsels for retaining classified documents in their private residences after leaving office.

“We are in such uncharted territory right now,” she added. “We will see if DOJ does anything related to that in terms of the special counsel, although I think the circumstances are a little different. Biden is effectively Merrick Garland’s boss, and I think he felt like he had to appoint somebody who was independent. And Trump was a declared candidate, which is part of the issue there as well, because they had been investigating Trump related to the January 6 attack and to the documents for many months.”

For Haberman, Trump has been in her crosshairs for the past dozen years.

“I had been working at Politico in 2011 when Trump was considering running for president, and that was when he spread the birther lie of President Obama,” she recalled. “I saw how powerful

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that was in the Republican primary in terms of elevating Trump’s poll numbers. It didn’t get him 100% approval, but it started moving his numbers up in a primary in which he really struggled before that, because on the issues he was not aligned with the GOP base in any meaningful way.”

While Haberman faulted others for underestimating Trump, she freely admitted she made a major mistake in not taking him seriously. After Trump decided not to seek the 2012 Republican nomination for president — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney ultimately scored the nomination but lost to Obama in the general election — Haberman viewed him as someone more interested in publicizing his TV show “The Apprentice” than seeking to run the country.

“And until he actually ran, I was not going to write a word,” she said. “This is what I said when his aide Sam Nunberg called me and said, ‘You know, Trump’s gonna announce on June 16 (2015) and we want you to break it.’ And I basically said, ‘No, I’m not, I’m not doing this again until he actually is in the race.’ Now, in hindsight, not my best call.”

Screen shot of Maggie Haberman during her virtual talk. Photo by Phil Hall.

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Armory Plaza in White Plains seeks county assistance for $32.3M renovation

BY BILL HELTZEL Bheltzel@westfairinc.com

The Related Companies are asking for nearly $445,000 in financial assistance from the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency for a $32.3 million renovation of Armory Plaza senior housing in White Plains.

Related is also seeking $15 million in private tax-exempt bonds and state and federal tax credits to finance the project, according to a costs-benefits summary presented on Jan. 25 to the IDA.

Without the financial assistance, Related will not renovate the building, according to a report presented to the IDA by economic consultant Michael Grella.

Armory Plaza is a 4-story, castle-like structure on South Broadway and across the street from The Westchester mall in downtown White Plains. It has 52 subsidized apartments for seniors and an adult community center.

The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1776, the New York

Provincial Congress met there at the original courthouse and declared New York an independent state, according to the Grella report. The armory was built in 1909.

In 1983, the city of White Plains sold the armory to The Related Companies. In 2007, Related financed a renovation with tax-exempt bonds issued by the White Plains Housing Authority, tax credits and property tax abatement.

Now Related — a New York City-based real estate firm with more than $60 billion in assets — wants to install new flooring, cabinets, counters, fixtures, appliances, lighting, tubs, toilets, doors in every apartment. Building systems will be upgraded, better security cameras will be installed and free WiFi will be made available to everyone.

Residents will be moved to vacant apartments or to off-site locations while their apartments are renovated. Their belongings will be moved to their temporary housing or placed in storage.

The project will create 18 construction jobs. Work is expected to begin in June and

take 12 to 18 months to finish.

The Related Companies created a new company, Armory Plaza Housing LP, to acquire the property for $14 million from the existing affiliate and then mortgage it for $15 million.

Related is seeking $15 million in tax-exempt bonds to be financed by a federally backed mortgage company -- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac — or by a commercial bank.

The bonds will qualify the project for state Low-Income Housing Tax Credits that can be sold to investors. Related is also seeking Federal Historic Tax Credits and intends to transfer the property tax abatement deal to the new affiliate.

The IDA is being asked to approve $444,874 in financial assistance: a $150,000 exemption on the mortgage recording tax and $294,874 exempted on sales taxes for construction materials.

Related said it is committed to hiring 65% local labor, according to the Grella memo. It wants the IDA to waive its policy of requiring 85% of laborers to be hired from Westchester and five surrounding counties, because “the margins on affordable housing are thin.”

The project would generate an estimated $15,394 for the county in one-time sales revenue from construction earnings. It would cost the county $199,292 for its portion of

foregone tax revenues.

That works out to a meager costs-benefits ratio of 8 cents received for every $1 of financial assistance.

Though “not a highly favorable” costs-benefits ratio, Grella told the IDA board, the calculation does not include the impact of new residents, as is done with new projects. But if the impact of existing residents were counted, he said, the costs-benefits ratio would be closer to 1:1, and it is a “great project for the county.”

The IDA is expected to consider preliminary financial assistance approval next month, after which a public hearing would be held and final approval could be considered.

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cost from the rise in electricity rates, and the rates are the highest they’ve been for a long time, that creates a major competitive disadvantage.”

Fazio noted that Connecticut lost manufacturing jobs at a higher rate over the past 15 years than the nation at large, and he touted a recent proposal to strip the state’s share of fees and taxes out of electric bills, which he said would save the average household $250 annually. He also called for an “all of the above” approach to energy which would re-classify nuclear and hydroelectric energy as renewables for meeting clean energy standards, alongside constructing infrastructure to tap into Canadian hydroelectric and new natural gas pipelines.

Carey then asked State Rep. Rachel Khanna, a member of the House Transportation Committee, to weigh in on issues she sees having the largest impact on Stamford.

“The rail system is certainly one that we’re looking at and I think really relevant to Stamford is traffic and pedestrian safety,” Khanna replied. “There have been a lot of issues with that in Stamford, but I think as our cities, which are thriving and are going to continue to thrive, we need to really focus on seriously addressing that issue. People who are coming and working in our cities want to feel safe and comfortable.”

Khanna noted that The New York Times recently named New Haven one of its “52 places to visit” and said that improving pedestri-

an access and safety could help Stamford make that list in the future.

Carey also put the question of Proposed Bill 6321 to the panel. The bill calls for the Department of Economic and Community Development to appropriate $58 million from the general fund for investment into arts, culture and tourism.

All of the elected officials agreed with the idea of the bill in principle, though each said they were not ready to cosign the proposed sum without further research.

State Rep. Matt Blumenthal — who is also the son of U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal — pointed out that none of them were familiar with the details of the bill due to the nature of the current legislative session.

“Every other session all legislators have the opportunity to propose their own individual bills,” Blumenthal said, “and the number that we propose collectively ranges from somewhere between 1,500 and 7,000, depending on the year. Not all of these bills get passed, not all of these bills get deeply considered by committees.”

Carey then asked Fazio specifically to address what he has heard in his position as a member of the Finance Committee.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of action on the Finance Committee this term specifically,” Fazio replied. “There is an opportunity and willingness on both sides of the aisle

to reexamine our income tax code in particular and potentially reduce income taxes in what is hopefully a significant way for the first time in the modern history of Connecticut.”

“Connecticut has the second highest taxes in the country and disproportionately that burden comes in the form of income taxes on the middle class,” Fazio added.

Saying that tax increases should be out of the question, Fazio explained that he has proposed a bill that calls for a progressive income tax cut which he hopes will cut the bills for middle class taxpayers by 2%. He also outlined hopes for removing the corporate surcharge, noting, “We need to be a more welcoming state to small businesses which employ a disproportionate amount of all the employees in Connecticut.”

Blumenthal concurred, saying “I was looking at a study recently that showed the difficulty in finding qualified and able employees is one of the biggest challenges for over 60% of businesses in Connecticut, and for 38% of businesses it is their num-

ber one barrier to growth. I think that means we have to focus on not only bringing people to the state but also training them for the jobs that already exist here.”

Blumenthal also explained that he believes his work as co-chairman of the Women’s Reproductive Rights Office has implications for economic development as it both benefits existing families and makes the state attractive to workers from parts of the country limiting access to abortion.

“We want to continue to work to ensure, that we’re not only one of the best, but the best place in the country to raise a family,” Blumenthal added.

State Sen. Ceci Maher emphasized the need for workforce development programs that clear the path for workers, especially in health care, to earn the certifications necessary to fully participate in and contribute to the economy.

The issue that prompted the most questions from the audience was housing.

Fazio said, “The best way to make

sure housing is affordable is obviously to make sure that people have good jobs, and good wages as well as affordable housing.” He placed the emphasis for legislators on reducing the burdens of taxes, power bills and health care costs while respecting that different municipalities have “different needs.”

“It’s not just about reducing taxes, it’s about making things better for taxpayers,” countered Rep. Hubert Delaney. “We need to give people the ability to have more of their disposable income to spend on things besides housing.”

Delaney cited the CT Savings program and the state ban on captive audience meetings by employers to counter unionization efforts as legislation to build on towards that goal.

“I know that we’re not going to necessarily have one single policy that’s going to tackle and create more affordable housing. But I do think it’s not just about building more affordable housing, it’s about giving people more access to their income,” Delaney said.

Greenwich’s Nathaniel Witherell receives $900K bequest

BY PHIL HALL Phall@westfairinc.com

The Nathaniel Witherell, a Greenwich-based shortterm rehabilitation and nursing care center of older adults, has received a bequest of approximately $900,000 from the estate of former Greenwich resident Reinhold Vogel, the developer of digital circuitry for advanced radar systems and president of Nicolet Instrument Co. The bequest is one of the largest single gifts in the facil-

ity’s recent history, and the funds will be used to enhance the Witherell’s physical facility and for the establishment of an endowment.

“We deeply appreciate Mr. Vogel’s extraordinary generosity and support of the Witherell,” said Laurence B. Simon, chairman of the Witherell’s board of directors., who added the gift came as a surprise. “Mr. Vogel had not been one of our residents or patients but, through his gift, considered us as an important Greenwich community asset.”

From left: Moderator Carey Barry, State Sen. Ceci Maher, State Sen. Ryan Fazio, State Representatives Rachel Khanna, Matt Blumenthal and Hubert Delaney. Photo by Justin McGown.

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ly is at 157 Westchester Ave. There is a vacant two-story commercial building at 5 N. Pearl St. while 9-11 N. Pearl St. has two vacant three-story mixed-use structures, one of which had been a firehouse.

The new building would include 1,465 square feet of commercial space fronting on Westchester Avenue as well as N. Pearl Street. There would be 52 studio apartments, 106 one-bedroom units and 32 two-bedroom units. A total of 110 off-street parking spaces are proposed in two floors of parking. Valet parking would be used along with a mechanical system to stack vehicles. Amenities for residents include a rooftop terrace and clubhouse. There would be 21 apartments priced in the affordable category and made available to people earning 60% of the Area Median Income.

Gioffre said that the proposed building complies with the CD-6T district in Port Chester’s Character-Based Code, “which promotes higher density and tall building heights with a variety of

commercial and residential uses located near the Port Chester Metro-North Train Station. The village’s Comprehensive Plan also includes the premises within its Downtown/Train Station Higher Intensity Planning Zone, which promotes mixed-use developments with street-level retail and residential uses above.”

According to a traffic study prepared in January by DTS Provident Design Engineering LLP, the proposed development is not expected to have a significant adverse impact on area traffic or parking. The study estimates that 11 entering and 24 exiting trips will be generated during the weekday morning peak hour and 21 entering and 14 exiting trips will be generated during the afternoon/evening peak.

The 110 off-street parking spaces being proposed are only 58% of the 197 spaces that are required, including 190 at one space per apartment plus seven spaces for the commercial square footage in the proposed building. Gioffre noted that

Port Chester allows the number of spaces required to be in a project to be reduced based on the way they’d be used by residents, visitors, employees and patrons of businesses. He said that they should be reduced to 190 spaces total for the proposed project. He said that the developer wants to make a payment to Port Chester instead of providing all of the required parking, which is allowed by the village. Gioffre said that the parking that can be provided is limited because the amount of digging that can be done on the site is limited. He said adjacent buildings and infrastructure could be affected if the developer dug down too far to create additional parking levels.

Gioffre said that a calculation using a formula that estimates the number of school children a project will bring to a community shows that the proposed development would bring 20 new children to local schools. However, Gioffre pointed out that three new developments in Port Chester with total of 270

apartments have produced only two new children for the local schools and the proposed development could be expected to do the same. He said impacts on the school system would be offset by taxes generated by the project as well as any payments required of the developer.

The developer plans to put in two trees along the sidewalk on Westchester Avenue but none around the corner on N. Pearl Street because the sidewalk is relatively narrow and there are concerns that adding trees might interfere with meeting requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Developer North Pearl Holding LLC purchased the property at 9-11 N. Pearl St. and 5 N. Pearl St. on Nov. 2, 2022, from Macgro LLC and Marlor LLC for $5,500,000. The property at 153-157 Westchester Ave. still was owned by Delia Enterprises, Inc. as of Jan. 10.

The Port Chester Planning Commission planned to send out a notice that it would be lead agency for the ongoing review of the project.

Former Simone Healthcare exec sues developer for $15M

BY BILL HELTZEL Bheltzel@westfairinc.com

Former Simone Healthcare Development executive H. Guy Leibler is suing the company and developer Joseph Simone for $15 million for allegedly holding up a deal to grant him a portion of profits on completed medical buildings.

Simone periodically reaffirmed Leibler’s equity in the projects, according to the complaint filed Jan. 12 in Westchester Supreme Court, “by saying such things as ‘your interests are piling up’ and ‘you’re doing really well for yourself with these developments.’”

But when Leibler tried to collect his share Simone allegedly changed the terms of the deal.

Simone Development Companies spokesman Eric Gerard stated in an email that the company “denies the claims, which are without merit.”

Simone Development Companies, based in the Bronx, hired Leibler as president of its Simone Healthcare affiliate in 2013, according to the complaint, to develop medical facilities in the region. He was employed on a trial basis and paid $500,000 a year.

In early 2016, Leibler, of North Castle,

and Simone, of Purchase agreed to a deal. Leibler would be paid $1.5 million a year, according to the complaint, and receive 5% equity on any projects he started and completed while he was employed by Simone Healthcare.

The deal was not put in writing, the complaint states, but was “unmistakably verbally agreed-upon” by both men and reiterated by Simone numerous times over the years.

Simone allegedly shared the details of the agreement with his partners,

Michael Contillo and Joseph Deglomini, who are not named as defendants in the complaint.

Leibler says he completed five projects: Boyce Thompson Center, Yonkers, 2017; Mount Sinai Doctors offices in Greenlawn, Suffolk County, 2018; Mount Sinai Health System offices on Central Park Avenue, Hartsdale, 2019; The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in West Harrison, 2020; and Catholic Health Ambulatory & Urgent Care, Centereach, Suffolk County, 2022.

In December 2021, Leibler says, he expressed concerns that he had not received a salary raise since 2016 and had not received equity distributions.

Later, according to the complaint, he agreed to forego interests in projects completed during his tenure in Pelham, Nyack and Manhattan.

Leibler resigned his position last May, effective Sept.1, the complaint states, and he reminded Simone that the equity deal had to be documented.

Last August, he received a term sheet summarizing the arrangement. Now, according to Leibler, the terms departed from the original deal.

Leibler was not entitled to distributions until the owners received a return of at least 8%, for example, and he could not make new deals with any Simone tenants or prospective tenants for three years in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Leibler refused to agree to the terms.

He is accusing Simone and his companies of fraud and unjust enrichment. He is demanding damages “believed to be in excess of $15 million,” or alternatively his share of equity in the projects. He is represented by Manhattan attorneys Gregory Fleesler and Robert McFarlane.

Simone Healthcare Development project, West Harrison

Norwalk’s Shibumi makes strategic oversight out of tactical task tracking

BY JUSTIN MCGOWN jmcgown@westfairinc.com

Mark DiGirolamo once worked at a major software company but grew frustrated when his projects were repeatedly canceled.

“We were involved in a lot of big strategic programs around transforming big software companies,” DiGirolamo recalled. “Oftentimes in that process it would get canceled before we actually finished and we couldn’t reach the completion of the stated goals of the program, and we realized that was a common problem.”

According to DiGirolamo, the company — which he declined to name — wound up costing itself money as a result of these cancelations.

“Executives that were investing in these programs weren’t seeing the benefits, they were just seeing the costs,” DiGirolamo said. “We were actually delivering benefits, but there just wasn’t a good way to make sure that the executives and the stakeholders knew it, they didn’t have visibility into it. So that was the idea: how could we help companies better communicate all of the great stuff that a program is achieving back to the people sponsoring it?”

The answer was to turn entrepreneur and develop Shibumi, an app that allows

executives to track the many moving parts of their companies and better understand how individual projects and teams are progressing not only toward their own goals, but how they are helping other units achieve theirs.

The name “Shibumi” was sourced from the title of a novel by Trevanian and is a Japanese term, which refers to how simplicity and complexity can co-exist in an object or design resulting in a process of continual improvement and change. DiGirolamo, who holds the title of chief customer officer for this Norwalk-based company, launched Shibumi in 2011 in partnership with two for-

Rye Country Day School gets tax exemption for off-campus faculty housing

BY BILL HELTZEL Bheltzel@westfairinc.com

An appellate court has ruled that Rye Country Day School is exempt from property taxes on off-campus faculty housing.

A panel of four Second Appellate Division judges decided on Jan. 25 that a Westchester Supreme Court justice erred when he upheld a decision by city of Rye officials who denied tax-exempt status for six townhouses on New Street.

“There was no rational basis” for denying the tax exemption, the appellate court ruled in reversing a 2020 decision by Supreme Court Justice Bruce E. Tolbert.

The elite private school, founded in 1869, is organized as a not-for-profit educational institution. About 900 students are enrolled in programs from pre-kindergarten through

12th grade.

For at least 25 years the school has offered housing to faculty and administrators at several off-campus sites.

In 2015, Rye Country Day School bought 29-39 New Street, next to its campus, for $2,275,000. In 2018, when the six townhouses at the site were fully occupied by faculty, it applied for tax-exempt status.

City of Rye Assessor Noreen Whitty denied the application, finding that the school had not established that the housing is an integral part of education. She assessed the property at $58,100.

She also determined that several previously exempted off-campus properties will remain exempt.

The school protested the decision to the Board of Assessment Review.

Rye Country Day School argued that housing is a critical recruiting tool for draw-

mer colleagues at his old job, Ken Pellegrino and Bob Nahmias — Pellegrino is now chief strategy officer while Nahmias is president and CEO.

“What our product does is it allows an organization to define the goals and objectives that they want to achieve, and to be able to measure those in a really quantifiable way,” said DiGirolamo. “So, with Shibumi they’re able to know exactly how well they’re delivering on those goals and objectives they’ve defined, and also better able to identify all of the activity they’re doing as an enterprise in support of those objectives.”

Last month, Shibumi launched a companion app that allows executives to get a holistic view of the entire organization, thus enabling access to the latest updates and metrics across the company to allow for better time management.

“The world is impatient now,” said Kim Lewis, chief delivery officer at Shibumi. “The world has gotten so comfortable with mobility. In your home life you expect to be able to take Netflix on the go. You expect to take whatever you’re doing on the go with you. It should be the same at work, and we’re enabling that now with these new apps.”

“Shibumi Mobile is another way to take advantage of the many solutions Shibumi offers, so we’re excited to provide our clients with another way to make full use of these tools,” Lewis added.

She also stressed that as a cloud-based solution with offices in Norwalk and London and distributed employees all around the world, the company has a “follow the sun” ethos, which pairs well with the mobile application.

“People don’t work nine to five anymore,” Lewis said. “If they’re working outside their normal workday, if they’re at their kids’ soccer practice and they need to respond to something that someone in Australia has flagged for them, the mobile client allows them to do that when they need to.”

ing and retaining talented teachers and administrators, as well as for competing against other private schools in Westchester and Fairfield counties and New York City for sought-after talent.

The review board upheld Whitty’s decision but reduced the assessment to $45,900.

The school petitioned Westchester Supreme Court to declare the property tax-exempt.

Justice Tolbert found that the housing is not an integral part of the school’s education process.

He noted that Rye Country Day School does not board any students, so the logical question is, why would it board its faculty?

He depicted the housing as a perk and found that the school had not established “that the only way to hire the best and the brightest faculty is by offering housing.”

“Offering a perk to employees and them liking that perk,” he reasoned, “does not rise to the level that it is part of the educational process.”

The appellate justices noted that New York law has long recognized that properties used for staff housing by educational institutions are entitled to tax exemption.

The justices said the city had failed to show any meaningful distinction between the new property and several other residential properties that have been tax-exempt for at least 25 years.

Without the housing, the justices found, it would be difficult for Rye Country Day School to recruit qualified faculty, thus undermining its primary educational purpose.

Screenshot of the Shibumi app. Courtesy of the company.

Caring for those who can’t always care for themselves

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA ggouveia@westfairinc.com

When Rita C. Mabli was a child, she observed how doctors and nurses cared for her dying father.

“That taught me a lot to about where to go in my future,” she said.

Where she went was United Hebrew, which she has served for 47 years — rising to president and CEO and helping to transform the 104-year-old nursing home into a 7.5-acre complex of complete senior resident and client services in the process. It’s why she said that of her many honors — which include a Crain’s New York Notable leader award and a Distinguished Leadership Award from the American College of Health Care Administrators — she’s “over the moon” about being inducted into the first class to receive McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards on March 7 in Chicago, as it speaks to those who’ve dedicated their lives to “caring for those who can’t care for themselves. And isn’t that what we’re supposed to do?”

