Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journal 032519

MARCH 25, 2019 VOL. 55, No. 12

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The modern-day country club SPIEGEL LOOKS TO CREATE ‘AN EXPERIENCE’ AT CHAPPAQUA’S LIFE TIME FITNESS CLUB

Michael Spiegel, general manager of Chappaqua Life Time. Photo by Ryan Deffenbaugh.

ADAPTIVE REUSE OF UNWANTED OFFICE SPACE INTO RESIDENTIAL CONTINUES TO GROW IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY

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he new Life Time athletic club in Chappaqua is a smaller, more boutique concept for the Minnesota fitness company, but it’s important to keep in mind that those terms are relative.

Westchester County residents know Life Time for its massive 206,000-squarefoot brick box athletic center in Harrison, home to indoor and outdoor swimming pools and 10 tennis courts.

That location dwarfs the 40,000-square-foot north-

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Photos courtesy of Life Time.

ern Westchester club Life Time opened in February at Chappaqua Crossing, formerly the Reader’s Digest headquarters. But if you haven’t seen the Harrison location, or the majority of the company’s 138 fitness

centers, the new location at 480 Bedford Road certainly wouldn’t appear all that small.

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ising residential demand — and a declining interest in Class B and C office buildings — is continuing to fuel a wave of adaptive repurposing and reuse in Fairfield County, according to Tom Pajolek, an executive vice president in CBRE’s Stamford office.

While converting otherwise unwanted office

properties to medical use has been trending for some time now, Pajolek said the office-to-multifamily movement is still gaining steam.

“When a market starts to soften, like we’re seeing here, demand obviously slackens,” Pajolek said. “Those people who are in the market tend to go for the best-in-class, Class A office buildings that are modern, well-situated and well-maintained.”

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Higher and higher FORWARD MOMENTUM AT SIKORSKY, BRADLEY AIRPORTS COULD SIGNAL BLUE SKIES FOR AREA FLIERS

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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he sky may not be the limit when it comes to nearby air service. But ongoing expansion at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks — and continuing progress on renovating Stratford’s Igor Sikorsky Memorial Airport with an eye toward returning commercial services there — could soon make travel a little breezier.

David Kooris, deputy commissioner at Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), said the agency is working with Bridgeport — which owns Sikorsky — to help fund improvements there that could bring back regular commercial airline service for the first time since the mid-1990s.

“The city approached us in the middle of 2018 with a prospective airline that is interested in becoming active at the airport,” Kooris affirmed. “It’s contingent upon a series of improvements to the airport, including the runways, the taxiing area and the parking lots — nothing too major.”

The state’s agreement to get involved in the project was dependent upon forming a public/private partnership, a proviso Kooris said was satisfied by Bridgeport securing what he called a “private entity” that is willing to commit at least $8 million to those renovations. As a result, the DECD will put up $7 million if the project ultimately materializes.

“The state is not preemptively making an investment,” he said. Instead, both the DECD and the private entity, which Kooris declined to name, would move forward only upon the approval of the Federal

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The terminal at Bradley International Airport (top) and an aircraft at Sikorsky Memorial Airport (bottom).

Aviation Administration.

The potential upgrades at Sikorsky, where some of the facilities have long been in need of repair, began picking up steam last fall with the commissioning of a master planning process, funded largely by the FAA. The agency provided $450,000 for the master plan and $170,435 for a noise study, with Bridgeport contributing $53,632 and Sikorsky — which currently operates at an annual deficit of about $500,000 — another $51,822.

Sikorsky Airport Manager Michelle Muoio said that regardless of whether commercial service returned there, the money was much needed “to rehabilitate and lengthen the lifespan of our runways, which are getting near the end of their useful life here.” Such work would extend their sufficiency for another 10 to 15 years, she said.

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Muoio also cautioned that anyone envisioning jumping on a Boeing 787 for a trip to Europe should think again. “If we do bring back commercial service, (the aircraft) would not be any larger than the type we have now,” she said.

The airline that has shown interest in Sikorsky would therefore be offering up to eight daily f lights whose capacity would total 100 to 150, she added.

Although there are a lot of “ifs” involved — the private and public funding, approval from the FAA and Bridgeport among them — Muoio said commercial service could return to Sikorsky as early as next year.

Bradley International Airport recently announced it experienced its sixth consecutive year of passenger growth in 2018, with nearly 6.7 million fliers representing an increase over 2017’s

6.4 million — good news for the Connecticut Airport Authority (CAA), which took over management of the airport in 2013. The CAA, which was established as a quasi-public agency in 2011 to own, improve and operate Bradley and the five stateowned general aviation airports, runs at an annual deficit of about $4 million.

Recent additions include nonstop flights to Denver starting on March 28 and others to North Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania by the summer. And although

Southwest Airlines ended daily nonstop service to Las Vegas from Bradley last month, CAA Executive Director Kevin Dillon emphasized that it still offers one-stop flights to that city and that the February decision “doesn’t preclude it from coming back next year.”

One of its current target nonstop destinations is Seattle. Delta, which already provides nonstop service to a number of U.S. cities, “may be a candidate” for that city, Dillon said, “but Alaska Air is just as likely.” That airline

does not currently fly to or from Bradley.

Phoenix and various sites in the Caribbean are also on the CAA’s wish list.

The agency is also moving forward with its 20-year, $1.4 billion master plan to accommodate its growing passenger population, which includes the construction of a new passenger Terminal B as well as a ground transportation and a rental car center with 800 parking spaces.

Dillon said the agency hopes to begin construction on the $220 million center as early as this spring.

Dillon said the CAA is also keeping tabs on a pair of bills that have been introduced in Hartford. SB 604 would require the submission of quasi-public agency employment and consulting contracts and separation agreements to the attorney general and relevant legislative committee for review and comment.

HB 7086 would, among other things, expand the requirements for privatizing state services by including quasi-public agencies.

Dillon argued that the added bureaucracy would only slow down the CAA’s efforts at improvement, which in turn would dampen the momentum at Bradley and thus have a negative effect on its goals of attracting more customers.

While Dillon said he had no problem with more transparency, he questioned the approaches involved with the proposed bills. The attorney general’s office and the Department of Transportation “don’t have the expertise” to review consultancy agreements with engineers and other vendors in an efficient manner, he said, adding that “it can be a very, very onerous process” to privatize state services.

“Those bills could bring our success to a grinding halt if we’re not careful,” he said.

Norwegian Air switches to Dreamliner at Stewart Airport after MAX 8 crashes

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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n the wake of the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft following two recent crashes, the airline which had been flying the MAX 8 into New York Stewart International Airport has switched to a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.

Norwegian Air is operating the larger airplane on a temporary, daily basis between Stewart Airport in New Windsor and Dublin Airport in Ireland. Boeing 787 aircraft usually are configured with from 242 to 338 passenger seats, whereas the MAX 8 typically is configured with 138 to 230 passenger seats.

Various countries start-

ed grounding their fleets of Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes shortly after the March 10 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 near Addis Ababa.

All 157 on board were killed.

The flight crew is said to have reported control problems shortly before the crash.

The FAA on March 13 announced that all Boeing 737 MAX 8s operated by U.S. airlines are grounded until further notice following completion of any flights, which were then in progress. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board have joined with Ethiopian authorities in the accident investigation. There were some Americans on board the flight. The airplane’s manufacturer, Boeing, is a U.S. company. In addition,

One of Norwegian’s 737 MAXs arriving at Stewart Airport.

Photo by Bob Rozycki.

experts from the NTSB traveled to France to work with investigators in attempting to recover data from the airplane’s cockpit voice and

flight data recorders.

It is suspected that a system designed to keep the MAX 8 flying within a safe performance envelope

can malfunction when the airplane is climbing and the wing flaps have been retracted. That seemed to be what happened when a Lion Air 737 MAX 8 crashed off the Indonesian coast on Oct. 29. Investigators have yet to determine the probable causes of the MAX 8 accidents.

The main runway at Stewart Airport is 11,817 feet long by 150 feet wide, oriented east/west, and is about twice the length needed for Dreamliners. Norwegian is operating Dreamliner aircraft with a 338-seat configuration, 282 in economy and 56 in premium. Its MAX 8 aircraft use a 189-seat configuration. The airline pointed out that the 787 Dreamliner being used on the route between Stewart and Dublin

has an image of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh painted on its tail.

“What happens next is in the hands of European aviation authorities, but we hope and expect that our MAXs will be airborne soon,” Bjorn Kjos, CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle, said.

He also said he expects to try to recover some of the airline’s losses due to having to ground its MAX 8 aircraft from Boeing.

Norwegian also had been flying overseas from T.F. Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island. Without the ability to fly MAX 8 aircraft into Providence, Norwegian set up a program to bus passengers between Providence and Stewart because they can easily be accommodated on the larger 787 aircraft.

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Tattoo artist Frankie Frieri has your skin in the game

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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rankie Frieri’s Three Roses Studio in Fairfield doesn’t get walk-in traffic, primarily because his business does not have a direct street entrance — one has to take an elevator to the lower level of the 1177 Post Road complex where he is based. Not that Frieri minds.

He runs a one-man operation and does not want unexpected people wandering in off the street and into his combination tattoo studio and art gallery.

“My clients are looking for an intimate and personal space,” he explained. “I don’t have any walkins. I could make triple the money if I was upstairs or if I had more artists, but it’s not about the money.

This is about doing good work with great clients.”

Frieri is proud of running the first and only tattoo studio in the town of Fairfield. “A lot of people wanted to open up here, but Fairfield didn’t want them,” he said, adding that it took him five years of negotiating with the town before he received the go-ahead to open in June 2016. “I’m from around here and I wanted to open up a different studio that is not your usual studio. I would say that 99.9 percent of the studios around here look like a biker hangout or a hospital setting. This is a private, by-appointment place.”

Frieri describes his client base as “college kids from Fairfield University and Sacred Heart, busi-

nessmen, working men and soccer moms from Fairfield, Westport, New Canaan, Darien — people who always wanted to get tattooed but would never go to a traditional studio because it was intimidating.” He estimated that 70 percent of his clients are women, and his oldest client has been an 82-yearold woman who came in with her granddaughter for each to receive the same tattoo design.

But Frieri is also strict regarding his limits. “I don’t do anybody under the age of 18,” he stated.

“I don’t do anything visible — no

hands, necks, throats, faces. It’s art, so I have to have some kind of class.”

Art is a dominant theme at Three Roses Studio. Frieri specializes in recreating traditional Japanese tattoo art, and his studio is rich with books on art history and multicultural designs.

Frieri noted that he needed to be cognizant of diverse artistic traditions in order to respond to the most esoteric of customer design requests.

“My clients bring a lot of original ideas,” he said. “Anything from man-

Westfair’s Phil Hall honored

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hil Hall, who joined Westfair Communications Inc. as a reporter in October 2016, was recognized by the Connecticut Press Club for three stories written last year.

The award-winning stories included two first-place selections.

In the Arts & Entertainment category, Hall was honored for his coverage of the Balkun Brothers’ rock band "A different kind of 'Blues Brothers' ” in WAG magazine’s November 2018 edition. In

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Frankie Frieri at his Three Roses Studio in Fairfield. Photo by Phil Hall.

dala to sacred geometry work.”

Adjacent to Frieri’s tattoo studio is an art gallery that he uses to display his paintings and the works of local artists. “There are a lot of artists out there (who) have no place to show,” he lamented.

The gallery space is donated to local individuals who host community-focused activities and events. “We have yoga every other Thursday, book readings, poetry nights, comedy nights, paint and sip parties every last Friday of the month, and knitting club that meets every Wednesday,” he said, adding that his mother was the driving force behind the knitting club.

Frieri’s tattoo work does not fit into an easy pricing structure.

He charges a $150 minimum for an hour of labor, but he noted that elaborate work ranging from arm sleeves to full upper torso designs can cost tens of thousands of dollars and require years to complete.

Frieri does not charge for touchup work, but he advised clients to avoid excessive sun exposure in order to maintain the vibrancy of the ink colors.

Frieri’s work has caught the notice of regional media outlets that cover tattoo design, and clients from the New York City metro area and the neighboring New England states have found their way to his studio. As for moving out of his lower level set-up and into a more visible environment, Frieri insisted that was off the table.

“I’m fairly busy,” he said. “I’m almost booked for all of 2019.”

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the History category, he was cited for his article "Rediscovering Little Liberia in Bridgeport," which was published in the Fairfield County Business Journal on July 23, 2018.

Hall also received an honorable mention award in the Personality Profile category for "Second-hand retailer Euphoria mixes commerce, community," which appeared in the Fairfield County Business Journal on Oct, 1, 2018.

Hall was also recognized twice for his work on non-West-

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fair projects: a second-place award in the Nonfiction Books for Adult Readers - History category for his book "The Weirdest Movie Ever Made: The PattersonGimlin Bigfoot Film" and an honorable mention in the Specialty Article, Reviews category for “The Bootleg Files,” a film review column that he writes for the Cinema Crazed website.

Editor’s note: Congratulations, Phil. The Westfair team is proud of you.

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Cuomo blasts Trump for not funding Gateway Tunnel project Current estimates place the cost of the new tunnels and associated infrastructure at $30 billion. Cuomo emphasized that the federal government previously had pledged to split the cost with New York and New Jersey. He classified Gateway as the most urgent infrastructure project in the nation.

“Inaction would be catastrophic not just

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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ew York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo blasted the Trump administration for failing to include money in its 2020 federal budget for the Gateway Tunnel project. The budget would cut transportation department funding by $5.1 billion, or 19 percent, while also cutting many other programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and student loans.

The Gateway Tunnel project envisions new railroad tunnels to be built under the Hudson River to replace the two existing, severely deteriorated, single-track tubes.

Commuter trains between New Jersey and New York and Amtrak trains on Northeast corridor routes presently carry an estimated 200,000 passengers on about 450 trains through the tunnels every day. Now owned

by Amtrak, a federal operation, the tubes were originally built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened in 1910.

The Gateway Tunnel project envisions new railroad tunnels to be built under the Hudson River to replace the two existing, severely deteriorated, single-track tubes.

Cuomo said, “Laughably, they claim that funding the Gateway project is the sole responsibility of local officials — even though Amtrak owns the tunnel. These ridiculous claims should not be taken seriously. What should be taken seriously, however, are the consequences if we don’t move forward on the project expeditiously.”

Cuomo thought he had a meeting of the minds with President Donald Trump when they had lunch at the White House on Nov. 28 and discussed the Gateway project. “It was all good. The president got it,” Cuomo said after the meeting, which included Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

“I think it’s fair to say that the meeting was a positive meeting. I think it’s fair to say that the president was receptive to what we were talking about and the president said he wanted to take the next steps to find a way forward,” Cuomo said at the time.

Gov. Cuomo at the tunnel project meeting in November.

for the region but for the entire national economy,” Cuomo now warns. “The Trump administration must stop playing political games and holding this funding hostage.

If the federal government refuses to fund this project, then the president will have to answer to the travelers and businesses across the Northeast who rely on this critical transit corridor.”

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Newtown economic, real estate development moving ahead, but state proposals worry first selectman

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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ewtown is continuing to make great strides in commercial and economic development, according to First Selectman Dan Rosenthal. And it should continue to do so, if the state will get out of the way.

That is not precisely how Rosenthal put it, but it was very much implied when he spoke with the Business Journal. Among his concerns: Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposal to shift a significant portion of the cost of teacher pensions to Connecticut municipalities.

The base contribution would be approximately 25 percent of the normal cost, which would be phased in over three years. Newtown would lose $250,000 in 2020, $660,000 in 2021 and $750,000 in 2022 — something Rosenthal characterized as “insidious.”

“What I’m particularly worried about is that we’ll be paying into a system we can’t control,” the first selectman said.

“Locally we manage our pensions very well. We’re closing out our defined benefit plan to include existing employees only, with everyone else going to a (tax-deferred retirement savings plan) 401(a).”

What Lamont’s plan would effectively do would be to force governments “to wait for an email each year to find out how much you owe, and then try to create a budget from there,” Rosenthal said. The likely result would be service cuts.

Rosenthal said he also differs with his fellow Democrat Lamont when it comes to highway tolls and legalization of recreational marijuana as ways to raise revenue. With the former, he compared the plan — which supporters claim could raise $800 million to $1 billion in annual revenue — to the situation in 1991 when then-Gov. Lowell Weicker signed into law a flat 4.5 percent income tax, which was hoped would help make up for a concurrent decrease in the sales tax from 8 percent to 4.25 percent. Today the income tax rate ranges from 3 percent to 6.99 percent, while the state sales tax sits at 6.35 percent.

“I don’t believe we ever got down to that 4.25 percent,” Rosenthal said, drawing a comparison between Weicker’s tax plan and Lamont’s transportation plan — that promises made in Hartford have proven to be difficult to keep.

As for recreational marijuana — which the state’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis has estimated Connecticut could reap somewhere in the neighborhood of $61 million a year — Rosenthal said he was uneasy about revenue trumping responsibility.

“There’s a lot of talk about revenue and

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Work continues on the 45,860-square-foot community center in Newtown’s Fairfield Hills.

not enough about revenue realignment,” he said. Having spoken against a proposed medical marijuana dispensary in Newtown —nearby Bethel already has one — Rosenthal said he was opposed to legalizing recreational marijuana because of moral objections.

“I’m not ready to have that conversation with my kids: ‘We’re making marijuana legal because we can collect tax revenue on it — but don’t you smoke it!’ ” he declared.

In the meantime, various projects around Newtown are continuing to take shape. Construction of its 45,860-squarefoot community center, funded by General Electric’s $10 million gift following the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre and another $5 million from taxpayers, is “about 75 percent done,” he said.

However, there have been some hiccups in that project. Earlier this year came word that some key aspects and/or materials were not included in the center’s design phase, including various steel structural elements, with the result that some areas have had to be retrofitted at additional expense. Nevertheless, Rosenthal expects the center to be completed near budget and its original completion date of late June/ early July.

As do the town’s offices, the community center lies within its 185-acre Fairfield Hills campus. Rosenthal has made commercial development on the campus a priority.

The first such project is Asylum Brewing

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Co., now under construction in a renovated 9,000-square-foot building. Rosenthal said interest has been shown in several other vacant Fairfield Hills buildings, but that nothing was yet official.

He said he was pleased that no significant vocal opposition to either Asylum or Reverie Brewing Co., which recently opened at 57B Church Hill Road, had been voiced. Such types of businesses “bring in more diverse traffic,” he said, “people who hopefully will also support other local businesses. There was a time not long ago when every new business in town was a pizza place — not that there’s anything wrong with pizza places — but we’re starting to see different types of businesses opening here.”

Also new to town will be an ice arena at the Newtown Youth Academy Sports & Fitness Center, also located in Fairfield Hills. Once set to open in January 2019, Rosenthal said the project was moving forward and could be completed by July.

Originally pitched as an additional building, the arena will now fall within NYA’s original footprint, with indoor basketball and tennis courts being moved within its 77,000-square-foot space to make room.

Earlier this month the town approved a Public Building and Site Commission recommendation to retain Consigli Construction Co. of Pleasant Valley, New York, as the construction manager for Newtown’s new police station at 191 S. Main St. That Consigli had completed the new Sandy Hook Elementary

School, which opened in 2016, on time and under budget made the choice an easy one, Rosenthal said.

The town spent $1.6 million on purchasing the property and has budgeted $13.2 million for construction, he added. The 7.35-acre site includes a 22,318-square-foot, single-story structure and a bordering 4.39acre site at 61 Pecks Lane, which includes a vacant house. The town plans on renovating the existing main structure and adding a 2,500-square-foot expansion, which would contain holding cells and a secure, controlled entryway, or “sally port.”

On the residential side, work continues at the 180-unit Covered Bridge Apartments complex near exit 9 of Interstate 84. The years-inthe-making Hunters Ridge development at 79 Church Hill Road, near westbound I-84’s Exit 10 interchange ramps, is at something of a standstill following a number of revised applications by land development firm 79 Church Hill Road LLC. The latest wrinkle there involves the Hartford-based Shipman & Goodwin law firm, which represented the developer in a lawsuit filed against Newtown’s Water & Sewer Authority (WSA) last August. While the suit — which in part seeks the nullification of some of the WSA’s conditions regarding an increase in municipal sewage treatment capacity that would be necessary for the project to go forward — is still pending, Shipman has withdrawn from the case.

Rosenthal can take credit for that move, having publicly criticized Shipman for representing the LLC and the Newtown Board of Education at the same time. Although not illegal, Rosenthal said that, again, the moral implications weighed too heavily for comfort.

“Our taxpayers pay for 95 percent of the Board of Education’s expenses, which includes Shipman & Goodwin,” he said.

“And then asking those same taxpayers to turn around and pay to defend the lawsuit just didn’t make sense. They had to pick one or the other.”

He noted that Shipman represents some 100 school boards across Connecticut while also maintaining a significant land use practice around the state. “That’s fine, more power to them,” he said. “But it wasn’t going to happen here.”

Rosenthal noted that the town’s AAA rating was recently reaffirmed by Standard & Poor’s. Factors included “Very Strong Management,” “Very Strong Economy,” “Strong” budgetary performance and flexibility — its available fund balance in fiscal 2018 was 10.6 percent of operating expenditures — and “Very Strong” liquidity, with total government available cash at 23.1 percent of total governmental-fund expenditures.

IN THE COURT Disbarred attorney Joseph Scali invokes Michael Cohen defense

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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isbarred attorney Joseph G. Scali, who was sentenced to prison for fraud, tax violations, perjury and obstruction of justice, invoked Michael Cohen in arguing for a lenient sentence.

Just days after President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer was sentenced in December to three years in prison, Scali’s attorney asked a federal judge in White Plains to disregard his client’s previous request for four years.

Federal sentencing guidelines set a range of eight to 10 years, and a presentence investigation report recommended nine. Scali asked for 18 months.

Scali had done bad things, his attorney, Daniel A. Hochheiser of Scarsdale, argued in a sentencing memorandum, “but Scali is not a bad man.”

Scali grew up in Middletown, Orange County, served as legal counsel for a congressman and as an assistant district attorney. He had lived in Chappaqua and later West Hartford, Connecticut, while running a law firm in Middletown for many years.

In 2013, a state grievance committee charged him with 49 instances of professional misconduct, including misappropriating client funds, and suspended his law license.

In 2014, a U.S. District Court panel of judges disbarred him for failing to respond to a bankruptcy judge’s misconduct complaint.

In 2016, the state disbarred him and two days later he was brought up on federal criminal charges.

A federal jury in White Plains found him guilty on May 1, 2016, of 10 charges.

He had embezzled $850,000 from a client he represented in a Pennsylvania land deal. Instead of protecting the client’s funds in an escrow account, he had paid for season sports tickets, an $8,100 fur coat, mortgage payments on a vacation home, wire transfers to his daughter in England and trips to the Cayman Islands, England and Italy.

From 2006 to 2012 he stopped filing federal corporate and personal tax returns, running up a tax liability of $680,843.

When he was under investigation for professional misconduct, he lied under oath and submitted a false affidavit to a federal grievance committee, swearing, for instance, that his state license suspension had nothing to do with his law practice.

He continued to collect fees, make court appearances and file legal documents while his law license was suspended.

When he tried to get charges dismissed, he submitted affidavits by himself and his 90-yearold mother falsely claiming that his mother had impersonated him and had sent a letter to a

client without his knowledge.

In asking for leniency, Scali cited his age, medical condition, his 90-year-old parents, a record of public service and volunteer work, good behavior while awaiting trial and acceptance of responsibility.

His lawyer presented examples of 11 New York lawyers convicted of similar crimes from 2015 to 2018, including Cohen, who received average prison sentences of 31 months.

The Children’s Kohomban “I have finally Village admittedJeremy to myself why I 7.375” w the x 7.125” h he states in the sencommitted crimes,” 1-11-19 tencing memo. He took money “for one reason: to maintain a lifestyle I had become accustomed to but could no longer afford to sustain.”

Now, his attorney argued, “Scali is a broken man.” He has lost his law license, livelihood

and reputation. He has spent 11 months in jail, including “hard time” at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

The nine-year prison sentence proposed by the government “could effectively be a life sentence for Scali, a 69-year-old man with a host of serious ailments.”

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Olga Zverovich, Vladislav Vainberg and Daniel Noble argued for a tough prison sentence.

“Scali exploited and abused his position as an attorney to lie, steal and cheat,” they state in a sentencing memo. For nearly 10 years he chose time and time again to defraud individuals and the government and to cover up his actions with lies and deception.

He concealed his license suspension

from his wife for more than 2½ years. He attempted to shift blame for his fraud onto his 90-year-old mother, potentially exposing her to criminal prosecution.

“While Scali now claims that he ‘loves family more than anything else in the world,’ ” they wrote, “this egregious conduct shows that the person he loves most is himself.”

A lenient sentence for Scali “would be perceived by the public as a slap on the wrist and would fail to serve the essential sentencing goals of affording deterrence and promoting respect for the law.”

On March 6, U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Roman sentenced Scali to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release and restitution of more than $1.5 million.

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outdoor water parks, rock climbing walls, basketball courts. Just a really big, grand scale,” said Michael Spiegel, the general manager of the Chappaqua location. “Here, we still are very spacious. We still have that resort feel, but we pared it down.”

The club features a health-focused café, kids academy, spa and salon and locker rooms with whirlpools, saunas and steam rooms.

Life Time employees don’t care for the term “gym.”

Life Time is a fitness club, a resort by some descriptions.

It may even be the modern-day country club, with barbells and Zumba replacing putters and tee times.

Spiegel said the terms are important for building the culture the company wants for its locations. The club doesn’t have 200 employees.

It has 200 team members.

They are expected to greet guests with a smile and regulars by name.

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downtown, or proximate to attractive waterfront and/or highway locations, he said, “Developers see those as opportunities to reposition” as multifamily residences.

One of those, 1177 Post Road East in Westport, was a 42,624-square-foot, multitenanted office building erected in 1980 by the Kowalsky Brothers Construction Co. It was sold for $6.8 million in 2016 to Investment Capital Holdings, which set about converting it into a recently opened 94-unit complex rebranded as 1177 Greens Farms development.

“It’s doing really well,” Pajolek said, noting that Investment Capital built it with affordable housing in mind. Thirty of the units fall under that designation, which helped Westport earlier this month gain a “Certificate of Affordable Housing Completion” from the state Department of Housing, which grants the town a fouryear moratorium on 8-30g applications.

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“We want to leave people feeling that I just had an experience. It wasn’t just a class that I took. It was an experience,” Spiegel said.

The intimacy of the space is part of the pitch from Life Time. The company rarely goes small. Its Manhattan club tops 70,000 square feet.

The Chappaqua space marks the second Westchester club for the company. The Harrison location is often described as one of the top performing throughout the company. Spiegel said the center has checked in 3,000 guests on peak days.