Mabli would be the first to acknowledge that “it takes a certain type of person” to do this work — increasingly important as the nation ages. According to the Urban Institute, “The number of Americans ages 65 and older will more than double over the next 40 years, reaching 80 million in 2040. The number of adults ages 85 and older, the group most often needing help with basic personal care, will nearly quadruple between 2000 and 2040.”

Having some 540 dedicated staffers for more than 600 residents and clients, an almost 1:1 ratio, “is what makes United Hebrew different and special,” not to mention five-star rated. You can see this, she added, in the continued vigilance toward Covid, with United Hebrew being among the first to vaccinate residents and staffers and holding monthly vaccination clinics. United Hebrew is also at the forefront of decreasing the use of antipsychotic drugs to calm dementia residents, as studies and anecdotal evidence have shown the drugs only worsen the patients’ condition.

“We are below the standard and national benchmark in using psychotropics,” Mabli said.

And United Hebrew has a less than 1% rating for facility-acquired pressure sores, otherwise known as bedsores, which can be deadly. She credited a staff that is trained in skin care and vigilant in changing, turning and feeding those who cannot do so for

themselves.

But the facility is not just about meeting standards of care but transcending them with quality of life. Mabli pointed to Christmastime, when each staffer played Secret Santa to a resident.

“I can’t tell you the response, the number of residents getting gifts,” Mabli recalled. “It was incredible. It’s not just hands-on care. It’s emotional care.”

Indeed, the word “family” has become almost a cliché in the health-care field, but for Mabli and her team, who often seem to spend more time with residents than they do with their own relatives, United Hebrew is a family. That became particularly clear during the pandemic.

“I would say Covid was a defining moment for the country and certainly for those of us who work in health care,” she said.

While some sank under the weight of the challenge, United Hebrew rose to it, she added, with herself and staffers working 90 days straight, discharging those residents who could safely be placed in the care of family and keeping those who could not in touch with loved ones via iPads.

The United Hebrew family tree spreads out over the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Campus with services in a number of buildings. They include Burke Rehabilitation at United Hebrew; long-term skilled nursing at The Kramer and Skalet Pavilion; private geriatric care management services with Raven Care Advocates; Health at Home, a certified home health agency; Willow Towers Assisted Living at The Beverly and Alfred J. Green Pavilion; an increasingly intensive variety of dementia-care services through the Griffen Activity Program and Phoenix Memory Neighborhood at Willow Towers, and Willow Gardens (The Malcolm and Patricia Lazarus Pavilion), United Hebrew’s newest facility; and independent senior housing at the 135unit Soundview Low-Savin Apartments and the 32-unit Meadow Lane Apartments.

With a three-and-a-half-year waiting list, Mabli is working with her board of directors and their strategic plan to build another pavilion that would create additional, much-needed affordable housing. She’s also applying for a grant for AI technology that would cue residents on medications, appointments and the like. And Mabli is among those urging New York state Gov. Kathy Hochul to include a 20% increase in the nursing home Medicaid rate for the state fiscal year 2023-24. https://www.leadingageny.org/advocacy/advocacy-action-items/

urge-governor-to-provide-a-20-medicaid-increase-to-nursing-homes/ (While 75% of nursing-home residents rely on Medicaid to pay for their care, the rate of reimbursement from the state hasn’t changed in 15 years.)

Mabli’s mother, Lucy Mabli, was a United Hebrew resident, living in the Soundview Apartments from 1980 until her death in 1991. “She used to make lunch for the staff. She was a terrific cook.” A sweatshop seamstress with an eighth-grade education, Mabli’s mother nevertheless imparted the wisdom that has guided the CEO: “She taught me to be firm but kind.”

Mother and daughter — the youngest of four who included three much older brothers — had a bond forged in part by the adversity of their lives in the Bronx. When Rita’s father — Sebastian “Sam” Mabli, who owned a leather business — died, 12-year-old Rita and her mother were left with “literally nothing.”

Food stamps, Medicaid and Rita’s scholarships to Cardinal Spellman High School and

what is now Iona University in New Rochelle (Bachelor of Arts in Communications) and its LaPenta School of Business (MBA) saw them through.

Fresh out of graduate school, Mabli went to work at United Hebrew in 1976 as director of personnel. She was named COO in the late 1980s, becoming executive vice president and CEO in 1994 when her predecessor left. Mabli was made president in 2005.

It was while Mabli was at Iona that she met her husband, Patrick Hardiman, a retired national audit partner for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., the international professional services firm, and a retired professor of finance and accounting at Iona. (They have a daughter, Lucy, named for grandmother.) Today, Hardiman teaches a course in World War II history at United Hebrew’s Willow Towers, part of the enrichment on the campus that includes arts programming.

For Mabli, United Hebrew remains a family affair.

For more, visit unitedhebrewgeriatric.org.

Rita C. Mabli, president and CEO of United Hebrew of New Rochelle, is among those eldercare professionals who’ll be inducted into the first class of McKnight’s Pinnacle Award winners March 7 in Chicago. Photograph by Lynda Shenkman. Courtesy United Hebrew of New Rochelle.

Madison House in White Plains accused of tolerating alleged sexual predator

BY BILL HELTZEL Bheltzel@westfairinc.com

Executives of an Elmsford company that manages public housing were slow to fire the superintendent of a White Plains apartment building who allegedly raped a child and sexually harassed several tenants, according to a Westchester County agency.

The county Fair Housing Board accused Community Housing Management Corp. and its president, Eugene Conroy, and director of operations, Cindy Mauro, of failure to take prompt action for nearly seven years to end discriminatory housing practices at Madison House Apartments in White Plains.

The housing board accused the former superintendent, Jose Feliciano, of engaging in quid pro quo sexual harassment, creating a hostile environment and threatening tenants who complained about him.

“Everyone has the right to be free from sexual harassment and intimidation in their home,” according to the Jan. 23 complaint filed in U.S. District Court, White Plains, But for nearly seven years female residents of Madison House “were repeatedly sexually harassed, victimized and preyed upon.”

Community Housing manages 32 properties, including 28 in Westchester. It has been

managed by Madison House since 1972.

Madison House is an 8-story, 99-unit structure on Ferris Avenue near the White Plains Metro-North train station. It was built in 1971, according to the compliant, as low-income, government subsidized housing. It is owned by Marathon Development Group, a Peekskill company that also is named as a defendant.

Feliciano was hired as superintendent in 2013. The company only hired married men as superintendents, according to a comment attributed to Conroy, because the building would be a playground for single men taking advantage of female residents.

Within two months Conroy began receiving anonymous complaints accusing Feliciano of engaging in romantic relationships with tenants and offering drugs and money for sex.

From 2014 to 2019, the management company fielded allegations that the superintendent was harassing women sexually, entering

their apartments without their permission, and threatening them when they complained, according to the lawsuit filed by Westchester County Attorney John M. Nonna and assistant county attorney Christopher J. Inzero.

One couple claimed that Feliciano had sex with their child for two years when she was 14 to 16 years old. They accused him of statutory rape, but the complaint does not say whether Feliciano was ever charged or convicted of such a crime.

Another woman who complained claimed that Feliciano spit on her and threatened to assault her with a broom. When a security company tried to get video footage of the incident they discovered that the camera system had been sabotaged and the password changed.

Only Feliciano had access to change the password, according to the complaint, and he was spending a lot of time in the camera room watching the movements of residents.

Feliciano was repeatedly warned in writing that he could be fired, the complaint states. But management also defended him to the owner, Marathon Development.

In 2016, for instance, Conroy allegedly sent an email to a Marathon executive stating that Feliciano “is doing an excellent job. There are some very difficult tenants at Madison House. … For the record I would hire Jose again for

Madison House or any of my properties.”

Conroy allegedly described Madison House as a tough building that needed a strong superintendent, and Feliciano was strong.

But by late 2019, Conroy was thinking about firing his superintendent for insubordination, according to the complaint, and for allegedly renting out parking spaces and the community room to nonresidents “for his personal pecuniary benefit.”

In July 2020, Community Housing fired Feliciano.

Community Housing violated federal and county fair housing laws, according to the complaint. The owners and managers knew, or should have known, about Feliciano’s “predatory campaign of harassment, discrimination and intimidation,” the complaint states, but “refused to take appropriate action. The consequences were shattering.”

The housing board is asking the court to declare that housing laws were violated, order Community Housing and Marathon to remedy discriminatory conduct and to award unspecified damages to the tenants who complained.

Community Housing attorney Bhavleen K. Sabharwal was unable to immediately get in touch with her client to discuss a request for comment on the allegations. Feliciano’s attorneys, Jeffrey Y.A. Spiegel and Maxwell Margulies, did not reply to a request for comment.

Madison House, White Plains.

Utopian Uruguay — an ascendant wine region

STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG PAULDING

Iwas recently invited to a Uruguayan wine-tasting seminar in Manhattan where several winemakers or family representatives presented their wines and stories. Uruguay is a small country, shoehorned between Brazil and Argentina and made up of largely Italian and Spanish immigrants. European families arrived and brought old-world winemaking experience and vines to begin creating their own wines for family and friends’ consumption. Old world their experience may have been. However, with its wineries and vineyards, Uruguay seems to be doing everything right, using the latest techniques.

Uruguay, then, is a progressive country. With 3.4 million people, it boasts a literacy rate of 98.7% (compared with 88% in the United States). Each public-school student and teacher gets a laptop computer. The Uruguayans believe in democracy, freedom of the press and equal marriage rights and they like to party. Their carnival goes on for 50 days, eclipsing Brazil’s, and their annual wine consumption per capita is around 24 liters, roughly double that of the United States. Meanwhile, cannabis is legal. It sounds rather Utopian.

Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Uruguay gets moderating winds from its proximity to the water. Most of its grapes are grown in the southern part of the country near the capital city of Montevideo. And the grapes are wellknown and mostly of the noble varieties — Tannat, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and

Cabernet Franc for the reds and Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Viognier and Albarino for the whites.

Recently, a box of nine Uruguayan wines appeared at my house to accompany a Zoom presentation of the country and its wines. Many of the current winemakers there are third or fourth generation. Most of the wineries are eco-friendly and many are sustainable and organic. And as part of its modern methods, the country has employed a technique known as georeferencing in which all the planted vineyards throughout the country are numbered and coded with soil type, grape type and typical weather exposure easily found by QR code on the label. With climate change on everyone’s mind, this could help with predicting potential damaging insect or fungal attacks, ripening and harvest times.

Tannat can be a finicky grape to tame in the bottle. I have tasted Tannats from other countries, and they can be harsh and painfully tannic. Uruguayan producers somehow know how to create a Tannat that doesn’t need a decade or so to soften, and even just released vintages are attractive.

These are my tasting notes:

Aguará Tannat Special Reserve 2018 — This 100% Tannat shows dark cherry flavors with cassis and a hint of clove. It’s a well-balanced wine to be served with anything, especially from the grill.

Artesana 2020 Reserva — A blend of Tannat, Merlot and Zinfandel, this wine, created by women, uses the only Zinfandel produced in all of Uruguay. It contains ripe red

and dark fruit balanced with a peppery spiciness and anise. Serve it with any hearty pasta dish or just open it on a cold winter night.

Castel Pujol Folklore Blanco 2021, a Trebbiano (70%) and Malvasia blend — Trebbiano, also known as Ugni Blanc, is where virtually all Cognacs and Armagnacs come from. Malvasia is typically grown for fortified Madeira. Usually not respected in a wine, they become brilliant as a fermented and aged brandy or a higher alcohol-fortified wine. This wine is sustainably farmed, unfiltered and vegan and is quite attractive. It has a great mouthfeel and texture, good acidic backbone and a satisfying smoothness. Serve this Folklore Blanco with grilled shrimp, seared tuna or salmon for a lovely experience.

Don Pascual Coastal White Albariño Blend 2022 — Albarino, Chardonnay and Verdejo all contribute to this Spanish-style blend, featuring a crisp lemon zest, fresh and aromatic with a hint of salinity. Serve it as a welcome drink or with any fish meal.

Garzón 2020 Single Vineyard Tannat — A robust dark fruit red with a brilliant textured mouthfeel and tingly cinnamon accents, this wine is fresh, polished and full-bodied. Buy a few bottles and a case to put down.

Prima Donna Tannat 2018 Crianza en Roble — This 100% Tannat offers luscious dark fruit, pomegranate, spicy cedar notes and big aromatics. It’s very satisfying.

Traversa Sauvignon Blanc 2022 — With lemon citrus notes, fine white pepper and tart green apples, this wine is crisp and puckery. Serve it with sushi, sashimi or any

fish meal.

Vermut Flores (Rosé Vermouth) is a Tannat grape-derived Rosé infused with a special selection of botanicals and floral flavors to create a wonderful summer flavor. Simply add ice and orange or lemon slices, and it’s ready to present to your company. Dominant, ripe strawberry flavors carried by the citrus will get everyone in the mood. It’s simple and simply delicious.

Vina Progreso Overground Cabernet Franc 2020 — Bright red cherry, fresh acidity, maraschino, a textured dustiness, hints of licorice and black pepper all coalesce in the glass. Serve it with any spiced pasta dish or barbecue.

Before I tasted these wines, I opened a couple of wine reference books I own to gauge their take on Uruguayan wines. “Exploring Wine: The Culinary Institute of America’s Complete Guide to Wines of the World” and Doug Frost’s “On Wine: A Master Sommelier and Master of Wine Tells All” were each published a couple of decades ago, but neither even had Uruguay in its index. One more thought I’ve mentioned before about Southern Hemisphere wines: Their grapes are harvested six months before those of the Northern Hemisphere. So the same vintage year south of the equator is six months older than in the north. For a young wine, this can be significant. All of these are attractively priced. It’s likely you’ll have to find a larger retail outlet to find some wines of Uruguay. But look for them. Its wines will only get better.

Write me at Doug@dougpaulding.com.

Westchester County Center to reopen for business in a month

BY PETER KATZ Pkatz@westfairinc.com

The Westchester County Center, which had been closed to be used as a testing, vaccination and treatment center during the Covid outbreak, is in the final stages of being restored to its former configuration so it can reopen for business as usual within a month.

To help deal with Covid, the center was opened Jan. 13, 2021 as one of the first three mass vaccination sites in New York state. That necessitated ending normal activities there.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was charged with converting the County Center and its adjacent parking lot fronting on Route 119 into emergency hospital facilities as the pandemic’s impact was becoming increasingly dramatic and there were fears that hospital capacity in Westchester County would be exceeded.

A contract for $15 million was awarded to Haughland Energy Corp. LLC of Melville to create 54 patient care units inside of the center and erect temporary structures in the parking lot to house 56 patients. The feared hospital overload in Westchester did not materialize and the County Center hospital facilities went unused.

The main level inside the center and the parking lot both have been cleared of the Covid structures. The parking lot has been repaved and new stripes mark the parking

spaces.

The County Center originally opened on May 22, 1930, and has hosted myriad events such as basketball, boxing, concerts, high school and college graduations, trade shows, and performances by stars such as Judy Garland, Kenny Rogers and Janis Joplin.

“We will look forward to hosting many of the traditional groups that we’ve had at the County Center again this year,” Westchester County Executive George Latimer said. “We’re not going to have a full complement of things but we’re looking to bring back the home show, the baseball card show, the reptile show.”

Latimer said that talks are underway in the hope of bringing back to the County Center high school basketball finals. Latimer said that in addition to converting the center from health-care use to regular exhibit and event use, work was needed to repair storm damage caused by Hurricane Ida. He said that there was flooding in the basement that impacted the elevators. He said work needs to be done to completely fix flood damage to the air conditioning system.

Latimer said that the air conditioning is expected to be fully functioning in time for a convention of American Legion veterans scheduled for the summer.

“Nathan’s is coming back,” Latimer said. “For those of you who have gotten accustomed to having a Nathan’s hot dog when you come to the arena, that will be back in force too.”

County Center main floor looking toward stage

The interior of the center after conversion into a health-care facility. Photo by Peter Katz.

Yonkers firefighter and personal trainer Frank D’Agostino becomes a supplement entrepreneur

BY PHIL HALL Phall@westfairinc.com

During his childhood, Frank D’Agostino would watch his mother exercising in the family’s living room to workout tapes featuring celebrity trainer Billy Blanks. At his mother’s encouragement, he would join her in duplicating Blanks’ aerobics routines.

“So, I got into health and fitness,” said D’Agostino, who claimed that he never lost his interest in exercise and wellness. Fast-forward to today and D’Agostino has channeled that passion into dual pursuits as a certified personal trainer and as an entrepreneur whose Hero X Health company recently launched a supplement called Entrepreneuro, which is marketed as a natural aid to fight mental fatigue.

And if that’s not enough, D’Agostino is also a firefighter in the Yonkers Fire Department. Plus, he admitted to having “a little bit of a social media following,” with more than 48,000 followers on Instagram keeping track of his exercise and nutrition videos and photographs that show off the physique results of his years of training.

D’Agostino initially planned for a career as a pharmacist, but once he was attending Iona College in New Rochelle he realized his interests were not in prescription medicine.

“I was finding a love for alternative medicine and health,” he recalled. “Slowly and

steadily, I started getting my own certifications for personal training and nutrition. And from there, I was able to land a job at the local Vitamin Shoppe in Hartsdale, where I was opened up to a whole new world of vitamins and minerals and supplements.”

D’Agostino believed he found the dream vocation because “I was going to be focused on all the bodybuilding muscle supplements, but I really found a love for all of the natural remedies for heart health, cholesterol and overall energy and focus on the body.”

After graduating from Iona in 2014, he opened his own fitness center in partnership with two friends. At the same time, he had the opportunity to take the examination for the Yonkers Fire Department, where he has served for the past eight years. D’Agostino stated his emergency services work never interfered with his other initiatives.

“With the fire department schedule, we do 24-hour shifts, so it gives me that time and flexibility,” he said.

D’Agostino sold his share in his fitness center prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and during the lockdown period he began to formulate the ingredients that would go into Entrepreneuro. He arrived at an ingredient mix that included Ginkgo Biloba, Memophenol (a formula of French Grape and North American Wild Blueberry Extracts), Alphawave L-theanine, Rhodiola Rosea, and S7, a clinically studied natural clean energy source created from a septet

of plant-based ingredients including green coffee extract, tart cherry and kale.

D’Agostino focused on creating a brain health supplement as a promise to his mother, noting that her side of the family includes relatives with Alzheimer’s. He also sought to keep the ingredient mix to eight items.

“I wanted to have them at effective dosages,” he said. “I didn’t want a million ingredients, like a laundry list at very little doses just to make it look good. I wanted to narrow it in and go a little bit higher with the clinically studied doses.”

After securing a deal with a West Coast manufacturing operation to produce his supplements, D’Agostino launched Entrepreneuro under his Hero X Health banner in November, with an initial focus on selling the product via Amazon — a pre-launch sale to family and friend generated more than 1,000 bottles sold, with active support

coming from his firefighting comrades. To date, he is happy with his Amazon experience.

“It started to pick up a little bit of good traction on Amazon and it was getting some good reviews,” he said. “I think we have 100, with the majority of them, having been four and five stars.”

Looking forward, D’Agostino — who recently turned 31 — plans to pursue his own e-commerce platform and is exploring retail sales via Westchester stores. He also has ideas for two new products, although they are not a current priority.

“I think those are going to really blend nice with this and eventually be a beautiful bundle,” he said of his potential next offerings. “But for right now, my sights are set to make this as successful as I can and to help as many people as I can with good quality ingredients.”

Focus on finding and keeping employees

BY PETER KATZ Pkatz@westfairinc.com

With some employers finding it increasingly hard to attract and keep employees in a job market where, according to a fourth quarter 2022 office market report from Cushman & Wakefield, “In Westchester County, the unemployment rate contracted 100 bps since this time one year ago, averaging 2.6% in the fourth quarter — the lowest on record.”

Nationally, unemployment for December came in at 3.5%, while it was 4.2% in Connecticut and 4.3% in New York state.

Against that background, The Business Council of Westchester (BCW) is launching a new program called “Talent Tuesday: The New Rules of Attraction -- Finding,

Cultivating and Keeping Talent.”

“Through these expert panel discussions, we are delivering to area employers an updated toolkit of strategies and techniques for enticing more skilled individuals to view Westchester County as a location-of choice for finding long-term, meaningful employment,” said Marsha Gordon, BCW’s president and CEO.

The first of five panel discussions is scheduled for March 21, featuring national and global executive search and human resources leaders discussing what it takes to attract talent in today’s challenging hiring environment.

The panel discussions are due to take place virtually.

The April 18 event is planned to have industry experts discuss the best practices top employers are using to ensure their

organizations are putting their best feet forward to win the talent attraction marathon rather than stumbling before the race even begins.

On May 2, industry experts discuss the evolutionary changes currently underway that are moving employee benefits and cul-

tivation programs away from a cookie-cutter approach and toward a custom-tailored menu of alluring options reflecting today’s work-life balance lifestyle.

The May 30 discussion is set to focus on connecting with the people and partners offering access, advice and assistance when expanding a search for talent by tapping into a far-wider labor pool hidden just below the surface.

The issues surrounding whether to work at home, the office or both is set to come up for discussion on June 20.

BCW has declared 2023 as “The Year of Talent” and is conducting a three-prong marketplace strategy of examination, education and engagement. It has set up a special website that explores various aspects of employment and headhunting, WestchesterWantsYou.com.

Marsha Gordon

Collectible American history in wood

BY KATIE BANSER-WHITTLE

Folk art is infinitely variable and infinitely fascinating, both in subject matter and in materials. It is uniquely personal and often highly original. The men and women who create folk art are usually self-taught and often anonymous. They use their skills to express ideas, concerns and emotions about the people and events that affect their daily lives.

Folk artists aren’t motivated by money and they’re not out for personal recognition. Some of their highly individual creations don’t have much meaning or interest for other people. But the best folk art appeals to a wide audience. It’s admired for its themes, its ingenuity and its insight.

Numerous examples of the finest American folk art wood carvings will be offered in a Bonhams Skinner’s online auction “American History in Wood,” beginning Feb. 12 (President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday) and ending Feb. 22 (George Washington’s birthday). The sale features items from the Robert and Anne Levine collection.

For 35 years, this Westport, Connecticut, couple has assembled an extraordinary collection that ranges from

whirligigs to images of glamour girls. It’s a three-dimensional history of American politics, culture and public life. The Levine collection is also a lesson in how great collections are created — and it’s not necessarily by spending huge amounts of money or by relying on the expertise of others.

When they started collecting, the Levines had full-time, demanding professional lives — he as a Norwalk neurologist; she as the business manager of a Southport architectural firm — but they also had a shared interest in history as well as strong instincts for finding great objects. Early on, they focused on folk-art wood carvings with an emphasis on items related to American history. The couple pursued and refined their interest at auctions, shows, antiques shops and museums. They educated themselves so they could rely on their own judgment about what to acquire and how much to pay.

The Levine collection is the result of more than three decades of active acquisition and intense scholarship. Among the outstanding items are several wood carvings of presidents — just in time for Presidents’ Day, Feb. 20 — ranging from several versions of Washington to more recent officeholders including Jimmy Carter,

brightly painted, and a chip-carved portrait head of Richard Nixon.

Patriotic motifs are frequent in American folk art. One sculpture shows Kaiser Wilhelm II — the last German emperor, who was forced to abdicate at the end of World War I — kneeling in surrender to Uncle Sam. A particularly popular recruitment image at that time was Columbia — the United States embodied as a comely woman. She’s represented in the sale by a relief of her head, surrounded by stars and a draped American flag. Brilliantly painted red, white and blue, this almost abstract, early-20th century rendering is startlingly modern-looking.

This sale includes realistic, carved versions of the Navy SEAL emblem and the Great Seal of the United States. An unusual feature of the U.S. seal carving is that it was made by an Italian prisoner of war toward the end of World War II.

The upcoming auction of “American History in Wood” offers the chance to acquire examples of a fascinating collecting area. Material from a pair of legendary collectors is always worth close attention. It’s an ideal opportunity to add to, or even start, a collection of your own.

For more, contact Katie at kwhittle@skinnerinc.com or 212-787-1114.

“Washington and Liberty,” late 19th century, American stained and carved mahogany architectural panel fragment. To be offered in Bonhams Skinner’s “American History of Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection” online auction, Feb. 12 through 22.

“Pocahontas and John Smith” (Circa 1860, American). To be offered in Bonhams Skinner’s “American History of Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection” online auction, Feb. 12 through 22. In recent years, critics have reconsidered the nature of the Pocahontas-Smith relationship – now viewed as a friendship rather than a romance – along with sexualized images of women of color, like Pocahontas, who died far from her Powhatan people in 1617 England at age 21. Among those claiming descent from her have been Edith Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson, and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire).

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Office leasing slows as hybrid work becomes the new normal

BY HOWARD E. GREENBERG

Westchester County’s 2022 year end real estate statistics are out, and as I predicted in last month’s article they are not pretty.

According to the Newmark report, fourth quarter office leasing velocity was down 39.6% from the previous year.

Leasing velocity has been slower in 2022 than in 2021 for three out of four quarters, and  Westchester has seen negative absorption of office space in all four quarters.  The availability rate has also increased in each quarter, beginning the year at 24.7% and ending it at 26.3%.

This means that there are approximately 6.9 million square feet of vacant space, including sublease space, on the market. That is a huge number in a market whose average office lease is approximately 5,000 square feet.

It is also important to put the inventory numbers in context. The county has repurposed approximately 7 million square feet of obsolete office space and office building sites in the last decade or so, to be replaced by new uses such as retail (notably Wegmans), medical, multifamily residential and fitness centers (LifeTime Fitness).

These new developments are providing new tax revenues and are drawing people to mixed-use parks that used to be office parks. Repurposing has helped to keep the amount of vacant and nonleasable office inventory in check, so imagine what the statistics would have been if we had not repurposed these 7 million square feet.

Westchester ended the year at 1.5 million square feet leased, down 23.2% from 2021.  Net absorption was negative 374,000 square feet, meaning that the market continues to vacate more office space than it is leasing.

The percentage of lease renewals against new leases seems to be rising. Particular in the mid and larger size leases, reductions in square footage are frequently involved. There is no question that many of these “right sizings” are a result of remote work and hybrid work causing less than 50% of a typical office space to be physically occupied on any given day.  Many new corporate office spaces are being designed with meetings and collaboration in mind, instead of building private offices and workstations that are intended to be occupied by only one employee and would remain vacant more than half of each week.

It is clear that hybrid work is the new normal with employees in the office two to three days per week and working at home for the balance. As of this writing, large corporations are ramping up their insistence that employees be back in the office at least two to three days per week and are pushing back hard against 100% remote work. Interestingly, the employers and the employees are pretty much in synch on

how much time should be spent in the office.

The two-building office complex at 1111-1129 Westchester Ave. was purchased by New York-Presbyterian Hospital after Pepsico vacated all the space to return to its Purchase headquarters following its multiyear renovation. This will remove 373,000 square feet of vacant office space from the market. The hospital will reportedly use it for both outpatient medical and administrative purposes. Had this large property remained vacant, it would have taken a huge capital improvement budget and  many years to re-lease.

The largest office lease in Westchester County last year was 200,000 square feet leased by Regeneron at 175 King St. in Armonk. It was a very large deal for the fastest-growing employer in the county. But this mega-lease did not move the needle on the vacancy statistics at all, because it was done in a corporate owned and partially occupied building, rather than a mul-

titenant office building.

Westchester is not alone. Nationally, net absorption has been negative for seven of the past 10 quarters and vacancy is at its highest level in a decade. That being said, national availability statistics are about 13%, or about half of Westchester’s.

I and many of my broker colleagues are predicting that 2023 will be a difficult leasing year. While there are tenants who are expanding and some new types of space requirements in the market, the trend that we see is conservatism with respect to office space. We believe that many office tenants will be right-sizing (which used to be called downsizing) as their leases come up for renewal and respond to the longterm effects of hybrid work. The county must continue and accelerate the repurposing of obsolete office buildings and office building sites to new uses in order to ensure the health of the market.

Howard E. Greenberg is president of Howard Properties Ltd., located in Valhalla.

Howard E. Greenberg.

S.O.S. for the excellent Oyster Bar

BY JEREMY WAYNE jwayne@westfairinc.com

“How sad,” the cry always goes up when a much-loved restaurant closes. The trouble is that the restaurant wasn’t loved quite enough by the people sending up the cry, or it would not have had to close. “Too little too late” is the takeaway there — which applies not only to restaurants, of course, but to so much of what we think we value in life.

The Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant — which opened three weeks after the famed Manhattan terminal’s Feb. 2, 1913 debut — is almost a case in point. I say “almost,” because this historic eatery, with its celebrated arches and tiled vault ceiling by designer and architect Rafael Gustavino, is still open, though just barely. On two recent visits, when the handful of diners looked like microdots in a restaurant that comfortably seats around 350, I feared for its future.

Pre-Covid, the restaurant served up to 1,500 customers daily across its four areas — the main bar and dining room, the three U-shaped counters and the clubby Saloon — and while I don’t know the figures today, my amateur head count indicates danger. (The restaurant is currently closed Saturdays and Sundays.)

But it’s not all doom and gloom. As workers return to offices and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) continues to improve its schedules and reduce journey times, Grand Central Terminal’s footfall is increasing, which can only benefit the Oyster Bar. Tourists, too, love the place, and their numbers in New York City are already back to pre-Covid levels and rising. Indeed, it may be tourists who have kept the Oyster Bar going this long and whom we may have yet to thank for preserving it.

The bottom line, though, for any restaurant, irrespective of how exception-

al the site, the décor or the view, must be the food (here helmed by chef and buyer Kamran Naseem). Does the Oyster Bar still make the grade? Spoiler alert: I think it does.

Fish comes in daily from The New Fulton Fish Market in the Bronx, with the daily, date-stamped menu featuring up to 20 varieties of oyster, along with the freshest clams, scallops, shrimp, squid and lobster, all prepared in myriad ways. The number of combinations and permutations is mind-boggling. Clam chowder, New England or Manhattan style, is the equal of any I’ve enjoyed up and down the coastal waters of the Northeast, and the clam stew (which in Oyster Bar-speak is actually a soup) or the restaurant’s famous pan-roast, which is the same stew with an added slice of toast and chili sauce, would win prizes were gongs awarded for such types of dishes alone. A lobster cocktail appetizer comprises a claw, less substantial

than the jumbo shrimp cocktail but both singing of the sea, served with its trusty red cocktail sauce. Although my personal preference for a shellfish sauce is a homemade mayonnaise or aioli, that is not how things are done at the Oyster Bar and we bow graciously to tradition.

There are teetering shellfish platters, shrimp and crab with pasta and fried seafood — including fried Ipswich clams with tartar sauce, another of my favorites — and a whole array of white and pink fish. You’ll likely find char, trout, salmon, tuna, monkfish, bass, bream and more under the heading “Today’s Catch.” And don’t forget about the lobster roll, which always makes a very satisfying lunch or light supper.

The wine list is exceptional in having 30 whites and a similar number of reds available by the glass and, while I don’t think the list is especially modern or eclectic, it certainly offers you a lot of choice at a modest markup, the majority of bottles

priced at under $60. There are cocktails, too. On my last visit, a dry martini arrived in two minutes flat and, although it was not emphatically dry, I found the almost obsolete custom of serving the leftovers from the cocktail shaker (that is, the liquid that doesn’t fit in the cocktail glass) as an “extra” free drink in a little beaker of its own, to be both generous and charming.

With its wonderfully old-fashioned hierarchy of managers, servers and runners — all of whom you need to manage a room this size, even if, sadly, it is not always full; its famous red-checked tablecloths and chairs so comfortable that before you know it a bottle of wine has turned into two or even three and you are in danger of missing the last train home — there is so much to love about the Oyster Bar. I’m also a pushover for those sailor caps the runners wear, an exercise in high camp if ever there was. If ever you miss Fleet Week, come here instead for the full-on Navy experience.

With few changes of ownership over the years since its Cornelius Vanderbilt days, the Oyster Bar is now helmed by its employees, under the Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP), which rents the space from the MTA and provides staff with a retirement plan and ensures the continuity of Forgive me for the somewhat flippant analogy, but to echo the words of President John F. Kennedy, it is not only a question of what the wonderful Oyster Bar can do for you, but what you can now do for the Oyster Bar, one of New York’s great dining institutions, to keep it alive.

Basically, it is this: Go eat there. For more, visit oysterbarny.com

Oyster Bar & Restaurant menu.

Oyster Bar & Restaurant interior. Photographs and video by Jeremy Wayne.

Economic Development

Women’s Business Development Council relaunches Equity Match Grant Program

BY JUSTIN MCGOWN jmcgown@westfairinc.com

The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) has relaunched its Equity Match Grant Program, which provides women-owned businesses across the Connecticut with grants of between $2,500 and $10,000. This is the sixth round of grants since the first round was allocated in 2020.

“We are so pleased to once again extend the opportunity for our state’s women-owned businesses to benefit from a WBDC Equity Match Grant,” said WBDC Founder and CEO Fran Pastore in a press statement announcing the new grants. “In addition to the wonderful stories we hear about how these grants are boosting small businesses, the data is also showing significant impacts on business outcomes.”

Previous rounds of the grant funding have given over $1.5 million to more than 160 different businesses, including many that are minority owned or situated in economically distressed communities. The

application process for the new grant funding round opened on Jan. 17 and will run through Feb. 28.

Applicants are expected to lay out a plan for the funds which will improve their business, though the money cannot be used to cover operating costs, real estate improvement expenses, or to pay off previously acquired debt. Applicants must also be able to provide a minimum 25% match for the grant.

According to the program’s eligibility requirements, the business must be 51% or more female-owned, must have been established for at least two years before the application deadline, must be headquartered and registered in the state and owned by a Connecticut resident who is at least 18 years old, must be in good standing with the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services and the Internal Revenue Service, must have an established business checking account along with a formal digital bookkeeping/financial system plus a record of annual sales/revenue in last 12 months that is greater than $25,000 and must be a for-profit business or a self-supporting

social enterprise.

WBDC added that nonprofits relying on donations are not eligible for consideration. Other businesses that are not eligible for grant funds include medical marijuana dispensaries, liquor stores and alcohol distributors, vape retailers and tobacco shops, gambling-related businesses, collections agencies and bail bonds agencies.

Partial funding for the grants comes from nearly 40 donors, including more than a dozen banks from across the state including Fairfield County Bank, First County Bank, First Bank of Greenwich, and the Savings Bank of Danbury. Additional funds came from partnerships with state, local, and federal government agencies as well as private and corporate donors. The grants were also supported by a large $9.8 million grant from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, with the funds to be delivered over the next five years.

The impact of the grants on recipients has proven substantial. According to the WBDC, out of fifth round recipients 80%

saw increased revenues, 62% increased their profits, and half of the funds hired new employees. Sixty-seven of those companies that earned grants in the first four rounds have added new employees, resulting in 138 new jobs.

“I doubled my business last year thanks to the help from the WBDC,” said Nichelle Waddell, owner of Watch Me Group Daycare in Stamford and a previous grant recipient in testimony provided by WBDC. “I would not be able to do these things without the help, teaching and guidance that I have received from WBDC.”

Waddell added that she was able to open a second location in Norwalk in 2022 thanks to a pair of grants from the WBDC. She used them to repair environmental systems at her business and outfit the second location.

Interested parties can register to attend information sessions scheduled Feb. 9, 15 and 21, with a Spanish-language session on Feb. 16. Application materials and information can be accessed at https://ctwbdc.org/ equity-match-grant-program/.

Phil Hall contributed to this article.

Photo by Julita / Pixabay

Connecticut and New York join lawsuit charging Google with stifling competition

BY PHIL HALL Phall@westfairinc.com

Connecticut Attorney General

William Tong and his New York counterpart Letitia James have joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit challenging Google’s dominance of the online advertising industry.

According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia, Google is accused of impeding competition over the past 15 years by acquiring control over key ad-tech industry tools, including the largest advertising exchange where digital ads are bought and sold, and imposing restrictions designed to hinder its rivals’ ability to compete.

The complaint alleges that Google’s anti-competition strategy has stifled innovation in the digital advertising industry while raising costs and limiting consumer choice.

“Google has market power over the interlocking technologies that deliver online advertising. It has abused its dominance to manipulate advertisement auctions and exchange markets, to coerce advertisers into using its services, and to inflate its own profits at the expense of American businesses in violation of antitrust laws,” said Tong.

Some Things Change. Some Don’t.

What changes

Technology is changing faster than ever. Heavy equipment and the software in it is more complex and can do more for you: GPS, remote control, artificial intelligence. It’s no longer enough to operate equipment. Today and in the future, you have to understand it.

What stays the same

IUOE Local 825 has always kept pace with change. In 2022, we got ahead of it. Our nationally known training center became accredited as a technical college.

This means our engineers are schooled in more than operating heavy equipment. They are learning to maintain and even develop software that runs it, rather than being dependent on it.

Think ahead

Our goal is to stay relevant in a changing world, continuing to offer the most highly trained, skilled and experienced operators available anywhere. Today. And tomorrow.

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TOGETHER WE GROW

TOGETHER WE GROW

2023 FEBRUARY AFTER SIX ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2023

We are thrilled to announce the in-person return of this event!

Greenwich Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a networking event for members and non-members on Wednesday, February 22nd from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Ornare, located at 34 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich.

Ornare is the luxury brand specializing in top quality cabinetry and wall systems. Stylish music, appetizers and an Altaneve processco bar with be offered. Showroom Director, Mylene Del Nero will provide attendees with a tour of this award-winning showroom.

Member fee: $35; non-member fee: $40. Register online at www.greenwichchamber.com, call 203-869-3500 or email greenwichchamber@greenwichchamber. com.

Join us for a conversation with Alexandra Daum, Commissioner Designate, CT Department of Economic & Community Development, and Chris DiPentima, President & CEO, CBIA; along with your Greater Valley Chamber President, Bill Purcell, as they explore the current economic outlook both locally and statewide.

Friday, February 24th - 7:30 am - Brownson Country Club - Shelton

FUEL - VALLEY YOUNG PROFESSIONALS - CONNECT

Join us for a private party at Quail & Ale Neighborhood Pub. Admission includes delicious food, great networking, board games and more. Cash Bar.

About our destination:

The Quail & Ale is the newest addition to the Naugatuck Valley’s exciting restaurant scene. Located in the historic “brewery building” the Quail & Ale is a casual and unique dining experience.

February 22 - 5:30 pm - The Quail & Ale Neighborhood Pub - 328 Derby AvenueDerby

Battery company bringing 500 jobs, $68M investment to Kingston

BY PETER KATZ Pkatz@westfairinc.com

Zinc8 Energy Solutions, a battery manufacturer headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, is establishing U.S. headquarters and a factory at the iPark 87 business park in Kingston. The company had signed a letter of intent to come to iPark 87 last August and negotiations had been continuing. A formal announcement was made at a Jan. 26 event at iPark attended by Gov. Kathy Hochul and numerous other local, county and state officials.

The company plans to invest $68 million over five years in the new facility. Zinc8 will be the anchor tenant and lease approximately 237,000 square feet of warehouse and outdoor space at iPark 87, which is owned by Greenwich-based National

Resources. The state’s Empire State Development has agreed to provide up to $9 million in performance-based Excelsior Jobs Program tax credits. The property at one time was an IBM facility. After IBM moved out, an effort by the owner at the time to redevelop the site rebranded as TechCity failed.

The company’s batteries use patented zinc-air battery technology. The company explains that zinc particles the size of gains of sand are used to store energy. When the system is delivering power, the zinc particles are combined with oxygen drawn from the surrounding air. When the system is recharging, zinc particles are regenerated, and oxygen is returned to the surrounding air. The company’s The Zinc8 ESS is an energy storage system designed to deliver electricity in the range of 20,000 watts to 50 million watts with a capacity of eight

hours of storage duration or longer.

“Creating good jobs that will lead to a greener, more sustainable New York for our children and grandchildren is not only beneficial to our economy, it’s the right thing to do for our planet,” Hochul said. “Zinc8’s cutting edge, clean energy storage technology is another tool that will allow us to achieve our bold climate agenda and continue to make New York state a leader in advancing the green economy.”

Joseph Cotter, co-founder of National Resources, said, the commitment by Zinc8 represents “an opportunity to totally transform this former IBM campus into a vibrant new community that is focused on innovation, sustainability and future living for Ulster County.”

According to Ron MacDonald, president, CEO, and director of Zinc8 Energy

Solutions,”The historic measures taken by New York State to reach ambitious carbon neutrality goals are driving clean energy innovation and Zinc8 is committed to being an integral part of New York’s green economy.”

Hochul used the event as an opportunity to push for local governments to approve construction of more housing.

“Businesses have rediscovered New York as a place of innovation and energy and creative people second to none. They want to be here, especially in places like Ulster County,” Hochul said. “But if we don’t create the housing, all levels of housing, then where are they going to go? How is Ron going to find homes for 500 new people and their families? To my local partners in government, I spent 14 years on a town board. I was liaison to the planning board, the zoning board, the traffic safety board. I know what goes into projects. I know how easy it is to say no. I also know the importance of saying yes. If we don’t grow our communities, then people like Ron will go somewhere else.”

Gov. Hochul, right, congratulates Ron MacDonald of Zinc8 on the company’s commitment to establish U.S. headquarters and a factory in Kingston.

HUDSON VALLEY

HV group issues ecological grants

BY PAMELA BROWN

Partners for Climate Action

Hudson Valley (PCA) based in Chatham, New York, believes that preserving the environment is critical and it is helping ecological-based organizations in their quest to alleviate ecological decline and the effects of climate change.