Life Time can offer what any business or landlord desires: foot traffic. That will be especially important as the company, already reporting more than $1 billion in yearly revenue, attempts to expand its focus. A $4 billion transaction took Life Time private in 2015. Since then, Life Time has dropped the “Fitness” from its name and is breaking into other types of commercial real estate. The

a developer to override local zoning regulations if a town does not have 10 percent of its housing stock deemed affordable. Although Westport has about 4 percent, it qualified for the certificate due to the significant progress it has made in supplying affordable housing.

“The granting of the moratorium will allow the commission to continue their efforts to create affordable housing opportunities that are in scale with and can be integrated with the community,” said Westport Planning and Zoning Commission Chairman Paul Lebowitz.

“The four-year moratorium will not stifle our efforts to provide affordable housing in Westport.”

Pajolek said efforts at trying to renovate the property as a still-viable office space would probably have been for naught. “It was just time” for the next stage in its evolution, he said.

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company opened a co-working space last spring near one of its fitness clubs in suburban Philadelphia, and offers health care services such as physical therapy at some of its other locations. Branded apartments may be on the way as well.

Spiegel joined the company in the summer of 2018, brought on to launch and lead the Chappaqua location.

He was previously east coast regional director of fitness

for Crunch Fitness, managing 30 clubs from Buffalo to Miami. After nearly a dozen phone interviews and five more interviews in person in Minnesota, Spiegel landed his current job.

“I’m living as a general manager but also as a member,” Spiegel said. “Our team members are all members, so we keep that point of view.

And we’re a picky group.”

Spiegel, from the Philadelphia suburbs, lau-

When a market starts to soften, like we’re seeing here, demand obviously slackens. Those people who are in the market tend to go for the best-in-class, Class A office buildings that are modern, well-situated and well-maintained.

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Waldman to create a 16-unit apartment building totaling roughly 13,500 square feet, with the remaining 13,500-square-foot space modernized for office use. Last year private equity firm Gemspring Capital signed on as the first tenant at what is now called Bankside at National Hall. It is fully leased, Pajolek said.

In Trumbull, where development has been booming of late, Woodbridge, New Jersey’s Continental Properties is in the process of reconfiguring the 79,000-square-foot former Canon Solutions America headquarters at 100 Oakview Drive into a 202-unit luxury apartment complex. The $30

million, four-year project will result in 119 two-bedroom apartments and 83 one-bedroom units, a 6,400-squarefoot clubhouse with a fitness center, an outdoor pool and recreation area.

That project pales next to the long-vacant 250,000-square-foot office building and parking garage at 48 Monroe Turnpike in Trumbull, which represented more than half of the empty space in the town since 2015, when United Healthcare left for more modern accommodations on Research Drive in Shelton.

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nched his career in the fitness business as a personal trainer in 2008. He is also a trained jazz guitarist with a degree from the New School, and a former New York Daily News Golden Gloves champion in the light heavyweight division, winning at Madison Square Garden in 2010.

He hasn’t stepped into a boxing ring for years, but still owns a collection of guitars and plays daily.

Life Time joins Whole

Foods as the two anchor tenants for Chappaqua Crossing, which has been in some form of development for more than a decade by Summit/Greenfield Partners, a joint venture of two Fairfield County firms. The 40,000-square-foot Whole Foods opened in December, around the same time as a Chase bank and Pet Valu store.

The site also hosts about 500,000 square feet of office space, which includes a 35,000-squarefoot office for Northern Westchester Hospital and 45,000 square feet for the CareMount Medical doctors group. Last June, residents moved into 64 apartments built by Wilder Balter in the iconic cupola building on the property that formerly hosted top executives from Reader’s Digest.

Some Life Time employees live in the apartments.

“If you go to Whole Foods, it is very likely you will be a Life Time member,” Spiegel said.

Heights Development LLC, which have developed a number of age-restricted residential projects throughout Fairfield County, acquired the property last September for about $3.4 million. Plans call for the existing building to be converted into a 200unit independent, assisted and memory care community, while another 160 units of active adult housing will be added elsewhere on the 17.6-acre site.

“There are not that many tracts of that size in eastern Fairfield County,” Pajolek remarked, “at least not for some time. But it’s a wonderful spot, with great access to Route 25.” Although its time as a corporate headquarters clearly had passed, he said, repurposing it for the county’s growing senior population should prove to be a winner.

Also being converted into senior housing is 201 High Ridge Road in Stamford. The one-time home of General Electric Capital Corp. is being converted into a senior housing community, Waterstone at Stamford, with approximately 95 independent living and

35 assisted-living rental units.

Construction is expected to begin this year.

Pajolek said the real driving force behind such conversions is millennials.

“As we experience more millennial-type activity in lower Fairfield County, it’s making the demographic younger and making us more attractive to companies looking to hire that demographic,” Pajolek said. “It all comes back to jobs.”

And those jobs are changing as well, he noted.

“There’s this whole collaborative nature now, where people are working physically closer together, which results in more open space and is more economical,” Pajolek said. “Then you have all the M&A and consolidations that are going on, which results in the elimination of so-called redundant jobs — plus you have more telecommuting going on, where people don’t come into the office as much as they used to. That all means the need for square footage in an office environment is less than it used to be.”

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A portion of the expansion space at Playland Children’s Museum.

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ven though there were no roller-coaster cars racing along the 3,400 feet of track on Playland’s Dragon Coaster and the park’s Gondola Wheel was not yet turning, there was a flurry of activity March 15 at the Playland Amusement Park in Rye, but you had to know where to find it because it was inside the Westchester Children’s Museum.

Supporters of the museum, members of its board, county officials, designers, construction workers and others had gathered for an indoor groundbreaking ceremony. They were marking the beginning of an expansion project to open up a previously unused 16,000-squarefoot section of the museum’s boardwalk facility.

The museum occupies what had been a long-abandoned bathhouse on the boardwalk, overlooking a prime section of the Playland beach. In 2013, the county approved a lease for the Children’s Museum to move into the space at 100 Playland Parkway. It had spent the previous 13 years operating at 16 different locations. After initial renovations to a portion of the new space, the museum opened on a limited basis during the 2014 and 2015 summer seasons.

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ical plant have been taking place ever since.

Marc Oxman of the Oxman Law Group PLCC in White Plains has been on the museum’s board of directors for approximately 10 years.

He told the Business Journal that until now the square footage that is being opened up has not been utilized because of a lack of funding. “But, things have been going well, people have been generous, so we’re going to open up the entire facility and we’re excited about it.”

The additional square footage could begin being put into service very quickly, according to Carolyn Carr Spencer, president of the museum’s board of trustees. “Based on the conversations we’re having with our construction team and our design team, the space should be done within a month or two months.”

She said that for now they’re doing the basics: flooring, walls, heat and air conditioning. Then, she said, “We will go into fund-raising for large exhibits including a climbing exhibit, water exhibit and an area where children can make things.”

In the first season of the museum’s operations at Playland, attendance was around 20,000 and it has grown steadily. Attendance on the order of 250,000 a year once fully operational is considered a reasonable expectation, especially as the museum grows in popularity as a

destination for school trips.

“I was just here last week with a school group where my children go to school and the reaction I get, and this is the third year they’ve brought the school here, is overwhelming. This is one of the best field trips they ever do,” Carr Spencer said.

While attending the event, Westchester County Executive George Latimer said that a fully operational children’s museum fits into his administration’s vision of Playland’s future which is “to try to make the attractions in this park and this environment as much year-round as we can.” He said they’d like to develop a Christmasthemed activity to bring people to Playland, just as the Halloween event “Scared by the Sound” has attracted crowds for several years.

“From a pure business standpoint, the more people that come here, the more revenue is generated."

Latimer said there was nothing new to report regarding the operation of Playland

by Standard Amusements under a contract signed during the administration of his predecessor, Rob Astorino. The Latimer administration has been in talks with Standard Amusements regarding that deal.

“I’m not really worried too much about the deal. I’m really worried about the vision of Playland going forward,” Latimer told the Business Journal.

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Are you willing to assist the buyer for a suitable transition period?

Having the owner stay for a sufficient period is usually critical to transitioning a business successfully to a new owner. This requirement is particularly important when the owner controls or has a significant influence over important customer relationships. The exception to this rule is when the owner truly has not been involved in the business for a couple of years or more.

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Does your company have at least $3M EBITDA? Westbury has reviewed transactions from 2012 to March 31, 2018 and found a very consistent pattern: the larger the company, the greater the value, measured as a multiple of EBITDA. There are two factors driving this correlation. First, in general, the larger the firm, the lower the risk, because larger firms are less susceptible to both external and internal disruptions, which could jeopardize the entire business.

Second, many buyers will not look at companies that are too small. There are certain plateaus ($1 million, $3 million and $5 million EBITDA) at which more buyers will seriously consider a deal. And the more potential buyers who are involved in a sales process, the greater the competition, which tends to drive the price higher.

Is revenue growing?

This factor is easy to understand: the higher the growth, the stronger the potential return for a buyer. Sellers who are on either end of the spectrum may want to consider the timing of going to market.

Buyers may look to squeeze sellers with declining revenues. But sellers with skyrocketing growth should be careful as well: buyers may insist on structuring the deal so that a significant portion of the value is put into an earn-out, which the seller only receives when they prove that the high level of growth will continue well past the closing date of the acquisition.

What is your gross margin percentage?

Sellers bringing a company to market for the first time may wonder why gross margin matters. After all, profit is profit. The answer lies in what the gross margin percentage signifies. Buyers see gross margin as an indicator of a company’s market pricing power.

A company with a proprietary product or service can value-price its offerings, which gives buyers comfort that their acquisition is not at the mercy of the market. A commodity player who sells the same product line as all its competitors has few defenses. On the other

hand, buyers buy distributors every day, and are particularly attracted to those that have higher margins than their peers, a sign of a competitive advantage.

What percentage of your revenue is recurring?

Buyers love recurring revenue, which they equate with stability. If a subscription-based target company’s revenue is primarily recurring, most of the next year’s revenue is already in the bag on Jan. 1. On the other hand, a product company selling widgets or a project-based service company starts off each year with a blank slate. One should note that recurring revenue is only valuable if customer retention (“stickiness”) is high. If 80 percent of your contract customers do not renew, then the business is much more like a nonrecurring business — worse in fact, because customer defection is a sign of market dissatisfaction with the company’s offering.

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How unique is your product or service?

Buyers are like art collectors as they want to acquire something unique. The more unique your company’s product or service, the less vulnerable you are to competitors entering your market and trying to undercut your price. If you’re just selling a commodity, you may be able to differentiate your business by bundling it with a more value-added service.

Is there a strong argument for a sustainable, defensible, competitive advantage?

Sustainable competitive advantage signifies that your business enjoys a “moat” protecting your business from competitive attacks. There are four main sources of competitive advantage: scale, customer captivity (your customers’ cost of switching to a new provider), cost and government protection.

Sustainable competitive advantage lowers the risk associated with buying your business, which, in turn, increases the amount that a buyer would be willing to pay.

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Quality of Second-Tier Management As a business owner, you know your company inside and out and are probably the driver of its growth and success. Buyers know that and may be concerned about what will happen after the sale when you move on from the company. If you have a very strong management team beneath you, and they plan to stay with the company after the sale, you’ve eliminated a major concern for the buyer. If you don’t have that team in place and you don’t need to sell immediately, one of the most important steps you can take to increase the value of your firm is to put that team in place.

Quality of the employees The quality of the employees is as important as the quality of the management team.

For many industries, such as high-end manufacturing and professional services, the profile of the workforce is of paramount concern to a buyer. What skills do the employees have?

What training have they received? What is

employee turnover? Strengthening your employee team can have a huge impact on how a buyer looks at your business.

Organization culture Related but separate from the quality of the employees is the culture of your organization. Buyers do research on what current and former employees say about working at your firm on sites such as Glassdoor. At the point in the sales process when the buyer is walking through your facilities, they will look for clues as to the company’s culture and how happy your employees are. What cartoons do your employees post in their work areas? How are visitors treated when they enter the building?

The cleanliness of the facility — inside and out — can also leave a big impression. Although these are qualitative factors, they can dramatically sway a buyer’s perspective.

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OPPORTUNITIES AND RED FLAGS

Is there valuable intellectual property not currently used in the business?

Intellectual property (IP) can be an important source of sustainable competitive advantage. Companies may have IP that is not being used in the business. As a business owner, there are two ways to extract value from that intangible asset. First, you can sell it with the business and your adviser can highlight the additional economic value associated with that IP. Second, you can sell or license it prior to the sale so that you aren’t giving the buyer an asset for which you will receive little or no value.

Is there significant customer concentration?

If you have significant customer concentration (one customer generates 15 percent or more of your revenue and profits) a buyer will have concerns. From the buyer’s perspective, that concentration represents risk because if that one customer leaves, a significant portion of your business disappears. You may not be able to do anything in the short term, but if you’re thinking of a sale a few years down the road, do whatever you can to bring on other customers to reduce your concentration. If that is not possible, be prepared to have buyers offer anywhere from 10 percent to 25 percent less for your business.

Are there any red flags?

If there is any criminal history (whether or not associated with the business), bankruptcies, extensive personal or business litigation, or legal or environmental challenges, it will come up during the sales process.

Sophisticated buyers are very thorough in their due diligence. Be prepared to have a clear, concise and, if possible, positive explanation of these red flags. The most important guideline is to never hide these problems.

Doing so will damage the trust that is the foundation for any successful deal.

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lans for a new mixed-use building have been filed with the village of Port Chester’s Planning Commission and the commission is scheduled to begin a review at its March 25 meeting. The applicant, 108 Gateway Development LLC, proposes a nine-story structure with 115 residential units, ground-floor retail, office space on the second floor and 104 parking spaces.

The application, submitted by Anthony Gioffre III of the White Plains-based law firm Cuddy & Feder, is for property at 108 S. Main St. It is located within a block of the Metro-North train station.

White Plains-based developer Ed DeLaurentis

and James K. Coleman of Houlihan-Parnes Relators LLC are members of 108 Gateway Development LLC. DeLaurentis told the Business Journal that the new proposal should be viewed in connection with their nearby One Gateway Plaza building, which is 100 percent occupied. “It is one of the most important gateways, entrances, to Port Chester and we feel we’re completing that gateway by proposing this new development, which will complement everything which is going on there.” The site at 108 S. Main St. has been used as a parking lot.

Previously, a masonry apartment building stood there.

“There will be a whole new level of vitality brought to the gateway,” DeLaurentis said about the anticipated effect of the proposed building.

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general public would be able to make arrangements to use space there.

The site was described as being somewhat tight, not allowing room for public amenities such as open space or an extended setback from the street. It is anticipated that some of the parking spaces will be made available for public use. The developer proposes to incorporate green infrastructure on the roof, including the A rendering of the proposed apartment ability to capture storm building. Rendering by Papp Architects PC of White Plains. water runoff. “The exterior design features brick and 3,000 square Journal was told thatRENDERING the - VIEW and site plan approvals.

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here are many advantages to living in Fairfield and Westchester counties.

Close access to major cities, waterfront views, proximity to ski resorts, major airports, a full spectrum of seasons and the country’s best pizza. Despite an abundance of reasons to stay, many investors and retirees are packing up and moving out. According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 1 million people have moved out of the New York area since 2010 and Connecticut has more people leaving the state than moving in. However, for many retirees moving is simply not an option.

Perhaps they want to be, or need to be, near family, cannot afford to move, are an integral part of their community, or do not want to leave behind friends. Retiring comfortably in Westchester or Fairfield is certainly possible but will require extra diligence, planning and preparation to ensure investors are on track to meet their retirement goals.

If you are nearing retirement or are already enjoying it, the priority should be on making sure you are maximizing every possible investing and savings opportunity, and most importantly, having a plan to help get you to or keep on track for a successful retirement. For those who are nearing retirement and still working, contributing the maximum amount to an employer-sponsored retirement plan such as a 401(k) or 403(b) is tremendously helpful to your long-term success. Even better, for those over age 50, you can put an extra $6,000 a year in those plans and an extra $1,000 in an individual retirement account (IRA). Keeping your investment costs low and paying attention to how taxes can affect the return of your taxable portfolio is also critical. Low-cost index funds and ETFs can be very helpful in this area. You should also be conscious of the types of accounts your assets are held in to ensure you get the best possible tax treatment.

Capital gains and equity dividend income is taxed at potentially a much lower rate than taxable bond income. Holding stocks in a taxable account and bonds in a tax-deferred account can be an effective tax strategy. For those in a higher tax bracket, tax-free municipal bonds can be the investment route to take.

The new tax law has created a major headwind for many New York and Connecticut residents. Investors who are paying higher property taxes compared to other areas in the country (with few exceptions) will be hit especially hard. Itemized deductions for personal state/local property taxes and personal state/local income taxes are now capped to a combined total of $10,000. Before heading into retirement, investors may need to take stock of their real estate and consider what they are paying in property taxes. Without the benefits of deductible property taxes,

ed stock, privately held stock and cryptoinvestors may want to consider downsizing currency) for an opportunity to receive an or moving to another area where property immediate income tax deduction. taxes are lower.

A hidden gem more investors should take The increase in the standard deduction advantage of is a health savings account (HSA). impacts many people who are making charWhile HSAs are a relatively new investment itable donations. Getting yourself educated vehicle, there are still many misconceptions on donor-advised funds is a very good use of about the benefits of utilizing them. Many time. Donor-advised funds allow investors consumers are not aware of the multiple tax to lump their giving into one year, making it benefits and options to invest in the same possible to itemize and get a tax benefit that types of fixed income/equity mutual funds as they may not receive in the new tax landin 401(k)s and IRAs. HSAs are an underutilized scape. This allows investors to give cash, investment vehicle with many advantages and appreciated securities (thus avoiding capital SCSU_GOH_FairfieldBusJour_7.375x7.125.qxp_Layout 3/11/19 1:43 PM Pagewhen 1 should1be strongly considered planning gains) and other assets (real estate, restrict-

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THE LIST: HOMEBUILDERS

FAIRFIELD COUNTY

DIBICO CONSTRUCTION INC.

HOBBS INC.

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1194 King St., Greenwich 06831 (844) 434-2426 • dibicoinc.com Year established: 1991 Top local executive(s): Julio DiBiase, Owner Services: new construction, additions, renovations, general contracting, construction management, residential and home maintenance Largest home built to date (square feet): 35,000 Email: michael@dibicoinc.com

27 Grove St., New Canaan 06840 996-0726 • hobbsinc.com Year established: 1954 Top local executive(s): Scott and Ian Hobbs, owners Services: new construction, reovations and a division specializing in small projects and home maintenance Largest home built to date (square feet): 35,000 Email: ihobbs@hobbsinc.com, shobbs@hobbsinc.com

115 Mason St., Greenwic 06830 625-0566 • hemingwayconstruction.com Year established: 1972 Top local executive(s): Sal and Peter Sciarretta, principals Services: Construction management, general contracting, home maintenance and home renovations Largest home built to date (square feet): 25,000 Email: info@hemingwayconstruction.com

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DAVENPORT CONTRACTING INC.

5 Myrtle St., Norwalk 06855 227-4134 • wrightbuildingcompany.com Year established: 2011 Top local executive(s): Chris Wright, president Services: Custom home building and renovations Largest home built to date (square feet): 18,000 Email: info@wrightbuild.com

P.O. Box 187, Riverside 06878 637-4135 • clarkebuilders.com Year established: 1964 Top local executive(s): David Dall, president Services: additions, renovations, construction management and estate property management Largest home built to date (square feet): 16,000 Email: ddall@clarkebuilders.com

78 Harvard Ave., Stamford 06902 324-6308 • davenportcontracting.com Year established: 1987 Top local executive(s): Brian MacDonald, president Services: high-end custom homes and major renovations, plus a small homes division, Davenport Home Largest home built to date (square feet): 16,000 Email: bmacdonald@dvnport.com

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IN THE COURT Witness to Tappan Zee tragedy sues tugboat companies for his anguish

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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construction foreman who witnessed the deaths of three seamen at the Tappan Zee Bridge is suing two tugboat companies for post-traumatic stress that he says has made him unable to work since the 2016 accident.

Helder J. Cordeiro of Ossining sued New York Marine Towing Inc. of Montauk and Weeks Marine Inc. of Cranford, New Jersey, March 6 in Westchester Supreme Court.

The “distress, horror, shock and terror” of watching the crew drown, the complaint states, have caused him “ongoing anxiety, stress and loss of enjoyment of life.”

The accident happened March 12, 2016, at the Tappan Zee Bridge, where construction crews were building the Mario Cuomo Bridge.

Three tugboats — the Specialist and the Realist, owned by New York Marine, and the Trevor, owned by Weeks Marine — were towing a massive crane barge, the Weeks 533, south to Staten Island.

Around 5 a.m., as the flotilla approached the bridge it angled out of the channel, according to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report. The Specialist crashed into the Hank Hummel, a construction barge anchored at the work site.

The Specialist sank and three crew members drowned.

Cordeiro was working as a foreman for Tappan Zee Constructors LLC, the contractor for the new bridge. In his telling of the tragedy, he was standing on a concrete footing a few feet away from the Hank Hummel. He saw the flotilla coming toward him rapidly and striking the barge within seconds.

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Cordeiro says he and his co-workers tried to rescue the captain and crew, and for 15 minutes “watched helplessly as horrific and disturbing events occurred right in front of them.”

Cordeiro and his co-workers saw the Specialist’s captain escape, the complaint states, re-enter the tugboat in an attempt to save trapped crewmembers, resurface “alive, flailing and shouting for help,” then drown.

Cordeiro charges the tugboat companies with negligence, citing NTSB findings.

He is demanding unspecified damages, to be determined at trial.

Attorneys for the companies did not respond to email messages requesting comment.

The NTSB account of the accident differs from Cordeiro’s on some details.

The captain of the Specialist, Paul Crowley, survived. The crewmembers who perished, according to court records, were Paul Amon, 62, of Bayville, New Jersey, Timothy S. Conklin, 29, of Westbury in Nassau County, and Harry Hernandez, 56, of Paterson, New Jersey.

The Weeks 533 was being towed down the Hudson River, from Albany to Staten Island.

The barge, at nearly 300 feet, and the crane weighing 600 tons with a boom extending 210 feet, was the largest floating, revolving heavy lift crane barge on the East Coast. Its massive size, the NTSB report-

ed, obstructed visibility even from the upper wheelhouse of the Specialist.

The Specialist had struggled against bad weather and currents, the NTSB noted, days before the accident. On March 11, the Realist was dispatched to assist. Later that day, the Trevor arrived and joined the flotilla.

A notice to mariners described conditions at the bridge construction site between Tarrytown and Nyack. More than a hundred pieces of floating equipment and support vessels were moored or anchored around the construction site. Side channels were closed to traffic, leaving only the 600-footwide center channel.

“Mariners are strongly advised to stay clear of all construction equipment and support vessels by 1,000 feet or more when transiting the area,” the notice stated.

“Mariners are advised to … use extreme caution.”

The entire crew had been awake the night before the accident because of weather conditions, according to the NTSB, and there were times during the trip when three out of the four crewmembers were sleeping, leaving only one person in the wheelhouse.

Around 1 a.m. on March 12, the captain of the Specialist “left his vessel for unknown reasons, crossed the deck of the barge and assumed the helm of the Realist,” the NTSB reported, leaving the mate to navigate the Specialist.

The flotilla began increasing speed, from 6.5 knots at 4 a.m. to 8 knots at 5 a.m. As the vessels approached the bridge, the mate of the Specialist radioed the other tugboats that there was not enough clearance between the tow and the Hank Hummel.

“It’s looking tight, go left,” he radioed, then, “go hard left.”

The right side of the Specialist struck a corner of the Hank Hummel. The mate jumped onto the construction barge. But as the current began pushing the tugboat under water, he returned and tried to help a crewmember who was trapped inside and calling for help.

The Specialist sank rapidly, taking the mate and two crewmembers with it. Construction workers then saw the mate being swept away by the current. They threw life rings, the NTSB report states, but he was unresponsive.

The NTSB reported that the crews of the Specialist and the Realist “had likely

not received more than 4 to 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep in at least three days leading up to the accident.” They were dealing with adverse weather, strong currents and restricted visibility, “compounding the effects of fatigue.”

The Specialist was underpowered for the weather conditions, the NTSB said, and there was no evidence that the crews of the three tugs had held a coordination meeting.

The probable cause of the accident, the NTSB determined, was “inadequate manning, resulting in fatigued crewmembers navigating three tugboats with obstructed visibility due to the size of the crane on the barge they were towing.”

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WESTCHESTER COUNTY

ROBERTSON CONTRACTING

BRENNER BUILDERS

MURPHY BROTHERS CONTRACTING

47 Plainfield Ave., Bedford Hills 10507 666-0512 • robertsoncontracting.com Year established: 1989 Top local executive(s): Bryan Robertson, founder Services: custom home design, home renovations, kitchen remodeling, bathroom redesign, roofing, window replacements, siding and masonry Largest home built to date (square feet): 40,000 Email: info@robertsoncontracting.com

362 Adams St., Bedford Hills 10507 242-4707 • brennerbuilders.com Year established: 1987 Top local executive(s): Kevin Brenner, president Services: luxury, custom homebuilding Largest home built to date (square feet): 27,000 Email: info@brennerbuilders.com

416 Waverly Ave., Mamaroneck 10543 424-3422 • murphybrothers.com Year established: 1979 Top local executive(s): Christopher and Sean Murphy, partners Services: custom homebuilding and renovations, green construction and sustainability services Largest home built to date (square feet): 13,000 Email: info@murphybrothers.com

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10 New King St., Suite 208, White Plains 10604 273-4511 • legacydevelopmentllc.com Year established: 2005 Top local executive(s): Chris and Tom Yaroscak, Nicole Riess, founders Services: Custom home building, renovations and remodeling Largest home built to date (square feet): 12,000 Email: info@legacydevelopmentllc.com

510 N. State Road, Briarcliff Manor 10510 762-8453 • sunrisebuilding.com Year established: 1986 Top local executive(s): Eric Messer, owner Services: home remodeling and rebuilding Largest home built to date (square feet): 12,000 Email: eric@sunrisebuilding.com, hilary@sunrisebuilding.com

Pound Ridge, 10576 764-0152 • jbcdevelopers.com Year established: 1997 Top local executive(s): Barry Cohen, managing member Services: Land and residential developments and custom homebuilding Largest home built to date (square feet): 6,500 Email: barry@jbcdevelopers.com

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Westchester looks to do more to help business, promote economic development

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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uring a March 14 interview with the Business Journal, Westchester County Executive George Latimer said his administration is looking to update an economic development plan ,which was put together in the year 2000, in order to find new ways to help business and promote economic activity in the county.

“As we update our economic development plan, we’re particularly looking for components that will deal with the very small businesses and how we can help incent them,” he said.

Latimer added that he hopes to develop new county policies that will ease

the burdens of running a business. That will include examining “what we can do in terms of taxation and regulation to make their work easier,” as well as “what we have to do in the way we promote the county, which we do now for tourism and other such purposes.”