“There’s a lot of despair in our communities right now. People know that Mother Nature is struggling and the climate is changing, and we hear a lot of talk from our government but not much of a response.  The antidote to despair is action,” Bob Dandrew, founding partner of Partners for Climate Action Hudson Valley (PCA) told the Business Journals.

PCA recently announced its inaugural round of Ecological Restoration Grants. Seventeen organizations in five counties will receive a total of $350,000 to implement action-based ecological restoration projects in 2023. Grants ranged from $1,500 to $100,000 and were awarded in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Putman and Ulster counties to municipalities, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and faith-based organizations. PCA identifies barriers that are standing in the way of local ecological action and does what it can to help overcome them. The barriers could include financial, social, political or any number of other factors. In many cases, relatively small amounts of funding by PCA  will help turn inaction into action.

“We cast our net broadly so that we could see what was out there in terms of interest and scale. While we offered up to $100,000, we didn’t know if there’d be any projects at that level. We were delighted to discover there are plenty of ambitious communities out there,” said Dandrew. “It really doesn’t have to cost a lot to make a big difference for the environment.”

Dandrew noted all 17 projects PCA funded in the initial round of grants are important but some that stand out for him include: the Kite’s Nest project in Columbia County that will employ at-risk youth to collect food scraps from residents and turn them into compost that will help remediate damaged soil at an old industrial site; the Glynwood Center in Putnam County that is leading the way for regional farms with an experimental effort to remove invasive species without harmful chemicals; and Bard College’s

conversion of abandoned Dutchess County property into large-scale pollinator habitat should be a stunning example for large landholders to follow.

“I’m encouraged by a community effort to restore native trees and shrubs along a storm-ravaged section of the Hudson River shoreline by the Saugerties Lighthouse in Ulster County,” Dandrew said.

He said that each grant application was carefully evaluated over a threemonth period by what’s described as a blue-ribbon panel of reviewers consisting of climate scientists, agro-ecologists, nonprofit leaders, and community activists.

“We were very specific that projects needed to show demonstrable work on the ground within a year’s time,”

Dandrew said, while noting that the grants did not fund research. “We told people that if they ended up with paper cuts rather than dirt under their finger nails, they were on the wrong path.”

Recipients have one year to deploy the funds and PCA will offer technical support, follow their progress, and assist with story-telling to inspire similar activity across the Hudson Valley and beyond.

According to Dandrew, the grant process is complex and very competitive and New York State has limited funding available for ecological restoration.

“It’s generally very difficult to find funding for this work,” he said. “There was a special sense of elation at Partners for Climate Action on the day we announced the grants. We know how urgently the applicants want to take

action, and now they can go out there and get their projects completed.”

Dandrew emphasized that the Hudson Valley is a major producer of agricultural products and it is being affected by extreme weather that has impacted everything from energy costs to travel. Other issues include an increase in the deer population and a decrease in the number of bees, which are vital to pollinate crops. He said that PCA intends to launch another round of grants in the near future.

“This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for our region,” Dandrew said.  “I believe our Ecological Restoration Grants will remove a serious barrier to action in towns throughout the Valley, and when neighbors see neighbors rolling up their sleeves, they’ll want to join in.”

Bob Dandrew

Good Things

NYS SENATE BILL PROTECTS ABORTION AND  PROVIDERS USING TELEHEALTH

The New York State Senate passed Senator Shelley B. Mayer and Assemblywoman Karines Reyes’ bill,  S.1066A (Assembly number forthcoming), which provides explicit protections for doctors, medical providers and facilitators serving patients seeking abortion and reproductive health services via telehealth.

Just days after the 50th anniversary of the landmark decision of  Roe v. Wade, the New York State Senate passed a package of bills to cement New York’s status as a reproductive health-care sanctuary state. Included as part of this package, S.1066A affirms New York’s role as a nationwide leader by further safeguarding access to abortion for people in this state and across the country.

Mayer said, “This legislation will protect reproductive health-care providers

by safeguarding them against any outof-state interference — allowing New York providers to be a resource for Americans who have had their rights stripped away. New York has been and continues to be a nationwide leader for reproductive rights….”

FIRM WELCOMES ASSOCIATE IN APPELLATE LITIGATION

Aaron Zucker has joined Abrams Fensterman as a member in the firm’s appellate practice group. Zucker is an experienced professional who has researched and analyzed complex legal issues in previous positions, which have given him valuable knowledge of civil and criminal appellate matters.

Prior to joining Abrams Fensterman, Zucker served as senior law clerk to Judge Michael J. Garcia of the New York Court of Appeals. Before that he served as an assistant district attorney in the Appeals Bureau of the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Earlier in his career, Zucker was an Appellate Court attorney at the Appellate

Division, Fourth Department.

He graduated, cum laude, from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. As a law student, he served as a legal-writing teaching assistant, as well as an intern in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Major Offense Bureau of the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.

Abrams Fensterman is a multifaceted, general practice law firm that currently has more than 115 attorneys in five offices — Lake Success, Brooklyn, White Plains, Rochester and Albany.

ADVISING HEALTH-CARE- FOCUSED FIRMS

Carter Morse & Goodrich (CMG) in Southport served as the exclusive financial advisor to a group of shareholders in Med Learning Group Holdings LLC in its sale to DW Healthcare Partners (DWHP), a health-care-focused private equity firm. Terms of the transaction, which closed on Dec. 30, 2022, were not disclosed.

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

MLG, previously a division of Ultimate Medical Academy, is an accredited, full-service continuing medical education (CME) company focusing on developing, implementing and measuring online and in-person continuing education that improves health-care practitioners’ ability to provide optimal care to patients. MLG works with leading pharmaceutical companies around the world to create engaging content using the latest trends in available technology and utilizes outcomes measurement and reporting.

SUPERAGER SECRETS TO STAYING SHARP AS YOU AGE

SuperAgers are people over the age of 80 who have the cognitive abilities of someone decades younger. So, what’s their secret? According to recent research, the one trait that SuperAgers possess is to learn something new every day. But based on  25 years of caring for Connecticut seniors,  Mario D’Aquil a of Assisted Living Services Inc. (ALS) explains it’s really a combination of brain exercises and healthy eating.

“Use it or lose it is just as true for mental fitness as it is for physical fitness,” said D’Aquila, MBA, chief operating officer of home care agency ALS with offices in Cheshire and Westport. “We often see significant improvement in our clients after engaging in new activities with caregivers who also help prepare meals.”

D’Aquila cites a  CNBC article  summarizing the 18-month study that compares our memories to a bank account. The deposits, which are pieces of new information, help build brain connections. Memories are kept in these connections. As we age, the connections can weaken or be lost altogether. However, the more deposits you have, the less impact there is on your memories from these withdrawals.

D’Aquila shares ways to cross train your brain:

• Do something mentally stimulating, such as listening to a podcast, joining a book club or taking an online course.

• Do something that requires learning through movement, such as a new sport, dance or yoga.

• Be social. Grab coffee with a friend or go to a dinner party, as social interaction is a form of learning that has been associated with staving off dementia.

It’s crucial to approach learning the way you would fitness training, according to D’Aquila. “You wouldn’t go to the gym and only work out one body part. The same goes for the brain, he said.” An activity needs to be challenging in order to have impact. SuperAgers pursue learning opportunities outside of their comfort zone.

Since 1996, award-winning home care agency Assisted Living Services in Cheshire and Westport has provided

care to residents across Connecticut. Its unique CarePlus program blends personal care by more than 600 employees and caregivers with technological safety and monitoring devices from sister company Assisted Living Technologies

Inc . ALS was ranked on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies and recognized by Home Care Pulse® as a “Best of Home Care Leader In Excellence,” a designation given to the best home care providers in the nation.

Assisted Living Services’ caregiver Precious Bobson ensures that client Elaine Kuhrt of Cheshire remains active both physically and mentally. Photo courtesy of Assisted Living Services Inc.

THE ART$WCHALLENGE, A PUBLIC/PRIVATE MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM

GRANT FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS

Westchester County Executive George Latimer and the Westchester County Board of Legislators recently joined with ArtsWestchester to announce that 102 Westchester arts organizations are the recipients of matching funds from the Art$WChallenge grant program.

In what has been a record-breaking year, participating arts organizations raised $786,541 in new private funds from 1,320 donors through the program, which ended Dec. 31. These private funds were matched with $501,571 in Westchester

County support, providing in total $1.28 million in financial support for the arts community at a critical time when arts groups are working to build back arts audiences lost during the pandemic.

County Executive George Latimer said, “Since the inception of the Art$WChallenge in 2007, this powerful public/ private program has raised over $6 million to support Westchester’s arts and cultural sector, matched with more than $3 million in county support. The county’s arts community has weathered a difficult

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few years. In fact, there has never been a more important time to help the arts make a comeback with broad and enthusiastic support than now.”

Grantees included arts organizations in every corner of Westchester.

Janet T. Langsam, CEO of ArtsWestchester said: “…With the cultural sector generating more than $172 million in economic activity pre-pandemic, this vital community investment will help us in our effort to ensure Westchester’s cultural infrastructure for the future.”

Caring for the Hungry and Homeless of Peekskill (CHHOP) has been awarded a one-year $50,000 grant from the Westchester Community Foundation for its Rehousing in Supportive Environments (RISE) program in collaboration with My Sisters’ Place and Lifting Up Westchester. This one-year grant will support CHHOP and its RISE program partners to provide comprehensive services to survivors of domestic violence enrolled in transitional housing as they rebuild their lives. This grant was made possible in part by the Westchester Community Foundation, a division of The New York Community Trust.

Cynthia Knox, CHHOP CEO, said, “Domestic violence can affect anyone, so it is essential to have services for survivors and their families who are most vulnerable. This grant will enable us and our partners to help domestic violence survivors and their families move forward from their trauma as they rebuild their lives and start

anew.”

The $50,000 grant from the Westchester Community Foundation will allow CHHOP and its partners to provide housing and supportive services to households affected by domestic violence, secure “rapid rehousing” for new households coming into the RISE program, offer ongoing trauma-informed counseling and legal services, connect survivors with appropriate training for work skills and job readiness, and assist them with job searches.

CHHOP works to alleviate hunger and homelessness in Peekskill and the surrounding community by providing temporary housing, long-term housing, advocacy and clinical and support services to veterans, domestic violence survivors and chronically homeless men and women. In addition, CHHOP also provides healthy and nutritious food through Fred’s Pantry, supporting those who are hungry and facing food insecurity.

RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT GLOBAL DISPLACEMENT

Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains has launched Burke TheraDogs, a canine therapy program to support patients and staff members partnering with The Good Dog Foundation, a notfor-profit organization that trains and provides therapy dogs for health care, social service and educational facilities in the tri-state area and beyond.

Volunteers and their four-legged friends visit Burke two to three times a week. Echo and Nala, two black Labradors, assist patients in their rehabilitative journey while staff members also find respite in the weekly encounters.

“We are so excited to offer this program to patients and colleagues as we are dealing with challenging situations and living through trying times,” said Burke’s Director of Volunteers Robin Goldberg. “The Patient Experience Department instituted this program to support both our patients and staff. There is nothing better than seeing a friendly and sweet therapy dog lifting up the spirits of a patient or staff member.”

Since its inception in 1998, The Good

Dog Foundation has had a singular mission. Carly Goteiner, The Good Dog Foundation director of community engagement, said, “Using animal assisted intervention, we enhance human healing and learning. The Good Dog Foundation works with exceptional dogs and handlers to achieve this goal. The owners and

their dogs are highly trained and certified to work as a team and enrich the lives of each person they meet during each encounter.”

Burke TheraDogs looks to expand in the future with additional dogs and owners. Anyone interested in the program should contact Robin Goldberg at  rgoldberg@burke.org

Westchester Jewish Coalition for Immigration (WJCI), a humanitarian organization that provides critical support for forcibly displaced people, was a regional sponsor of the recent fifth annual Refugee Shabbat, powered by WJCI’s partner HIAS.

Refugee Shabbat is an initiative that encourages Jewish congregations, community organizations and individuals across the United States and around the world to dedicate a Shabbat experience to raising awareness about the global displacement crisis, reaffirming support for refugees and asylum seekers and taking action at a time when the right to seek asylum is being severely abridged in the U.S. and around the world.

WJCI is supported by UJA-Federation of New York, a key partner in mobilizing the Westchester community, the Jewish Federation of North America and The Shapiro Foundation.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, WJCI has served as an anchor

for Ukrainians moving to this region and has helped operate and motivate volunteers to step up to help. Its vital partners have done the same. UJA-Federation of New York has provided more than $22.1 million in emergency funding worldwide, which includes funding to address the urgent needs of refugees in Ukraine, Europe, Israel and New York. With the support of The Shapiro Foundation, the Jewish Federation of North America launched a $1million Ukrainian Resettlement Grant Initiative to resettle and support Ukrainian refugees seeking safety in the U.S. Open Arms for Refugees has also provided a 25K grant toward WJCI’s Ukrainian resettlement initiative. These funds have enabled WJCI to widen its net considerably to help Ukrainian refugees by creating Welcome Circles throughout the region.

WJCI is an entirely volunteer-run, nonpartisan organization that envisions the United States as a place where refugees, asylum seekers and all other immigrants can live safely and in dignity.

Therapy dog getting an assignment at Burke.

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BRING ON THE GAMES

Heather Bell, president of the Orange County Chamber

Resorts World Hudson Valley, which opened late December in the town of Newburgh, welcomed the Orange County Chamber of Commerce (OCCC) on Thursday Jan. 26, bringing dozens of members to its gaming floor for the chamber’s first mixer of 2023. Meghan Taylor, vice president of government affairs for Genting, told the Business Journal it is gearing up to re-open the Monster Golf Course in Kiamesha Lake in July. Heather Bell, OCCC president, said the organization has come back with a blast since Covid restrictions have finally been lifted.

ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING LAW FIRMS IN THE NATION

Coffey Modica O’Meara Capowski LLP

(CMOC) In less than a year and a half, has grown from three attorneys – the founding partners – in White Plains to more than 45 attorneys and staff in eight offices across the Northeast and included the addition of partners Michael Mezzacappa, Lawrence Luppi, Vince Avery and Glen Feinberg.

“We are growing at an unprecedented pace,” explained  Juliann O’Meara, CMOC managing partner. “Not only are our impressive results yielding more business from existing clients – both insurers and self-insureds – but they are attracting new clients as well.”

Mezzacappa and Luppi handle high-exposure, catastrophic personal injury and property damage cases, bolstering the firm’s already deep bench of trial attorneys and litigators.  Avery strengthens the existing employment and management liability practice while Feinberg focuses on defending ultra-sensitive, high-value cases, including those related to the Child Victims Act.

Much of Mezzacappa’s practice is focused on cases arising from explosions and fires. He has litigated and tried some of the most notable fire and explosion, product liability, premises liability and construction accident cases in New York. His experience working for a national defense firm for 21 years and as in-house counsel for a national insurance company for five years gives him

experience, which allows him to intimately understand his clients’ internal procedures and challenges.

Luppi represents clients in general liability matters, including high-exposure premises liability and New York labor law cases with claims of wrongful death. He handles all aspects of litigation and works creatively and diligently to extricate his clients from their cases.

Avery defends employers across all industry sectors, focusing on two highly regulated industries hospitality and home health care. In addition, he provides advice and counsel, working closely with in-house counsel and business owners to mitigate litigation.

Feinberg is a veteran trial attorney and former Manhattan assistant district attorney, who represents educational, childcare, health care and religious institutions in general liability, employment and malpractice claims.

Michael Coffey, one of the founding partners said, “We also offer a unique collegial culture founded on mentoring and collaboration and attract attorneys who want something a little different than a traditional law firm.”

Coffey Modica O’Meara Capowski is a New York-based defense litigation firm with eight offices in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Philadelphia.

Vince Avery

Michael Mezzacappa

Glen Feinberg

Lawrence Luppi

Members network at new casino.

of Commerce and Howard Lane, enjoy the festivities. Photos by Kathy Kahn.

Meghan Taylor, who worked extensively in regional government affairs for several years, is now a member of Genting’s exective team here in New York.

LUNCH & LEARN ESTATE PLANNING SERIES LAUNCHED

Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano LLP of White Plains and Somers has launched its 2023 Lunch & Learn Series, held at noon on the last Wednesday of each month to shed light on important elder law and estate planning topics. The Nuts and Bolts of Estate and Financial Planning program, the first in its series, takes place on Wednesday, Feb. 22.

“Many clients come to us when they

(or their loved ones) are on the verge of losing everything, which can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets,” said Anthony J. Enea, the firm’s managing member. “Educating seniors and their families on the need for advanced planning is extremely important to all the attorneys at Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano – and it’s never too early to start. There are several planning op-

BANK BRANCH MANAGERS NAMED

tions available for adults of all ages, yet many remain in the dark.”

The 90-minute programs, which include a light lunch and refreshments, will take place at the firm’s White Plains location and are open to the public at no cost – though space is limited. Those interested in attending are encouraged to register early by calling 914-948-1500.

NORWALK RESIDENT WINS BANK’S DRAWING

Nicole Pacione and Adam Kramer will lead two Orange County branches of the Hudson Valley Credit Union (HVCU). Pacione will serve as New Windsor branch manager and Kramer will serve as Newburgh branch manager. They each bring more than a decade of experience in financial services to their new roles.

Pacione started at HVCU’s New Windsor branch as a financial service representative in 2010 and moved up the ladder over the years. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Mount Saint Mary College.

Kramer began his career in financial services in 2013 as a branch manager and brings more than 20 years of leadership experience to his new role. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Albany.

With over $6.6 billion in assets, Hudson Valley Credit Union has been a community partner in Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Ulster and Westchester counties for nearly 60 years. The credit union is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Opportunity Lender.

COLLEGE PRESIDENT ELECTED

The Mercy College Board of Trustees has elected Susan L. Parish, Ph.D., M.S.W., as its 13th president. Currently dean of the College of Health Professions and Sentara Professor of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Parish will join Mercy College as president on July 1. The selection of Parish follows a comprehensive search for a leader to succeed President Timothy L. Hall, who announced he will retire on June 30.

teaching, mentoring and research. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree and M.S.W. degree from Rutgers University and earned her Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as completing a National Institutes of Health-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Michael Victor, left, with FirstPrize $avings winner Mr. Dais.

First County Bank awarded Hampton Dais of Norwalk, $1,000, making him the latest winner of the FirstPrize $avings account drawing. Michael Victor, the bank branch manager, said, “Mr. Dais is one of our branch “regulars –– I was excited to hear that he won and was happy to call him and share the good news.”

The FirstPrize $avings account, is a savings account with a cash prize drawing. With each eligible deposit of $25 or more, the account holder earns an entry into a drawing for a $1,000 prize. The drawing occurs four times a year, with one winner per quarter. The $1,000 prize is deposited directly into the winner’s

FirstPrize $avings account, making the money available immediately.

First County Bank, headquartered in Stamford for more than 170 years, is an independent mutual community bank with 14 branches in Stamford, Norwalk, Darien, Greenwich, Fairfield, New Canaan and Westport.

Under Parish’s leadership, the College of Health Professions at VCU experienced significant increases in graduate and undergraduate enrollment and research funding. Under her leadership, the college also launched an innovative liberal arts undergraduate degree in Health Services in 2020 and developed new certificate programs and graduate concentrations. Previously, she served as dean of Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. Over the course of her career, Parish has been a prolific researcher primarily in the area of health disparities for people with disabilities and has garnered more than $13 million in external research funding. She has received distinctions for her

Clockwise from top left: Gregory Rivera, Michael P. Enea, Ashley Arcuri, Darrell Delancey, Stella King, Lauren C. Enea, Robert Arbuco, Sara E. Meyers, Anthony J. Enea and Samantha A. Lyons.

Nicole Pacione

Adam Kramer

Good Things

SPRING GALA RETURNS FOR LARCHMONT FRIENDS

A local nonprofit volunteer organization, Larchmont Friends of the Family (LFOF), which has been actively and quietly helping families in the Westchester community for more than 20 years, will host its 2023 Spring Gala at Beach Point Club on Thursday, March 16, at 6:30 p.m. after a three-year hiatus due to Covid-19.

Tina Sadarangani, president of the organization, said, “Our annual fundraising events have been sold out in years past and we’re excited to welcome 300 guests to join us again, many of whom are neighbors who have recently moved to the area since 2020 who want to learn more about what we do.”

The guest speaker at the event will be  Naomi Brickel , who will share how LFOF helped support and lift her up after the unexpected death of her teenage son, Adam.

“We are neighbors helping neighbors in a meaningful way,” said Emily Bender, fundraising chair for Larchmont Friends of the Family.

Founded in 1997 by several appreciative Larchmont residents who had

HEALTH CARE FACILITY’S NEW PRESIDENT/CEO

suffered severe illnesses in their own families and received help from neighbors and friends, which they found to be invaluable, uplifting and transformative and made them realize how meaningful and necessary community support can be during a time of crisis. Since then, LFOF has been actively and confidentially helping local families through difficult times. Today, LFOF is a focused organization with more than 200 volunteers who have helped close to 100 families cope both financially and emotionally.

PROTECTING FREEDOM IN INDO-PACIFIC REGION

Dave Jolly, former chief operating officer for Cornerstone Family Healthcare since 2014, took the helm as its new president and chief operating officer on Jan. 6. He had previously served as commissioner of the Orange County Department of Social Services for eight years and is currently chair of the New York State Association of

Counties, Medicaid and Human Services Resolutions Committee.

“Dave has proven himself to be an exemplary leader with the right combination of sound principals, a patient-centered focus and strategic vision to propel Cornerstone Family Healthcare into its next phase of success,” said Muller, who spent

31 years growing the health-care system. During the three decades of her tenure the facility grew from a single site in the city of Newburgh caring for 5,000 patients to a system that today serves more than 55,000 patients at 24 locations across Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Westchester and Broome counties.

LEGAL HAND CALL-IN CENTER ESTABLISHED

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has opened Westchester County’s first Legal Hand Call-in Center, in partnership with Legal Hand Inc., an innovative community-based service based on the idea of Neighbors helping Neighbors. Legal Hand’s highly trained nonlawyer volunteers are available to community members to help assist them, always at no cost, with issues in the areas of housing, immigration, family issues, public benefits, domestic violence, elderly assistance, estate issues and other challenging life issues.

The virtual Legal Hand Call-In Center will be operated by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, with the support of Haub law students and community Volunteers. It will provide free legal information, assistance and referrals to community members six days a week via phone, text message, email and chat.

Navy Lt. William Wilkinson from Rockland County leads a damage control team during a firefighting drill aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52), which is part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in U.S.

7th Fleet conducting routine operations. The 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy‘s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

“Our Legal Hand Volunteers are highly trained law students and community members who care deeply about understanding the issues facing Westchester individuals and families and empowering them by connecting them to resources and information that can help.” said Elyse Diamond, director of the Public Interest

Law Center and Access to Justice Project, at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. Center Attorney Stephanie Costa said, “we are excited to provide this free service to the Westchester community and empower folks to take control of the issues that impact their everyday lives.

Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law offers Juris Doctorate and Masters of Law degrees in both Environmental and International Law, as well as a

Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) in Environmental Law.

Legal Hand is a nonprofit organization providing support for communities since 2015. Originating in New York City, Legal Hand’s proven community-based model has helped thousands of people in need.

For Call-In Center assistance, call or text 914-425-5483 or visit Westchesterhelp@legalhand.org.

Dave Jolly, center, joined by Cornerstone CEO Linda Muller and local elected officials.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jordan Jennings.

HOW TO REPLACE PAIN AND SUFFERING

Trinity Spiritual Center, 651 Pequot Ave. in Southport will host an in-person and livestream event with renowned Episcopal priest, author and retreat leader Stuart Higginbotham for an engaging look at how Buddhist meditation techniques can enrich Christian contemplative practice.

On Friday, Feb. 10 over dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 11 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., attendees will explore visualization techniques that both traditions use to nurture awareness of one’s core essence: the reality that is at the heart of existence. Drawing on Christian and Buddhist texts and images, Higginbotham will explore how our impulse to hold onto a more limited construction of our own being feeds discomfort in life and how a fuller awareness of our own presence  — the Light of Life — is the key to personal fulfillment.

Higginbotham is an Episcopal priest,

writer and retreat leader working to renew the Christian Wisdom tradition. He serves as rector at Grace Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Georgia.

The day-long retreat is the 10th in a series of workshops that Trinity Spiritual Center has organized over the past two years inviting people of all faiths — or none at all — to focus on expanding their understanding of contemplative practices drawn from all wisdom traditions that are relevant to contemporary lives.

Trinity Spiritual Center Director Mark Grayson. “He (Higginbotham) has a gift for translating ancient wisdom in contemporary tools that all seekers can integrate into our daily lives, so that grace might enter to replace our own pain and suffering with contentment, love and joy.”

There is a $40 fee for the event that includes dinner and lunch. Register at https://stuarthigginbothamworkshop. eventbrite.com/

VOLUNTEER SPIRIT AWARDEE IS CHOSEN

Volunteer New York! will honor Joseph D. Roberto, former chairman, president and CEO of PCSB Bank, with its Legacy Award at its 43rd annual Volunteer Spirit Awards breakfast benefit presented by Regeneron at the Westchester Marriott, 670 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, on Friday, May 5, from 8 to 10 a.m. with a free postevent networking component for guests. During the celebration, VNY! will recognize six additional individuals and groups for the difference they are making in the community. The Legacy Award goes to a business or civic leader who has made a personal and professional commitment to volunteerism, has significantly supported the values and mission of Volunteer New York! and who encourages deep employee and community engagement in service.

Throughout his more than 48 years of financial management and executive positions in the banking industry, Roberto has demonstrated an ability to execute strategies to improve operations, increase profitability and successfully guide organizations through rapidly changing environments. While leading one of the lower Hudson Valley’s top commercial banks, Roberto advanced diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and advocated for the support of various nonprofits that deeply impact both employees and the communities they serve.

“Our Legacy Award not only represents all that an honoree has already done, but also brings hope and intentionality to their present and the impact they will continue to have on the community,” said Jeanette Gisbert, executive director, Volunteer New York!.

Actively involved in various organizations in both Putnam and Westchester counties, Roberto currently serving on the boards of the Putnam Economic Development Committee, the Putnam Hospital Center Foundation, the Westchester County Association, the Boys and Girls Club of Mount Vernon, the Corporate Council of St. Christopher’s Inn and served on the 2022 Benefit Committee for Volunteer New York!, Association of Development Officers, White Plains, and the United Way of Westchester and Putnam counties.

For more than 70 years, Volunteer New York! has encouraged adults to serve, youth to build character, families to bond, young professionals to lead, mature adults to share their wisdom and businesses to engage through volunteerism.

Tickets, congratulatory journal ads and event sponsorship opportunities are available at: volunteernewyork.org/ awards. For all event inquiries, contact Matt Soper at 914-227-9307 or matt@volunteernewyork.org

FAR FROM HOME

stroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) while operating in the Philippine Sea on Jan. 23. The destroyer is assigned to Commander, Task Force 71/Destroy-

er Squadron, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed frigate responsible for training, equipping and administering its ships.

SCHUMER ADDRESSES ISSUES CRITICAL TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Business and nonprofit organizations in New York state stand to benefit from new federal funding directed toward climate efforts, U.S. Senate Majority Leader

Friday, Jan. 20, at a special forum convened by Nonprofit Westchester and the Westchester County Association and hosted by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Schumer de-

tailed the clean energy incentives and tax credits available to individuals and organizations for green upgrades aimed at reducing carbon emissions 40% by 2030.

Ensign Lara Malaver. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Greg Johnson.

U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Ensign Lara Malaver of White Plains is pictured developing a maneuvering solution on the bridge aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile de -

Chuck Schumer shared with attendees

COURT CASES

U.S. Bankruptcy Court

White Plains & Poughkeepsie

Local business cases, Jan. 25 - 31

Javier C. Diaz, White Plains re. Javier Diaz Cabero Animal Hospital, Elmsford, 23-22071-SHL: Chapter 7, assets $143,405, liabilities $440,242\.

Attorney: Gary R. Gjertsen.

U.S. District Court

White Plains

Local business cases, Jan. 25 - 31

Candace Krueger, Westchester vs. Cortlandt Healthcare, et al, 23-cv-621-PMH: Age discrimination.

Attorneys: Brian A. Heller, Davida S. Perry.

Lois Uliano, Pelham vs. Stannah Stairlifts Inc., Elmsford, 23-cv-703-NSR: Americans with Disabilities Act.

Attorney: Jordan A. El-Hag.

Reshma Bhoopersaud, Pine Bush, vs. Heritage Financial Credit Union, Middletown, 23-cv-729-NSR: Job discrimination.

Attorney: Jordan A. El-Hag.

Amber and Tova Zachary, Orange County vs. Instant Brands LLC, Central Valley, 23-cv-730-PMH: Failure to pay timely wages, class action.

Attorney: Brett R. Cohen.

Ramon Ramos, Bergenfield, New Jersey, vs. Lawrence Equities, Chestnut Ridge, 23-cv-746-KMK: Negligence.

Attorney: John P. Grill.

ON THE RECORD Facts & Figures

Veronica Cummings, Stony Point vs. Lowe’s Home Centers, Orangeburg, 23-cv753: Personal injury, removal from Rockland Supreme Court.

Attorneys: Frank J. Phillips and Jeffrey T. Millman.

Samantha DeJesus vs. Bon Secours Community Hospital, Port Jervis, et al, 23-cv-806-VB: Employment discrimination, removal from Orange County Supreme Court.

Attorneys: Megan S. Goddard and Siobhan E.C. Klassen for plaintiff; Leo Ernst and Daniel D. Schudroff for defendants.

DEEDS

Above $1 million

226 Webster Realty Corp, New Rochelle. Seller: 224-228 Webster LLC, New Rochelle.

Property: 224-228 Webster Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Jan. 17.

306 Huguenot Street Corp., Katonah. Seller: Modern Cousins Management Group LLC, New Rochelle. Property: 306 Huguenot St., New Rochelle.

Amount: $7.2 million. Filed Jan. 18.

51 Old Route 22 Corp, Armonk.

Seller: Old Route 22 Investors LLC, Armonk. Property: 53 Old Route, North Castle.

Amount: $2.3 million. Filed Jan. 23.

60 Gibson Place LLC, Jericho.

Seller: Yahya Hisham, Yonkers. Property: 60 Gibson Place, Yonkers. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 20.

Bowie, April D., Mount Kisco.

Seller: TD Bank NA, Falmouth, Maine. Property: 6 Greeley Court, Mount Kisco. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Jan. 20.

Cactus Properties 1 LLC, Ridgewood. Seller: 220-230 South Fulton LLC, Mount Vernon. Property: 230 Fulton Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $5 million. Filed Jan. 23.

Delfino, Brett, Mount Vernon.

Seller: 14 Crescent Drive South LLC, Elmsford. Property: 50 Sycamore Ave., Mount Vernon.

Greenberg, Glenn and Linda Vester, South Salem. Seller: 109 Boway LLC, South Salem. Property: 109 Boway Road, Lewisboro. Amount: $7.4 million. Filed Jan. 23.

JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Columbus, Ohio. Seller: 275 Halstead Owner LLC, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Property: 275 Halstead Ave., Harrison. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Jan. 23.

Lioncel Group LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Raj Inamdar and Trina Dutta, New York. Property: 16 Stonehouse Road, Scarsdale.

Amount: $3.6 million. Filed Jan. 23.

Mary L. Conte Family Ltd. Partnership, Mount Kisco.

Seller: Bedford Babbitt LLC, Yonkers. Property: 205-207 Babbit Road, Bedford. Amount: $2 million. Filed Jan. 20.

Moser, Carl R., Scarsdale. Seller: JAF Builders Corp, Scarsdale. Property: 7 Tyler Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $1 million. Filed Jan. 17.

Robert John Boniello Builders Inc., North Salem.

Seller: Josephine Potente, Cortlandt Manor. Property: 11 Lafayette Drive, Somers. Amount: $2.7 million. Filed Jan. 20.

Below $1 million

19 Garfield LLC, Yonkers.

Seller: Muslim American Society of Upper New York, Yonkers.

Property: 19 Garfield St., Yonkers. Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Albano, George C. and Lorraine Albano, Carmel.

Seller: Satun Realty Corp., Bronx. Property: 183 Park Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $725,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Avgush, Doron and Rachel Avgush, Bronx. Seller: Sandra M. Falcone, Yorktown Heights.

Property: 1450 E. Main St., Yorktown. Amount: $330,000. Filed Jan. 20.

Bartholomew, Briella R., White Plains. Seller: 46 Upland LLC, Yorktown Heights.

Clinton Street Management LLC, Irvington. Seller: 20-22 Clinton St LLC, Sleepy Hollow. Property: 20 Clinton St., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $900,000. Filed Jan. 18.

DHR Squared LLC, Bedford. Seller: Magci Maurad-Maurad and Narcisa D. DuchimazaLeon., Port Chester. Property: 421 Ellendale Ave., Rye. Amount: $705,000. Filed Jan. 17.

E&G Group LLC, Mamaroneck. Seller: Agron and Anila Demushi, Bronx. Property: 132 Waverly, Mamaroneck. Amount: $920,000. Filed Jan. 20.

Franco-Ruiz Douglas, Rio Grande, Puerto rico. Seller: Drippy Builders LLC, New York. Property: 87 William St., Yonkers. Amount: $248,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Garfield Gardens LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Muslim American Society of Upper New York, Yonkers. Property: 15 Garfield St., Yonkers. Amount: $75,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Greenberg, Helene M., Scarsdale. Seller: Carrington Mortgage Services LLC, Anaheim, California. Property: 77 Lorraine Terrace, Mount Vernon. Amount: $306,000. Filed Jan. 19.

Hufjay, Robert, White Plains. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB, Lansing, Michigan. Property: 89 Chauncey Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $485,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Jorgensen, Niels H., Valhalla. Seller: Jonathan Dean Enterprises Inc., Dobbs Ferry. Property: 40 Davis Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $400,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Klein, Richard S., Yorktown Heights. Seller: M&A Professional Building LLC, Katonah. Property: 1874 Commerce St., Yorktown. Amount: $155,000. Filed Jan. 17.

M&M Realty Group LLC, Flushing. Seller: 162 Waverly St LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 162 Waverly St., Yonkers. Amount: $725,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Reid, Robert J., Pelham. Seller: Mortgage Assets Management LLC, Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Property: 157 Ellwood Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $484,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Saleh, Amrou L., Pleasantville. Seller: M I M Home LLC, Croton-on-Hudson. Property: Lake Shore Drive, Mount Pleasant. Amount: $160,000.

Filed Jan. 20.

Town of Cortlandt, Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Mario R. Mullo, Buchanan. Property: 79 Cortlandt Ave., Cortlandt. Amount: $82,000. Filed Jan. 19.

Town of Cortlandt, Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Antonio Carbone, Croton-on-Hudson. Property: 12 Brook Drive, Cortlandt. Amount: $151,000. Filed Jan. 20.

Veterans Memorial Building of the Tarrytowns Inc., Tarrytown. Seller: DP 147 LLC, Mount Kisco. Property: 57 Main St., Greenburgh. Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Woodworth LLC, New City. Seller: Warburton Equities LLC, Airmont. Property: 289 Warburton Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $920,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Zan4 LLC, Croton-on-Hudson. Seller: Nrz Reo VIII LLC, Croton-on-Hudson. Property: 97 Brook St., Cortlandt. Amount: $425,000. Filed Jan. 20.

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD

Failure to carry insurance or for work-related injuries and illnesses.

1730 Wine Bar & Eats Inc., Mount Vernon. Amount: $18,000.

Aandr LLC d.b.a. Ritamarie Salon & Stylist, Pelham. Amount: $22,500.

Chris Breezy Customs LLC, Mamaroneck. Amount: $4,500.

Cutney Culinary Concepts LLC, White Plains. Amount: $6,533.

TCL Services LLC, White Plains. Amount: $21,000.

JUDGMENTS

Akunoor, Chendra, Mohegan Lake. $7,262 in favor of Bank of America NA, Charlotte, North Carolina. Filed Jan. 24.

Alvarado, Meilin, Yonkers. $2,035 in favor of Capital One Bank USA NA, Richmond, Virginia. Filed Jan. 18.

Amayri, Motasem A., Yonkers. $24,007 in favor of Capital One NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Barcos, Stella, West Harrison. $10,440 in favor of Bank of America NA, Charlotte, North Carolina. Filed Jan. 24.

Beauchamp, Eurydice, Yonkers. $6,211 in favor of Capital One NA, Richmond, Virginia. Filed Jan. 18.

Bennett, Odethe, Mamaroneck. $5,269 in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio. Filed Jan. 23.

Bevilacqua, Linda, Somers. $11,833 in favor of Capital One NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 23.

Cinquina, Rosa, Bronxville. $2,667 in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Greenwich, Connecticut. Filed Jan. 24.

Coombs, Simone, Mount Vernon. $7,014 in favor of Capital One Bank USA NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Cruz, Bianca, Yonkers. $4,505 in favor of Capital One NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Daly, Donald, Pelham. $140,992 in favor of Northwell Health Stern Family Center for Rehabilitation, Manhasset. Filed Jan. 19.

Edwards, Marquis A., Mount Vernon. $17,608 in favor of American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Filed Jan. 23.

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:

Fatime Muriqi c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 701 Westchester Ave, Suite 100 J White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407

Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3699

Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Jan. 23.

Elk Homes Partners LLP, Rye. Seller: Naveen and Neha

Choudary, Scarsdale. Property: 20 Old Lyme Road, Scarsdale.

Amount: $2 million. Filed Jan. 20.

Frederick S. Fish Investment Company No 32-Scarsdale

LLC and Stephen Oder Scarsdale LLC, Englewood, New Jersey. Seller: Schur Skylar, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Property: 2-4 Weaver St., Scarsdale. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Jan. 19.

Property: 46 Upland Ave., White Plains. Amount: $546,000. Filed Jan. 20.

Brown, Tyrone S., Rye Brook.

Seller: Josh 123 Realty LLC, Yonkers. Property: 115 N. Ridge St., Rye. Amount: $310,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Bussing Holding Corp, Bronx.

Seller: Jennefer A. and Ruben Montaleza, Jamaica. Property: 444 Fourth Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $700,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Marzziotti, Peter, Mahopac. Seller: Gabe Realty Corp, White Plains. Property: 99 Inwood Ave., Rye. Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Nrz Reo VIII LlLC, Chicago, Illinois. Seller: Sharpe Home Designs LLC, Yonkers. Property: 123 Edgepark Road, Greenburgh. Amount: $375,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Perone, John M., Larchmont. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Property: 241 Irenhyl Ave., Rye. Amount: $542,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Gaza Transportation Inc., Yonkers. Amount: $22,000.

H-Tech 1 Inc., Huseyin Filiz, Yonkers. Amount: $14,000.

K9 Partners LLC, New Rochelle. Amount: $21,000.

Matt Gresia Corp., Tarrytown. Amount: $22,000.

New Era Laundry World Corp, Katonah. Amount: $22,000.

SHM Acquisitions LLC, Bedford Corners. Amount: $13,500.

Gardner, Jailyn A., Hawthorne. $2,216 in favor of Capital One NA, Richmond, Virginia. Filed Jan. 18.

Gebran, Nabila E., Hartsdale. $9,278 in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Filed Jan. 24.

Germosen, Miguel J., Mamaroneck. $4,347 in favor of Capital One NA, Richmond, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Gomez, Herman, Port Chester. $3,011 in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Filed Jan. 19.

Gothmann, Joseph M., Irvington. $12,805 in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Filed Jan. 24.

Hernandez, Raisa, Yonkers.

$2,261 in favor of Capital One Bank USA NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Hines, Jamelia, Mount Vernon.

$1,536 in favor of Jefferson Capital Systems LLC, St. Cloud, Minnesota. Filed Jan. 19.

Lynch, Eamon M., Yonkers.

$10,750 in favor of Capital One Bank USA NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Messam, Boysie, Mount Vernon. $2,088 in favor of Capital One Bank USA NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Munoz, Marti R., Yonkers.

$2,085 in favor of Capital One Bank USA NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Nerney, Maureen E., Yorktown Heights. $4,882 in favor of Capital One Bank USA N A, Richmond, Virginia. Filed Jan. 18.

Nikic, Erika T., Yonkers. $8,067 in favor of Capital One NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Norman, Tyrone, Chappaqua.

$3,195 in favor of People of the state of New York, White Plains.

Filed Jan. 19.

Pagani, Frank, Ardsley. $12,019 in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio. Filed Jan. 19.

Rukaniec, Richard C., Katonah. $3,583 in favor of Capital One Bank USA NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Sablan, Kaycelyn, Port Chester.

$4,271 in favor of Capital One Bank USA N A, Richmond, Virginia. Filed Jan. 18.

Sant, Torres Edson A., Mount Vernon. $11,145 in favor of Bank of America NA, Charlotte, North Carolina. Filed Jan. 24.

Santander, Alex L., Briarcliff Manor. $2,413 in favor of TD Bank USA NA, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Filed Jan. 18.

Savery, Rosse M., Ossining. $6,396 in favor of Capital One NA, Richmond, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Schoonmaker, Karl D., Mohegan Lake. $17,269 in favor of American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Filed Jan. 18.

Stark, Robert, Holmes. $39,472 in favor of Brain & Spine Surgeons of New York PC, Poughkeepsie. Filed Jan. 19.

Stevens, Cassie, Armonk. $3,000 in favor of Capital One Bank USA NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Umanzor, Fiorela, Mamaroneck. $2,387 in favor of Capital One NA, Richmond, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Vaghela, Davesh, White Plains. $3,906 in favor of American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Filed Jan. 18.

Vernon, Brandon, New Rochelle. $7,087 in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Filed Jan. 24.