Such efforts, he said, will reveal ways that “we can help promote Westchester so we get not just in-county business from one part of the county to the other, but people who are over the border in Connecticut and New Jersey, even in Rockland and Dutchess counties.”

Latimer said the strategy has to be that if businesses succeed in Westchester, then the entire county succeeds.

“There is great strength in Westchester’s business community, small businesses as

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well as large businesses, but there are challenges and we have to address those challenges,” he said. “We can’t just walk away from them and say, ‘You know, it’s not a direct government responsibility.’ ” Latimer spoke with

the Business Journal after making opening remarks at a breakfast event staged by the county and attended by local chamber of commerce members and leaders at the Westchester County Center in White Plains. In

addition to networking, the “Big Ideas for Your Business” event included a panel discussion about incentives and opportunities available from government to local business owners.

Joan McDonald, the county’s director of operations, explained that “in some instances it’s working with them to get a local permit, in some instances it’s helping facilitate issues with the state Department of Taxation and Finance. Our Department of Consumer Protection goes after the bad actors, which we find a lot of small businesses are appreciative of — they want to make sure that we’re enforcing against the bad actors, because most of them are good actors. We also have the IDA, where we offer sales tax incentives

and mortgage recording tax incentives for developers.”

Deb Milone, president of the Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce, noted that the retail environment in the five communities covered by her organization continues to face challenges. She said as more residents are brought into large and small downtowns through residential development, retailers who provide day-to-day services for them will do well.

“We’re not expecting all the small businesses to know where to go for funding or for business planning. We also have at our chamber a small-business development counselor from New York state coming in and mentoring businesses. Our business is to help keep business in business,” Milone said.

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ASK ANDI Don’t hesitate when dealing with thieves I JUST HEARD FROM A BUSINESS ASSOCIATE THAT THEIR COMPANY GOT LOOTED BY A COUPLE OF EMPLOYEES. OVER A COUPLE OF YEARS THE EMPLOYEES STOLE MORE THAN $400,000. AND NO ONE NOTICED. MY FRIEND IS OBVIOUSLY DEVASTATED. AND I’M SCARED THAT THIS COULD HAPPEN TO ME. IT’S NOT THAT MY FRIEND WAS AN ‘ABSENTEE LANDLORD.’ MY FRIEND RUNS A GOOD COMPANY, PAYS HIS PEOPLE PRETTY WELL, GOES TO WORK EVERY DAY AND TRIES TO KEEP AN EYE ON EVERYTHING. THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Theft of company assets is more common than you’d like to think.

Put controls in place. Know what to look for and know that a determined thief can make it hard to find things.

Don’t put good people in a position to make a bad decision they might regret later on — but if they do make a bad decision make sure you take them out of the game as permanently as possible.

Often employee theft is committed by first-timers, often due to personal financial stress, justifying the theft by thinking they’re due more compensation, and finding an opportuni-

ty to quietly remove funds.

Wondering who might steal? Just about anyone and just about anything. Vendors might short you on delivery. Or customers might not return goods for which you’ve issued a credit.

When it comes to employees, cash is an obvious guess, but there are other creative ways to get the money. Buying goods on a company credit card and then returning and asking for a cash refund is pretty usual. According to one source, in retail environments employee theft is 15 times greater than shoplifting.

Want to limit opportuni-

ty for employee theft? Don’t tolerate little infractions. An employee borrows money and forgets to pay it back.

People take home samples without authorization. Petty cash comes up a little short.

Inventory is slightly off.

Keep an open door and pay attention to complaints.

Look for oddities. The cash drawer seems lighter than it should for the volume of activity the day before. Returns are up. Prices for materials just shot way up. Shipments to new customers are well in excess of what those customers were expected to do.

Parts of inventory seem much

lower than expected — especially the most valuable parts.

Use control tools. Cameras everywhere are a great deterrent. So are regular audits.

Surprise inspections can help shed light on what’s going on.

Requiring duplicate documentation signed by two people can help — but isn’t foolproof if both are in on the scheme or if one of the two is gullible.

Don’t tolerate messiness when it comes to your financial records. If one customer or another is always complaining that someone forgot to post a payment they made or only posted part of a payment or they didn’t get a complete order, pay attention. If inventory never gets reconciled, insist that now’s the time, and watch over the process.

Look for warning signs.

Cash seems tight, even after a series of good months. Reports don’t seem to add up. Every

time you start to dig into things, an employee distracts you with something else. Trust your instincts and then verify if something is wrong.

Paying to put controls in place may be the cheapest solution of all. Eliminate the opportunity for theft in every way possible. And when you find instances of it, deal with it on the spot — don’t delay.

Once a thief is identified, I’ve known business owners who err on the side of settling things quietly. If they can get the employee to return the funds, they’re good. Or they worry about the impact that might fall to the employee’s family if law enforcement is brought in.

Theft is a big legal issue and bringing in the authorities is not just the right thing to do. It will help to stop the perpetrator from carrying on their schemes with the next

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Economic Development WALLINGFORD: BUILDING YOUR WORKFORCE

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n an economic environment as challenging as Connecticut’s, where is there an oasis of enthusiastic cooperation between municipal government and its business and industry community? We say Wallingford. Why? Here are four reasons: Education, Engagement, Employee Access and Energy.

Education: Our school system and town government are focusing on educating tomorrow’s workforce, with a special emphasis on S.T.E.M. education. We are designated a S.T.E.M. community, with the public school system’s reemphasis on developing skills and knowledge critical to today’s advanced

manufacturing environment. The school system is coordinating S.T.E.M-focused programming at the public library, the Spanish Community of Wallingford, the Boys & Girls Club, the Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce, the Wallingford YMCA and other entities that are bringing awareness to young people who might consider careers in the fields utilizing these disciplines — like manufacturing. Additionally, the municipal government is investing almost $400,000 in updating a facility specifically to house the STEM Academy of Connecticut. Our businesses need look no further than right in town for their future employees.

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You will find other education initiatives taking place here as well. Two years ago, our school system began an advanced manufacturing course of study in one high school and is expanding it to the other one in September.

Nonprofit Hubcap Wallingford was established specifically to encourage collaboration between the school system, the business community and community leaders. Among many programs, Hubcap is hosting workforce “pipeline” programs to bring potential employees and employers together. We are serious about workforce development — period.

Engagement: Our full-time economic development specialist is not a salesperson but an extension of the town’s entire municipal government. He and the town department heads regularly seek out contacts with the town’s business community to ensure that the assistance we offer meets the constantly changing needs of our business and industry community. We get business. We get that a vibrant and successful business community is more than taxes and employment. Our proud industrial heritage has forged this appreciation for our business neighbors and our drive to be that partner you need.

Employee Access: Wallingford’s central location is a real advantage to recruiting and maintaining a company’s workforce. In fact, a Connecticut Economic Resource Center (CERC) study recently concluded that 52 percent of the state’s entire workforce lives within a 20-minute commute to Wallingford.

Energy: The municipally-owned Wallingford Electric Division provides our town’s residents and businesses the very lowest electric rates in the entire state of Connecticut. Couple the low rates with the well-deserved reputation for system reliability and financial incentives for new or expanded businesses and there is every reason to consider us as the right fit for your operation.

Could we go on? Of course we could, but we would rather meet to talk about your specific needs. Go to PlugIn2Wallingford.com or call Tim Ryan at 203-294-2062 and let the town of Wallingford go to work for you.

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Economic Development FAIRFIELD: A SOUND CHOICE FOR BUSINESS

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ecently named as “Connecticut’s Most Business-Friendly Town,” Fairfield is poised for growth.

With its highly skilled workforce and two outstanding private universities, Fairfield is the ideal choice for businesses seeking a deep talent pool. Just 50 miles from New York City, Fairfield affords easy access to Interstate 95 and the Merritt Parkway, both regional and international airports and an impressive commuter rail system anchored by three Metro-North train stations. Aside from its talented workforce, coveted location and unparalleled access, Fairfield possesses a nationally ranked school system, top-notch public services and an enviable quality of life.

Consistently identified as one of the best places to live, Fairfield has a strong and diverse economy, with businesses ranging from well-established companies such as R.C. Bigelow Tea to many smaller establishments and start-ups. It’s easy to see why more than 3,000 businesses call Fairfield home.

Within a 25-mile radius of Fairfield’s vibrant and walkable downtown, companies can draw upon a population of more than 500,000. Over 62 percent of Fairfield residents have college or advanced degrees and Fairfield boasts more management, finance and IT professionals per capita than even New York City. And, with a combined enrollment of more than 13,000 students, Fairfield and Sacred Heart universities provide access to the rising talent that knowledge-based companies covet.

Attracting top talent demands amenity rich, vibrant environments that integrate work with modern life. Fairfield affords employers and employees alike with urban-style amenities in a suburban setting. Fairfield is one of the few places that the beach, train station and downtown are all within walking distance of one another. Fairfield’s bustling downtown is home to a nascent arts scene, centered on the Fairfield Theater Company, as well as charming shops and boutique stores. With more than 200 local eating spots, Fairfield is a popular destination for foodies. Coupled with more than five miles of shoreline on Long Island Sound and over 1,000 acres of parks and dedicated open space, it’s easy to see why people choose to stay.

The town has embarked on an ambitious economic development strategy focused on mixed-use and transit-oriented development. New regulations permit a broad range of commercial uses as well as

higher density residential and lower on-site parking requirements in recognition of the availability of mass transit. This focus on transit-oriented development has already spurred new investment activity, highlighted by a new 5-story, 140,000-square-foot mixed-use development with 101 apartments on the doorstep of the new commuter rail station. A 160-unit second phase is already under construction.

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Department offers siting and other assistance and works proactively with businesses to successfully navigate the permitting and regulatory approval process.

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Economic Development CONSOLIDATED EDISION NATURAL GAS MORATORIUM PRESENTS UNCERTAIN CHALLENGES By: Jennifer L. Gray

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s of March 15, Consolidated Edison will no longer accept applications for new natural gas connections in portions of Westchester County, a step it has attributed to development demand outpacing its ability to supply natural gas service.

The issue is not a lack of supply, but lack of capacity within existing transmission lines to transmit the gas to Westchester County to meet rising demands. To address this

shortfall, the moratorium will apply to: new residential, commercial and industrial gas service connections, incremental gas load on existing accounts and new gas usage.

Exceptions will apply for interruptible gas service, emergency standby back-up generators, small food/beverage business customers who may use an existing service and customers with planned renovations resulting in a de minimus increase to the gas load.

Applications for natural gas connections made prior to the March 15 deadline must connect within 24 months of receiving confirmation from Consolidated Edison.

Recent economic development trends in many Westchester County communities will likely see setbacks as a result of the moratorium. The town of Lansing, New York, provides an example of the types of impacts borne by a community as a result of a natural

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Keane & Beane PC has closely followed these developments and conducted symposia with various affected groups, including developers, building and construction interests, municipalities and real estate professionals. Nicholas M. Ward-Willis of Keane & Beane also appeared at a New York State Public Service Commission hearing conducted in White Plains with regard to the moratorium and presented comprehensive comments as to its impacts.

Our firm will continue to monitor developments concerning this moratorium, including possible relief afforded through grant funds from New York state. The firm will provide updates by way of legal alerts posted on its website (www.kblaw.com).

Until relief is obtained, developers must consider other energy sources, such as electric or heating oil. Developers and owners must also be mindful of legal ramifications associated with the potential loss of a natural gas source, and its impacts on existing land use approvals, contractual obligations and environmental liability.

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Economic Development D&D: LEADING REGIONAL ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE COMPANY

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ased in Elmsford, D&D Elevator Maintenance Inc. is a leading elevator maintenance company serving the greater-New York region with a legacy of long-term relationships, built on the highest levels of customer service. D&D is an independent, licensed and fully insured elevator company. Established in 1981, the company has been providing best maintenance practices throughout the New York metropolitan area for over 38 years. Many of our current contracts are with customers we have been servicing continuously since our beginnings in the early 1980s. Westchester properties served

by D&D include Mercy College, Cambria Suites Hotel and 1 Glenwood Avenue in Yonkers, which is the tallest structure in the area.

D&D’s principals are always easily reachable and immediately responsive to all emergency and routine needs.

We strive to know all our customers by name and place primary value on personal relationships, accountability and reliability. Robert Schaeffer, currently D&D’s President / CEO, has been with the company since its inception. Beginning as an apprentice and working under two seasoned veterans — Tom Davies and Theodore Dettmering, the original owners of D&D — he learned how to install, maintain, repair and modernize elevators. In 1984, Nunzio Meccariello, currently D&D’s vice president of violations and testing, began leading the effort to build an efficient and dynamic modernization and construction department.

The company was joined in 2005 by Michael Bonardi, currently D&D’s vice president, who brought to bear his vast experience with large service, modernization and construction projects.

Over the years, D&D has achieved several industry milestones, including the first AC gearless machine installation in North America. This state-of-theart equipment has already given the customer more than 20 years of reliable operation and remains in service today.

In 2001, we introduced our “Engineered Elevator Service Plan.” This concept was based on new code requirements adopted by the state and city of New York, complying with Section 8.6 of the A17.1 Code for elevators and escalators.

In 2002, Schaeffer partnered with the National Association of Elevator

Contractors to develop an industrywide certification program for the education and training of field technicians. This program is now being used for both training and licensing by more than 80 elevator companies nationwide. In 2003, D&D obtained approval of its “Certified Elevator Technician” (CET) program from both the federal and state Department of Labor. And in 2011, the CET program was

Over the years, D&D has achieved several industry milestones, including the first AC gearless machine installation in North America.

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Business Inc. BCW Delegation Presents Legislative Agenda in Albany

March 2019

BCW Data Exchange Employment Workforce AVERAGE ANNUAL EMPLOYMENT BY SECTOR Healthcare & Social Assistance Government Retail Trade Accommodation & Food Construction

72,998 60,202 49,753 31,184 27,984

AVERAGE ANNUAL WAGES BY SECTOR Management of Companies and Enterprises $188K Finance and Insurance $173K Professional and Technical Services $139k Utilities $138K Manufacturing $102K County’s median household income: $86,226 Households earning more than $150K per year: 28%

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ANNUAL LOBBY DAY As the most influential economic development and advocacy organization in Westchester County, the Business Council of Westchester provides its members with unparalleled access to today’s top leaders, diverse business development opportunities and lawmakers at all levels of government.

Each year a delegation of BCW members travels to Albany as part of the BCW’s Annual Lobby Day where they meet with state legislators and present the BCW’s Annual Legislative Agenda which outlines key issues impacting the business community.

Every year, legislative bills that are passed or not passed in local, state and federal legislatures have a powerful impact …

Led by BCW President and CEO Marsha Gordon and BCW Executive Vice President and COO John Ravitz, this year’s delegation of 28 BCW members met with lawmakers on February 27. Among those they met with were Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and the entire Westchester Senate delegation, members of the Westchester

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Assembly delegation, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Budget Director, and the Deputy New York State Comptroller.

“Every year, legislative bills that are passed or not passed in local, state and federal legislatures have a powerful impact on the Westchester business community’s ability to serve its stakeholders,’’ said Ravitz. “The mission of the BCW’s Government Action Council is to provide leadership in public policy and involve our members in helping to advocate for economic opportunity in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley.”

As in past years, the 2019 Legislative Agenda asks for reforms to federal, state and county governments that reduce taxes, business fees, regulatory requirements and lengthy approval processes that act as obstacles to creating new jobs in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley.

On the county level, the Legislative Agenda urged the administration to come up with long-term solutions to revenue generation, pointing to the county’s raising the tax levy for two consecutive years. It asked the county to refrain from adopting legislation with mandates that impact businesses and increase the cost of operation. The BCW also reiterated its support for a

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public-private partnership at the Westchester County Airport to help generate revenue and make common-sense improvements.

On the state level, the Legislative Agenda called on legislators to reduce spending and regulations and eliminate burdensome mandates on local municipalities and schools, as well as adopt new small business tax reform policies and enhanced tax credits to help small businesses expand and create jobs. The BCW urged the adoption of an on-time budget to provide public participation and transparency. The BCW also opposes the creation of a single-payer health insurance system in New York State (NY Health Act), saying it would result in crippling taxes and not improve healthcare.

The BCW opposes any legislation that would require projects financed with funds, subsidies or tax exemptions provided by state or local public authorities to pay prevailing wage. According to the BCW, this would increase costs to build projects and, in turn, make New York even more costly and less competitive and drive businesses to neighboring states.

For more information on specific reforms and actions cited by the report, download a copy of the Legislative Agenda at thebcw.org.

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Greenberg: Mack-Cali deal is a ‘blockbuster purchase’

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veryone is seeing lots of construction these days.

The first (and continuing) wave of multifamily residential development has been focused on the major cities in Westchester County, including White Plains, Yonkers, New Rochelle and Mount Vernon. Many buildings have already been built and are occupied or in the leasing phase. Many more projects are in the approval process, or pre-construction. TOD (Transit Oriented Development) has been the most popular product type, offering tenants the ability to walk to Metro-North stations and restaurants, bars, retail and service establishments.

There are two distinct target customers: millennials and empty nesters.

All, or substantially all, of the major sites in the cities are in some form of the approval or construction process. In White Plains, Lennar has completed demolition on its mixed-use site at Mamaroneck Avenue and East Post Road and is doing site work. It has also proposed significant revisions to the site plan approval it owns for its South Broadway

site, where approximately 770 units of multifamily was scheduled to be built along with retail and office space.

The new proposal downsizes the retail component, eliminates the office component (both wise moves, in my opinion) and proposed a two-phase project, rather than a single building. Rose Associates is moving forward on its approvals for the former AT&T Building at 440 Hamilton Ave., and George Comfort and Sons is pursuing approvals for a mixed-use development on the former Good Counsel property on North Broadway. The White Plains Mall has received approvals for its four-tower, mixed-use project, and the tenants are slowly vacating preparatory to the demolition of this outdated mall in the center of White Plains.

Many major projects in downtown Yonkers are well into the construction phase.

The second wave of multifamily development has moved to the suburbs. We are seeing a continuation of multifamily residential development in lower Westchester’s corporate parks. The 421-unit Toll Bros. development is coming out of the ground on Corporate Park Drive. Marcus Partners and Trammell Crow purchased the empty 3

Westchester Park Drive office building and are pursuing approvals to demolish the building and build a two-building multifamily development.

RPW Group has proposed building residential on excess land on its office sites at 800 Westchester Ave. in Rye Brook and at 1133 Westchester Ave. in White Plains. These will provide a suburban alternative for those who are not keen on living in the downtowns.

The Con Edison gas moratorium went into effect on March 15. Any building that has not submitted an application for natural gas service and that can be completed and ready for that service to begin within 24 months of its application will not be able to obtain natural gas service unless it is “interruptible.”

This means Con Edison must have the ability to take that building “off the natural gas grid” when there is a shortage of gas (i.e. on the coldest days), and the building would have to shift to an alternate source of fuel. This would increase costs for developers, who would have to include another fuel source for their buildings, which would likely be passed down to renters. New York state and Con Edison have been trying to get users to convert to “non-pipeline” sources of energy. The

Cuomo administration has rejected applications for new gas pipelines in recent years, and this is contributing to the inability to get natural gas into Westchester. Many politicians are fighting against this, but so far to no avail. It will be interesting to see how it affects large multifamily residential developments in multiple stages of the development pipeline. It could have a significant negative effect on the county’s surging development activity. A $250 million clean energy investment program was announced, which is designed to free up some natural gas capacity and allow development to continue in lower Westchester. So the powers that be have realized they must not impede the significant economic progress that has already been made and is continuing to be made.

On the commercial side, there have been major investment sales in the last few months. Real Time Logistics purchased Mack-Cali’s Elmsford Distribution Center, a large warehouse park off Route 9A. Office owner GHP has been on a buying spree recently, acquiring 115 and 117 Stevens Ave. in Valhalla, 660 White Plains Rd. in Tarrytown, and 555 and 565 Taxter Rd. in Elmsford, among other properties.

The Robert Martin

Company is under contract to acquire the last of the Mack-Cali holdings in Westchester County, consisting of 3.1 million square feet of primarily flex (office/warehouse/light assembly) buildings in Yonkers, Elmsford and Hawthorne. This is a blockbuster purchase for $487.5 million. It keeps almost all of the flex product in the county in local hands (RMC was the original developer of these properties) and moves them from public (REIT) ownership to private ownership. The transaction is slated to close during the first half of 2019. This marks the end of an era for Westchester, as one of the major owners of commercial real estate in the office, flex and industrial sector has sold off all of its properties.

In September 2018 a proposal was made to the town of Somers for the entire former IBM campus (723 acres and 1.2 million square feet of office space) to be leased for a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) boarding high school for up to 1,800 students. If this project comes to fruition, it would take the largest vacant office campus in Westchester off the statistics. This could lower the county’s office vacancy rate

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to somewhere around 15 percent from approximately 21 percent. It would also lower the 37 percent vacancy rate in the northern submarket significantly. This is a use that would be perfect for the former IBM campus. As there are literally no prospects for any office tenant leasing this much space (particularly in the far northern sector), it would take this campus off the statistics in one fell swoop. If it does occur, the optics of our market would be much more attractive, at a mid-teens rate, versus the current low 20s rate. And the new math would much more accurately reflect the significant positive momentum in our office market.

All development in Westchester that you see is multifamily residential. There are no new office buildings being built and it is highly unlikely that any will be built in the foreseeable future. The good news is that all of the repurposing and demolition of functionally obsolete office buildings is accomplishing the desired goals: less vacant space and a more balanced market, with rents moving upward and owners making investments in their properties.

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ccording to a survey published by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), 83 percent of homebuyers’ agents stated that staging a residential property that is being offered for sale makes it easier for buyers to visualize a property as their future home.

“Buying a house is more than a financial decision. It is an emotional decision as well,” said NAR President John Smaby. “Buyers aren’t just making an investment in a property. They are purchasing a place to call home, to raise their children, to begin a new chapter or to retire to a new season of life.”

But Lisa Hynes did not

need the NAR survey to affirm the value of home staging. As the owner of the Stamford-based agency Stage to Show, Hynes is an expert at taking a home and turning it into a desired commodity through artful interior design and a tasteful mix of furnishing and decorative accessories. And often Hynes pulls a feat of real estate alchemy by spinning sales gold from leaden conditions.

“Sometimes we get houses that don’t even have good bones — they’re near the train tracks or I-95, or they have problems like flooding in the basement,” she explained.

“You really have to get that emotional response to get buyers to go over those problems and say, ‘Who cares, look how beautiful the house is!’ ” Hynes was a former fash-

ion designer who worked with major labels, including Ralph Lauren and Liz Claiborne before she acquired Stage to Show eight years ago when its founder, Gabrielle Shannon, put the company up for sale.

Hynes’ sense of style coupled with a gift for spirited diplomacy helped to endear her with the real estate professionals in Westchester and Fairfield counties — especially those stuck with some of the more dreadful properties on the market.

“I’ll have a broker at the door saying, ‘Lisa, is it a teardown?’ ” she continued. “And I’ll go, ‘No, here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to pull all of the shutters off and paint the windowpanes black and paint the front door high gloss and we’ll tear up the avocado green carpet.’ We basically flip

a house. Anything that has to do with the aesthetic of the house, we’re responsible for.”

Hynes’ staging work takes place in homes ranging in price from $1 million to $100 million, and she moves in a mix of custom-made furniture made by a local upholsterer along with luxury items from high-ticket retailers, including Lillian August and Design Within Reach. Stage to Show maintains what Hynes describes as “a huge warehouse with millions of things in it” that can be retrieved for the home staging process, and she often includes her original artwork in the staged homes.

“I paint on the weekends, so I will paint big canvases that go on the wall,” she said. “They often get sold with the house.”

The hardest part in home staging, Hynes observed, is

trying to decorate a room with two rival focal points.

“Say that you go into a living room and it has a fireplace opposite the TV — how do you set that up without having two sofas in line?” she said. “Or if a fireplace is at an angle in a space — how do you determine to position the furniture so that it looks good when you enter the room? It’s also difficult when a homeowner says, ‘I’m not going to paint and I’m not going to remove my floral drapes,’ and you have all of these distractions. It never looks clean and bright the way that white walls look.”

But Hynes also knows how to wean a homeowner away from a cherished piece of monstrous furniture so it doesn’t disrupt her presentation. “Sometimes people are

really attached to a sectional they have and it might be green with purple stripes,” she added. “So, I say, ‘What if we upholster it in one color?’

And they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, and then we can keep it.’ ” There are some aspects of the home presentation that Hynes defers from coordinating. She leaves pest infestation, mold remediation, water damage and electrical wiring woes to the certified experts. She also abstains from changing large kitchen appliances, but she does bring her paintbrush to the cooking space.

Stage to Show has gained national attention with home staging work performed on the popular television shows “Property Brothers” and “Million Dollar Listing.”

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ROCKS Expanding to Chappaqua!

We are so excited and proud to announce ROCKS is opening its second location. Our second store will be in Chappaqua - our home town! We will be located across from Whole Foods in Chappaqua Crossing.

When asked why she wanted to open a store in Chappaqua, Tanya Tochner, the owner of ROCKS, said “Chappaqua has been home for 18 years. It’s where I am raising my two children, Lindsay and Joshua. When the opportunity became available to open a second store in my own town, I could not resist. I love my community, and I love Chappaqua”.

The new store will continue to offer beautiful fine and fashion jewelry, as well as jewelry repairs and custom work. ROCKS will also be offering modern home décor and gift accessories.

Tanya said “expanding into home and gift accessories has always been in the plan for ROCKS, we just couldn’t do it in our small Armonk store. The vision for the new store is to continue to offer modern jewelry that’s special and unique, as well as home décor and accessories to our customers at great prices. We also plan to include creations from local designers. We want the store to be warm and inviting for everyone, and what better way than to include local talent. Our hope is that the store reflects our community and our passion for design. Whether it’s modern jewelry or modern home, we want everyone to feel beautiful”.

ROCKS JEWELRY, GIFTS, HOME store will open in May.

A big welcome home celebration is planned.

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GOOD THINGS Westchester County PHELPS HOSPITAL RE-ACCREDITED AS GRADUATE MEDICAL TRAINING PROGRAM

EXPLORING EMERGING TRENDS TO HELP THOSE WITH COGNITIVE DISABILITIES The Arc Westchester has announced that its 4th annual Tech Supports for Cognition & Learning Conference will take place Thursday, March 28, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at co-host Mercy College’s Dobbs Ferry campus. The event’s other co-hosts include AHRC New York City, PNW-BOCES, VNS Westchester and the Westchester Library System. The Arc Westchester, founded in 1949, is the largest agency in Westchester County supporting children, teens and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The conference will focus on technology solutions for people with cognitive disabilities — including developmental disabilities and autism, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, traumatic brain injury and stroke survivors — that promote independence in everyday life. It’s geared toward parents, rehabilitation professionals, special-education teachers and individuals with cognitive disabilities.