Watford, Shadawn A., Dobbs Ferry. $1,963 in favor of Capital One Bank USA NA, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 24.

Whittle, Larry Jr., Hartsdale. $1,966 in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Greenwich, Connecticut. Filed Jan. 24.

Williford, Janette and Scott Williford, Yonkers. $6,154 in favor of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., Bloomington, Illinois. Filed Jan. 19.

Lis Pendens

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

A&E Surfaces Co., as owner.

Filed by Camsan Inc. Action:

Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $62,565 affecting property located at 120 Old Post Road, Rye. Filed Jan. 23.

American Express Centurion Bank, as owner. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage. Action:

Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $522,000 affecting property located at 25 New Haven RailRoad St., Mount Vernon. Filed Jan. 23.

Arquinio, Julio C., et al, as owner. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $464,000 affecting property located at 135 Edgepark Road, White Plains. Filed Jan. 18.

Bank of America NA, et al, as owner. Filed by US Bank National Trust. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $387,270 affecting property located at 18 Andrea Lane, Scarsdale. Filed Jan. 18.

Brisbane, Michelle, as owner. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank NA. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $106,700 affecting property located at 36 Central Parkway, Mount Vernon. Filed Jan. 20.

Brunetto, Robert, as owner. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank NA. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $509,289 affecting property located at 9 Barnes Terrace, Chappaqua. Filed Jan. 19.

Facts & Figures

Capital One Bank USA NA, as owner. Filed by UsS Bank National Trust. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $329,000 affecting property located at 135 Concord Road, Yonkers. Filed Jan. 23.

Capital One Bank USA NA, as owner. Filed by Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporate trust Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $333,700 affecting property located at 8 McCarthy Drive, Ossining. Filed Jan. 20.

City of New York

Environmental Control Board, as owner. Filed by Carrington Mortgage Services LLC. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $281,234 affecting property located at 313 Hawthorne Ave., Yonkers. Filed Jan. 23.

Coke, Lottie, as owner. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund SocietyTrust. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $413 affecting property located at 16 Acker Ave., Ossining. Filed Jan. 18.

Credit Acceptance Corp, as owner. Filed by Midfirst Bank. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $395,283 affecting property located at 94 Briggs Ave., Yonkers. Filed Jan. 18.

Gordon, Zenis, as owner. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank NA. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $431,000 affecting property located at 91 Belknap Ave., Yonkers. Filed Jan. 19.

Moran, Brendan, as owner. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Corporate Trust. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $349,000 affecting property located at 11 Orchard Lane, Bedford. Filed Jan. 15.

Negron Orlando - Estate of, et al, as owner. Filed by UMB Bank National Trust. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $339,025 affecting property located at 115 DeHaven Drive, Unit 103, Yonkers. Filed Jan. 17.

Pezone, Albert, as owner. Filed by B&B Capital LLC. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $65,355 affecting property located at 34 West Road, South Salem. Filed Jan. 13.

Pulley, Bernice C., as owner. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company National Trust. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $544,185 affecting property located at 381 Fifth Ave., New Rochelle. Filed Jan. 16.

Smith, Derick, et al, as owner. Filed by U S Bank National Trust. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $300,000 affecting property located at 109 Morningside Ave., Yonkers. Filed Jan. 18.

Mechanic’s Liens  Brooks Shopping Center LLC, Yonkers. $36,176 in favor of DNJ Industries Inc., Maspeth. Filed Jan. 19.

Crocco, Alessandro, Greenburgh. $7,375 in favor of Venegas Construction Corp, Bronx. Filed Jan. 17.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Yonkers. $250,000 in favor of Gordon & Gordons Group Inc., Mount Vernon. Filed Jan. 18.

Franklin-Plains Corp., White Plains. $102,560 in favor of Structure-Construction Inc, Peekskill. Filed Jan. 18.

Gardner, Gill H., Mount Vernon. $95,000 in favor of Birchwood Management Group LLC, Hopewell. Filed Jan. 13.

Hampshire Management Company Number 20 L, Greenburgh. $4,858 in favor of Streets & Avenues Development Co., West Harrison. Filed Jan. 13.

Ll Parcel 1 LLC, Mount Pleasant. $150,334 in favor of Manor Landscape & Design LLC, Briarcliff Manor. Filed Jan. 18.

Mirza, Amir, Pound Ridge. $171,000 in favor of Tykaconcepts Design, Westport, Connecticut. Filed Jan. 17.

Palmer-Petersville, Leopold L. P., New Rochelle. $1,155 in favor of Paul M. Maintenance Inc., Farmingdale. Filed Jan. 18.

Robert A. Simensky 2001 Qualified Per, Bedford. $19,811 in favor of Scenic Landscaping Inc., Mahopac. Filed Jan. 13.

Sleepy Hollow Residences, Mount Pleasant. $193,289 in favor of Manor Landscape & Design LLC, Briarcliff Manor. Filed Jan. 18.

NEW BUSINESSES

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

PARTNERSHIPS

DYF Construction & Carpentry, 11 Croton St., Ossining, 10562. c/o Daniel Rocuant and Francisco Villalon. Filed Jan. 13.

SOLE PROPRIETORSHIPS

A-Transporter, 315 S. Fifth Ave., Mount Vernon, 10550. Filed Jan. 19.

Angela Seamstress, 119 N. Division St., No. 2, Peekskill, 10566. c/o Angela Mariana Sinchi. Filed Jan. 17.

Anointed 4dkingdom, P.O. Box 2072, Mount Vernon, 10551. c/o Katina Noland-Ricketts. Filed

Jan. 12.

Asap Home Improvement, 344 Stratton Road, New Rochelle, 10804. c/o Libasse Samba. Filed

Jan. 11.

Behanto, 20 General Heath Ave., White Plains, 10603. c/o Jose DaMata Filho. Filed Jan. 17.

Bonn Appetit, 9 Johnson Court 9E, Dobbs Ferry, 10522. Filed Jan. 13.

Brey Candle Co., 829 Bronx River Road, Bronxville, 10708. c/o Annie Gonzalez. Filed Jan. 17.

Bundle of Journee, P.O. Box 2072, Mount Vernon, 10551. c/o Katina Noland-Ricketts. Filed Jan. 12.

Dainty Gadgets, P.O. Box 2072, Mount Vernon, 10551 c/o Katina Noland-Ricketts. Filed Jan. 12.

DC Painting, 110 Washington St. No. 2, Port Chester, 10573. Filed Jan. 13.

Fair Play Rubbish Removal, 16 Oakwood Drive, Peekskill, 10566. c/o Kasheim J. Villaronga. Filed Jan. 11.

Hiram Noel Mendez Virola, 63 Cordwood Road, Cortlandt Manor, 10567. Filed Jan. 13.

Moor Money Entertainment, 40 E. Sidney Ave., Mount Vernon, 10550. c/o Hafis Demetris Saiful Bey. Filed Jan. 11.

Tunis 6 Funding Association, 4 W. Oak Lane, White Plains, 10604. c/o James K. Coleman PSP and Caitlin and Kara Coleman 2008 Trust. Filed Jan. 11.

Vetwell, 44 Elkan Road, Larchmont, 10538. Filed Jan. 13.

HUDSON VALLEY

BUILDING LOANS

Above $1 million

Northeast Community Bank, as owner. Lender: Acres Views LLC. Property: 210 Acres Road, Monroe. Amount: $4.9 million. Filed Jan. 19.

Rose Josef LLC, as owner. Lender: PS Funding Inc. Property: 23 Mountain Ave., Monsey. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Jan. 17.

Below $1 million

BHG Abode2 of Poughkeepsie LLC, as owner. Lender: Choice Financial Group. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $12,168. Filed Jan. 13.

Farm Credit East, as owner. Lender: John Gregory and Amanda Katonah. Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $439,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Orange Bank & Trust Co., as owner. Lender: Bam Realty Corp. Property: in Blooming Grove. Amount: $797,000. Filed Jan. 19.

Pemberley Project LLC, as owner. Lender: Loan Funder LLC Series 29731. Property: 211 Cascade Road, Warwick. Amount: $100,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Rock East Funding LLC, as owner. Lender: Dwellstead At 279 LLC. Property: 279 Grand St., Newburgh. Amount: $215,000. Filed Jan. 19.

Schoenbeck Uwe, as owner. Lender: TD Bank NA. Property: 252 W. Lake Blvd., Mahopac. Amount: $750,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Sharestates Investments LLC, as owner. Lender: Newburgh SHG 107 LLC. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $138,000. Filed Jan. 18.

DEEDS

Above $1 million

21 13 Owners LLC, Peekskill. Seller: Small World LLC, Poughkeepsie. Property: 21-23 College View Ave., Poughkeepsie. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 26.

Ghost Donkey East LLC, Tuxedo Park. Seller: Vivien Malloy, Rye. Property: in Clinton. Amount: $2 million. Filed Jan. 26.

Klein, Moshe, Spring Valley. Seller: Union Road LLC, Spring Valley. Property: 143 Union Road, Unit 201, Spring Valley. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Jan. 18.

Facts & Figures

Rose Josef LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: SBO Mountain LLC, Monsey. Property: 23 Mountainview Ave., Spring Valley. Amount: $1.2 million.

Filed Jan. 17.

Rutland Castle LLC, Flushing.

Seller: Aharon and Deborah Lantzitskly, Pomona. Property: 15

N. Ridge Road, Pomona. Amount:

$1.2 million. Filed Jan. 19.

Weinberg, Yehuda, et al, Suffern.

Seller: 5 Plum Hill LLC, Central Valley. Property: 5 Plum Hill Drive, Montebello. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Jan. 17.

Below $1 million

35 Echo Ridge LLC, Airmont.

Seller: Doris Schleifer Trust, Airmont. Property: 35 Echo Ridge Road, Airmont. Amount:

$700,000. Filed Jan. 19.

524mghr LLC, New York.

Seller: Thomas Staib, Brewster.

Property: in North East. Amount: $310,000. Filed Jan. 23.

9 Sunny Ridge LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: George and Clarke Thompson, New Hempstead.

Property: 9 Ridge Road, New Hempstead. Amount: $750,000.

Filed Jan. 20.

Babad, Avraham, Monsey. Seller: Calvert Enterprises LLC, Monsey.

Property: 35 Calvert Drive, Kaser.

Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Danny and Judith Moeller, Suffern. Seller: Highview Hills LLC, Suffern. Property: 35 Silverwood Circle, Suffern.

Amount: $726,000. Filed Jan. 19.

Exuno Holdings LLC, Millbrook.

Seller: Perotti Management LLC, Plainfield, New Hampshire.

Property: in Pine Plains. Amount:

$165,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Exuno Holdings LLC, Millbrook.

Seller: Perotti Management LLC, Plainfield, New Hampshire.

Property: in Pine Plains. Amount: $225,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Gashi Kymete, Poughkeepsie.

Seller: Wells Fargo Bank National Association, West Palm Beach, Florida. Property: 14 Elizabeth Terrace, Wappingers Falls.

Amount: $279,500. Filed Jan. 25.

Gertner, Yisroel D., Monsey.

Seller: Hewes 90 LLC, Spring Valley. Property: 1 Brewer Road, Monsey. Amount: $850,000. Filed Jan. 20.

Lebovits, Abraham and Bracha

Lebovits, Brooklyn. Seller: 2 4 Park LLC, Spring Valley.

Property: 4 Park St., Spring Valley. Amount: $915,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Lefkowitz, William and Usher

Raab, Monroe. Seller: First

Guaranty Mortgage Corp., Irvine, California. Property: 7 Rosman Road, Thiells. Amount: $498,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Levin, Ligia E., West Nyack.

Seller: Silver Beaver LLC, Greenwood Lake. Property: 125 Hammond Road, Thiells.

Amount: $305,000. Filed Jan. 20.

Liit LLC, LaGrangeville. Seller: Joseph Troche, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 1 Delafield St., Poughkeepsie. Amount: $304,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Mount Property LLC, Dover Plains. Seller: Liberty Bell Trucking Company Inc., Holmes.

Property: in Amenia. Amount: $600,000. Filed Jan. 20.

Plaza Alma LLC, Beacon. Seller: Mark and Carmen Bobbitt, Beacon. Property: in Beacon.

Amount: $700,000. Filed Jan. 20.

Women of All Trades LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Kock Fai

Lin Frank, San Jose, California.

Property: 7 Springside Ave., Poughkeepsie. Amount: $100,000. Filed Jan. 25.

WW Estates LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Karl and Gwendolyn Greaves, New City. Property: 13 Keltz St., New City. Amount:

$719,000. Filed Jan. 19.

JUDGMENTS

Aidoo, Roni Codett, Newburgh. $2,713 in favor of Midland Credit Management Inc., San Diego, California. Filed Jan. 18.

Alasia, Amos, New Windsor. $18,805 in favor of Levon

Kololyan, New Windsor. Filed Jan. 17.

Almonte, Amarilis E., Highland Mills. $2,640 in favor of Splut Inc. Servpro of Orange, Sullivan and Ulster and Middletown. Filed Jan. 13.

Blakely, Jasmin, Middletown.

$2,887 in favor of Crown Asset Management LLC, Duluth, Georgia. Filed Jan. 18.

Bornhoeft, Michael, Bronx.

$4,738 in favor of Natalie Phagoo, Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Filed Jan. 17.

Bruno, Mida, Middletown. $4,232 in favor of Heritage Financial Credit Union, Middletown. Filed Jan. 13.

Bucksbee, Erika and Brandon Bucksbee, Middletown. $11,970 in favor of Settlers Hospitality Group LLC and Waterfront at Silver Birch, Hawley, Pennsylvania. Filed Jan. 18.

Buildozers LLC, Monroe. $5,000 in favor of Newburgh City, Newburgh. Filed Jan. 13.

Bustellos, James, Middletown. $1,423 in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California. Filed Jan. 18.

Calabrese, Deanna, Middletown. $2,843 in favor of Crown Asset Management LLC, Duluth, Georgia. Filed Jan. 18.

Calderon, Ramon, Brooklyn. $3,596 in favor of Palisades Acquisition V LLC, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Filed Jan. 18.

Champion, Jennifer, Middletown. $2,065 in favor of Midland Credit Management Inc., San Diego, California. Filed Jan. 18.

Crystal Clear Vision Corp, Middletown. $19,887 in favor of Precision Optical Group, Creston, Iowa. Filed Jan. 13.

Dolson, John A., Boonville. $28,324 in favor of Kim L. Ossentjuk Dolson, Pine Bush Filed Jan. 17.

Faison, Jahtayzia, Newburgh. $2,277 in favor of Calvary SPV I LLC and Citibank, Valhalla. Filed Jan. 18.

Flanagan, Mason S., Saugerties. $2,576 in favor of Lori J. Marlin, Middletown. Filed Jan. 17.

Goldizen, Rick Tara A., Montgomery. $4,908 in favor of JPMorgan Chase Bank, Wilmington, Delaware. Filed Jan. 13.

Harris, Reginald E., Newburgh. $10,946 in favor of Ariana E. Edge, Norcross, Georgia. Filed Jan. 17.

Holmes, Raquel, Newburgh. $5,944 in favor of Midland Credit Management Inc., San Diego, California. Filed Jan. 18.

Hutcherson, Craig, Middletown. $1,649 in favor of Calvary SPV I LLC and Synchrony Bank, Valhalla. Filed Jan. 18.

Kastrati, Mentor, Warwick. $3,517 in favor of Capital One, Richmond, Virginia. Filed Jan. 13.

Kaylor, Michael, Newburgh. $8,400 in favor of Tina Fassnacht, Montgomery. Filed Jan. 17.

King, Aaron, Middletown. $4,403 in favor of Jessica Davila, Ellenville. Filed Jan. 17.

Kinik, Nancymarie M., Monroe. $12,844 in favor of Citibank, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Filed Jan. 13.

Laracuenta, Amy, Monroe. $1,634 in favor of TD Bank USA, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Filed Jan. 13.

Loughlin, Michael T., Middletown. $4,609 in favor of Capital One Bank, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 18.

Maciel, Jose R., Middletown. $5,552 in favor of Carla A. Osorto, Middletown. Filed Jan. 17.

Martes, Jovanna, Warwick. $3,172 in favor of Municipal Credit Union, New York. Filed Jan. 13.

Mathurin, Jean P., New Paltz. $26,946 in favor of Jennifer Christophe, Middletown. Filed Jan. 17.

Mcloughlin, Kelly, Newburgh. $1,724 in favor of Resurgent Receivables LLC, Greenville, South Carolina. Filed Jan. 18.

Melendez, Anibal, Walden. $6,792 in favor of UHG I LLC, Englewood, Colorado. Filed Jan. 18.

Merrick, David A. Jr., Chester. $4,390 in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio. Filed Jan. 18.

Mock, Raymond and Veronica Crawford, Walden. $60,045 in favor of Montgomery Homes LLC, Montgomery. Filed Jan. 13.

Nationwide Used Auto Parts Inc., Central Valley. $9,680 in favor of Orthodox Auto Company Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Filed Jan. 18.

Negron, Diane K., Middletown. $7,369 in favor of Capital One Bank, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 18.

Ng, Wilson, Chester. $22,377 in favor of 26 Bowery LLC, New York. Filed Jan. 17.

Parker, Brittany, Newburgh. $5,360 in favor of Clover Commercial Corp., Bellmore. Filed Jan. 18.

Perez, David, Washingtonville. $2,795 in favor of Capital One Bank, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 18.

Riley, Bridget Smith, Malone. $1,286 in favor of James M. Hoffman, Jr., Newburgh. Filed Jan. 17.

Rine, Johnny, Newburgh. $7,847 in favor of Calvary SPV I LLC, Valhalla. Filed Jan. 18.

Romero, Juan, Newburgh. $71,766 in favor of Veronica Clemente, Newburgh. Filed Jan. 17.

Roohan, Jacqueline, Cornwallon-Hudson. $2,180 in favor of Capital One Bank, Glen Allen, Virginia. Filed Jan. 18.

Sanchez, Wilson, Middletown. $4,260 in favor of Orange County Department of Social Services, et al, Goshen. Filed Jan. 17.

Scherman, Kathaleen A., Port Jervis. $2,325 in favor of Unifund CCR LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio. Filed Jan. 13.

Shipman, Catherine, Middletown. $1,545 in favor of Midland Credit Management Inc., San Diego, California. Filed Jan. 18.

Simmons, Patricia B., Salisbury Mills. $1,100 in favor of Jefferson Capital Systems LLC, St. Cloud, Minnesota. Filed Jan. 18.

Sostre, Joseph M., Middletown. $2,757 in favor of Jefferson Capital Systems LLC, Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Filed Jan. 18.

Tanzosh, Barbara, Warwick. $11,466 in favor of TD Bank, Jacksonville, Florida. Filed Jan. 18.

Trinidad, Gerardo Gonzalez, Newburgh. $18,744 in favor of Abril Delgado, Newburgh. Filed Jan. 17.

Trisci, Michael, Monroe. $3,620 in favor of Richard Karcher, Monroe. Filed Jan. 13.

Vera, Roque, Monroe. $24,500 in favor of Veronica Garcia, Chester. Filed Jan. 17.

Walker, Kaheem W., Newburgh. $254 in favor of Kakia L. Johnson, Newburgh. Filed Jan. 17.

MECHANIC’S LIENS

10 Howard Drive LLC, as owner. $8,673 in favor of Prestige Painters Inc. Property: 9 Post Lane, Suffern. Filed Jan. 3.

Beis Hamedrish Skver LLC, as owner. $480,000 in favor of Superior Consulting and Shop Drawings Corp. Property: 13 Truman Ave., Spring Valley. Filed Jan. 24.

Carmel Fire Department Inc., as owner. $1,481,591 in favor of Icon Construction Company Inc. Property: 94 Gleneida Ave., Carmel. Filed Jan. 25.

Congregation Tefila Lemoshe, as owner. $54,187 in favor of Construction with Care Inc. Property: 35 Brockton Road, Spring Valley. Filed Jan. 23.

Eklecco Newco LLC, as owner. $100,306 in favor of CS Hudson Inc. Property: 1000 Palisades Center Drive, West Nyack. Filed Jan. 26.

Joseph and Rosie Schwartz, as owner. $9,000 in favor of Barrier Associates Inc. Property: 21 Briarwood Lane, Suffern. Filed Jan. 6.

JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, as owner. $13,410 in favor of Sunbelt Rentals Inc. Property: 140 W. Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg. Filed Jan. 24.

Loketch, Pinchos, as owner. $25,164 in favor of Express Electric. Property: 15 Quince Lane, Suffern. Filed Jan. 3.

Sheeley Andrew Thomas, as owner. $18,320 in favor of Calculated Fire Protection Company Inc. Property: 45 Killearn Road, Millbrook. Filed Jan. 20.

NEW BUSINESSES

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

PARTNERSHIPS

Acta Non Verba, 523 Route 306, Suffern 10901. c/o Avraham Shapira and Daniel Simon. Filed Jan. 19.

Bardonia Bays Consulting, 46 Ash Road, Bardonia 10954. c/o David J. and Laura A. Stack. Filed Jan. 25.

Juquilita Farms, 157 Mount Eve Road, Goshen 10924. c/o Juventino Cruz and Meza Guadalupe Cruz. Filed Jan. 23.

SOLE

PROPRIETORSHIPS

Belleus & Sons, 14 Thomas Jefferson, Middletown 10940. c/o Jean Nickson Belleus. Filed Jan. 24.

Brach Valley Farm, 2865 Albany Post Road, Montgomery 12549. c/o Benjamin James McGowan. Filed Jan. 23.

Crystal Clear Communications Group, 186 Smalley Corners Road, Carmel 10512. c/o Linda A. Prai. Filed Jan. 23.

Devos Auto, 19 Preston St., Middletown 10940. c/o Anthony Jordan Devos. Filed Jan. 25.

Devos Construction, 1035 Mount Hope Road, Middletown 10940. c/o Dominic Albert Devos. Filed Jan. 25.

Folk Craeft Jewelry, 57 County Route 51, Campbell Hall 10916. c/o Sarah Matheson. Filed Jan. 26.

Forever Situated, 235 Daniher Ave., New Windsor 12553. c/o Lorenzo Jayden Louis. Filed Jan. 25. Innabi Plumbing & Heating, 1 Oakdale Road, Putnam Valley 10579. c/o Hana John Innabi. Filed Jan. 23.

Jays Finds4u, 11 Park Circle, Washingtonville 10992. c/o Justin Daniel Perez. Filed Jan. 23.

Keepitklean, 62 St. Andrews Road, Walden 12586. c/o Pagan Miranda Rai. Filed Jan. 24.

Mangu Properites, 172 Fairway Drive, Carmel 10512. c/o Andres Marrero. Filed Jan. 23.

Savinggzz, 59 Hy Vue Terrace, Cold Spring 10516. c/o Frank Ditraglia. Filed Jan. 24.

Scent Of Me by Cristy Flores, 225 Jersey Ave., Apt. 2f, Port Jervis 12771. c/o Cristina Borges. Filed Jan. 24.

Teresas Treasures, 43 Greenwich Ave., Central Valley 10917. c/o Teresa Maria Luongo. Filed Jan. 26.

Vacuum Cleaner Repair Service, 147 Heather Circle, Newburgh 12550. c/o Edward Pollack. Filed Jan. 23.

Viva Mexican Grocery, 32 Smith Clove Road, Central Valley 10917. c/o Luis Felipe Elizondo Mancilla. Filed Jan. 26.

ON THE RECORD Facts & Figures

BUILDING PERMITS

Commercial

Ansar Investments LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Ansar Investments LLC. Perform replacement alterations at 13 Winfield St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $97,000. Filed Dec. 8. Court Pro, Norwalk, contractor for Sackett Norwalk 490 LLC. Install two outdoor paddle/ tennis courts at 490 Westport Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost:

$278,274. Filed Dec. 14.

Cunningham, Maureen E., Norwalk, contractor for Maureen E. Cunningham. Perform replacement alterations at 151 Woodward Ave., Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Dec. 19.

D&A Construction Management and General Contruction Inc., Norwalk, contractor for CTI Towers Assets II LLC. Install three new antennas at Shirley Street, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $51,500. Filed Dec. 6.

Homesquare LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Seir Hill Partners LLC. Perform replacement alterations at 25 Seir Hill Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $400,000. Filed Dec. 19.

Michael Stadler Construction, Norwalk, contractor for 25 Van Zany Street Condominium. Perform replacement alterations at 25 Van Zant St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed Dec. 14.

Parish of St. Paul, Norwalk, contractor for Parish of St. Paul. Perform replacement alterations at 60 East Ave., Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Dec. 15.

Structure Craft Contracting LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Harwill Homes Inc. Patel Brothers taking over former subway area at 330 Connecticut Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $333,000. Filed Dec. 14.

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Sully and Sully LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Nicholas Selepes. Renovate basement at 230 New Canaan Ave., No. 13, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $57,000. Filed

Dec. 7.

Westview Electric LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Aurora Holley. Remodel existing kitchen at 25 W. Main St., No. 2, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $17,300. Filed

Dec. 15.

Zubrinsky, Fred, Norwalk, contractor for Fred Zubrinsky. Perform replacement alterations at 30-36 Main St., Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed Dec. 16.

Residential

Able Construction Inc., Norwalk, contractor for White Barn LLC. Finish basement at 2 White Barns Lane, Unit 2C, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Dec. 6.

Able Construction Inc., Norwalk, contractor for White Barn LLC. Finish attic at 7 White Barns Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Dec. 12.

Able Construction Inc., Norwalk, contractor for White Barn LLC. Construct superstructure for single-family residence at 10 White Barns Lane, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $550,000. Filed Dec. 12.

Able Construction Inc., Norwalk, contractor for White Barn LLC. Construct a superstructure for a single-family residence at 13 White Barns Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $550,000. Filed Dec. 12.

Able Construction Inc., Norwalk, contractor for White Barn LLC. Construct a superstructure for a single-family residence at 15 White Barns Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $550,000. Filed Dec. 12.

Denton, Neville A., Norwalk, contractor for Phyllis J. Rollinson. Install one propane tank at side of single-family residence and install generator at rear of residence at 42 Linden St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Dec. 6.

Feder, Diane, Norwalk, contractor for Diane Feder. Construct a superstructure for a second-floor addition at 23 Field St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $400,000. Filed Dec. 9.

Flying Colors Roofing LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Nicholas Cortese. Remove existing shingles and install asphalt shingles at 55 Noah’s Lane Extension, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $13,000. Filed Dec. 13.

Four Seasons Chimney & Roofing LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Sarah J. Fitzgerald. Remove existing roof and re-roof 16 Regency Drive, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $20,268. Filed Dec. 7.

Maggiore Construction Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Gilbert K. and Anne M. Watkins. Construct a first-floor addition to add walk-in closet at 12 Kreiner Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Dec. 6.

Peoples Products Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Josiah J. Cimino. Install four vinyl replacement widows at 1 Knollwood Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $7,392. Filed Dec. 12.

Roofing Solutions of Connecticut LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Jeffrey G. Perez and Susan M. Woodford. Remove existing roof and re-roof 5 Buckingham Place, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $8,800. Filed Dec. 8.

Sakhar, Theodore, Norwalk, contractor for Steven N. Pagan. Remove existing roof and re-roof 136 N. Taylor Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $14,000. Filed Dec. 8.

Seccurra Sr., Frank A., Norwalk, contractor for Anthony Grimaldi. Construct Hardie plank siding at 4 Beechwood Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $11,000. Filed Dec. 6.

Stadler, Michael J., Norwalk, contractor for Eric F. Stadler. Install a deck at 79 Perry Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Dec. 5.

Sunrun Installation Services Inc., San Francisco, California, contractor for Avadean Lewis and Brittany L. Clarke. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 64 Myano Lane, Stamford. Estimated cost: $22,989. Filed Dec. 12.

Sunrun Installation Services Inc., San Francisco, California, contractor for Robert P. and Gail E. Lehman. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 2 Wallenberg Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $36,090. Filed Dec. 12.

Sunrun Installation Services Inc., San Francisco, California, contractor for Colleen E. Hiranandani. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 19 Rapids Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $52,563. Filed Dec. 9.

Sunrun Installation Services Inc., San Francisco, California, contractor for Juan R. and Maricela Aguilar. Remove existing roof and re-roof 120 Sutton Drive East, Stamford. Estimated cost: $13,324. Filed Dec. 14.

Sunrun Installation Services Inc., San Francisco, California, contractor for Joseph Tarzia. Remove existing roof and re-roof 257 Silver Hill Lane, Stamford.

Estimated cost: $18,310. Filed Dec. 14.

Suscal, Hernan, Norwalk, contractor for James and Margaret McCready. Add a full bathroom at 14 June Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Dec. 8.

Tesla Energy Operations Inc., Fremont, California, contractor for Wendy M. Torres. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 89 Culloden Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $24,860. Filed Dec. 6.

Tesla Energy Operations Inc., Fremont, California, contractor for Jae Kim. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 37 High Line Trail, Stamford. Estimated cost: $59,120. Filed Dec. 1.

Tesla Energy Operations Inc., Fremont, California, contractor for Hengqiao Zhao. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 62 Fieldstone Terrace, Stamford. Estimated cost: $28,200. Filed Dec. 1.

Towle Custom Builders LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Jamie and Anne H. Sharpe. Construct a superstructure for an addition at 15 Harstrom Place, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $525,000. Filed

Dec. 8.

Trinity Solar Inc., Cheshire, contractor for Anthony Silvey. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 121 Overbrook Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $52,000. Filed Dec. 1.

Trinity Solar Inc., Cheshire, contractor for Gabriel Sylvie and Charles Dieuguo. Replace 15 square architectural shingle, ice and water shields and underlayment at 15 Ranson St., Stamford.

Estimated cost: $14,500. Filed

Dec. 13.

Trinity Solar Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Jorge R. Curillo. Replace architectural shingles, ice and water shield and underlayment-plywood at 11 Adamson Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $12,741. Filed Dec. 12.

Trinity Solar Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Janice A. Taccone. Replace architectural shingles, ice and water shield and underlayment-plywood at 10 Kermit St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $5,474. Filed Dec. 12.

Tuite, Cale M., Norwalk, contractor for Fellyn W. Silliman. Install generator and 2 propane tanks at 81 Murray St., Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $19,267. Filed Dec. 6.

United Cleaning & Restoration LLC, Middlefield, contractor for Donald G. Brenner and Claire Shiffman. Replace water-damaged drywall, insulation, trim and kitchen cabinets and HVAC system at 63 Woodbine Way, Stamford.

Estimated cost: $225,000. Filed Dec. 20.

Unlimited Services LLC, Stamford, contractor for Summer Street Properties LLC. Demolish unnecessary walls, build new treatment room office and wetting room at 1041 Summer St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $104,500. Filed Dec. 16.

Ushs LLC, Stamford, contractor for Michelle Bloom. Construct a new single-family dwelling with six bedrooms, six full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, finished basement, 2-car garage with loft above, basement and cabana kitchenettes to be constructed with zoning approval, swimming pool, spa with pergola, fire pit and barbeque at 111 Gray Farms Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $1,500,000. Filed Dec. 2.

Vision Solar LLC, Blackwood, New Jersey, contractor for Emoliere C. Williams. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 20 Malibu Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $67,000. Filed Dec. 13.

Welcome Homes Connecticut LLC, New York, New York, contractor for Lucas and Georgia Konandreas. Construct a two-story, three-bedroom, 3,261-square-foot single-family house with basement at 47 Konandreas Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $700,000. Filed Dec. 12.

Willis, Robert C., Stamford, contractor for Robert Willis and Fred Cohn. Renovate first-floor bathroom and kitchen and second-floor bathroom, including new cabinets and fixtures at 106 William St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $25,000. Filed Dec. 1.

COURT CASES Bridgeport Superior Court

345 Main Street LLC, et al, Danbury. Filed by Shana Serrano, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Formica PC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff was walking through the hallway of the first floor to exit the building in the premises controlled by the defendants. One of the defendants’ employees had placed a painter’s drop cloth on the floor in the hallway but had failed to secure it to the ground, causing the plaintiff to trip on it, injuring her right ankle. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-226120189-S. Filed Dec. 16.

Alfa Laval Inc., et al, Richmond, Virginia. Filed by Conrad Johns, Lake Worth, Florida. Plaintiff’s attorney: Early Lucarelli Sweeney & Meisenkothen LLC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff was exposed to asbestos-containing products while working for the defendants. As a result, the plaintiff suffered injuries and damages. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs.

Case no. FBT-CV-23-6120092-S. Filed Dec. 23.

Neccm & Properties LLC, et al, Darien. Filed by Jennifer Helman, Westport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Angela M. Haen, Westport. Action: The plaintiff and defendant entered a contract in which the defendant agreed to deliver supplies, materials and services for the construction of a pool on the plaintiff’s premises in exchange for an agreed price. Despite demand, the defendants, individually or collectively, have failed, refused and neglected to build the pool and pay the deposit due to the plaintiff under the contract. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-22-6120079-S. Filed Dec. 13.

Town of Greenwich, et al, Stamford. Filed by Berkley Antisdale, Greenwich. Plaintiff’s attorney: Robinson Mahoney PLLC, Fairfield. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by an employee of the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages of more than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-236120403-S. Filed Dec. 13.

Danbury Superior Court

Castaneda, Enrique, et al, Danbury. Filed by Christian Arteaga, New Fairfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Moore O’Brien & Foti, Middlebury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages of more than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-226044743-S. Filed Nov. 7.

Cousends, Devon G., et al, Bethel. Filed by Emma J. Borsellino, Waccabuc. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Law, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages of more than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-226044685-S. Filed Dec. 12.

Fayad, Sawsan, et al, Newtown. Filed by Shannon Coolbeth, New Milford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Moore O’Brien & Foti, Middlebury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages of more than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-226044751-S. Filed Dec. 12.

Facts & Figures

Moreno, Yolie, Newtown.

Filed by John Isdale, Newtown.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Coyne Von Kuhn Brady & Fries LLC, Shelton.

Action: The plaintiff hired the defendant to construct a fence on the driveway. Prior to the defendant’s construction of a driveway and the erection of a fence on the subject premises, the plaintiff paid to have survey stakes and pins installed, which clearly marked the property line of the subject premises. Prior to the defendant’s construction of a driveway and the erection of a fence on the subject premises, the defendant allegedly improperly removed the survey stakes. As a result, the plaintiff suffered damages. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. DBD-CV-226044496-S. Filed Dec. 12.

Rana, Satish, Danbury. Filed by Alicia Smith, Dover Plains, New York. Plaintiff’s attorney: Moore O’Brien & Foti, Middlebury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages of more than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-226044742-S. Filed Dec. 2.

Stamford Superior Court

Granito III, Frank H., New Canaan. Filed by American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Plaintiff’s attorney: Mark Sank & Associates LLC, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff is a banking association, which issued the defendant a credit account who agreed to make payments for goods and services. The defendant failed to make payments. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages of more than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-22-6059070-S. Filed Nov. 23.

Nieves, Amador, et al, Norwalk. Filed by Maria Alcantara, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Schwartzberg Law Firm, Ridgefield. Action: The plaintiff was a pedestrian walking on the sidewalk in front of the premises maintained by the defendant when she was caused to slip due to the accumulation of snow and ice. As a result, she suffered injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages of more than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-226059303-S. Filed Dec. 15.

Nowacki, Krzysztof J., et al, Rego Park, New York. Filed by Jency Martinez, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Law, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-226059034-S. Filed Nov. 22.

Paulk, Kim, Norwalk. Filed by Mutual Security Credit Union, Shelton. Plaintiff’s attorney: Becker & Zowine Law Offices LLC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff is the holder of the defendant’s note. The defendant agreed to make payments, however has failed to pay the remaining balance due. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $5,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FSTCV-22-6059020-S. Filed Nov. 21.

DEEDS

Commercial

150 Zach Mead Lane LLC, Greenwich. Seller: Philip Boyd Miller and Anne Gorman Miller, Greenwich. Property: 150 Zacchaeus Mead Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $10. Filed Jan. 11.

370 Stratfield Road LLC, Fairfield. Seller: Marc Kaufman, Fairfield. Property: 370 Stratfield Road, Fairfield. Amount:

$610,000. Filed Jan. 6.

Acer Properties LLC, Southport. Seller: Patricia A. Kiely, Southport. Property: 77 Arbor Drive, Southport. Amount: $550,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Collister-Tuccinardi, Paige

M., Stamford. Seller: Barbot Restoration LLC, Greenwich. Property: 82 West Trail, Stamford. Amount: $690,000.

Filed Dec. 27.

Egan, Justin A., Fairfield. Seller: 122 Riverview Circle LLC, Fairfield. Property: 122 Riverview Circle, Fairfield. Amount: $1,599,000. Filed Dec. 27.

GC3 Capital Corp LLC, Stamford. Seller: FTL Holdings LLC, Stamford. Property: 218 Bedford St., Unit 1F, Stamford. Amount: $212,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Labella, Angela Marie and Michael John Tabak, Fairfield. Seller: US Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 100 Laslo Terrace, Fairfield. Amount: $710,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Moore, Colin and Emily Moore, Stamford. Seller: 41 Reynolds Partners LLC, Fairfield.

Property: 41 Reynolds Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $990,000.

Filed Dec. 30.

Reddy to go Enterprise LLC, Easton. Seller: Joseph Michael Romanello, Fairfield. Property: 143 Dunnlea Road, Fairfield. Amount: $600,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Reflip LLC, Fairfield. Seller: Richard L. Tuzzio, Fairfield.

Property: 65 Glen Ridge Road, Fairfield. Amount: $460,000.

Filed Jan. 3.

Regal Homes LLC, Greenwich.

Seller: Oren McDermid and Patricia Massello McDermid, Greenwich. Property: 53 Mead Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $625,000. Filed Jan. 9.

Truit, Thomas, Fairfield. Seller: JCV LLC and Reidy Reef Property LLC, Fairfield. Property: 1007 Reef Road, Fairfield. Amount: $595,000. Filed Jan. 4.

Yu Le Eunice Fong Sheung Kun, Cos Cob. Seller: 397 Riversville Road LLC, Greenwich. Property: 397 Riversville Road, Greenwich. Amount: $3,300,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Residential

16-18 Arcadia LLC, Old Greenwich. Seller: Christine Thalheim Wimmer, Newtown, Pennsylvania. Property: 16-18 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich.

Amount: $1,650,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Asbury, Charles Michael, Stamford. Seller: Sharon Rose Ballin, Stamford. Property: 91 Strawberry Hill Ave, Unit 1128, Stamford. Amount: $270,000. Filed Jan. 3.

Biron, Pinchas, Stamford. Seller: Darshan Shah and Janki Shah, Stamford. Property: 2437 Bedford St., Unit E3, Stamford. Amount: $472,500. Filed Jan. 3.

Blanco-Hernandez, Mario Alfred, Stamford. Seller: Kazi Alauddin, Stamford. Property: 146 Culloden Road, Stamford. Amount: $546,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Blosio, Robyn-Anne, Darien. Seller: John B. Wachowski, Brookline, New Hampshire. Property: 13 Carter Drive, Stamford. Amount: $0. Filed Dec. 30.

Bradley, Stephen and Allison Schneider, New York, New York. Seller: Katherine B. Jamieson and Hugh Jamieson, Fairfield. Property: Lot 131, Lalley Blvd., Fairfield. Amount: $1,235,000. Filed Jan. 3.

Bray, Mark and Justine Bray, Holmes, New York. Seller: Wayne Yang, Singapore. Property: 20 Oak St., Greenwich. Amount: $2,535,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Case, Steven, Stamford. Seller: Gustavo De Freitas Rizzo Lima, Stamford. Property: 104 North St., Unit 704, Stamford. Amount:

$392,000. Filed Jan. 3.

Catarozoli, Taylor and Corinne Catarozoli, Greenwich. Seller: Penelope W. Winters, Greenwich. Property: 470 North St., Greenwich.

Amount: $2,600,000. Filed Jan. 11.

Day, John Ryan and Joseph Miller, Stamford. Seller: Alison Miller and Joseph Miller, Stamford. Property: 21 Verplank Ave., Stamford. Amount:

$1,625,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Dychka, Yaroslav and Nadiia Dychka, Stamford. Seller:

Subhash Agarwal and Madan Agarwal, Stamford. Property: Unit 4, Harbor View Court, Stamford. Amount: $423,300. Filed Dec. 27.

Fornes, Christian, Stamford.

Seller: George Simitakos and Ekaterina Simitakos, Stamford.

Property: 17Glen Ave., Stamford.

Amount: $645,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Green Kuroghlian, Ellen and Scott M. Green, Fairfield.

Seller: Ellen Green Kuraghlian, Fairfield. Property: 246 Old Spring Road, Fairfield. Amount:

$N/A. Filed Dec. 29.

Guevara, Tamara L., Stamford.

Seller: Michelle L. Supple, Stamford. Property: 235-2 Seaton Road, Stamford. Amount:

$180,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Hassan, Mostafa and Sherine Magar, Fairfield Seller: Kaye L. Maye, Fairfield. Property: 1 Knapps Park Drive, Fairfield.

Amount: $410,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Heffer, Steven and Heena Sultan, Plainfield, New Hampshire. Seller: Steven Heffer and Heena Sultan, Plainfield, New Hampshire. Property: 201 Whites Hill Lane, Fairfield.

Amount: $N/A. Filed Dec. 27.

Facts & Figures

Juliano, Michael, Stratford.

Seller: Jason Rothbaum and Ming Yan, Wilton. Property: 104 Summer St., Unit 2B, Stamford.

Amount: $212,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Kabir, Salaha, Stamford. Seller: Mohammad Rahim, Stamford. Property: 104 Dean St., Stamford.

Amount: $700,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Lacour, Federico Luis and Nicola Jane Totman, Stamford.