“Since its inception, the conference has brought together the industry’s leading minds to discuss and display technology that can make a significant impact on the lives of those with autism and cognitive delays,” said Tibisay “Tibi” Guzmán, executive director of The Arc Westchester. “We are dedicated to providing those we support the tools to lead a more independent and full life, and we are looking forward to learning more at this year’s conference.”

The conference will feature handson breakout sessions hosted by technology experts that will provide practical advice on the use of technology to support the daily living needs of people with cognitive disabilities.

For more and to register, visit https:// arcwestchester.org/techconference2019.

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Phelps Family Medicine Residency Program residents and leadership team in front of Phelps Hospital’s main entrance.

Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow has once again received accreditation for its physician training from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Accreditation is achieved through an annual review process that includes verification of teaching physician board certification, resident in- and outpatient visit volume, obstetrical deliveries, scholarly activity and procedures.

Also included is a review of resident performance on annual in-training exams and the results of an annual, anonymous resident/faculty survey administered by the ACGME. Dr. Shantie Harkisoon, founding director of the Phelps Family Medicine Residency program, has led the accreditation process since it began in 2011. She said, “Our strong accreditation record reflects

the efforts of faculty and residents alike to make the educational experience at Phelps superb. Above and beyond maintaining the integrity of the educational experience here, we value innovation and collaboration in all aspects of residency life.”

For more information about the Family Medicine Residency Program, contact Julia Miller, program coordinator, at 914-366-5350.

TWO RESIDENTS CELEBRATE 100TH BIRTHDAY AT THE BRISTAL

THE COLOR OF LIGHT TO OPEN AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE THEATER A tender story of art, spirituality and love based on the real-life relationship between world-famous artist Henri Matisse and a young nursing student, a new play by Jesse Kornbluth titled “The Color of Light” will run through the month of April at the Schoolhouse Theater.

The play explores how Matisse came to create what he called his masterpiece — the design and building of Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence, France. The simple love that develops between a country-girl nursing student and the legendary artist becomes the driving force behind his final and perhaps greatest work.

“This fine play explores the delicate balance of creativity and love, artistic inspiration and the spiritual,” said Schoolhouse Theater Artistic Director Bram Lewis. “It also touches on the extraordinary capacity of our elders for creativity and connection even in their last years. We are thrilled to share this important new work.”

Directed by Lewis and designed by the Schoolhouse design team, Marjorie Bradley Kellogg, sets; Dennis Parichy, lights; and Alison Hublard-Hershman, costumes, The Color of Light opens Thursday April 4 at 8 p.m. and runs through April 28 on Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.

Performances are at The Schoolhouse Theater’s main stage at 3 Owens Road, North Salem. General admission is $38; seniors $35; tickets are also available for this season’s remaining plays from the Schoolhouse Theater Box Office at 914-277-8477 or online at https://www.schoolhousetheater.org/.

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From left, Suzanne Reuter, executive director, The Bristal at Armonk; Henriette Bard; Diana Lamberti; and Maytha Ramirez, director of Recreation, The Bristal at Armonk.

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a festive birthday party Feb. 28, joined by their families, friends and fellow residents from The Bristal. In the past two years, The Bristal Assisted Living at Armonk has celebrated six birthdays for its residents ranging from 100 to 108 years old.

The Bristal Assisted Living at Armonk is the second assisted-living community in Westchester for The Engel Burman Group; the first is in White Plains. The Group has been managing assisted-living residences for more than 15 years.

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HOULIHAN LAWRENCE WINS AWARDS AT GLOBAL REAL ESTATE CONFERENCE

ANOTHER DIRECTOR AT COVECARE CENTER

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WJCS WELCOMES

MEDICAL DIRECTOR Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS), one of the largest human-service organizations in Westchester County, has appointed John C. Douglas, M.D., as medical director.

Douglas, who will officially assume his position April 1, was previously service chief of the outpatient addiction program at Silver Hill Hospital in Connecticut. There he launched and managed an outpatient program to treat individuals struggling with addiction and comorbid mental health problems, provided community education on addiction and mental health and managed numerous organizational initiatives to optimize hospital processes and staff collaboration.

Triple board certified in psychiatry, addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine, Douglas earned his M.D. degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine, M.S. degree in physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University Graduate School, and M.B.A. at the University of California, San Diego, Rady School of Management.

“Dr. Douglas brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to WJCS, including expertise in medication management, co-occurring disorders, suicide prevention, telepsychiatry, organizational leadership and teaching, said WJCS CEO Seth Diamond.

“It is my great privilege to join WJCS, the largest provider of outpatient mental health services in Westchester County,” said Douglas. “WJCS has been at the forefront of the treatment of trauma, co-occurring disorders, telepsychiatry and all other mental health treatments it offers to individuals of all ages and backgrounds across Westchester County….”

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Houlihan Lawrence Global Business Development Team, from left: Mary Jo Lockyer, Jennifer Capaccio, Carol Dorado, Christin Simon Ogryzlo, Delihla Rivera Magilton and Christopher Cassis.

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World has honored Houlihan Lawrence of Rye Brook with three awards in recognition of the real estate firm’s outstanding performance among the network’s 565-member companies in more than 70 countries.

The Houlihan Lawrence Global Business Development Team took the 2018 Award of Excellence for Equivalent Closing Outgoing Sales Production; Top 5 Outgoing Closings Award; and the Million Dollar Club, Most Outgoing Clos-

ings Award. The latter was presented to the members closing the most outgoing referrals with a sale price of $1 million or greater. Forty-seven such transactions originating from Houlihan Lawrence agents across Westchester, Connecticut and the Hudson Valley last year — more than any brokerage in its category — were recognized.

Houlihan Lawrence was also honored as part of the Global Alliance Club for members involved in one or more closed

international referrals.

“We couldn’t have done this without our agents, our Global Business Development Team and all our network partners,” said Delihla Rivera Magilton, director of global business development for Houlihan Lawrence. “These honors truly represent their combined efforts and relationships built on loyalty and trust.”

The awards were presented at LeadingRE’s annual conference at the Wynn Las Vegas on Feb. 21 and 22.

KG+D ARCHITECTS FIRM IN EXPANSION MODE

ORANGE BANK & TRUST PROMOTES CHIEF LENDING OFFICER TO EVP The board of directors and CEO Michael Gilfeather of Orange Bank & Trust Company in Middletown have announced the promotion of Michael Coulter to executive vice president.

Coulter is being recognized for his leadership in growing the bank’s loan out-standings to an all-time high in the mid-Hudson Valley marketplace as well as the overall bank. Coulter joined Orange Bank & Trust in April 2017 as senior vice president and chiel lending officer to oversee all aspects of loan strategy, product and policy.

“Mike has played an integral role in the bank’s ongoing success, with meaningful contributions to management and development of the commercial lending department as well as the bank’s overall strategic goals,” noted Gilfeather. “Mike’s promotion is well deserved and we are fortunate to have an executive of his expertise at the bank.”

Coulter has more than 25 years of industry experience. Previously he was chief lending officer of Metropolitan Bank in Manhattan.

An independent bank beginning with a dream of 14 founders more than 125 years ago, Orange Bank &Trust now has assets of more than $1 billion. It has added six branches in Rockland and Westchester counties and acquired Hudson Valley Investment Advisors, a wealth management company.

Anita M. Minella joined the CoveCare Center board of directors. CoveCare is a Carmel-based nonprofit that addresses mental health needs, substance abuse and social and emotional issues.

Board Chairman Sal Gambino said, “We are very fortunate to have Anita joining us as a board member. Her expertise, talent and energy will allow us to continue to uphold our mission to foster healing, recovery and wellness throughout the community.”

“CoveCare Center is an organization filled with integrity, skill and compassion for others.

My goals are to enhance CoveCare Center’s efforts through community outreach and to help the agency continue to meet the growing needs of our community,” said Minella.

After 40 years of service, Minella retired in 2017 as the executive director of the Putnam Hospital Center. Her efforts focused on fund-raising, capital campaigns, community outreach, special event coordination and interior design. A resident of Putnam County since 1972, Minella has volunteered for many charitable organizations and is a member of the Putnam Hospital Center Auxiliary.

CoveCare Center is the only private nonprofit agency providing recovery-based mental health and substance-use treatment and prevention services in Putnam County.

KG+D Architects PC in Mount Kisco has added six professionals to its team: Jacob Eisenberg of Goldens Bridge; Lauren Irons of Katonah; Marco Mandra of Brewster; Jennifer Martabano of Bedford Hills; Eva Nardone of Danbury, Connecticut; and Frederick Wells of Hopewell Junction. The firm now has a team of 31 to accommodate its full-service architectural, interior design, landscape architecture and planning platforms.

Wells, with more than 35 years of landscape design and planning experience in the Hudson Valley region, brings his expertise in landscape architecture and planning to the firm’s portfolio of in-house services.

Eisenberg, Irons, Mandra and Nardone join the architectural/technical team and Martabano joins the interior design team.

“Hiring employees with a wide variety of expertise reflects our firm’s commitment to building a strong and dynamic team and increasing our ability to deliver the highest-quality services to our clients,” said Russell A. Davidson, FAIA president.

KG+D team members Andrew Allison of Carmel and Genevieve Clarey of Tarrytown have been named associates of the firm. Each has demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and provide outstanding service to KG+D’s clients.

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GOOD THINGS Fairfield County HOME CARE AGENCY FILLS NEED IN FAIRFIELD

LMMM AWARDED QUICK GRANT Connecticut Humanities has awarded a $3,998 Quick Grant to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum (LMMM) in Norwalk in support of a new exhibition titled “From Corsets to Suffrage: Victorian Women Trailblazers,” which will be open to the public May 16.

“We are very thankful to the Connecticut Humanities for supporting this important exhibition on women’s suffrage,” said Patsy Brescia, LMMM chairman of the Board of Trustees, “and to all our state legislators for their continued efforts in supporting this outstanding cultural venue and national historic landmark.”

The exhibition, curated by Kathleen Motes Bennewitz, will explore women’s hard-fought battle for voting rights and feature objects, images, suffrage pageantry, accessories and period costumes to illustrate the strident activities and important contributions of women across the state and the country.

“The Board of Trustees and I are truly grateful to Connecticut Humanities for this generous grant, which will help us launch a timely and exciting exploration on women’s voting rights as we celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment,” said LMMM Executive Director Susan Gilgore.

Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, provides opportunities to explore the history, literature and the vibrant culture that make states, cities and towns attractive places to live and work. Learn more at cthumanities.org.

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is located at 295 West Ave. Tours are offered Wednesdays through Sundays, at noon and 1, 2 and 3 p.m. For more, visit lockwoodmathewsmansion. com, email info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com or call 203-838-9799.

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From left: Megan Fisher, community outreach liaison; Bill Bonos, technologies specialist; Sharon Corriveau, director of the Fairfield branch; and Robin Monks, administrative assistant. Photo courtesy Assisted Living Services/Assisted Living Technologies.

Award-winning home care agency Assisted Living Services (ALS) arrived in Fairfield one year ago to help meet the increased demand for care.

“While we fully expected this branch to be successful, it has surpassed our goals for both the number of clients and employees,” said Ron D’Aquila, CEO and co-founder of ALS. “People are seeking us out for our unique combination of quality personal care and technological solutions.”

D’Aquila is referring to the CarePlus program pioneered by ALS that offers free electronic products to supplement care and improve safety. The devices from sister company Assisted Living Technologies

Inc. (ALT) include medication management systems, emergency response devices, bed alarms and more. Of the 75 clients currently served by the Fairfield office, more than two-thirds utilize CarePlus technology. Another 100 area elderly residents and people with disabilities use products to assist with daily living.

“Just as we carefully match caregivers with clients, our local technologies specialist William Bonos can identify the ideal device,” said D’Aquila. Bonos is one of four full-time staff members at the 60 Katona Drive office, along with Director Sharon Corriveau, community outreach liaison Megan Fisher and administrative assistant Robin Monks.

Additional ALS Fairfield staff members include 50 personal care assistants, 15 livein caregivers and 5 homemakers who truly love working with the elderly. They join the larger workforce of more than 400 employees. The most requested client service is long-hour personal care assistance that ranges from 8 to 15 hours per day.

“For over two decades we have proudly provided the best care to Connecticut’s aging residents and to people with disabilities,” said D’Aquila. “As a family business we appreciate the tremendous support we have received from our new home town.”

For more, visit assistedlivingct.com or call 203-634-8668.

KENNEDY CENTER TO FEATURE RENOWNED, GLOBAL SPEAKER On Thursday, April 4, The Kennedy Center, in celebration of its 68 years, will present renowned global advocate John D. Kemp of Long Island as its keynote speaker and recipient of The Kennedy Center’s Vision Award. The dinner, awards and annual meeting will take place at the Holiday Inn at 1070 Main St. in Bridgeport.

Kemp, who will focus on this year’s center theme, The Power of Purpose, in his address, is currently serving as the president and CEO of The Viscardi Center in Albertson, New York, a nonprofit organization providing a life span of services that educate, employ and empower people with disabilities. As a person with a disability who uses four prostheses, Kemp has more than 50 years of direct experience in the disability movement and has partnered with, worked for and served as board member and CEO of some of the leading disability and nonprofit organizations. Among his many achievements is co-founding the American Association of People with Disabilities with Paul G. Hearne in 1995.

The social hour begins at 6 p.m., followed by dinner, annual meeting and community, consumer and employer awards at 7 p.m. Tickets are $50 each. Register at thekennedycenterinc.org or call 203-365-8522, ext. 2039.

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FOUR-STAR ADMIRAL TO LECTURE ON LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Four-Star Admiral James Stavridis, author, monthly columnist for TIME magazine and chief international security analyst for NBC News, will deliver a lecture on Monday, April 1, at 7 p.m. at the Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University in Fairfield. Titled “21st Century Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities,” Stavridis’ lecture will address navigating leadership roles at every level. Following the lecture he will be available for a book signing. This event is free and open to the public.

Stavridis will highlight key tools that all leaders need to succeed in in the 21st century, drawing from examples related to cyber security, terrorism, Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan and the environment, and his leadership experience gleaned from a career spanning almost four decades.

The longest-serving combatant commander in recent U.S. history, Stavridis attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and spent 37 years in the Navy, eventually rising to the rank of four-star admiral. Following his military career he served for five years as the 12th dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

“We are honored to welcome Admiral Stavridis to share his perspective on leadership through the lens of his distinguished military and higher education careers,” said Dolan School Dean Zhan Li. For more information and for reservations, visit fairfield.edu/dolan-lecture.

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SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS FOR 67 YEARS

FAIRFIELD COUNTY’S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE The largest provider of college scholarships in the region, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation in Norwalk, has extended the deadline for 2019 scholarships to Sunday, March 31. High school seniors, undergraduates and graduate students residing in Fairfield County are encouraged to go to the foundation’s website, FCCFoundation.org and look for a scholarship that they qualify for or call 203-750-3200 for assistance.

“We want to make sure Fairfield County students and those who care for them are aware of our many scholarships, so we have extended the deadline to March 31 to provide more time to complete applications for these amazing awards,” said Juanita James, CEO and president, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation. “We encourage Fairfield County students to dream big and apply today for these scholarships. We have a vast array of awards available through the generosity of over 160 fund holders who are investing in improving lives for all of Fairfield County. Together, we can make your future and the future of our community brighter.”

This year, the Community Foundation hopes to award close to $1 million to more than 450 Fairfield County high school seniors, college undergraduates and graduate students.

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From left: Abilis co-chairs, along with their children who utilize Abilis’ services, Bibi Clarke and her son Danny of Greenwich; Daniella Mini and her son Diego of Greenwich; and Fran Cohen and her daughter Ali of Weston.

Abilis, a nonprofit organization that provides services and support for individuals with special needs and their families, will hold its Spring for Abilis gala event Saturday, April 27, at 7 p.m., at the Woodway Country Club in Darien. The evening will include a champagne reception, cocktails, dinner and dancing as well as silent and live auctions. Live music will be provided by ETA Music. Funds raised at

the gala will help Abilis provide essential services and support for more than 700 individuals of all ages with special needs and their families.

The gala co-chairs are Bibi Clarke and Daniella Mini of Greenwich, and Fran Cohen of Weston. All three have very strong connections to Abilis as they are mothers of young adults who participate in individualized day and/or transi-

tions programs in Greenwich, which are designed to help young adults become more independent, find meaningful jobs and participate more fully in the communities in which they live.

The tax deductible tickets start at $350 and can be reserved online at 501auctions. com/spring4abilis. For more information, visit: abilis.us.facebook.com/Abilisinc; twitter.com/Abilis; or instagram.com/abilis_us.

NCC FESTIVAL THEME, POSTMEMORY Norwalk Community College will hold its 22nd annual Academic Festival from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 3, in venues throughout the campus. The festival is free and open to the public.

This year’s theme is “Postmemory: Hidden Trauma, Healing Narratives.” Postmemory describes the experience that the generation after bears to the personal, collective and cultural trauma of those who came before them.

“To grow up with overwhelming inherited memories, to be dominated by narratives that preceded one’s birth or one’s consciousness, is to risk having one’s own life stories displaced, even evacuated, by our ancestors,” noted scholar Marianne Hirsch, who is the 2019 Academic Festival keynote speaker.

In addition to a lecture by Hirsch on “Postmemory for the Future,” the festival will feature more than a dozen events, including art and photo exhibitions, a live drama performance, panel discussions, film screenings and a book signing and talk by Claudia Jimenez Salazar, author of “Blood of the Dawn.”

Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a professor in the Institute for Research on

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Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Born in Romania, Hirsch was educated at Brown University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, Master of Arts degree and a Ph.D. Guest author Jimenez Salazar, a native of Lima, Peru, is a critic, scholar and founder of Perufest, the first Peruvian film festival in New York City. She won the 2014 Americas Narrative Prize for her debut novel “Blood of the Dawn.” The novel fol-

lows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what is known as “the time of fear” in Peruvian history, when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak.

For more information, contact festival organizers Professor Hannah Moekel-Rieke at mmoeckel-rieke@norwalk.edu, Professor Andres Aluma-Cazorla at aluma-cazorla@norwalk.edu or Professor Jeffrey Kenausis at jkenausis@norwalk.edu.

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98 DEGREES TO RAISE THE TEMPO AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL GALA Pop and contemporary R&B vocal group 98 Degrees will perform at the annual Under the Stars Greenwich Hospital event Friday, May 17, at Riverside Yacht Club from 7 to 11:30 p.m. to benefit pediatric and women’s health services throughout the region.

The quartet’s founding members, Jeff Timmons, Justin Jeffre and brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, rose to prominence during the boy band era in the mid-1990s. 98 Degrees has sold more than 10 million albums and has a devoted fan base.

The fund-raiser will celebrate three honorees: the Warwick family; the Walker family from Shreve Crump and Low; and Karen Santucci, M.D. The Warwicks, longtime hospital supporters, have played an instrumental role in the development of Greenwich Hospital for decades. The Walker family, of the Boston-based jewelry firm, have supported Greenwich Hospital since opening a location on Greenwich Avenue in 2015; and under the leadership of Santucci, emergency medicine physicians from Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital offer expert, round-the-clock coverage in Greenwich Hospital’s Emergency Department.

“Our Under the Stars honorees all share a deep sense of commitment to Greenwich Hospital,” said Norman G. Roth, president and chief executive offi cer of Greenwich Hospital.

For information about sponsorship and tickets, contact Stephanie Dunn Ashley, director of special events, at 203-863-3865 or email events@greenwichhospital.org or visit http://giving. greenhosp.org/uts2019.

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Facts & Figures BANKRUPTCIES Manhattan Fuber LLC, dba Bareburger, 21-03 44 Ave., Long Island City 11101. Chapter 11, voluntary. Attorney: Daniel R. Wotman, New York. Filed March 17.

Case no 19-10790-scc.

Midtown East NY LLC, d.b.a. Bareburger, 21-03 44 Ave., Long Island City 11101. Chapter 11, voluntary.

Attorney: Daniel R. Wotman, New York. Filed March 17. Case no 1910791-scc.

White Plains V&A Rest Inc., 44 Route 303, Valley Cottage 10989. Chapter 11, voluntary.

Attorney: Robert S. Lewis, Nyack.

Filed March 18. Case no. 19-22632rdd.

COURT CASES Dutchess Beauty Plus Salon Inc. Filed by Yaseen Traynor. Action: federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Dov Michael Mittelman. Filed March 14.

Case no. 1:19-cv-02316-KPF. Pret A Manger LTD, et al. Filed

by Skylar Cunningham. Action: diversity – fraud. Attorney for plaintiff: Jason P. Sultzer. Filed March 14. Case no. 1:19-cv-02322-CM.

New York Aegean Bunkering USA LLC. Filed by Geogas Trading SA. Action: admiralty. Attorney for plaintiff: Clayton Joseph Vignocchi. Filed March 13. Case no. 1:19-cv-02283JMF.

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Applejack Coffee Shop Inc., et al. Filed by Carlos Florez. Action: federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Maria Costanza Barducci.

Filed March 14. Case no. 1:19-cv02301-PGG. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, et al. Filed by Andre Pauwels. Action: diversity – torts.

Attorney for plaintiff: Joshua Schiller. Filed March 14. Case no. 1:19-cv02313-RA. BC Hospitality Group LLC. Filed

by Tom Colicchio, et al. Action: trademark infringement (Lanham Act). Attorneys for plaintiffs: Frederick Andrew Braunstein, Lisa Marie Coyle, Alexander Daniel Newman, Ronald J. Schutz and Philip Roger Hoffman. Filed March 14.

Case no. 1:19-cv-0235-JMF. Cara Nails Inc., et al. Filed by Maruga Liguicota. Action: federal question. Attorneys for plaintiff: William Michael Brown and C.K. Lee. Filed March 14. Case no.

1:19-cv-02309-LGS. Centric Brands Inc., et al. Filed

by BB Brand Holdings LLC. Action: trademark infringement (Lanham Act). Attorney for plaintiff: Bruce Roy Miller Ewing. Filed March 13.

Case no. 1:19-cv-02286-ER. Citibank, National Association, et al. Filed by Atilio Pereira. Action: Fair Credit Reporting Act. Attorney for plaintiff: unknown. Filed March 13. Case no. 1:19-cv-02278-AJN. Classical Numismatic Group LLC. Filed by Steven Matzura.

Action: federal question – other.

Attorney for plaintiff: Dana Lauren Gottlieb. Filed March 14. Case no.

1:19-cv-02290-AT. Ellie Mae Inc., et al. Filed by Christopher Beveridge. Action: Securities Exchange Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Juan Eneas Monteverde.

Filed March 18. Case no. 1:19-cv02390-NRB. Goldman Sachs Mortgage Co., et al. Filed by US Bank National Association. Action: diversity action.

Attorney for plaintiff: unknown.

Filed March 14. Case no. 1:19-cv02305-AJN. GreenOak Real Estate US LLC, et al. Filed by Brian Fischler. Action: federal question – other civil rights. Attorney for plaintiff: Douglas Brian Lipsky. Filed March 14.

Case no. 1:19-cv-02328-LGS. Immune Design Corp., et al.

Filed by Fredick Reed. Action: Securities Exchange Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Juan Eneas Monteverde.

Filed March 18. Case no. 1:19-cv02398.

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Kingdom Realty Corp. Filed by Brian Totin. Action: copyright infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: pro-se. Filed March 15. Case no.

1:19-cv-02356-JMF. NYAA Holdings LLC. Filed by Phillip Sullivan Jr. Action: federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: C.K. Lee. Filed March 14. Case no.

1:19-cv-02341-RA. OHR Pharmaceutical Inc., et al.

Filed by Jose Gomez. Action: Securities Exchange Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Juan Eneas Monteverde.

Filed March 18. Case no. 1:19-cv02386-PKC. Olympus Building Services Inc. Filed by Building Service 32BJ Health Fund. Action: E.R.I.S.A. – civil enforcement of employee benefits. Attorney for plaintiff: Samuel Bloom. Filed March 13. Case no.

1:19-cv-02274-JPO. Orange Bank and Trust Company, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank Cash Account Pension Plan, et al.

Action: E.R.I.S.A.– employee retirement. Attorney for plaintiff: John Houston Pope. Filed March 18. Case no. 1:19-cv-02400-JPO.

Superior One Management Corp., et al. Filed by Arturo Ramirez. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Marc Andrew Rapaport. Filed March 13. Case no. 1:19-cv-02287ALC. The Related Companies LP. Filed by Brian Fischler. Action: federal question – other civil rights.

Attorney for plaintiff: Douglas Brian Lipsky. Filed March 14. Case no.

1:19-cv-02329-DAB. 45RPM Studio USA Inc. Filed by Yaseen Traynor. Action: The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Attorney for plaintiff: Dov Michael Mittelman. Filed March 14. Case no.

1:19-cv-02327-GHW. 300 Entertainment, Music Publishing LLC, et al. Filed by Oscar Jackson. Action: trademark infringement. Attorneys for plaintiff: Nnamdi Anozie and Kennedy L. Barnes. Filed March 13. Case no.

1:19-cv-02289-VM.

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Orchestrade Financial Systems Inc. Filed by Suite LLC. Action: diversity action. Attorney for plaintiff: Justin Evan Klein. Filed March 15.

Case no. 1:19-cv-02347-DLC.

Country Village Apartment.

Filed by Patricia Milhaven. Action: Fair Housing Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Michael Howard Sussman.

Filed March 18. Case no. 7:19-cv02384-KMK.

Park Avenue International Partners Inc. Filed by Helayne Seidman. Action: copyright infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Richard Liebowitz. Filed March 17.

Case no. 1:19-cv-02381-ALC.

C.R. Bard Inc., et al. Filed by Anna Marie Sparacino, et al. Action: diversity – product liability.

Attorney for plaintiffs: Brian Alan Goldstein. Filed March 14. Case no.

1:19-cv-02292-JGK.

Peloton Interactive Inc. Filed by Downtown Music Publishing LLC, et al. Action: copyright infringement. Attorneys for plaintiffs: Jay Cohen, Darren Wright Johnson and Emily Weissler. Filed March 19.

Case no. 1:19-cv-02426.

Peter Manning LLC. Filed by Carlton Knowles. Action: federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: C.K. Lee. Filed March 15. Case no.

1:19-cv-02342-GBD. Pharmax Inc., et al. Filed by Kirkpatrick B. Dunbar. Action: federal question– other. Attorney for plaintiff: Ismail Sinan Sekendiz.

Filed March 15. Case no. 1:19-cv02339-VSB. State Street Bank and Trust Company Inc. Filed by Shnyra Ksenia, et al. Action: federal question – employment discrimination (sex). Attorney for plaintiffs: Mikhail Ratner. Filed March 18.

Case no. 1:19-cv-02419.

Westchester CCC Technologies Inc., et al.

Filed by Westcon Group Inc. NKA Westcon-comstor Americas, A Division of Synnex Corporation.