Seller: Marc W. Wolpers, Stamford. Property: 19 W. Hill Road, Stamford. Amount: $1,715,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Lesko, Kyle Michael, Fairfield.

Seller: Margaret A. Salamon, Fairfield. Property: 46 Harris St., Fairfield. Amount: $316,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Lukacevic, Ismet and Arijana

Lukacevic, Long Island City, New York. Seller: Jacek Bialy and Anna Bialy, Stamford. Property: 23 Standish Road, Unit 10-C-1, Stamford. Amount: $230,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Martinez, Betsy M., Waldwick, New Jersey. Seller: John J. Thompson and Kimberly A. McNay, Greenwich. Property: 66 Ivy St., Greenwich. Amount:

$860,000. Filed Jan. 10.

McGee, Peter and Kelly McGee, Greenwich. Seller: Lyn M. Black and Steven D. Black, Teton Village, Wyoming. Property: 5 Stanwich Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $2,700,000. Filed Jan. 10.

McManus, Mitchell and Jessica McManus, Fairfield.

Seller: Lesley J. Vincent and Lauren K. Coakley Vincent, Fairfield. Property: 127 Gorham Road, Fairfield. Amount: $725,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Minton, Christopher and Jilian Minton, Greenwich.

Seller: Garrett T. Fish and Terri A. Fish, Greenwich. Property: 33 Hill Road, Greenwich. Amount: $N/A. Filed Jan. 12.

Moylan, Michael Anderson and Swathi Reddy Moylan, Greenwich. Seller: John William Tanner and Jacqueline Pogue Tanner, Greenwich. Property: 20 Hedgerow Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $3,250,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Murphy, Ginabeth C., Fairfield. Seller: Kenneth F. Murphy, Fairfield. Property: 496 Beach Road, Fairfield. Amount: $N/A. Filed Dec. 28.

Musich, Joseph R. and Patricia A. Musich, Stamford. Seller: Dorothy Fabiano and Joseph Fabiano, Stamford. Property: 59 Courtland Ave., No. E1, Stamford. Amount: $260,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Nascimento, Eugenia Murdean, Fairfield. Seller: Kara Lanziero and Michele Sciongay, Fairfield. Property: 130 Lisbon Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $376,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Nekola, Kathleen, White Plains, New York. Seller: John J. Feighery Jr. and Sharon Feighery, Stamford. Property: 29 N. Meadows Lane, Stamford. Amount: $1,530,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Osborne, Barbara C., Fairfield. Seller: Catherine A. Rusnak, Fairfield. Property: 1173 Stratfield Road, Fairfield. Amount: $327,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Ovando, Danny and Astrid Salas Martinez, Stamford. Seller: Ramesh Bhat and Sushama R. Bhat, Stamford. Property: 127 Greyrock Place, Unit 810, Stamford. Amount: $319,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Penate, Nitai, Valley Stream, New York. Seller: Elizabeth Arias and Luz D. Arias, Stamford. Property: Windell Place, Unit 5, Stamford. Amount: $325,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Ribeiro, Luiz Fellipe, Fairfield. Seller: Katiria Chiluisa, Fairfield. Property: 4117 Park Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $582,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Rojas, Ladi, Stamford. Seller: Bridget Lazarte, Stamford. Property: 111 Lafayette St., Stamford. Amount: $584,000.

Filed Dec. 29.

Senatus, Fritz, et al, Stamford. Seller: Maria Conte, Stamford. Property: 191 Oaklawn Ave., Stamford. Amount: $549,000.

Filed Jan. 3.

Seusing, Christopher J., Fairfield. Seller: Evelyn Krauter Averill, Fairfield. Property: 2109 Hillside Road, Fairfield. Amount: $870,000. Filed Jan. 6.

Sheppard, Joshua Aaron and Jessica Murray Sheppard, Greenwich. Seller: Mary G. Burrows, Greenwich. Property: 29 Hillside Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $10. Filed Jan. 9.

Suarez, Jeffrey, Stamford. Seller: Sunita Menon, Stamford. Property: 58 Van Buskirk Ave., Stamford. Amount: $547,500.

Filed Dec. 30.

Tang, Hoyu, Norwalk. Seller: Robert E. Raynor, Fairfield. Property: 470 Syillson Road, Fairfield. Amount: $670,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Tepe, Robert P. and Caroline T. Tenaglia, Greenwich. Seller: Joseph R. Sowin and Gisella L. Sowin, Southlake, Texas. Property: 25 Bible St., Greenwich. Amount: $884,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Teverovskiy, Konstantin and Alexandra Sabe, Purchase, New York. Seller: Fernando Morales and Rosemarie Morales, Stamford. Property: 24 East Ave, Unit 6, Stamford. Amount: $355,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Thornton, Michael, Stamford. Seller: Bo Wen and Mingyan Zhou, Stamford. Property: 127 Greyrock Place, Unit 1610, Stamford. Amount: $315,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Whittingham, Adam, Stamford. Seller: Marian I. Weinberg, Stamford. Property: 86 Four Brooks Road, Stamford. Amount: $650,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Wright, Michael R. and Susan G. Wright, Binghampton, New York. Seller: Robert J. Sherwood and Sarah E. Sherwood, Stamford. Property: 5 Robinson Drive, Stamford. Amount: $744,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Zhao, Yuan and Yichao Pei, Stamford. Seller: Melissa C. Tidwell and Thomas M. Tidwell, Old Greenwich. Property: 17 Fairfield Ave., Old Greenwich.

Amount: $2,000,000. Filed Jan. 10.

MORTGAGES

230 Round Hill LLC and 230 Round Hill Road, Greenwich, by Adam Broilland. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 2500 Westfield Drive, First and second floors, Elgin, Illinois. Property: 230 Round Hill Road, Greenwich.

Amount: $750,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Baldeo, Kevin N. and Valmiki R. Ramotar, Fairfield, by John M. Eichholz. Lender: Nationwide Mortgage Bankers Inc., 3 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 403N, Melville, New York.

Property: 89 Campfield Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $332,000.

Filed Dec. 27.

Blanco Hernandez, Mario

Alfred, Stamford, by Louis J. Colangelo Jr. Lender: Citizens Bank NA, 1 Citizens Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island.

Property: 146 Culloden Road, Stamford. Amount: $491,400.

Filed Dec. 29.

Blueberry LLC, Fairfield, by Neil P. Phillips. Lender: Morgan Stanley Private Bank, 4270 Ivy Pointe Blvd., Suite 400, Cincinnati, Ohio. Property: 395 Sky Top Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $250,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Bobak, Miroslav, Stamford, by Kris Lucke. Lender: Peoples Bank, 330 Whitney Ave., Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Property: 85 Camp Ave., Unit 11-I, Stamford. Amount: $150,000.

Filed Dec. 27.

Carpenteri, Frank J. and Diane Carpenteri, Greenwich, by James Kavanagh. Lender: The First Bank of Greenwich, 444 E. Putnam Ave., Cos Cob. Property: 214 Weaver St., Greenwich. Amount: $400,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Day, John Ryan and Amanda Lee Day, Stamford, by James M. Rubino. Lender: Savings Bank of Danbury, 220 Main St., Danbury. Property: 21 Verplank Ave., Stamford. Amount: $1,300,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Della Torre, Marco and Victoria Della Torre, Greenwich, by M. Cassin Maloney Jr. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank NA, 101 N. Phillips Ave, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Property: 51 Indian Field Road, Greenwich. Amount: $1,160,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Drummond, Jessica and Mark Drummond, Fairfield, by Myrna McNeil. Lender: Bank of America, 100 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 40 Eastlawn St., Fairfield. Amount: $140,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Egan, Justin A., Fairfield, by Albert T. Strazza. Lender: Newtown Savings Bank, 39 Main St., Newtown. Property: 122 Riverview Circle, Fairfield. Amount: $900,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Elezaj, Leka and Laura Elezaj, Riverside, by Richard J. Azzarito III. Lender: Valley National Bank, 1445 Valley Road, Wayne, New Jersey. Property: 294 Riverside Ave., Riverside. Amount: $1,000,000. Filed Dec. 29. Ellwanger, Margaret S. and Robert J. Wellwanger Jr., Fairfield, by Barbara C. Friedman. Lender: GE Employees FCU, 265 Sub Way, Milford. Property: 85 Sasapequan Road, Fairfield. Amount: $200,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Fornes, Christian G., Harrison, New York, by Anthony Febles. Lender: Absolute Home Mortgage Corp., 330 Passaic Ave., Suite 204, Fairfield, New Jersey. Property: 17 Glen Ave., Stamford. Amount: $580,500. Filed Dec. 28.

Fox Jr., Thomas B. and Jennifer N. Fox, Greenwich, by Jeremy E. Kaye. Lender: First Republic Bank, 111 Pine St., San Francisco, California. Property: 6 Cherry Lane, Old Greenwich.

Amount: $300,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Gallucci, Marc Anthony, Fairfield, by Lori O. Readel. Lender: TD Bank NA, 2035 Limestone Road, Wilmington, Delaware. Property: 279 Weeping Willow Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $50,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Guevara, Tamara L., Stamford, by Jacqueline Sharp. Lender: Newrez LLC, 1100 Virginia Drive, Suite 125, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Property: 235 Seaton Road, Unit 2, Stamford.

Amount: $135,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Johnson, Karen, Greenwich, by Aneta Magiera. Lender: National Banking Association, 100 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 18 Sound Beach Ave., Old Greenwich.

Amount: $305,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Jones Jr., Calvin, Stamford, by Shauna Rose-Larmond. Lender: CMG Mortgage Inc., 3160 Crow Canyon Road, Suite 400, San Ramon, California. Property: 54 Buckingham Drive, Stamford.

Amount: $460,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Juliano, Michael, Stratford, by Susan Kohn. Lender: Loandepot. com LLC, 6561 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, California.

Property: 104 Woodside Green, Unit 2B, Stamford.

Amount: $190,800. Filed Dec. 28.

Kabir, Salaha, Stamford, by Kellie Ann Vazzano. Lender: Caliber Home Loans Inc., 1525 S. Belt Line Road, Coppell, Texas.

Property: 104 Dean St., Stamford.

Amount: $595,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Kosminsky, Luiza and Enrique Estrada, Fairfield, by Christina Anthony. Lender: Webster Bank NA, 1959 Summer St., Stamford. Property: 138 Berkeley Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $76,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Lacour, Federico Luis and Nicola Jean totman, Greenwich, by Charles P. Abate. Lender: US Bank NA, 4801 Frederica St., Owensboro, Kentucky. Property: 19 W. Hill Road, Stamford. Amount: $1,372,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Lesko, Kyle Michael, Fairfield, by Bruce D. Jackson. Lender: Nations Direct Mortgage LLC, 5 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 200, Santa Ana, California. Property: 46 Harris St., Fairfield. Amount: $300,200. Filed Dec. 28.

Lippman, Gennifer R. and Joshua E. Lippman. Southport, by Raquel Marcano. Lender: PNC Bank NA, 222 Delaware Ave., Wilmington, Delaware. Property: 300 Half Mile Road, Southport.

Amount: $350,000. Filed Dec. 27.

McQuillan, Thomas W. and Margaret Mary McQuillan, Greenwich, by Tyler Whitley. Lender: TD Bank NA, 2035 Limestone Road, Wilmington, Delaware. Property: 45 Cedar Cliff Road, Riverside. Amount:

$312,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Mulligan, Robby P. and Terrah Mulligan, Fairfield, by Scott Rogalski. Lender: Amalgamated Bank, 275 Seventh Ave., New York, New York. Property: 126 Rolling Hills Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $175,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Nascimento, Eugenia Murdean, Bronx, New York. by David P. Lasnick. Lender: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., 4201 Marsh Lane, Carrollton, Texas. Property: 130 Lisbon Drive, Fairfield. Amount:

$300,800. Filed Dec. 28.

Facts & Figures

Nekola, Kathleen, White Plains, New York, by M. Cassin Maloney Jr. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank NA, 101 N. Phillips Ave, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Property: 29 N. Meadows Lane, Stamford. Amount: $686,250. Filed Dec. 30.

Ovando, Danny and Astrid Salas Martinez, Malverne, New York, by Jonathan T. Hoffman. Lender: Savings Bank of Danbury, 220 Main St., Danbury. Property: 127 Greyrock Place, Unit 810, Stamford. Amount: $287,100. Filed Dec. 30.

Penate, Nitai, Valley Stream, New York, by Michelle Kukk. Lender: CrossCountry Mortgage LLC, 2160 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Property: 5 Windell Place, Unit 5, Stamford.

Amount: $315,250. Filed Dec. 29.

Rizzo, Robert and Frank Rizzo, Coto de Caza, California, by Sean E. Sweeney. Lender: Union Savings Bank, 226 Main St., Danbury. Property: 9-10 Garden Court, Fairfield. Amount: $385,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Rojas, Ladi, Stamford, by Louis J. Colangelo Jr. Lender: Velocity Commercial Capital LLC, 30699 Russell Ranch Road, Suite 295, Westlake Village, California. Property: 111 Lafayette St., Stamford. Amount: $431,250. Filed Dec. 29.

Rosenfeld, Michael and Alexandra Boelke, New York, New York, by Thomas J Heagney. Lender: The First Bank of Greenwich, 444 E. Putnam Ave., Cos Cob. Property: 62 Sherwood Place, Unit A, Greenwich.

Amount: $356,213. Filed Dec. 30.

Rosenfeld, Michael, New York, New York, by Thomas J. Heagney. Lender: The First Bank of Greenwich, 444 E. Putnam Ave., Cos Cob. Property: 62 Sherwood Place, Unit B, Greenwich.

Amount: $379,960. Filed Dec. 30.

Sabe, Alexandra and Konstantin Teverovskiy, Stamford, by Gregg A. Braureiser. Lender: CrossCountry Mortgage LLC, 2160 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Property: 24 East Ave., Unit 6, Stamford.

Amount: $348,570. Filed Dec. 28.

Sisca, Robert V. and Jennifer L. Sisca, Greenwich, by Anny Polanco. Lender: Webster Bank NA, 1959 Summer St., Stamford. Property: 40 Nutmeg Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $360,500. Filed Dec. 28.

Sofer, Alfred and Prudy Sofer, Greenwich, by Douglas Seltzer. Lender: US Bank NA, 425 Walnut St., Cincinnati, Ohio. Property: 26 Jeffrey Road, Greenwich. Amount: $350,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Tabak, Michael and Angela Labella, Milford, by Daniel C. Ioime. Lender: Newtown Savings Bank, 39 Main St., Newtown. Property: 100 Laslo Terrace, Fairfield. Amount: $568,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Tang, Hoyu, Stamford, by Jeffrey M. Washowky. Lender: Newtown Savings Bank, 39 Main St., Newtown. Property: 470 Stillson Road, Fairfield. Amount: $636,500. Filed Dec. 29.

Taylor, David Micle and Sara Suzanne Taylor, Greenwich, by Ourania Perdikis. Lender: Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, 1 Fountain Plaza, Buffalo, New York. Property: 65 Bote Road, Greenwich. Amount: $200,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Vanmoorsel, Timothy Guillaume and Angela Vanmoorsel, Stamford, by Charles A. Fiore. Lender: Stamford Healthcare Credit Union Inc., 4 Hospital Plaza, Suite 103, Stamford. Property: 27 Interlaken Road, Stamford. Amount: $125,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Weintraub, Scot and Lauren Weintraub, Old Greenwich, by Silvia Bowron. Lender: TD Bank NA, 2035 Limestone Road, Wilmington, Delaware. Property: 20 Heusted Drive, Old Greenwich. Amount: $114,000. Filed Dec. 27.

White, Daniel J. and Anna A. White, Fairfield, by Erica Diana Franco. Lender: TD Bank NA, 2035 Limestone Road, Wilmington, Delaware. Property: 196 Robin Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $200,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Yu, Jeffrey C. and Amy Yong, Greenwich, by Vicki K. Johnson.

Lender: UBS Bank USA, 95 State St., Suite 2200, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 108 Sheephill Road, Riverside. Amount: $2,310,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Zurenda, Katherine E., Cos

Cob, by Erin Spiess Chang.

Lender: Savings Bank of Danbury, 220 Main St., Danbury.

Property: 26 Mead Ave., Cos

Cob. Amount: $1,250,625. Filed Dec. 28.

NEW BUSINESSES

Complete Home Improvement and Kitchens LLC, 43 Creeping Hemlock Drive, Norwalk 06851, c/o Lucio Salinas. Filed Dec. 19.

Driving With Victor (DWV), 133 Monterey Place, Bldg. 14, Apt. 164, Norwalk 06854, c/o Victor Eder. Filed Dec. 21.

Fairfield County Antiques and Design, 39 Knight St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Karen Wellikoff. Filed Dec. 9.

Hyltontech, 3 Woodchuck Lane, Norwalk 06854, c/o Alex Hylton. Filed Dec. 21.

Kodel Tommy, 39 Glenrock, Norwalk 06850, c/o Thomas Raymond Kodel. Filed Jan. 3.

Lilac Partners, 1 Chestnut St., No. 619, Norwalk 06854, c/o Mersudin Lalic. Filed Jan. 3.

LookGood4Less, 143 S. Main St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Marielyce Jean. Filed Dec. 12.

New Castle Metal, 535 Old Tarrytown Road, White Plains, New York 10603, c/o John Hutt, director. Filed Dec. 16.

Norwalk Islamic Community Center/NICC, 43 William St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Fachan Memon. Filed Dec. 9.

Rich Brand, 150 Glover Ave., Apt No.109, Norwalk 06850, c/o Manuel Alvarez. Filed Dec. 13.

Sanchez, Asset Realty, 50 Washington St., Suite 918, Norwalk 06854, c/o Luis Sanchez. Filed Dec. 19.

Studio BECC, 120 Newtown Ave., Norwalk 06851, c/o Rebeca Vulcano. Filed Dec. 12.

AVP, Solution Architect, Synchrony Bank, Stamford, CT. Design & deploy cstmr-cntrc tchncl solutions architecture in accrdnc with the orgnztnl tech roadmap. Req. Bach’s deg of foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Comp Info Sys or rel field & 5 yrs of rel wrk exp. Salary: $142,730/ yr. Telecommuting prmttd. To apply, email resume to HR Manager referencing job code CT0029 in subject line to: kristine. mackey@syf.com

Research Director, Sourcing, Procurement and Supplier Management, Garter Inc., Stamford, CT. Conduct in-depth rsrch & oprtnl analysis of procurement & srcng trends that meet bus needs & promote the execution of supply chain. Req Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Bus Admin, Supply Chain or rel field + 4 yrs work exp on the supply side in Supply Chain. Up to 5% domestic travel req. 100% Telecommuting permitted w/in Eastern time zone. To apply, please email resume to: Melissa.Lopez@ gartner.com and reference job code: 47962.

Vine Road Realty, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/21/2022. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Cad Development Corp., 495 New Rochelle Rd., Bronxville, NY 10708.

General Purpose

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LEGAL NOTICES

Notice of Formation of PAWPRINTS 2015 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/2022. Office location: Westchester County. Princ. Office of LLC: c/o John Estima110 Urban St., Mt. Vernon, NY 10552. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the address of its principle office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. #63308

Nehal Manente Physical Therapy, PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/30/2022. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 114 Orient St., Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: Physical Therapy #63314

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Kismet Communications, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 12/27/22. Office is located at 85 Jefferson Avenue in Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon which process against it may be served to the office location above. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #63316

RIGHT ROUTE

LLC Articles of Organization filed with the SSNY on 12/23/2022. Office location: Westchester. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 121 Main Street, Ossining, NY 10562. Any lawful purpose. #63317

WM1 LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/6/2023. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 10 N James St., unit H, Peekskill, NY 10566.

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Notice of Formation of JNJ Filings LLC

Sealed bids will be received as set forth in Instructions to Bidders (https://www.dot. ny.gov/bids-and-lettings/construction-contractors/important-info) until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, February 16, 2023 at the NYSDOT, Office of Contract Management, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read. Maps, Plans and Specifications may be seen at Electronic documents and Amendments which are posted to www.dot.ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/const-notices.

The New York State Department of Transportation, in accordance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federally-assisted programs of the Department of Transportation and Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200, Title IV Program and Related Statutes, as amended, issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all who respond to a written Department solicitation, request for proposal or invitation for bid that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability/handicap and income status in consideration for an award.

BIDDERS SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT AWARD OF THESE CONTRACTS MAY BE CONTINGENT UPON THE PASSAGE OF A BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL BY THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Please call (518)457-2124 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting.

Region 08: New York State Department of Transportation 4 Burnett Blvd., Poughkeepsie, NY, 12603

D264970, PIN 881657, Rockland, Westchester Cos., CATCH BASIN CLEANING - Various Locations, Bid Deposit: 5% of Bid (~ $40,000.00), Goals: MBE: 3.00%, WBE: 3.00%, SDVOB: 0.00%

Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/9/23, Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 15 Moultrie Avenue, Yonkers, New York 10710 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 48 SecorRoad, LLC

Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/5/2022. 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, 226 Hunt Ln North Salem, NY 10560. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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