Action: diversity – accounts receivable. Attorney for plaintiff: Stephen Marc Roseman. Filed March 14.

Case no. 7:19-cv-02303.

Mount Vernon Police Department. Filed by Adekunle A. Onatolu. Action: federal question – other civil rights. Attorney for plaintiff: pro-se. Filed March 14. Case no.

1:19-cv-02333-CM. Ralph Lauren Retail Inc., et al.

Filed by Luigi Girotto. Action: federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Ben-Zion Bradley Weitz. Filed March 16. Case no. 1:19-cv-02373KPF.

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DEEDS Above $1 million 5 Apple Mill Lane LLC, Mamaroneck. Seller: Robert Armentano, et al, North Salem. Property: 5 Apple Mill Lane, North Salem.

Amount: $1.3 million. Filed March 12.

55 Quaker Ridge Road LLC, White Plains. Seller: Homestyle Hospitality LLC, New Rochelle.

Property: 55 Quaker Ridge Road, New Rochelle. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed March 13.

62 Potter Avenue LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: B and F Precision Manufacturing Company Inc., New Rochelle. Property: 62 Potter Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $2 million.

Filed March 13.

773 Armonk Property LLC, New York City. Seller: Soder Real Estate Equities LLC, West Palm Beach, Florida. Property: 773 Armonk Road, New Castle. Amount: $10.8 million. Filed March 15.

94 Hudson Park Road LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Polychron Corp., New Rochelle. Property: 94 Hudson Park Road, New Rochelle. Amount: $3.7 million. Filed March 12.

Carlton Cortez LLC, Coral Gables, Florida. Seller: Hayden Herrera, et al, New York City. Property: 238 Mill Road, North Salem. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed March 13.

Citimortgage Inc. Seller: Howard Dubs, Chappaqua. Property: 562 N. Broadway, Yonkers. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed March 15.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Tyrone Brown, Yonkers.

Property: 72 Glendale Place, Rye. Amount: $1 million. Filed March 13.

HVC Realty LLC, Suffern. Seller: 609 MK Realty Group LLC, Yonkers. Property: 609 Van Cortlandt Park, Yonkers. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed March 13.

HVC Realty LLC, Suffern. Seller: AWS 280 Hawthorne LLC, White Plains. Property: 280 Hawthorne Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $1.6 million.

Filed March 13.

M KET LLC, Bronx. Seller: Brache Realty LLC, Mount Kisco. Property: 111 E. Main St., Mount Kisco.

Amount: $1.8 million. Filed March 11.

Stuyview Properties LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Oceana Partners II LLC, Dobbs Ferry. Property: 40 Chestnut St., Unit PH E, Greenburgh. Amount: $2 million. Filed March 13.

Village of Bronxville, Bronxville.

Seller: Avalonbay Communities Inc., Arlington, Virginia. Property: 120 Parkway Road, Eastchester.

Amount: $1.6 million. Filed March 14.

Below $1 million 1012 Park Street LLC, New York City. Seller: Avail 2 LLC, Coral Gables, Florida. Property: 1012 Park St., Peekskill. Amount: $288,990. Filed March 14.

16 South Division Street LLC, Peekskill. Seller: Weeks LLC, Peekskill. Property: 16 S. Division St., Peekskill. Amount: $700,000. Filed March 12.

19 Franklin Avenue LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: Eric A. Jordan, Larchmont. Property: 19 Franklin Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $500,000. Filed March 12.

2147 Ellis Avenue LLC, Bronx.

Seller: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Property: 11 Jones Place, Yonkers.

Amount: $110,000. Filed March 14.

22 Edgemont Road LLC, Armonk. Seller: Robert W. Schilke, South Salem. Property: 22 Edgemont Road, Bedford. Amount: $580,000. Filed March 15.

273 WL LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: B.A.B. Group XII LLC, Scarsdale.

Property: 273 W. Lincoln Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $546,363.

Filed March 11.

544 E 3 LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: B.A.B Group XIII LLC, Scarsdale.

Property: 544 E. Third St., Mount Vernon. Amount: $783,636. Filed March 11.

60 BV Yonkers AMS LLC, New York City. Seller: Yonkers Community Development Agency, Yonkers. Property: 56 Buena Vista Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $239,987. Filed March 11.

60 BV Yonkers AMS LLC, New York City. Seller: Yonkers Downtown Waterfront Development Corp., Yonkers. Property: 60 Buena Vista Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $229,289. Filed March 11.

67 Saratoga Avenue Realty LLC, Ardsley. Seller: Barbara Castellitto, et al, Mount Kisco. Property: 67 Saratoga Ave., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $975,000. Filed March 12.

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Facts & Figures 67 Saratoga Ave Realty LLC, Ardsley. Seller: Barbara Castellitto, et al, Mount Kisco. Property: 52 Madison Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $120,000. Filed March 12.

844 Commerce Street LLC, Armonk. Seller: 844 Commerce Street Realty Corp., Scarsdale. Property: 844 Commerce St., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $987,500. Filed March 15.

Charlotte St Realty LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 5 Charlotte St., White Plains. Amount: $397,950.

Filed March 12.

CJ Developers LLC, Harrison.

Seller: George S. Hoffmann Jr., Winthrop, Massachusetts. Property: 36 Avon Circle, 36H, Rye. Amount: $160,000. Filed March 15.

Coast to Coast Capital LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Anthony Tirone, White Plains. Property: 10 City Place, 2D, White Plains. Amount: $433,728. Filed March 15.

Country Property Services LLC, Carmel. Seller: 27 Gatto Mount Kisco Corp., Mount Kisco.

Property: 27 Gatto Drive, Mount Kisco. Amount: $600,000. Filed March 11.

Diamond Ridge Partners LLC, White Plains. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Property: 116 Fremont St., Peekskill.

Amount: $105,000. Filed March 11.

Elizon Master Participation Trust I. Seller: Lonya Gilbert, Larchmont. Property: 223 Second Street West, Mount Vernon.

Amount: $692,737. Filed March 15.

Fraydun Enterprises LLC, New York City. Seller: Douglas Levine, North Miami Beach, Florida. Property: 984-1000 Old Post Road, Bedford. Amount: $600,000. Filed March 14.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Armando U. Sanchez, et al, Greenburgh. Property: 181 Edgepark Road, Greenburgh.

Amount: $475,000. Filed March 14.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Charles D’Agostino, Pleasantville. Property: 504 North Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $826,801. Filed March 15.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Gloria A. DiNardo, Bronx. Property: 114 Loomis Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $557,178. Filed March 11.

NEB Equities Inc., Great Neck.

Seller: Charles Acri, et al, White Plains. Property: 135 Ninth Avenue North, Mount Vernon. Amount: $236,000. Filed March 13.

One Sheldrake Lane LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Paul M. Millman, et al, White Plains. Property: 1 Sheldrake Lane, New Rochelle.

Amount: $680,000. Filed March 15.

PDF02 LLC, Bronxville. Seller: 251 Murray Ave LLC, Larchmont. Property: 251 Murray Ave., Mamaroneck.

Amount: $775,000. Filed March 14.

Robinson Development LLC, White Plains. Seller: Dwayne McKinley, Mount Vernon. Property: 65 W. Second St., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $180,000. Filed March 11.

SKL Realty Holdings LLC, New York City. Seller: Preston Scher, Scarsdale. Property: 45 Smith St., Rye. Amount: $250,000. Filed March 11.

Teller Ave Real Property LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Michele Bermel, Chappaqua. Property: 123 Elm St., Yonkers. Amount: $290,000. Filed March 13.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Francis Malara, White Plains. Property: 43 Dogwood Road, Cortlandt.

Amount: $722,207. Filed March 11.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Innocent Augustin, et al, White Plains. Property: 168 N. Lawn Ave., Greenburgh.

Amount: $716,769. Filed March 12.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Michael Khader, Yonkers. Property: 19 Highland Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $644,493. Filed March 14.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Samuel Thompson, et al, White Plains.

Property: 44 Manhattan Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $315,000.

Filed March 12.

Wilmington Trust Co. Seller: Michele L. Bermel, Chappaqua.

Property: 420 Hardscrabble Road, Mount Pleasant. Amount: $812,802.

Filed March 13.

LA Mays Inc., New York City.

Seller: City of Yonkers. Property: 101 Frederic St., Yonkers. Amount: $10,000. Filed March 15.

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FORECLOSURES CHAPPAQUA, 8 Colony Row, Single-family residence; lot size: 1.47 acres. Plaintiff: Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Plaintiff’s attorney: Freidman Vartolo LP, 85 Broad St., New York City. Defendant: Sally Ann Siano. Referee: Joseph Goubeaud. Sale: March 26, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $356,726.15 CORTLANDT MANOR, 130 Red Mill Road. Single-family residence; lot size: 100x142. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Fein Such & Crane LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Westbury. Defendant: Leslie Tomasulo. Referee: Warren Cohen. Sale: April2, 2 p.m.

Approximate lien: $363,616.

DOBBS FERRY, 802 Hunters Run. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore.

Defendant: Robert DiPiaolo. Referee: Peter Rosato. Sale: April2, 2 p.m.

Approximate lien: $754,208.

ELMSFORD, 151 Saw Mill River Road. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Ditech Financial LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Silvia Herrera. Referee: Lisa Bluestein.

Sale: April1, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $496,271.

ELMSFORD, 24 Winthrop Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Plaintiff’s attorney: Friedman Vartolo LP, 85 Broad St., New York City. Defendant: Jose Vasquez. Referee: Leticia Arzu. Sale: March 26, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $492,017.74.

HARRISON, 75 Fremont St. Two-family residence; lot size: 50x100. Plaintiff: Federal National Mortgage Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester.

Defendant: Anita Darretta. Referee: Bruce Bozeman. Sale: March 26, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $346,649.75.

IRVINGTON, 24 Shaw Lane. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Aldridge Pite LLP, Marcus Drive, Melville.

Defendant: Xavier James. Referee: John Raniolo. Sale: April 4, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,101,810.

MOUNT VERNON, 131 Pelhamdale Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .07 acres. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester.

Defendant: Patricia Grant. Referee: Peter Rosato. Sale: March 26, 2:30 p.m. Approximate lien: $526,107.83.

MOUNT VERNON, 109 S. 14th Ave. Three-family residence; lot size: .12 acres. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Rochester. Defendant: Verna Marsh. Referee: Bruce Bozeman.

Sale: March 23, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $796,069.31.

MOUNT VERNON, 352 Summit Ave. Three-family residence; lot size: .09 acres. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Jason Wager. Referee: Andrew Buder. Sale: April 5, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $348,295.

NEW ROCHELLE, 187 Fifth Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .26 acres. Plaintiff: 2D Cap Fund 1 LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Friedman Vartolo LP, 85 Broad St., New York City. Defendant: Wendi Jackson Smith. Referee: James Hyer. Sale: March 26, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $303,252.98.

WEST HARRISON, 754 Lake St. Single-family residence; lot size: 1.82 acres. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: David A. Gallo & Associates, 99 Powerhouse Road, Roslyn Heights.

Defendant: William Kidd. Referee: Albert Comachio 111. Sale: April 8, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $2,442,239.

YONKERS, 1087 Nepperhan Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .16 acres. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Jose Perdomo. Referee: Joseph Ruggiero. Sale: April2, 1 p.m.

Approximate lien: $480,686.

JUDGMENTS Bird and Bottle Inc., Croton-on-Hudson. $42,247 in favor of Bird and Bottle Holdings LLC, Garrison. Filed March 14.

Euro Ride Inc., Yonkers. $3,944 in favor of Van Nest Auto LLC, Bronx.

Filed March 11.

La Gibbs Resources Inc., Port Chester. $10,509 in favor of Cashmere Outfitters Inc., Mont-Royal.

Filed March 11.

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

Ayala, Salvador, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $640,000 affecting property located at 29 Clinton Ave., New Rochelle 10801. Filed Sept. 25.

Belony, Rose Marie, et al. Filed

by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $243,000 affecting property located at 105 and 107 Remington Place, New Rochelle 10801.

Filed Sept. 25.

Campos, Gerarda, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.1 million affecting property located at 100 Whippoorwill Road East, North Castle 10504. Filed Sept. 20.

Colodny, Peter, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $780,000 affecting property located at 52 Arthur Court, Port Chester 10573. Filed Sept. 24.

Dadakis, John D., et al. Filed by TD Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.8 million affecting property located at 35 Smith Farm Road, Bedford 10506. Filed Sept. 21.

Dimatteo, Gerardo Jr., et al.

Filed by Banc of America Funding Corporation 2006-8T2. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 62 Grove St., Mount Kisco 10549. Filed Sept. 24.

Gizzo, Kathleen, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $730,000 affecting property located at 11 Park Lane, West Harrison 10604. Filed Sept. 24.

Luiso, Joseph, as executor of the estate of Robert Luiso, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $500,000 affecting property located at 147 Harrison Ave., Harrison 10528. Filed Sept. 25.

McLaughlin, Aaron, et al. Filed

by Christiana Trust. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $369,050 affecting property located at 1525 Strawberry Road, Mohegan Lake 10547. Filed Sept. 20.

Metz, Harry E. II, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $475,200 affecting property located at 14 Howland Drive, Cross River 10518. Filed Sept. 25.

O’Hagan, Thomas E., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $412,000 affecting property located at 16 Hickory Road, Katonah 10536. Filed Sept. 24.

Poole, Evelyn, et al. Filed by BankUnited N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $332,722 affecting property located at 546 S. Ninth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Sept. 21.

Quito, Ana M., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $581,249 affecting property located at 16 Maple Place, Ossining 10562. Filed Sept. 20.

Sanchez, Hugo, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $409,500 affecting property located at 616 N. Division St., Peekskill 10566. Filed Sept. 25.

Simmons, Indhira, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $351,040 affecting property located at 961 Parkway Place, Peekskill 10566. Filed Sept. 20.

Swayne, Kevin P., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $262,000 affecting property located at 12 Midchester Ave., White Plains 10606. Filed Sept. 25.

Vasquez, Jose, et al. Filed by FNBN I LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 24 Winthrop Ave., Elmsford 10523. Filed Sept. 26.

Yetman, Ravel, et al. Filed by The Money Source Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $378,026 affecting property located at 258 S. 10th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Sept. 25.

Facts & Figures Zelenz, Mark J., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $516,000 affecting property located at 445 Old Post Road, Bedford 10506. Filed Sept. 26.

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

Mechanic’s Liens

Partnerships

Beach Improvements Owners LLC, as owner. $30,664 as claimed

by Sabco Corp., Putnam Valley.

Property: in Peekskill. Filed March 14.

Coastal Clothing, 12 Raymond Road, North Salem 10560, c/o Sam Campolo and Scott Benjamin. Filed June 22.

Romm, Nancy, as owner. $2,350 as claimed by Mariano Pansarella, New Rochelle. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed March 13.

White Marsh Holdings LLC, as owner. $1.4 million as claimed by Calamar Construction Management. Property: in Greenburgh.

Filed March 13.

NEW BUSINESSES

Showandasee Gardening, 4207 Villa at the Woods, B307, Peekskill 10566, c/o Laura Perkins and John Lowe. Filed June 18.

Sole Proprietorships

Gear Draft, 1767 Central Park Ave., Suite 394, Yonkers 10710, c/o Nelson Cortes. Filed June 22.

Luis Construction, 524 N. Division St., Peekskill 10566, c/o Luis C. Otavalo Lojano. Filed June 20.

Age of Elegance Pianos, 60 Whippoorwill Road East, Armonk 10504, c/o Jeffrey Baker. Filed June 19.

Hudson Point Promotions, 198 Tate Ave., Buchanan 10511, c/o Kylie A. Bernard. Filed June 20.

Lush Luxury Boutique, 337 N. High St., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Shantelle Benjamin. Filed June 22.

JD Carpentry Service, 59 Cleveland Ave., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Jaime A. Diaz. Filed June 18.

Mega Prints and Signs, 1725 Front St., Yorktown Heights 10598, c/o Eric Santiago. Filed June 18.

Kumon of Mamaroneck, 1214 E. Boston Post Road, Mamaroneck 10604, c/o Kumiko Osada. Filed June 22.

Mim N’ Co., P.O. Box 997, Yorktown Heights 10598, c/o Marwa Tantawy.

Filed June 20.

Amber Marina, 73 Livingston Ave., No. 1, Yonkers 10705, c/o Manuel Pascal. Filed June 19.

Angelo’s Pizza, 986 McLean Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Isuf Ugrinaj.

Filed June 20.

Chasqui Multi Service, 404 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains 10605, c/o Nancy Paola Tanaka Sanchez.

Filed June 19.

Emma Ring Research and Tutoring, 29 Holly Place, Larchmont 10538, c/o Emma Ring. Filed June 21.

La Fenice, 3 Purdy Ave., Rye 10580, c/o Simona Anna Silvestri. Filed June 18.

LFC Construction, 184 Linden St., Apt. 3C, Yonkers 10701, c/o Luis Felipe Crisostomo. Filed June 18.

PATENTS Access policy updates in a dispersed storage network. Patent no. 10,237,281 issued to Gary W. Grube, Barrington Hills, Illinois; Jason K. Resch, Chicago, Illinois. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Cognitive geofencing. Patent no.

10,237,685 issued to Bjorn Austraat, New York; Swaminathan Chandrasekaran, Coppell, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Monroy’s Maintenance, 106 B Spring St., South Salem 10590, c/o Tony Monroy. Filed June 20.

Coolant and ambient temperature control for chillerless liquid cooled data centers. Patent no. 10,238,009 issued to Timothy J. Chainer, Putnam Valley; Milnes P. David, Poughkeepsie; Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Santa Clara, California; Pritish R. Parida, Stamford, Connecticut; Robert E. Simons, Poughkeepsie. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Retta’s Lifeline, 18 Chestnut Place, Mount Vernon 10553, c/o Loretta Haigler. Filed June 18.

Tartufo Passion New York, 1554 Wenonah Trail, Mohegan Lake 10547, c/o Ann Caroline Hotaling.

Filed June 18.

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Facts & Figures Distributed storage of authentication data. Patent no. 10,237,270 issued to Leo M. Farrell, Main Beach, Australia; Benjamin M. E. Martin, Southport, Australia; David P. Moore, Robina, Australia; Jasmine A. Smith, Southport, Australia; Shane B. Weeden, Paradise Point, Australia. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Dynamic client-based leader election. Patent no. 10,237,340 issued to Ohad Atia, Haifa, Israel; Amalia Avraham, Petach Tikva, Israel; Ran Harel, Kfar-Saba, Israel; Alon Marx, Matan, Israel. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

File filter. Patent no. 10,237,243 issued to Christopher J. Hardee, Raleigh, North Carolina; Jason A. Matteson, Raleigh, North Carolina; Mark E. Steinke, Durham, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Manufacturing electronic package with heat transfer element(s). Patent no. 10,237,964 issued to Phillip D. Isaacs, Rochester, Minnesota; Michael T. Peets, Staatsburg; Xiaojin Wei, Poughkeepsie.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Multistacked electronic device with defect-free solder connection. Patent no. 10,237,977 issued to Ai Kiar Ang, Singapore; Michael Lauri, Montgomery. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Predicting obstacles in a travel path. Patent no. 10,237,699 issued to Christopher J. Hardee, Raleigh, North Carolina; Steven R. Joroff, Tokyo, Japan; Pamela A. Nesbitt, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Scott E. Schneider, Rolesville, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Resource usage anonymization. Patent no. 10,237,364 issued to Nimrod Megiddo, Palo Alto, California. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Simultaneous participation in a plurality of web conferences.

Patent no. 10,237,411 issued to Paul Roger Bastide, Boxford, Massachusetts; Robert E. Loredo, North Miami Beach, Florida. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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Single-key authentication method. Patent no. 10,237,258 issued to Mark E. Maresh, Wake Forest, North Carolina; Colm Nolan, Meath, Ireland; Juan F. Vargas, Cary, North Carolina; Michael J. Whitney, Cary, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Smart management of mobile applications based on visual recognition. Patent no;. 10,237,740 issued to Giuseppe Ciano, Rome, Italy; Francesca Curzi, Rome, Italy; Marco De Santis, Rome, Italy. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Social and proximity-based access control for mobile applications. Patent no. 10,237,734 issued to Paul C. Castro, Sharon, Massachusetts; Yunwu Huang, Chappaqua; Marco Pistoia, Amawalk; Umut Topkara, Scarsdale. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

System and method for web conferencing presentation pre-staging. Patent no. 10,237,324 issued to Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Baltimore, Maryland; Shelbee D. Eigenbrode, Thornton, Colorado; Dana L. Price, Surf City, North Carolina; Aaron J. Quirk, Raleigh, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

System and method of locating wireless connection among a plurality of wireless connections. Patent no. 10,237,817 issued to Christopher J. Dawson, Arlington, Virginia; Peter G. Finn, Ontario, Canada; Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Virginia; Jenny S. Li, Cary, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Unlocking of a mobile device by a code received via a stencil on a touchscreen. Patent no. 10,237,736 issued to Andreas Arning, Tuebingen, Germany; Jens Engelke, Holzgerlingen, Germany; Klaus Rindtorff, Weil im Schoenbuch, Germany. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Video segment manager. Patent no. 10,237,586 issued to Inseok Hwang, Austin, Texas; Su Liu, Austin, Texas; Eric J. Rozner, Austin, Texas; Chin Ngai Sze, Austin, Texas.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Below $1 million 32 Purgatory LLC, Monroe, as owner. Lender: Ice Lender Holding SLLC, New York City. Property: 32 Purgatory Road, Campbell Hall 10916. Amount: $47,500. Filed March 12.

Hectus, Jennifer M., et al, New Windsor, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $285,000. Filed March 11.

Rhein, James L., Middletown, as owner. Lender: George D. Miller and Sons Inc., Middletown. Property: 95 Old Timers Road, Wallkill.

Amount: $150,000. Filed March 15.

Rhein, James L., Middletown, as owner. Lender: George R. Miller and Mary L. Miller, Middletown.

Property: 539-549 Mount Hope Road, Wallkill. Amount: $150,000.

Filed March 15.

Rhein, James L., Middletown, as owner. Lender: George R. Miller and Mary L. Miller, Middletown.

Property: 529-535 Mount Hope Road, Wallkill. Amount: $150,000.

Filed March 15.

RLA Homes LLC, Monroe, as owner. Lender: Ice Lender Holding SLLC, New York City. Property: 67 Park Drive, Warwick 10990.

Amount: $72,000. Filed March 13.

SDF Capital LLC, Monroe, as owner. Lender: LendingHome Funding Corp., San Francisco, California. Property: 15 Ann Place, Monroe 10950. Amount: $195,000.

Filed March 11.

Yost, Anthony, et al, Brooklyn, as owner. Lender: Rondout Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 54215425 Route 212, Mount Tremper 12457. Amount: $444,240. Filed March 14.

DEEDS Below $1 million 10-12 Van Ness Realty Partners LLC, Yonkers. Seller: City of Newburgh. Property: 12 Van Ness St., Newburgh. Amount: $1,500. Filed March 14.

12 Brown Equities LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Robert T. Provost Jr., et al, East Durham. Property: 12-14 Brown Ave., Kingston. Amount: $175,000. Filed March 13.

2-8 South Street LLC, Middletown. Seller: City of Middletown.

Property: 2-8 South St., Middletown. Amount: $650,000. Filed March 13.

3 Snyder Corp., Fishkill. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 111 Railroad Ave., Kingston 12401. Amount: $44,000. Filed March 11.

32 Purgatory LLC, Monroe. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 32 Purgatory Road, Campbell Hall 10916. Amount: $298,715. Filed March 12.

Advanced Business Solutions LLC, Baltimore, Maryland. Seller: Joseph Kupinski, et al, Middletown.

Property: 20 Karen Drive, Middletown. Amount: $143,000. Filed March 14.

Allottaland LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: William J. D. Hewitt, et al, Millbrook.

Property: Bangall Amenia Road, Stanford. Amount: $765,000. Filed March 11.

ArcStreet LLC, Mahwah, New Jersey. Seller: SDF Capital LLC, Mamaroneck. Property: in Warwick.

Amount: $139,000. Filed March 15.

Bank of America N.A. Seller: Sarah Ramos, Middletown. Property: 783 Route 284, Westtown 10998.

Amount: $285,594. Filed March 11.

Big Green Real Estate LLC, Pinecrest, Florida. Seller: Lisa L. Alt, Kingston. Property: in Ulster.

Amount: $330,000. Filed March 11.

Birds of a Feather Media Ltd., Woodstock. Seller: Diane Marquard, et al, Dubois, Wyoming.

Property: in Woodstock. Amount: $250,000. Filed March 12.

34 Carter Realty Partners LLC, Yonkers. Seller: City of Newburgh.

Property: 34 Carter St., Newburgh.

Amount: $2,500. Filed March 14.

Blue Topaz Development LLC, Great Neck. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 224 Hillcrest Manor Drive, Marlboro 12542.

Amount: $165,000. Filed March 14.

440 Kingston Property Inc., Circleville. Seller: Frederick W. Stiefel, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Kingston. Amount: $375,000. Filed March 13.

BWBI LLC, Millbrook. Seller: Patricia Garbowski, et al, Hopewell Junction. Property: in East Fishkill.

Amount: $181,000. Filed March 8.

48 Orange LLC, Monroe. Seller: Carl C. Kruger, Red Hook. Property: 48 Orange Ave., Goshen 10924.

Amount: $110,000. Filed March 11.

C1RG Enterprises Ltd., Newburgh. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 16 Hideaway Lane, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $179,000. Filed March 12.

Acres Point LLC, et al, Monroe.

Seller: Acres Point LLC, et al, Monroe. Property: 182 Acres Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $245,000. Filed March 15.

Chaudhry Enterprises LLC, Newburgh. Seller: The Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh, Newburgh.

Property: Route 9W, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $60,000. Filed March 11.

Acres Point LLC, et al, Monroe.

Seller: Acres Point LLC, Monroe.

Property: 182 Acres Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $825,000. Filed March 15.

D.A.E.B. LLC, New Windsor. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 8 Acorn Court, Highland Mills 10930.

Amount: $122,000. Filed March 14.

Active Dog LLC, Weston, Connecticut. Seller: Karen Walding Baumann, Lake Peekskill. Property: 14 S. White Road Road, Pawling.

Amount: $225,000. Filed March 8.

Day Road Properties LLC, Woodstock. Seller: Athena Vouloumanos, et al, New York City.

Property: in Woodstock. Amount: $500,000. Filed March 12.

Aden Brook Miller LLC, Montgomery. Seller: David H. Miller Jr., et al, Montgomery. Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $500,000. Filed March 11.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Frank D. Lombardi, Mahopac. Property: 1289 Route 302, Pine Bush 12566. Amount: $664,560. Filed March 14.

Dormont Holdings LLC, Rockville Centre. Seller: Charles Hinchliffe, et al, Walden. Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $82,500.

Filed March 15.

Empire Hudson Valley Properties LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC, Lansing, Michigan. Property: 28 Johnson Road, LaGrangeville 12540. Amount: $150,000. Filed March 13.

Estraba NY LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: John C. Cappello, Walden. Property: 165 Main St., Chester 10918.

Amount: $75,000. Filed March 15.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Brian Mercado, Maybrook. Property: 110 Wallace Ave., Maybrook 12543. Amount: $205,922. Filed March 15.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Bruce Levine, Montebello. Property: 20 Grandview Trail, Monroe 10950. Amount: $220,039. Filed March 11.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: David D. Beatty, et al, Warwick. Property: 2 Grissom St., Warwick 10990. Amount: $248,500. Filed March 11.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Harold Small, et al, Mahopac. Property: 17 Cedar Trail, Monroe 10950. Amount: $176,197. Filed March 14.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Sarah Ramos, Goshen. Property: 107 Dunthorne Drive, Bloomingburg 12721.

Amount: $471,203. Filed March 15.

Golden Towers Holdings LLC, Monroe. Seller: John Santiamagro, et al, Goshen. Property: 31 Kings Drive, Wallkill 12589. Amount: $69,801. Filed March 11.

Gyn Enterprise LLC, Pleasant Valley. Seller: Desiree Board, Winter Park, Fl. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $130,000. Filed March 12.

Hoang and Nguyen Bros LLC, New Windsor. Seller: Rhonda Harvin, et al, New Windsor. Property: 1 Ona Lane, New Windsor 12553.

Amount: $150,600. Filed March 14.

Invoss LLC, Middletown. Seller: The Winding Hills Corp., Montgomery. Property: in Montgomery.

Amount: $750,000. Filed March 11.

Kang Ning Inc., Otisville. Seller: CJBD of Orange County LLC, Otisville. Property: in Mount Hope.

Amount: $35,000. Filed March 11.

Facts & Figures Mahkan LLC, Walden. Seller: Patricia C. Weinert, Middletown.

Property: 796 Route 211 East, Wallkill. Amount: $225,000. Filed March 15.

Salama Holding LLC, Yonkers.

Seller: Kelvin K. Ford, et al, Newburgh. Property: 10 Hinchcliffe Drive, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $166,000. Filed March 11.

Maxley Trading LLC, Middletown. Seller: Salvador Ramos, Middletown. Property: 1 Johns Road, Middletown. Amount: $200,000.

Filed March 11.

SDF Capital LLC, Mamaroneck.

Seller: Valeri V. Egorov, et al, Monroe. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $160,000. Filed March 11.

McCormick 110 LLC, Hunt Valley, Maryland. Seller: John C. Cappello, Walden. Property: 18 Mina Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $315,000. Filed March 11.

MEM Poughkeepsie Real Estate LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Levi Wallace, Poughquag. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $140,000.

Filed March 8.

Mic-Ric LLC, Akron, Ohio. Seller: Land Investment Group of Newburgh, Newburgh. Property: 3 New Road, Newburgh. Amount: $425,000. Filed March 11.

Mills Martindale LLC, New York City. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Property: 1467 Centre Road, Rhinebeck 12572.

Amount: $240,000. Filed March 12.

ML and YD Inc., Monroe. Seller: Joseph Skladanek, Goshen. Property: 36 Milburn Road, Goshen.

Amount: $100,000. Filed March 11.

Shmi Lolem LLC, Monroe. Seller: Jermias Kramer, Brooklyn. Property: 4 Koritz Court, Unit 301, Monroe 10950. Amount: $120,000. Filed March 13.

Silbase Enterprises Inc., Washingtonville. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 59 Mulberry St., Middletown 10940.

Amount: $51,000. Filed March 14.

Storm King Building Company Inc., New Windsor. Seller: Hill Investments, Newburgh. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $25,000. Filed March 14.

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Seller: Andrea Pawliczek, Montgomery. Property: Route 22, Middletown 10940.

Amount: $305,640. Filed March 12.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Jessica Z. Segal, Poughkeepsie. Property: 3 Rosewood Lane, Wingdale 12594. Amount: $366,000. Filed March 14.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Vichea Neou, Port Jervis. Property: 11 Restorative Road, Middletown 10940. Amount: $480,444. Filed March 11.

The New Upstate Group LLC, Monroe. Seller: J Gluck Management Inc., Monroe. Property: 9 Meron Drive, Unit 101, Monroe.

Amount: $250,000. Filed March 11.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Seller: Michael Treybich, Poughkeepsie. Property: 270 Sinpatch Road, Wassaic 12592. Amount: $238,000.

Filed March 8.

Translink Global Inc., Norwood, New Jersey. Seller: WH Mutual Inc., Norwood, New Jersey. Property: 33 Mechanic St., Port Jervis 12771.

Amount: $145,000. Filed March 14.

Northern Enterprise NY LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: Alan Joseph, Goshen. Property: 26 Ursa Ave., Greenwood Lake 10925.

Amount: $99,751. Filed March 13.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Anthony Difusco, et al, Mahopac. Property: 25 Brigam Lane, Hopewell Junction 12533. Amount: $964,000. Filed March 14.

Otium Properties LLC, New Windsor. Seller: Double R Capital Inc., Poughkeepsie. Property: in Pleasant Valley. Amount: $275,000.

Filed March 12.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Brenda Block, Pleasant Valley. Property: 1 High Meadow Drive, Warwick 10990. Amount: $324,905. Filed March 11.

POK 325 Main LLC, New York City. Seller: Anjali Holdings LLC, Wappingers Falls. Property: 325 Main St., Poughkeepsie. Amount: $165,000. Filed March 12.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Frank A. Lombardi, Middletown. Property: 28 Fourth Road, Greenwood Lake 10925. Amount: $126,756. Filed March 11.

Quaker Hill Management LLC. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 160 Quaker Hill Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $222,500. Filed March 12.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Michele Marte-Indzonka, Newburgh. Property: 2 Ivy Place, Warwick 10990.

Amount: $476,094. Filed March 11.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Nancy J. Schneider, Washingtonville. Property: 18 High St., Chester 10918.

Amount: $532,161. Filed March 13.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Robert L. Ostertag, Poughkeepsie. Property: 30 N. Farm Drive, Dover 12522.

Amount: $427,500. Filed March 8.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Ruth Cotter, Washingtonville. Property: 3 Bittles Place, Rock Tavern 12575. Amount: $287,621. Filed March 11.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Sarah Ramos, Goshen. Property: 2052 Independence Drive, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $742,995. Filed March 12.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Daniel H. Richland, Washingtonville.

Property: 730 Broadway, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $348,676.

Filed March 13.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Sarah E. Sholes, Fishkill. Property: 7A Alpine Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Amount: $150,500. Filed March 8.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: William A. Martin, et al, Monroe.

Property: 1199 E. Mombasha Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $963,792.

Filed March 11.

Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston.

Seller: Liz and Ric LLC, Saugerties.

Property: 1411 Route 212, Saugerties 12477. Amount: $370,000. Filed March 13.

Vantage Construction Inc., Newburgh. Seller: Weikfield Windsor Development Inc., Woodmere.

Property: 24 Shalimar Drive, Salisbury Mills 12577. Amount: $79,000.

Filed March 13.

Velocity House Buyers LLC, et al, Harriman. Seller: Dawn Hoyte, Ulster Park. Property: 6 Cooks Lane, Highland Falls 12487.

Amount: $15,000. Filed March 13.

Velocity House Buyers LLC, et al, New Windsor. Seller: Marilyn D. Rogers, Gardiner. Property: in Gardiner. Amount: $81,700. Filed March 12.

Walden NY 1 LLC, Framingham, Massachusetts. Seller: Miller and Davis Inc., Boca Raton, Florida.

Property: 757 Route 52, Walden.

Amount: $200,000. Filed March 11.

Westtown NY 2 LLC, Louisville, Colorado. Seller: Whitford Estates LLC, Westtown. Property: in Minisink. Amount: $295,000. Filed March 11.

WH Property Group LLC, Middletown. Seller: The Winding Hills Corp., Montgomery. Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $200,000.

Filed March 11.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Curt A. Plattner, et al, Warren, Connecticut. Property: 12 Mcintyre Way, Stanford 12581.

Amount: $268,500. Filed March 12.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Thomas Dejesus, et al, Warwick. Property: 76 Darin Road, Warwick 10990. Amount: $196,800. Filed March 12.

YMR USA LLC, Monsey. Seller: Tiffany A. Rodriguez, Staatsburg.

Property: 162 Hibernia Road, Salt Point 12569. Amount: $150,000.

Filed March 11.

YYY Properties LLC, Chester.

Seller: Jaysha Reyes, Warwick.

Property: 32 Chestnut Lane, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $142,001.

Filed March 13.

JUDGMENTS 215 Washington Street Foods Inc., Newburgh. $282 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Oct. 11.

26 Dubois LLC, Newburgh. $206 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

360 GC Zone Inc., Middletown. $117 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 23.

66 Deli and Grocery, Newburgh. $1,552 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 23.

A Class 1-S Transportation Corp., Walden. $5,281 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Oct. 11.

Alteva Solutions Inc., Warwick. $26,893 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

C and R Maintenance Inc., Highland. $1,019 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 8.

Jessis Restaurant, Monroe. $153 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

CCS Auto Body Inc., Newburgh. $860 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

JMJ Transport Inc., Milton. $2,000 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 8.

City Center Market and Deli, Newburgh. $2,179 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

K.M.C. of Orange County Inc., Highland Falls. $724 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Congregation Yetev Lev Motzah Bakery, Monroe. $1,067 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Oct. 24.

La Bellas Pizzeria, Ellenville. $2,116 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 8.

Construction Land Inc., Chester. $7,519 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Covenant Food Service and Catering Corp., Middletown. $1,971 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Oct. 23.

Elite Auto Sales, Newburgh. $129 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

Elite Flooring, Milton. $537 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 8.

Go Plumbing and Heating Inc., Monroe. $1,132 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

Goldstone Capital Group LLC, Monroe. $1,078 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Grasshopper Tavern Inc., Pine Bush. $11,864 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

Grosso’s Landscaping and Lawncare LLC, Middletown. $2,954 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Imagine If Inc., Campbell Hall. $279 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

B and R 238 Corp., Newburgh. $450 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

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M. Solomon Casket Company of Connecticut Inc., Middletown. $559 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

Mazel Builders Supply Inc., Monroe. $1,582 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Mid Hudson Paving Corp., Slate Hill. $440 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

Monroe Steakhouse LLC, Monroe. $1,042 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

My Fresh Clean LLC, Monroe. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Paradise Limousine Service Inc., Wallkill. $457 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 8.

Paul Cox Industries LLC, Port Jervis. $3,618 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

Phili Inc., Newburgh. $16,144 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Preet Mart Inc., Pine Island. $951in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 23.

R.M. Drywall Corp., Newburgh. $4,564 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

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Facts & Figures Rainy Day Associates LLC, New Windsor. $222 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

SKG Auto LLC, Greenwood Lake. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

T.J.E. Cleaning Service, Wallkill. $3,324 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 8.

W.I.X. Auto Repair Corp., Newburgh. $462 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Rapid Rim Repair LLC, New Windsor. $38,050 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Somerset Packaging Inc., Monroe. $1,067 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

Team Marketing USA Corp., Kingston. $23,720 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed March 12.

Wenzy Inc., Monroe. $258 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Oct. 23.

Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, New Paltz. $7,385 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed March 12.

Spy Rock LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

Tri-Co Electric Corp., Newburgh. $2,367 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 23.

Woodbury Lawn and Landscape Inc., Milton. $3,623 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed March 8.

Sam’s Food Store, Middletown. $1,067 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 24.

Summit Occupational Therapy PC, Warwick. $169 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Shireforge Farm Inc., Warwick. $130 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

Symbi Enterprises Inc., Rock Tavern. $703 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Untouchables Enterprise Inc., Newburgh. $285 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 16.

Upstate Window Fashions Inc., Monroe. $1,453 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

Vin De Vincent Ltd., New Paltz. $1,247 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 8.

Woody’s Farm to Table LLC, Cornwall. $5,459 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Oct. 11.

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

Ackerman, Lewis H., et al. Filed

by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $324,732 affecting property located at 368 Upper Sahler Mill Road, Olivebridge 12461. Filed March 14.

Alvarez, Babylyn, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $322,700 affecting property located at 178 Blackmoor Court, Highland Mills 10930. Filed Feb. 6.

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Baek, Jennifer, as administratrix and as heir and distributee of the estate of Brian Baek, et al.

Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $243,793 affecting property located at 1 Riverstone Court, Woodbury 10930. Filed Feb. 6.

Bedford, Nevins, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $262,184 affecting property located at 120 Old Forestburgh Road, Sparrowbush 12780. Filed Feb. 4.

Bertone, Carmine, individually and as surviving spouse of Linda J. Bertone, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $208,000 affecting property located at 71 Easy St., Hurley 12443. Filed March 13.

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Bjaelker, David S., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $75,000 affecting property located at 64 Ruby Road, Kingston 12401. Filed March 13.

Dzhegurov, Stoycho, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $199,500 affecting property located at 520 Everett Place, Maybrook 12543. Filed Feb. 4.

Brandt, Paul, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 18 N. Main St., Pine Plains 12567. Filed March 8.

Dzierzek, Allen A. Jr., et al. Filed

by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $179,000 affecting property located at 202 Maiden Lane, Maybrook 12543. Filed Feb. 4.

Brewer, Michelle, as possible heir to the estate of Janice Lifer, et al. Filed by Rondout Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $91,000 affecting property located at 60 S. Manor Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed March 8.

Ferretti, Roger, et al. Filed by Citibank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 111 Boorman Place, Middletown 10940. Filed Feb. 11.

Brodhead, Tyrone, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $189,000 affecting property located at 187 Henry St., Kingston 12401. Filed March 13.

Candal, Antonia, et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 138 Last Road, Middletown 10941.

Filed Feb. 5.

Carr, Carin, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $489,000 affecting property located at 568 Swartekill Road, New Paltz 12561. Filed March 12.

Cerone-Taylor, Danielle, et al.

Filed by Homebridge Financial Services Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,513 affecting property located at 20 Fieldstone Drive, Middletown 10940. Filed Feb. 7.

Crill, Peter Michael, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $275,733 affecting property located at 154 Highwood Drive, Unit 118, New Windsor 12553. Filed Feb. 7.

Cruz, Antonio, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $288,000 affecting property located at 445 Foster Road, Middletown 10941.

Filed Feb. 7.

Damanda, Duane D., et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $166,500 affecting property located at 11 Queen St., New Windsor 12553. Filed Feb. 4.

Fielding-Clarke, Annette, et al. Filed by American Advisors Group. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $255,000 affecting property located at 2 Columbus Lane, Newburgh 12550.

Filed Feb. 7.

Flannery, Marianne E., et al.

Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $432,000 affecting property located at 28 Eager Road, Montgomery 12549. Filed Feb. 7.

Galvin, Gregory S., et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $175,000 affecting property located at 38 Sheraton Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed March 7.

Gashi, Lulzim, et al. Filed by Emigrant Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $297,500 affecting property located at 11 Lincoln Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed March 7.

Grant, Tenise, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $195,200 affecting property located at 12 First St., Walden 12586. Filed Feb. 6.

Griffin, Eric E., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $137,250 affecting property located at 5 Schryver Lane, Hyde Park 12538.

Filed March 7.

Grippo, Anthony, et al. Filed

by ARCPE 1 LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $204,000 affecting property located at 88 Juniper Terrace, Tuxedo Park 10987. Filed Feb. 7.

Facts & Figures Hablow, Karen, Orange County commissioner of finance as administratrix of the estate of Carmine J. Mosca, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 20 Painted Apron Terrace, Port Jervis 12771. Filed Feb. 5.

Kelly, Sharon, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $157,102 affecting property located at 20 Yeoman Road, Newburgh 12550. Filed Feb. 5.

Miller, Thomas Stephen, et al.

Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.2 million affecting property located at 220 Jessop Road, Willow 12495.

Filed March 13.

Petronio, Gail M., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $184,000 affecting property located at 19 Boice Mill Road, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed March 11.

Pluas, Marcos F., et al. Filed

by Newrez LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 81 Woodside Knolls Drive, Middletown 10940.

Filed Feb. 5.

Portlette, Oneshia, et al. Filed

by Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $456,577 affecting property located at 28 Feiertag Road, Middletown 10941. Filed Feb. 6.

Mitchell, Vincent, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 51 Merriewold Lane North, Monroe 10950.

Filed Feb. 8.

Roosa, William A., individually and as surviving spouse of Linda J. Roosa, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $84,000 affecting property located at 12 Lakeview Terrace, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed March 14.

Moore, Wayne P., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $113,133 affecting property located at 5 Lothrop Lane, Tivoli 12583. Filed March 8.

Rozzi, Richard R., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $495,000 affecting property located at 86 Pancake Hollow Road, Highland 12528. Filed March 11.

Mulvey, Annemarie, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $441,000 affecting property located at 62 E. Main St., Washingtonville 10992. Filed Feb. 6.

Seraphides-Fadaliev, Marina C., et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $156,000 affecting property located at 167 Rose Mountain Road, Big Indian 12410. Filed March 8.

Muthig, Allen Jr., et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $160,000 affecting property located at 7 Windy Ridge Road, Wallkill 12589. Filed Feb. 11.

Nash, Franklin, et al. Filed by Weichert Financial Services. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $295,200 affecting property located at 464 Hillside Road, Monroe 10950. Filed Feb. 11.

Orange County commissioner of finance as the limited administrator of the estate of Hubert Boyd, et al. Filed by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $47,600 affecting property located at 25 Pierces Road, Unit 10, Newburgh 12550. Filed Feb. 6.

Otero, Alice, et al. Filed by Freedom Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $222,724 affecting property located at 211 Dairy Lane, New Windsor 12553. Filed Feb. 5.

Siemon, Terence, et al. Filed by Pennymac Loan Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $183,870 affecting property located at 31 Kleitz Ave., Highland Falls 10928. Filed Feb. 7.

Skelton, Dewayne, et al. Filed

by Carrington Mortgage Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $289,297 affecting property located at 30 Ona Lane, New Windsor 12553. Filed Feb. 6.

Smith, Everett, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $130,000 affecting property located at 36 Meriline Ave., New Windsor 12553. Filed Feb. 11.

Stayton, Lawrence E., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $221,971 affecting property located at 119 Mailler Ave., Cornwall-on-Hudson 12518. Filed Feb. 8.

Tartanian, Randal B., et al. Filed

by Midfirst Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $201,465 affecting property located at 3468 Route 94, Chester 10918.

Filed Feb. 8.

Timothy-Tozer, Francis, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $202,790 affecting property located at 170 Grand St., Newburgh 12550. Filed Feb. 6.

Tobin, Brian, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $157,000 affecting property located at 4 Treis Terrace, Saugerties 12477. Filed March 11.

Turner, Crystal J., et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $211,500 affecting property located at 4 Old W. Dorsey Lane, Hyde Park 12538. Filed March 1.

Vail, Cynthia, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $220,249 affecting property located at 42 Alexander Road, Monroe 10950.

Filed Feb. 11.

Vasta, Lucinda Marie, individually and as the executrix of the estate for Christine M. Rupert, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $185,000 affecting property located at 574 Old Mountain Road, Mount Hope 10963. Filed Feb. 5.

Whitley, Aaron, et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $219,100 affecting property located at 34 Alfred Place, Walden 12586.

Filed Feb. 8.

Wierzbicki, Kamelia, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $339,150 affecting property located at 376 Pine Hill Road, Chester 10918.

Filed Feb. 4.

Maple River Restaurant LLC, as owner. $429,000 as claimed by James Stack, Middletown. Property: 87 S. Maple Ave., Port Jervis 12771.

Filed March 12.

Rutan-Abbott, Joshua, as owner. $286 as claimed by Richers Electric Inc., Saugerties. Property: 342 Delaware St., Saugerties. Filed March 14.

Stack, Mervi, as owner. $212,000 as claimed by James Stack, Middletown. Property: 83 S. Maple Ave., Port Jervis 12771. Filed March 12.

Stack, Mervi, as owner. $34,000 as claimed by James Stack, Middletown. Property: 6 Corwin Ave., Wallkill. Filed March 12.

Stack, Mervi, as owner. $711,000 as claimed by James Stack, Middletown. Property: 85 S. Maple Ave., Port Jervis 12771. Filed March 12.

Ulster Acquisition LLC, as owner. $90,850 as claimed by Tiano Electric Inc., Kingston. Property: 701 Grant Ave., Lake Katrine 12449.

Filed March 14.

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

Doing Business As BD Works Inc., d.b.a. JW Works, 580 Route 208, Monroe 10950.

Filed Jan. 30.

Bikur Cholim Inc., d.b.a. Achieve Behavioral Health, 25 Robert Pitt Drive, Suite 101, Monsey 10952.

Filed Jan. 30.

Mechanic’s Liens

Bridgette A. Simmons, LCSW PC, d.b.a. Cross the Bridge Counseling LCSW, 41 Dolson Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed Jan. 30.

Kedis Enterprises 5 LLC, as owner. $10,000 as claimed by Lendlease Construction Inc., New York City. Property: 39 N. Plank Road, Newburgh 12550. Filed March 14.

Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center, d.b.a. Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center, 300 Corporate Boulevard South, Yonkers 10701.

Filed Jan. 30.

Ktlo Consulting Inc., d.b.a. Rainbow International of Orange County, 520 Blooming Grove Turnpike, New Windsor 12553.

Filed Jan. 30.

Mica Pecorinos Inc., d.b.a.

Pecorinos Pizzeria and Deli, 253 Sower Drive, Middletown 10941.

Filed Jan. 30.

Pauls Floors Inc., d.b.a. Superior Floors, 26 Fairfax Ave., Suite 4, Middletown 10940. Filed Jan. 30.

Miller Advertising Agency, 17 Shelly Drive, Ellenville 12428, c/o Richard S. Miller. Filed March 14.

Playtime Studio Inc., d.b.a.

Sweet T’s, 326 Bullville Road, Montgomery 12549. Filed Jan. 30.

Old Country Barn Concessions, 24 Ridge Road, Wallkill 12589, c/o Ralph F. Rohl. Filed March 11.

TC Software Development Inc., d.b.a. Clinic Dev, 918 Hill Ave., Pine Bush 12566. Filed Jan. 30.

Saint Mary Express Limo, 17 Cromwell Hill Road, No. C, Monroe 10950, c/o George Ibrahim Israel.

Filed Jan. 29.

Sole Proprietorships

Sharon Wasko Graphic Design, 65 James St., Rosendale 12472, c/o Sharon Lynn Wasko. Filed March 14.

A and B Property Services, 34 Hudson Valley Landing, No. 2, Kingston 12401, c/o Steven Eric Durkin. Filed March 8.

Simply Sandi Productions, 70 Upper Hook Road, Rhinebeck 12572, c/o Sandra Williams. Filed March 12.

Artistic Pastels in Hudson River Valley, 165 Michigan Road, Woodbourne 12788, c/o Ioana Munteanu-Ramnic. Filed March 12.

Singer Fine Arts, 101 Plattekill Road, Marlboro 12542, c/o Amanda H. Singer. Filed March 11.

Extra Help Movers, 18 Bart Bull Road, Middletown 10941, c/o Xavier J. Jimenez. Filed Jan. 29.

Stonehill Inn and Tavern, 77 Mill Hook Road, Accord 12404, c/o Alicia Lorraine Gauthier. Filed March 14.

Harmony Equine Transport, 583 Hoagerburgh Road, Wallkill 12589, c/o Deborah Lindeman Mayer. Filed March 13.

Stonehill’s Farmhouse, 77 Mill Hook Road, Accord 12404, c/o Alicia Lorraine Gauthier. Filed March 14.

Helmland Security, 49 Broadstreet Hollow Road, Shandaken 12480, c/o Wade H. Page Jr. Filed March 8.

Super Scoopers, 9 Summerset Drive, Wallkill 12589, c/o Thomas R. Verna. Filed March 14.

Hudson Valley Bottle Redemption, 393 Lattintown Road, Marlboro 12542, c/o Camila Quintino DaSilva. Filed March 8.

Hudson Valley Insulation Services, 15 Quaker St., Tillson 12486, c/o Adam Daniel Briggs. Filed March 11.

Hudson Valley Spotless Services, 2 Washburn Terrace, Apt. 2A, Saugerties 12477, c/o Sime Stampar. Filed March 13.

Jared Pazienza Creations, 249 Third Ave., Kingston 12401, c/o Jared D. Pazienza. Filed March 12.

JKG Landscape, 2 Myer Lane, Saugerties 12477, c/o John Kurt Gremer, Jr. Filed March 12.

The Enchantment of the Fairies, 1 Ardsley St., Kingston 12401, c/o Isaura Rivera. Filed March 13.

TNC Home Improvements, 176 S. Main St., Ellenville 12428, c/o Thomas D. Kozlowski. Filed March 11.

Ulster Lawn Care, 16 Hardenburgh Road, Ulster Park 12487, c/o Daniel Joseph Nichols. Filed March 14.

Uncommon Rae, 336 Broadway, Kingston 12401, c/o Rachel E. Hardy. Filed March 11.

Up to Parr Lighting, 16 Saint Joseph Blvd., Port Ewen 12466, c/o Brian M. Parr. Filed March 12.

KhanFit, 581 Route 62, Westtown, c/o Simon H. Khan. Filed Jan. 29.

Maximillian Construction Services, 102 Plattekill Road, Marlboro 12542, c/o Elena L. Svechnikova.

Filed March 12.

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Facts & Figures BUILDING PERMITS Commercial AVS Services LLC, Danbury, contractor for Jose Antonio Saldivar.

Construct deck and stairs to second floor at 2 Dibble St., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Dec. 12.

Barn Yard Ent Inc., Danbury, contractor for the city of Danbury.

Construct a storage garage at Rocky Glen Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $7,415. Filed Dec. 4.

Barret Inc., Danbury, contractor for The Women’s Center of. Re-roof 2 West St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $98,000. Filed Dec. 4.

Casanova Remodeling Co., Danbury, contractor for Ability Beyond Disability Inc. Re-roof 18 Starr Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $22,270 Filed Dec. 5.

Evuen IGHO Melvin, Danbury, contractor for Evuen IGHO Melvin.

Construct foundation for a single-family residence at Connecticut Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed Dec. 6.

ON THE RECORD

Jensen’s Inc., Danbury, contractor for Jensen’s Inc. Construct new mobile home at West Kenosia Avenue, Danbury. Estimated cost: $66,000.

Filed Dec. 6.

Clancy, Cecilia A., Danbury, contractor for Cecilia A. Clancy. Finish basement at 29 Mill Road, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Dec. 13.

R&R Development Corp., Danbury, contractor for Danbury Hospital. Re-roof and replace vinyl siding at 13 Crane St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $14,500. Filed Dec. 4.

Constantin Constantin, Danbury, contractor for Constantin Constantin. Replace two windows at 55 Mill Plain Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $4,900. Filed Dec. 5.

Tomasino, Miguel, Bridgeport, contractor for Miguel Tomasino.

Repair basement and kitchen at 3170 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Feb. 21.

CRS Lakeside Hill LLC, Danbury, contractor for Carol Rizza. Convert living room to master bedroom at 8 Indian Spring Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Dec. 26.

United Cleaning, Middlefield, contractor for Forestone Management. Repair damage from accident at 100 Fairfield Ave., Middlefield. Estimated cost: $20,000.

Filed Feb. 21.

CT Strategies Properties LLC, Trumbull, contractor for Connecticut Strategies Properties LLC. Finish basement at 30-32 Sidney St., Trumbull. Estimated cost: $10,000.

Filed Feb. 20.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Danbury, contractor for Bernard C. Drollette. Install rooftop solar panels at 5 Bennett Place, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $21,824. Filed Dec. 27.

Residential

Curb Saver LLC, Danbury, contractor for Curb Saver LLC. Re-roof 18 Horseshoe Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $12,000. Filed Dec. 18.

Danbury Self Storage LLC, Danbury, contractor for Danbury Self Storage LLC. Renovate basement at 10 Old Newtown Road, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Dec. 26.

Graterol, Jose, Danbury, contractor for Kingdom Way Pentecostal Church. Re-roof 39 Rose St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $16,000. Filed Dec. 12.

First Light Energy, Danbury, contractor for Nabil Fournier and Disabling Fournier. Install roof-top solar panels at 25 Dana Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $29,315. Filed Dec. 26.

DiGiorgio Roofing and Siding, Beacon Falls, contractor for Miguel Caban. Re-roof 1411 Kossuth St., Beacon Falls. Estimated cost: $12,314.

Filed Feb. 21.

Henry & Gerrity Builders, Fairfield, contractor for St. Vincent’s Medical Center. Relocate Hope Dispensary at 2660 Main St., Fairfield.

Estimated cost: $25,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Alves, Antonio, Milford, contractor for Marcia Alves. Repair fire damage at 168-170 Kelsey St., Milford. Estimated cost: $14,000. Filed Feb. 19.

Formick, Philomena, Danbury, contractor for Philomena Formick.

Construct fire escape and small deck at 46 Chesnutt St., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $6,000. Filed Dec. 12.

Jensen’s Inc., Danbury, contractor for Jensen’s Inc. Construct new mobile home at West Kenosia Avenue, Danbury. Estimated cost: $77,000.

Filed Dec. 12.

Angora, Michael and Kry Sweidan, Danbury, contractor for Michael Angora. Renovate three-season room at 16 Paul St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $3,500.

Filed Dec. 11.

Giron, Marco and Zarate Marroquin, Danbury, contractor for Marco Giron. Re-roof 27 Saddle Rock Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $1,200. Filed Dec. 12.

Arevalo, Jose, Danbury, contractor for Jose Arevalo. Replace windows at 140 Padanaram Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $4,000.

Filed Dec. 13.

Glenn Martone Construction LLC, Danbury, contractor for Howard T. Bell. Finish recreation room at 12 Boulevard, No. 25, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $7,500. Filed Dec. 20.

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

Questions and comments regarding this section should be directed to:

Bennett, Marc, Danbury, contractor for Marc Bennett. Remove kitchen from detached garage at 11 Beckett St. Danbury. Estimated cost: $1. Filed Dec. 20.

Gonzales, Pedro, Danbury, contractor for Pedro Gonzales. Re-roof 14 Beachwood Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed Dec. 19.

Bismarck Construction, Monroe, contractor for BLD Waterfront Upland Owner LLC. Residential fitout at 10 E. Main St., Monroe, Estimated cost: $425,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Habitat for Humanity, CFC, Bridgeport, contractor for Habitat for Humanity CFC. Build side-byside two-family dwellings at 167-171 Wessels Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $150,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Habitat for Humanity CFC, Bridgeport, contractor for Habitat for Humanity CFC. Build single-family dwelling at 25 Orange St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $138,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Handler, Robert J., Danbury, contractor for Robert J. Handler.

Replace roof and vinyl siding at 33 Cedar Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Dec. 26.

JB&E Home Improvement LLC, Stratford, contractor for KMF Bridgeport LLC. Construct basement apartment at 140 Morgan Ave., Stratford. Estimated cost: $16,045. Filed Feb. 22.

JB&E Home Improvement LLC, Stratford, contractor for KMF Bridgeport LLC. Construct basement apartment at 120 Morgan Ave., Stratford. Estimated cost: $14,350. Filed Feb. 22.

Joseph, Jennifer, Bridgeport, contractor for Jennifer Joseph. Finish basement at 94 Cowles St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,800. Filed Feb 25.

Liberty Contractors Group LLC, Danbury, contractor for Peter D’Agostino. Repair storm damage at 166 Old Brookfield Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $24,000.

Filed Dec. 10.

Lwaszkiewicz, Krzysztof, Fairfield, contractor for Krzysztof Lwaszkiewicz. Replace windows, siding and doors and remodel kitchen and bathroom at 320 Ezra St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed Feb. 25.

Manets, Bridgeport, contractor for Lord and Peter Co. Repair walls at 602 Union Ave, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $18,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Marquis, John, Danbury, contractor for John Marquis. Re-roof, reside and replace windows at 48A E. Pembroke Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Dec. 4.

Morin, Gerard A., Danbury, contractor for Desmond Singh. Re-roof 2 Lilac Lane, Danbury. Estimated cost: $13,500. Filed Dec. 17.

Nugra, Walter and Carlos Rodriguez, Danbury, contractor for Walter Nugra and Carlos Rodriguez.

Convert garage to playroom at 19 Spruce Mount Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Dec. 26.

Power Home Remodeling Group, Danbury, contractor for Michael Hanrahan. Replace 21 windows at 4 Bern Lou Drive, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $19,777. Filed Dec. 4.

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Power Home Remodeling Group, Danbury, contractor for Santy Girolamo. Replace siding at 23 Great Plain Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $18,913. Filed Dec. 4.

Power Home Remodeling Group, Danbury, contractor for Manuel Ipina. Replace 11 windows at 60 Golden Hill Road, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $6,625. Filed Dec. 4.

Power Home Remodeling Group, Danbury, contractor for Edwin Adams. Replace 10 windows at 18 Skyline Terrace, Danbury. Estimated cost: $11,196. Filed Dec. 19.

Quality Home Solutions LLC, Danbury, contractor for Anthony G. DiCaprio. Install new shingles at 16 Gregory St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $22,264. Filed Dec. 12.

R A General Services LLC, Danbury, contractor for Elsa R. Chesney. Re-roof 16 Comstock St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $18,000.

Filed Dec. 17.

Rich Rob Associates LLC, Danbury, contractor for Rich Rob Associates LLC. Re-roof 22 Granville Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Tapia, Angel, Danbury, contractor for Angel Tapia. Re-roof 47 Sheridan St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Dec. 5.

The Property Group, Stamford, contractor for Sherman Henry.

Repair water damage at 325 Lafayette St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $57,500. Filed Feb. 21.

Todd Zoob Construction, Danbury, contractor for Jean A. Hutcherson. Remodel bathroom at 22 Brandon Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $18,500. Filed Dec. 10.

Venditte, Pierre, Trumbull, contractor for Sacred Heart University.

Renovate kitchen at 392 Eckart St., Trumbull. Estimated cost: $3,000.

Filed Feb. 19.

Weathertight Systems LLC, Danbury, contractor for Suzanne Morrissey. Re-roof 11 King St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $12,294. Filed Dec. 12.

Wi Services, Danbury, contractor for Gamal Dawkins and Aliexsa Dawkins. Replace five windows at 12G Scupper Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $5,705. Filed Dec. 3.

Salinas, Klever, Danbury, contractor for Klever Salinas. Replace floorboards and railings at 57 Franklin St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed Dec. 31.

Wityak, Sandra E. and Michael D. Wityak, Danbury, contractor for Sandra E. Wityak. Install chain fencing behind property at 16 Rolf Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Dec. 11.

Santiago, Frankie, Bridgeport, contractor for Frankie Santiago.

Finish lower level at 3655 Madison Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Feb. 19.

Wojenski Restoration LLC, Danbury, contractor for Mallory A. Berko. Re-roof 46 Bear Mountain Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $6,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Sherwood, Jayson A., Danbury, contractor for Jayson A. Sherwood.

Add two-car garage and new septic at 6 Spruce Mount Road, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $101,000. Filed Dec. 17.

SS Enterprise, Trumbull, contractor for SS Enterprise, Remodel two bathrooms and two kitchens at 70 Edna Ave., Trumbull. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Sunrun Inc., Danbury, contractor for Andrea Gartner. Install roof-top solar panels at 112 Deer Hill Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $26,834.

Filed Dec. 17.

Sunrun Installation Services, Danbury, contractor for Joseph Carcare. Install roof-top solar panels at 37 Hollandale Road, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $31,472. Filed Dec. 19.

COURT CASES Bridgeport Superior Court Gotfried, Benjamin, et al, Fairfield. Filed by Blacksquare Real Estate Inc., Greenwood Village, Colorado. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington. Action: The plaintiff owns the defendants’ mortgage who have defaulted on the terms of the agreement and have failed to pay the plaintiff the amount due. The plaintiff claims foreclosure of the mortgage, possession of the mortgage premises, monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-19-6082905-S. Filed Jan. 30.

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Facts & Figures Gulick, James W., et al, Bridgeport. Filed by Tower Lien LLC, Morristown, New Jersey. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bershtein Volpe & McKeon PC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff was assigned the defendants’ certificate of lien. The defendants defaulted and no tax has been paid. The plaintiff seeks foreclosure of the lien, possession of the premises, monetary damages of more than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBT-CV19-6082609-S. Filed Jan. 22.

The Hayden Law Firm PC, et al, Danbury. Filed by People’s United Bank N.A., Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Benanti & Associates, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff is the owner and holder of the defendants’ promissory note. Defendants agreed to pay monthly payments, however they failed to pay to plaintiff the entire balance of principal and interest due. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-196082083-S. Filed Jan. 8.

Zaccaria, David, et al, Port Orange, Florida. Filed by Stonybrook Gardens Cooperative Inc., Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Juda J. Epstein Law Office, Bridgeport.

Action: The plaintiff provides assessment of common charges for the condominium. Since the defendants have not fulfilled their payments, the plaintiff claims foreclosure of the lien, possession of the premises and monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBT-CV19-6082601-S. Filed Jan. 22.

Danbury Superior Court Arroyo, Bentrice, et al, Ansonia.

Filed by Nicholas Koumoutseas, Brookfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Kernan Scully & McDonald LLP, Waterbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196029575-S. Filed Dec. 18.

Dilone-Espinal, Teofilo, Danbury. Filed by Roy Miller, Danbury.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Raymond J Antonacci, Waterbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBDCV-19-6029958-S. Filed Jan. 30.

Lynwood Place LLC, et al, Sarasota, Florida. Filed by Andrea Stewart, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Goff Law Group LLC, Glastonbury.

Action: The plaintiff slipped and fell on an accumulation of ice and snow on the defendants’ premises.

As a result, the plaintiff suffered severe injuries and damages. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196030125-S. Filed Feb. 19.

Lynwood Place LLC, et al, Sarasota, Florida. Filed by Phyllis Rosenstein, Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Mix & Goldman LLC, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff slipped and fell on ice in the parking lot of the defendants’ premises.

As a result, the plaintiff suffered injuries caused by the negligence of the defendants. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV19-6029688-S. Filed Dec. 31.

Stamford Superior Court Cubi, Marjan, et al, Yonkers.

Filed by Angela Frank, Norwalk.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Jacobs & Wallace PLLC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff was an invitee as a social worker when she fell on the defendants’ premises. As a result of the negligence of the defendants, the plaintiff sustained several injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FSTCV-19-6039922-S. Filed Feb. 6.

Larossa, Marc, et al, Westerly, Rhode Island. Filed by Mark Sank and Associates LLC, Stamford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Mark Sank & Associates LLC, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff is the holder of defendants’ debt. The parties have been unable to reach an agreement in regard to the disbursement of the amount due. The plaintiff seeks that the court provide direction as to whom the monies should be paid, and monetary damages are in excess of $2,500, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-19-6039569-S. Filed Jan. 10.

Pasquariello Electric Corp., New Haven. Filed by Tri-state LED Inc., Greenwich. Plaintiff’s attorney: Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan LLC, Greenwich. Action: The plaintiff and defendant entered into an oral agreement whereby the plaintiff was to provide products and services to the defendant throughout the life of the project, which was to provide LED lighting and services to the city of Stamford.

The defendant breached the contract by refusing to pay the plaintiff for the services provided. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FST-CV19-6039705-S. Filed Jan. 22.

Wilder, Leni R, et al, New Canaan. Filed by Lucresse Metellus, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Maddox Law Firm LLC, New Canaan. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-196040220-S. Filed Feb. 26.

DEEDS Commercial 1735 Post Road LLC, Fairfield.

Seller: M&S Customs LLC, Fairfield.

Property: 1735 Post Road, No.4, Fairfield. Amount: $400,000. Filed Feb. 11.

21 Elizabeth LLC, Stratford. Seller: Joseph F. Lombardi, Cheshire.

Property: 21 Elizabeth St., Fairfield.

Amount: $225,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Alexander J. Roque and Emily Panasci, Fairfield. Seller: J and S LLC, Easton. Property: 120 Louvain St., Fairfield. Amount: $441,000.

Filed Feb. 22.

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Beachwood Properties LLC, Fairfield. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 245 Reid St., Fairfield.

Amount: $325,600. Filed Feb. 28.

PASJ Development LLC., Weston. Seller: Joanne Cusano, Stratford. Property: 295 Crestwood Road, Fairfield. Amount: $111,750.

Filed Feb. 27.

Cuddy Jr., James Andrew and Kimberly Jo Walter, Trumbull.

Seller: Irene Fazio, Fairfield. Property: 248 Catamount Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $1,075,000. Filed Feb. 4.

Belli, Jr., Gerald James and Brita Marie Belli, Fairfield. Seller: MD Real Estate Development LLC, Stratford. Property: Lot 121, Lake Hills Road, Fairfield. Amount: $415,000. Filed Feb. 28.

Pine Creek Development, LLC., Fairfield. Seller: Grace E. Hutchings, Fairfield. Property: Lot 32, Henderson Road, Fairfield. Amount: $285,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Dam merman, Patricia A., Fairfield. Seller: Laura Nathanson-Knobloch and Peter Knobloch, Greenwich. Property: 11107 and 1114 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $960,000. Filed Feb. 20.

Connecticut PN LLC, Stamford.

Seller: Madeline Hamilton Stuart, Fairfield. Property: 851 Duck Farm Road, Fairfield. Amount: $505,000.

Filed Feb. 4.

Deforest Raptor LLC, Fairfield.

Seller: 158 Kenwood Avenue LLC, Fairfield. Property: 158 Kenwood Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $700,000.

Filed Feb. 6.

Fairfield University, Fairfield.

Seller: Carlin R. Van Noppen, Fairfield. Property: 784 N. Benson Road, Fairfield. Amount: $562,500. Filed Feb. 14.

Goldie Properties LLC, Wilton.

Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 205 Beaumont St., Fairfield.

Amount: $330,750. Filed Feb. 4.

Guillaro, Anthony P., Ridgefield.

Seller: Bonanju Associates LLC, Fairfield. Property: 1157 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1,250,000. Filed Feb. 20.

Hambell LLC, East Hartford. Seller: 1485 Black Rock LLC, Greenbrae, California. Property: 1485 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield. Amount: $735,000. Filed Jan. 31.

Kim, Kyong E., Fairfield. Seller: 304 Hunyadi LLC, Monroe. Property: 308 Hunyadi Ave., Fairfield.

Amount: $546, 500. Filed Feb. 7.

Mayle, Christopher G. and Teri C. Mayle, Fairfield. Seller: 42 Reid LLC, Stratford. Property: 42 Reid St., Fairfield. Amount: $977,000. Filed Feb. 25.

Noi, Nuertey Duke and Rui Jiang, Southport, Seller: MTGLQ Investors LP, Irvine, California. Property: 228 Woodrow Ave., Southport.

Amount: $382,500. Filed Feb. 27.

Orient LLC, Weston. Seller: Charles Property Management LLC, Fairfield. Property: 90-92 Belmont St., Fairfield. Amount: $689,000. Filed Feb. 20.

PASJ Development LLC., Weston. Seller: John E. Genaway, Escondido, California. Property: 295 Crestwood Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $111,750. Filed Feb. 27.

Saad, Inc., Fairfield. Seller: Joann Names, Fairfield. Property: 79 Gate Ridge Road, Fairfield. Amount: $270,000. Filed Feb. 1.

Topliff, Matthew J. and Megan D. Topliff, Fairfield. Seller: Sand dollar Development LLC, Fairfield.

Property: 180 Smith St., Fairfield.

Amount: $1,410,000. Filed Feb. 15.

Residential Albenze, Brian and Lisa Albenze, Stamford. Seller: David Bencivengo and Lisa Bencivengo, Fairfield. Property: 255 Algonquin Road, Fairfield. Amount: $715,000.

Filed Feb. 11.

Ashkenazi, Vincent and Rebecca Ashkenazi, Albany, New York.

Seller: Gary J. Guminiak and Stephanie B. Guminiak, Suffield. Property: 296 Toll House Lane, Fairfield.

Amount: $425,500. Filed Feb. 1.

Cargon, Mark Edward and Ela Binbay, Stamford. Seller: Zain Husain and Farina Rizvi, Fairfield.

Property: 193 Alvin St., Unit 193, Fairfield. Amount: $519,500. Filed Feb. 26.

Cassone, Jennifer and Joseph Cassone, Larchmont, New York.

Seller: Robert E. Kimmerling and Patricia A. Kimmerling, Fairfield.

Property: 106 Old Spring Road, Fairfield. Amount: $309,900. Filed Jan. 24.

Castaneda, Jason G. and Lauren W. Castaneda, Fairfield. Seller: 3M Investments LLC, Cheshire, Property: 153 Brookside Drive, Fairfield.

Amount: $955,000. Filed Feb. 1.

Ceballos, John Paul and Gabriela Ceballos, Fairfield. Seller: Kieran S. Cassidy and Elise K. Cassidy, Fairfield. Property: 142 Hunter Road, Fairfield. Amount: $700,000.

Filed Feb. 19.

Cohen, Joshua E. and Margareth K. Cohen, Fairfield. Seller: Teresa D. Nardozzi, Fairfield. Property: 53 Rhoda Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $1,410,000. Filed Jan. 31.

DelBianco, Alfred J., Larchmont, New York. Seller: Todd R. Gould and Nancy L. Gould, Fairfield. Property: 1210 Galloping Hill Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $550,000. Filed Feb. 1.

Diaz, Noelle and Jesse Freeman, Woodhaven, New York. Seller: Ashley E. Pastor, Fairfield. Property: 879 Jennings Road, Fairfield. Amount: $380,000. Filed Feb. 13.

Dragovicic, David, Fairfield. Seller: Rafael Diaz and Evelyn Arbito, Fairfield. Property: 30-Wheeler Park Place, Fairfield. Amount: $553,760. Filed Feb. 26.

Fairfield University, Fairfield.

Seller: Judith P. Sinn, Fairfield. Property: 1014 Benson Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $685,000. Filed Jan. 30.

Fay Jr., John S. and Lisa C. Fay, Westport, Seller: James A. Giordano, Naples, Florida. Property: 939 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $1,300,000. Filed Feb. 15.

Flynn, John and Emily M. Flynn, Fairfield. Seller: John L. Altieri Jr., Fairfield. Property: 340 Beach Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1,725,000. Filed Feb. 6.

Fogarty, Bryan, Easton. Seller: Mary Gai, Westport. Property: 38 New St., Fairfield. Amount: $293,000. Filed Jan. 28.

Gillmor, Darren, Southport.

Seller: Lisa Keeley Duguay, Southport. Property: 675 Bronson Road, Fairfield. Amount: $500,000. Filed Feb. 4.

Grant, Jason M., Fairfield. Seller: Edward E. Kovacs, Fairfield. Property: 358 Alma Drive, Fairfield.

Amount: $450,000. Filed Feb. 27.

Hodge, Katherine K. and Ronald G. Hodge II, Fairfield. Seller: Stevens Sheppard, Fairfield.

Property: Unit 167 The Meadows Condominium, Fairfield. Amount: $540,000. Filed Feb. 8.

Keys, Kevin Ryan and Jennifer Kate Keys, Fairfield. Seller: Jane E. Barbieri, Fairfield. Property: North Benson Road, Fairfield. Amount: $420,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Facts & Figures Klufas, Alexandra and Stephen Catalano, Fairfield. Seller: David J. Immer and Marylisa Simpson, Fairfield. Property: 20 Deep Wood Road, Fairfield. Amount: $625,000.

Filed Feb. 15.

Lavacca III, John and Christina Lavacca, New York City. Seller: Stephen J. Schober and Carolyn S, Schober, Fairfield. Property: 107 Lamplighter Lane, Fairfield.

Amount: $540,900. Filed Feb. 20.

Liu, Yahui and Qiao Rong Zhang, Bridgeport. Seller: Gary Guarneri, Fairfield. Property: 30 Renchy St., Fairfield. Amount: $383,500. Filed Feb. 28.

Martin, Kevin M., Cos Cob. Seller: Mario Loya and Jennifer Loya, Fairfield. Property: 599 Old Dam Road, Fairfield. Amount: $980,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Matregrano, Kelly and Timothy Matregrano, Norwalk. Seller: Mary Lofton Wilson, Fairfield.

Property: Lot 1, Oldfield Road, Fairfield. Amount: $410,000. Filed Feb. 15.

McCullough, John M. and Maria Slavin, Montclair, New Jersey.

Seller: Ari D. Kleinman and Sarah Kleinman, Fairfield. Property: 870 Mine Hill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $935,000. Filed Feb. 1.

Meyers, Ian R. and Eryn J. Meier’s, Fairfield. Seller: Adam J. Klimek and Amy Harrison Klimek, Fairfield. Property: 9 Chelsea St., Fairfield. Amount: $665,000. Filed Feb. 7.

Mulberry, Timothy E. and Megan K. Mulberry, Fairfield. Seller: Carmelino L. Castillo, Fairfield.

Property: 796 Knapp’s Highway, Fairfield. Amount: $288,000. Filed Feb. 15.

Nicklas, Christian L. and Ryan W. Nicklas, Stamford. Seller: Brian M. Skelly and Lauren Skelly.

Fairfield. Property: 108 York Road, Fairfield. Amount: $502,500. Filed Feb. 1.

Overland, Leigh, Westport, Seller: David Sergel, Fairfield. Property: 110 Shoreham Terrace, Fairfield.

Amount: $380,000. Filed Feb. 8.

P3K Homes LLC, Easton. Seller: AFM Properties LLC, Fairfield.

Property: 103 Katona Drive, Unit 3A8, Fairfield. Amount: $108,750.

Filed Jan. 25.

Poulmas, James and Danielle Gare, Astoria, New York. Seller: Michael C. Sullivan and Katherine T. Sullivan, Weston. Property: 407 Ruane St., Fairfield. Amount: $560,000. Filed Feb. 6.

Roth, Niles, et al, Fairfield. Seller: Mark L. Laponte and Joyce L. Laponte, Fairfield. Property: 135 Knollwood Drive, Fairfield.

Amount: $420,000. Filed Feb. 19.

Reisch, Dana J. and Denis Roginsky, New York City. Seller: Kevin H. Ebbers and Siobhan M. Ebbers, Fairfield. Property: 370 Bronson Road, Fairfield. Amount: $0. Filed Feb. 11.

Rogers-Ho, Van N. and Beth A. Rogers-Ho, Stratford. Seller: Ruthe Branson Ploskunyak and Ernest George Ploskunyak Jr., Fairfield.

Property: 1427 Merwin’s Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $530,000. Filed Feb. 26.

Rowe, Benjamin A., Fairfield.

Seller: DV Enterprises LLC. Fairfield. Property: Unit 59, Strathmore Condominium, Fairfield. Amount: $213,000. Filed Jan. 31 Saley, Jillian A., Stamford. Seller: Mark A. Florentino and Wanda A. McCarthy, Fairfield. Property: 265 Jackman Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $310,000. Filed Feb. 13.

Sanfilippo, Jennifer, Fairfield.

Seller: Jessica Shaw, Fairfield.

Property: Unit 2-4, King’s Court Condominium, Fairfield. Amount: $152,000. Filed Feb. 14.

Schechter, Adam Craig, Fairfield.

Seller: Pearl P. Strasser, Fairfield.

Property: 530 Holly Dale Road, Fairfield. Amount: $405,000. Filed Feb. 5.

Toma, Michael S., Fairfield. Seller: Donald Branson and Norma Branson. Westport. Property: 312 Knapp’s Highway, Fairfield.

Amount: $245,000. Filed Jan. 31.

Toropov, Igor and Anna Toropova, Fairfield. Seller: Ellen J. Moraske, Fairfield. Property: 84 Edison Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $415,000. Filed Feb. 20.

Veras, Alfida, et al, Stamford.

Seller: Kayla L. McArdle, Fairfield.

Property: 42-44 Alvin St., Fairfield.

Amount: $480,000. Filed Feb. 5.

Verrill, Florence, Southport.

Seller: Charles R. Sprawl, Cape Coral, Florida. Property: 1005 Mill Hill Road, Southport. Amount: $549,250. Filed Feb. 4.

Webster, Bennett R. and Elizabeth Louise Webster, Fairfield.

Seller: Bennett Webster and Elizabeth Webster, Fairfield. Property: 144 Pratt St., Fairfield. Amount: $1.

Filed Feb. 8.

White, Courtney E. and Keric J. Kenny, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Seller: Thomas a. Travers, Fairfield.

Property: 1069 Hulls Highway, Southport. Amount: $1,104,000.

Filed Feb. 20.

Wolpert, Liz and Peter F. Wolpert, Woodbridge. Seller: Fairfield REI LLC, Stamford. Property: 2206 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $1,800,000. Filed Feb. 6.

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Carlucci, Leonard P., Creditor: Hudson City Savings Bank, Miller Place, New York. Property: 166 Sunrise Terrace, Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 8.

Davidovic, Milan, et al., Creditor: USBank National Association, Anaheim Hills, California. Property: 555 Burnsford Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 2.

Miceli, Victor, et al, Creditor: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Property: 1500 Norman St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 14.

Mortimore Bailey, Jonathan James, et al, Creditor: Glenn Oztemel, Westport. Property: Harbor Road, Fairfield. Mortgage default.

Filed Jan. 22.

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Palumbo Jr., William J., et al, Creditor: 21st Mortgage Corp., Knoxville, Tennessee. Property: 531 Soundview Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 2.

Prendergast, Marc, et al, Creditor: Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC, New Orleans, Louisiana. Property: 202 Davenport St., Bridgeport.

Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 9.

Similien, Simeon, et al, Creditor: Wilmington Trust, National Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 159 Vincellette St., Bridgeport.

Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 2.

JUDGMENTS Bataguas, Manuel, Bridgeport. $4,351, in favor of Core Medical Group, Bridgeport, by Philip H. Monagan, Waterbury. Property: 1097 North Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 2.

Colleen, Stanley, et al, Bridgeport. $453, in favor of The United Illuminating Co., New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC., Bloomfield. Property: 575 Carroll Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 14.

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Facts & Figures Davis, Alfred G., Bridgeport. $471, in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, Norfolk, Virginia, by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 265 Vincellette St., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 28.

Davis, Kevin, et al, Bridgeport. $445, in favor of The United Illuminating Co., New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC., Bloomfield. Property: 605 Soundview Ave., Bridgeport.

Filed Jan. 14.

Entwistle, Cheryl A., Bridgeport. $3,921, in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Valhalla, New York, by Schreiber/ Cohen LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 18 Lance Circle, Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 24.

Grant, Mary, Bridgeport. $1,422, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by Schreiber/Cohen LLC, Salem, New Hampshire.

Property: 63 Morehouse St., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 24.

L.L.E. Construction LLC, et al, Bridgeport. $49,405, in favor of American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., New Haven, by Sugarman & Sugarman, New Haven Property: 356 Connecticut Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 10.

Mourinho, Francisco, Danbury. $6,674, in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Schreiber/ Cohen LLC., Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 59 Pennsylvania Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 24.

Moran, Anthony J., Bridgeport. $2,816, in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Schreiber/ Cohen LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 76 Deramo Place, Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 24.

Oregan, John P., Bridgeport. $12,851, in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Schreiber/ Cohen LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 493 W. McKinley Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 24.

Pascale, Antoine, Bridgeport. $2,810, in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Valhalla, New York, by Tobin & Maroon. Meriden. Property: 66 Alexander Drive, No.68, Bridgeport.

Filed Jan. 22.

Quarles, Barbara A., Bridgeport. $751, in favor of Core Medical Group, Bridgeport, by Philip H. Monagan, Waterbury. Property: 815 Norman St., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 2.

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McCormick, Ernest and Barbara McCormick, 1315 Chopsey Hill Road, Bridgeport. $2,749, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 6.

LIENS Federal Tax Liens Filed 111 Mill Street LLC, 1151 King St., Greenwich. $9,648, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 13.

9-11 South Water Street LLC, 1151 King St., Greenwich. $3,029, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 13.

Antonik, Dale and Paul Antonik, 1151 King St., Greenwich. $5,006, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 13.

Bishop, Teresa, 647 Bronson Road, Southport. $4,358, civil proceeding tax. Filed Jan. 8.

Buehler, Lilach, 15 Ronald Lane, Cos Cob. $7,651, civil proceeding tax. Filed Mach. 4.

Convertino, Joseph P., P.O. Box 5810, Bridgeport. $66,794, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 5.

Dailey, Eileen W., 14 Old Wagon Road, Old Greenwich. $5,420, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 5.

Davis, Robert C., 720 Chopsey Hill Road, Bridgeport. $1,051, civil proceeding tax. Filed Feb. 28.

Drew, Anthony and Dawn Drew, 34 Charron St., Bridgeport. $28,570, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 5.

Fronzi, Theresa, 175 Farist St., Fairfield. $7,062, civil proceeding tax. Filed Jan. 3.

Grace, Gary, 78 Alanson Road, Bridgeport. $14,432, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 6.

Jackson, Barry L., P.O. Box 55064, Bridgeport. $34,543, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 5.

JDP North Maple LLC, 185 N. Maple Ave., Greenwich. $614, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 8.

JDP North Maple LLC, 185 N. Maple Ave., Greenwich. $10,769, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 8.

Lawrence, Donovan L., 44 Bronx Ave., Bridgeport. $155,720, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 6.

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Nguyen, Kiet A., 92 Herkimer St., Bridgeport. $15,299, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 5.

Peterson, Thomas E., 295 Amsterdam Ave., Bridgeport. $33,187, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 5.

Ward, Tom S., 8 Old Round Hill Lane, Greenwich. $44,009, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 1.

Wojna, Larry, 94 Harris St. Fairfield. $14,030, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 7.

LIS PENDENS Aguillon, Silvia, et al, Stamford.

Filed by The Hayden Law Firm PC, Monroe, for Liberty Square Association Inc. Property: 186 Stillwater Ave., Unit 117, Stamford. Action: foreclosure of an association lien by plaintiff. Filed Feb. 7.

Bates, Ronald J., et al, Stamford.

Filed by Bendett & McHugh, PC., Farmington, for US Bank National Association. Property: 43 Dundee Road, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Feb. 15.

Bigham, John, Stamford. Filed

by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for MB Financial Bank N.A. Property: 45 Frisbie St., Stamford.

Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Feb. 6.

Cordero, Allison, et al, Fairfield.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association.

Property: 1516 Cross Highway, Unit 17, Fairfield. Action: foreclose, inter alia, defendants’ mortgage from JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Filed Jan. 10.

Degani, Mario L., et al, Stamford.

Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for M&T Bank. Property: 257 Four Brooks Road, Stamford.

Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage from Hudson City Savings Bank. Filed Feb. 5.

Derosa, Mary A., et al, Fairfield. Filed by Goldman, Gruder & Woods, LLC, Trumbull, for New Conception Contractors LLC. Property: 233 Old Oaks Road, Fairfield.

Action: defendants’ mechanic’s lien. Filed Jan. 8.

Doreste, Emmanuel, et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 46 Taylor St., Unit 101, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Feb. 12.

McCullough, Matthew T., et al, Stamford. Filed by O’Connell, Atmore & Morris LLC, Hartford, for U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 9 Palmer St., Stamford. Action: foreclosure of defendants’ mortgage from Bank of America. Filed Feb. 14.

Fino, Isabella, et al, Stamford.

Filed by Vincent J. Freccia III, Stamford, for the city of Stamford. Property: 44 Cold Spring Road, Stamford. Action: foreclose, inter alia, defendants’ mortgage. Filed Jan. 28.

Montes, Gladys, et al, Stamford.

Filed by Vincent J. Freccia III, Stamford, for the city of Stamford. Property: 10 Middlebury St., Stamford.

Action: foreclosure, inter alia, of defendants’ mortgage. Filed Jan. 28.

Gillespie, Brian, et al, Stamford.

Filed by Bendett & McHugh, PC., Farmington, for Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 85 Archer Lane, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed Jan. 25.

Nirschel, Martin, et al, Stamford.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Property: 215 Fishing Trail, Stamford. Action: foreclosure, inter alia, of defendants’ mortgage from Beneficial Mortgage Company of Connecticut. Filed Feb. 19.

J. O’Brien & 8 Sons Inc., Stamford. Filed by Barr & Morgan, Stamford, for OB&B Realty LLC. Property: 130 Lenox Ave., Unit 24, Stamford. Action: claims a right to title or interest in the parking area adjacent to the premises known as 130 Lenox Ave. Filed Feb. 14.

Jerrild, Carsten, et al, Fairfield.

Filed by Leopold & Associates, PLLC, Stamford, for U.S. Bank National Association. Property: 130 Doreen Drive, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed Jan. 2.

Kennedy, Robert D., et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for M&T Bank.

Property: 54 Butternut Road, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage from Hudson City Savings Bank. Filed Jan. 28.

Kenny, Domenica S., et al, Stamford. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Nationstar HECM Acquisition Trust 2018-3. Property: 253 Loveland Road, Stamford. Action: foreclose, inter alia, defendants’ mortgage from Fairfield County Bank. Filed Feb. 4.

Kuok Hung Yuen, et al, Stamford.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for PHH Mortgage Corp. Property: 118 Grove St., Unit 8, Stamford. Action: foreclose, inter alia, defendants’ mortgage from Merrill Lynch Credit Corp.

Filed Feb. 6.

Lyons, Patrick, Stamford. Filed by the Law Offices of Kevin F. Collins, Stamford, for Maureen Lyons. Property: 29 Ashton Road, Stamford. Action: was brought claiming dissolution of the marriage of the parties, the plaintiff claims an interest in certain real estate belonging to the defendant. Filed Feb. 20.

Portanova, Anthony Michael, et al, Stamford. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 108 Doolittle Road, Stamford.

Action: foreclosure, inter alia, of defendants’ mortgage. Filed Jan. 28.

Rajpar, Masroor, et al, Stamford. Filed by Vincent J. Freccia III, Stamford, for the city of Stamford.

Property: 24 Abel St., Stamford. Action: foreclosure, inter alia, of defendants’ lien. Filed Jan. 28.

Sandoval, Maria, et al, Stamford. Filed by Vincent J. Freccia III, Stamford, for the city of Stamford.

Property: 122 West Ave., Stamford.

Action: foreclosure, inter alia,of defendants’ lien. Filed Jan. 28.

Ventura, Ann, et al, Stamford.

Filed by Gerald S. Knopf. Stamford, for Bedford Towers Condominium Association Inc. Property: 444 Bedford St., Unit 9P. Stamford. Action: foreclose a lien for unpaid common charges in favor of the plaintiff.

Filed Feb. 19.

Weisel, Michael N., et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh, PC., Farmington, for Citibank N.A. Property: 96 Lawrence Hill Road, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ lien to Washington Mutual Bank. Filed Jan. 25.

Wilson, Alan P., et al, Stamford.

Filed by Vincent J. Freccia III, Stamford, for the city of Stamford. Property: 15 Mead St., Stamford. Action: foreclosure, inter alia,of defendants’ lien. Filed Jan. 28.

LEASES Figueroa, Jose, by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Apartment 23, Building 82, Bridgeport. Term: 35 years, commenced Jan. 23, 2019. Filed Jan. 25.

Martinez, Elma and Jose Martinez-Saint Hilaire, by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Apartment 14, Building 97, Bridgeport. Term; 35 years, commenced Jan. 4, 2019. Filed Jan.7.

Reynolds, Lillian, by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Apartment 373, Building 50, Bridgeport. Term; 36 years, commenced Jan. 4, 2019. Filed Jan.10.

Tu S. Ho and Tiong V. Phan, by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Apartment 154, Building 64, Bridgeport. Term: 35 years, commenced Jan. 15, 2019.

Filed Jan. 15.

Underhill, Mildred, by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Apartment 24, Building 88, Bridgeport. Term: 35 years, commenced Jan. 25, 2019. Filed Jan. 28.

Vargas, Guario F., by Marylou Weeks. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Apartment 15, Building 84, Bridgeport. Term: 35 years, commenced Jan. 6, 2019. Filed Jan. 11.

MORTGAGES Donath, Wilma, Stamford, by Dmitry Tayts. Lender: Quicken Loans Inc., 1050 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Property: 71 Strawberry Hill Ave., Apartment 1021, Stamford. Amount: $157,735.

Filed Jan. 14.

Engen, Raymond, Stamford, by Kim A. Jasper. Lender: American Internet Mortgage Inc., 4121 Camino del Rio S., San Diego, California.

Property: 60 Garden St., Stamford.

Amount: $637,500. Filed Jan. 14.

Hanna, Patrick J. and Christina M. Hanna, Stamford, by Dennis P. Schwartz. Lender: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., 4201 Marsh Lane, Carrollton, Texas.

Property: 66 W.Cross Road, New Canaan. Amount: $1,025,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Facts & Figures Hernandez, Mayra E. and Enwind O. Ortiz, Stamford, by Kelly A. Molloy. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., 1111 Polaris Parkway, Columbus, Ohio. Property: 404 Hope St., Stamford. Amount: $405,000.

Filed Jan. 15.

Leal-Crumacha, Patricia, et al, Stamford, by Stephen M. Spedelia.

Lender: Cross Country Mortgage Inc., 6850 Miller Road, Brecksville, Ohio. Property: 76 Tall Oaks Court, Stamford. Amount: $601,500. Filed Jan. 14.

Martin, Karen M. and Daniel J. Smith, Stamford, by Casey M. O’Donnell. Lender: Morcom Mortgage, 38 Security Drive, Avon.

Property: 2 Joffre Court, Stamford.

Amount: $466,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Ping-Tai e Ku, et al, Stamford, by Alex J. Saju’s. Lender: Bank of America N.A., 100 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 58 Old North Stamford Road, Stamford.

Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Saltus, Kimberly M., et al, Fairfield, by Antonio Faretta. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank N.A., 3476 State view Blvd., Fort Mill, South Carolina. Property: 63 Karen St., Fairfield.

Amount: $391,500. Filed Jan. 2.

Tagliavia-Deri, Dawn M., et al, Fairfield, by James E. Bardon. Lender: Newtown Savings Bank, 39 Main St., Newtown. Property: 273 Villa Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $611,000.

Filed Jan. 18.

NEW BUSINESSES 184 North Street Associates, 184 North St., Stamford 06901. c/o Allison Kushner. Filed Feb. 7.

AQ General Contractor Inc., 41 Hundley Court, Stamford 06902. c/o Mario Francisco Arreaza-Aquino. Filed Feb. 4.

Bespoke Gardening, 42 Carroll St., Stamford 06907. c/o Christine Reid. Filed Feb. 4.

Clark + Main, 261 Main St., Stamford 06901. c/o Sandy Feet Consulting LLC. Filed Feb. 7.

Clark Trophies, 5 Viaduct Road, Stamford 06902, c/o Max Leimert Trophies LLC. Filed Jan. 25.

Detailing Gee Eugene, 14 Katona Lane, Second floor, Stamford 06902. c/o Eugene Boyd. Filed Feb. 7.

E. Sosa Construction Company, 68 Victory St., Stamford 06902, c/o Edvin Sosa. Filed Jan. 24.

OZD Associates, 113 Bouton St. West, Stamford 06902, c/o Michael J. Connelly. Filed Jan. 25.

EBMR Holdings, 1266 E. Main St., Suite 700, Stamford 06902, c/o NAC Blood Stock and Trading LLC. Filed Jan. 25.

Pinto House Cleaning 30 W. Main St., 251A, Stamford 06902, c/o Manuela Pinto. Filed Jan. 23.

Electrolysis & Skin Care, 999 Summer St., Suite 401, Stamford 06902. c/o Lisa Primps. Filed Jan. 31.

Empanadas on The Go, 75 Third St., Stamford 06905. c/o Empanadas on the go LLC. Filed Feb. 1.

Flower Crown Apparel, 51 Bank St., No.4A, Stamford 06901. c/o Marina Brown. Filed Feb. 7.

Freemont Mortgage Group, 1190 Winterson Road, Suite 300, Linthicum, Maryland, 21090, c/o NFM Inc. Filed Jan. 25.

Garage Build, 1010 Summer St., Third floor, Stamford 06905. c/o Tam Communications Inc. Filed Feb. 4.

Grandma School MP, 235 Vine Road, Stamford 06905. c/o Maria Pazmino. Filed Feb. 8.

Henson Digital, 1032 Hope St., Apartment 430, Stamford 06907. c/o Samuel Cain. Filed Feb. 8.

Kosmos Cleaners II, 126 Jefferson St., Stamford 06902. c/o Kosmos Cleaners II Inc. Filed Feb. 5.

Liberating Flow LLC, 320 Strawberry Hill Ave., No.13, Stamford 06902. c/o Cheryl Musgrave. Filed Feb. 7.

Lucky Girl, 100 Greyrock Place, Space9, Stamford 06901. c/o Wen Jun Lin. Filed Feb. 5.

Marbin’s Handyman Services, 76 Victory St., Stamford 06902. c/o Marbin D. Rodriguez Martinez.

Filed Jan. 31.

Me 2 Nail Salon, 949 Bedford St., Stamford 06905. c/o Jessica Guan.

Filed Feb. 1.

Montana, 60 Katona Lane, Apartment 1, Stamford 06902. c/o Domingo M. Obregon. Filed Feb. 5.

MRC Bio, 1266 E. Main St., Suite 700, Stamford 06902, c/o MRC Telco LLC. Filed Jan. 25.

Night Hawk, 37 Clifford Ave., Stamford 06905. c/o Lewis Feinland. Filed Jan. 31.

Rags 2 Glass, 27 Hall Place, Stamford 06902. c/o Lillian T. Forbes.

Filed Feb. 4.

Sammy’s Handy Work, 35 Greenleaf Drive, Stamford 06902, c/o Christian Elvira. Filed Jan. 28.

Sheddou83, 38 Maple Tree Ave., Stamford 06906, c/o Shedder Jacques. Filed Jan. 29.

Shedtronix LLC., 38 Maple Tree Ave., Stamford 06906, c/o Shedder Jacques. Filed Jan. 29.

Smart House Cleaning, 19 Piave St., Stamford 06902. c/o Hilda Rodriguez. Filed Feb. 7.

The Certified Home, 29 Middlesex Road, Darien 06820. c/o Crotty Home Inspection LLC. Filed Feb. 8.

The Great Commandment, 482 W. Main St., Unit 511, Stamford 06902, c/o Evelyn E. McBride. Filed Jan. 30.

Venedo Carrera, 26 Piave St., Stamford 06902. c/o Venedo Carrera. Filed Feb. 8.

VF Outdoor, LLC DBA VAN No.443, 100 Greyrock Place, Unit D-122, Stamford 06901. c/o Mark R. Townsend. Filed Feb. 4.

Wagner’s Home Improvement, 67 Henry St., Apartment 201, Stamford 06902. c/o Wanner B. Mendez.

Filed Jan. 31.

PATENTS Device access control. Patent no.

10,235,532 issued to Jens Scholz, Ehingen, Germany. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Electrical connector with conduit adapter. Patent no. 10,236,621 issued to Michael Williams, Watertown; Roy Itzler, Orange; Michael Salvietti, Northfield; William Dietz, Branford. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Electrical hub for furniture assemblies. Patent no. 10,236,643 issued to Shawn Nelson, Darien; David Underwood, Norwalk; Brian Kuchler, Stamford; David M. Cowan, Cornwall Bridge. Assigned to The Lovesac Company, Stamford.

Extraction of specific color plane to support multiple spot layer range for N-Up copying or printing. Patent no. 10,237,436 issued to Arindam Das, West Bengal, India. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Fracturing fluid composition and method of using same in geological formations. Patent no. 10,233,384 issued to Richard M. Kelly, East Amherst, New York; Walter L. Renz, Brookfield. Assigned to Praxair Technology Inc., Danbury.

Hair brush. Patent no. D843,115 issued to Daniel Bishop, Monroe; Mary Khoun, Stamford. Assigned to Conair Corp., Stamford.

Hard-surface cleaning device.

Patent no. D843,674 issued to James M. Buckley, New Hartford; Joseph K. Patterson, Monroe. Assigned to Unger Marketing International LLC, Bridgeport.

Luminaire. Patent no. D843,639 issued to Armin Ahrai, Chino, California; Edward Duncan, Chino, California; Kevin Lu, Fountain Valley, California; Qianshan Li, San Gabriel, California; Dean Dal Ponte, Glendale, California; Syed Raza, Rancho Palos Verdes, California; Benjamin Peirick, Greenville, South Carolina.

Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Motion control device for overhead transmission lines. Patent no. 10,236,669 issued to Gary Edward Schrader, Manchester, New Hampshire; Jeffery Lee Thomas, Aiken, South Carolina; Peter Chan, Toronto, Canada. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Planetary gear seats for power transmissions. Patent no.

10,233,997 issued to Bertrand J. Howard, Shelton; David A. Binney, Milford; Vinicius Silva, New Haven. Assigned to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford.

Reinstallable circuit interrupting device with vibration resistant miswire protection. Patent no. 10,236,678 issued to Gaetano Bonasia, Bronx, New York; Stephen P. Simonin, Northfield; Kenny Padro, Hamden; Tom Batko, Wallingford. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Rotatable single-piece optical array. Patent no. 10,234,111 issued to Jason Edward Duckworth, Simpsonville, South Carolina. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Security mark with anti-copyable effect. Patent no. 10,237,442 issued to Edward N. Chapman, Rochester, New York; Reiner Eschbach, Webster, New York; Judith E. Stinehour, Rochester, New York.

Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Self-test GFCI device with dual solenoid coil electronic control. Patent no. 10,236,151 issued to Stephen Paul Simonin, Northfield.

Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

System and method for a compressor. Patent no. 10,233,920 issued to Bret Dwayne Worden, Erie, Pennsylvania; Richard C. Peoples, Grove City, Pennsylvania; David E. Peterson, Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania; Jason M. Strode, Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania; Neil W. Burkell, Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania; Milan Karunaratne, Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania. Assigned to GE Global Sourcing LLC, Norwalk.

System and methods for driver assistance. Patent no. 10,234,859 issued to Chethan Lokesh, Bangalore, India. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Transfer assist check film members. Patent no. 10,234,796 issued to Jin Wu, Rochester, New York.

Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

UV curable interlayer for electronic printing. Patent no.

10,233,332 issued to Guiqin Song, Milton, Canada; Nan-Xing Hu, Oakville, Canada; Naveen Chopra, Oakville, Canada; Marcel P. Breton, Mississauga, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

3D printed conductive compositions anticipating or indicating structural compromise.

Patent no. 10,234,342 issued to Carolyn Moorlag, Mississauga, Canada; Rachel Prestayko, Hamilton, Canada; Barkev Keoshkerian, Thornhill, Canada; Sarah J. Vella, Milton, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Senior Information Technology Decision Analyst (General Reinsurance Corporation; Stamford, CT) Support big data analytics projects within the Reinsurance industry. Implement SQL Programming.

Conduct agile development. Collaborate closely with business teams to support data analytics projects. Create technical specifications, analyze technical tradeoffs, and communicate technical concepts to business users. Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related technical field, plus 2 years of related experience supporting big data analytics projects within the Reinsurance industry.

Apply by mail ref. Job Code: KBOEYTEST14267-5, Attention: Linda Dalesio, Human Resources, General Reinsurance Corporation, 120 Long Ridge Road, Stamford CT 06902.

Vice President, Portfolio Management (with Specialization) – Dvlp & maintain statisticl arbitrage strategies for own portfolio; analyze alphas producd by rsrchrs & dvlp algorithms to combine the alphas into a portfolio generatg statistically significant returns. Reqs: Bach in Comp Sci, Comp Engnrg, Physics, Statistics, Math, Operatns Rsrch, Mgmt Sci, or Engnrg & 2 yrs exp in job offrd or 2 yrs exp as VP, Rsrch &/or Sr. Rsrchr &/or Quantitatve Rsrchr, or in similar positn(s) in quantitatve rsrch specific to alpha signal dvlpmnt in the finance or investmnt industries. Skills: Bkgd in educ, traing or exp must incld mathematicl maturity, incldg basic undrstndg of analysis, linear algebra, logic, probability, & statistics; advncd undrstndg of statisticl modelg techniques, incldg machine learng, regression, & multivariate statistics; programmg skills incldg exp w/ C++, either Python or Perl scriptg, & eithr Matlab or R programmg languages; exp w/ Linux operatg system. WorldQuant, LLC, Old Greenwich, CT. Send resumes to Sandra.DiCairano@worldquant.com; ref job title & #218441 in subject line.

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LEGAL NOTICES FMBJ608 LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/4/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 112 Forest Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10804.General Purpose. #62048 Tom Schirmacher Studio LLC. Art. of Org. filed 2/6/19. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to Reg. Agent: Thomas Law Firm, 175 Varick St, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: Any lawful activity #62049 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: SKINCARE BY KRISTEN A. EVANS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/15/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Tony Braca, CPA, 700 Summer St, Suite 1K, Stamford, CT 06901. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #62050 Notice of Formation of LUMINA LIFECARE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/28/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Maura Milligan Newman, 114 Bellair Drive, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62051 Notice of Formation of RIMBY LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/7/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1 Bronxville Rd #6M, Bronxville, NY 10708. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62052 Notice of Formation of FiveSixty LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/9/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, P.O. Box 342, Yonkers, NY 10705. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62053 Notice of Formation of La Gitana, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with SSNY on 10/31/2018.

Off. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 90 State Street, STE 700 Office 40. Albany, NY 12207.

Purpose: any lawful business activity. #62055 NRTL LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/8/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 774 Post Rd., Ste. 210, Scarsdale, NY 10583.General Purpose. #62057 Seeds 4 Life LLC Filed 2/4/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o Galgano & Sharp, 399 Knollwood Road, Suite 308, White Plains, NY 10603 Purpose: all lawful #62058 The Biomass Fund, LLC Filed 2/4/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o Galgano & Sharp, 399 Knollwood Road, Suite 308, White Plains, NY 10603 Purpose: all lawful #62059 READERFUL LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 2/15/19. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to 44 Greenmeadow Rd, Pleasantville, NY 10570. Purpose: Any lawful activity #62061 Notice of Formation of 100 KIMBALL AVE LLC. Principal office Westchester County. Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 100 Kimball Avenue Yonkers, NY 10704.

Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on February 8, 2019. Purpose: Any lawful act(s). #62062

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Notice of Formation of Mia Botanica, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/07/2019.

Office: Westchester County. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 49 Ridgewood Ter. Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62063 Booksy Building LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 02/08/19. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy. of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: 127 Horseshoe Hill Road, Pound Ridge, NY 10576. LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #62064 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Westchester Food Safety LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/30(2019. Location: Westchester SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Frank D Madaio, 300 Hayward Ave. Apt3K Mount Vernon NY 10552 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62065 500 Minoel LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/27/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 500A Broadway, Bronx, NY 10463.General Purpose. #62066 Umar Estate St. Josephs LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/14/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 4 Carriage Hill Rd., West Harrison, NY 10604.General Purpose. #62067 AVR Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/22/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 101 Alexander Ave., Yonkers, NY 10704.General Purpose. #62069 Notice of Formation of Muirhead Law LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/25/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to the LLC, 4169 Murdock Ave., Bronx, NY 10466. The principal business address of the LLC is 718 S. Columbus Ave., Mount Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62071 Notice of Formation of Poweroforganix LLC. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/15/2019. Offc.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC,21 Leather Stocking Ln, White Plains NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62072 Quatre Filles, LLC Filed 2/14/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 28 Elmridge drive, Scarsdale, NY 10583 Purpose: all lawful #62075 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Victory Mills LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on February 28, 2019. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Victory Mills LLC, 1055 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley, New York 10502. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #62077

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Victory Mills Manager LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on February 28, 2019. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Victory Mills Manager LLC, 1055 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley, New York 10502. Purpose/ character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #62078 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Victory Mills Associates LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on February 28, 2019. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Victory Mills Associates LLC, 1055 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley, New York 10502. Purpose/ character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #62079 PARTY REQUIRED, LLC, filed with SSNY 2/24/2019. Office located in Westchester Co. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: PARTY REQUIRED, LLC. 941 Mclean Ave, #507, Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: any lawful business activity or purpose. #62080 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ADRESTIA, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the SSNY on 2/13/19. Office location is Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 11 Cedar st. Valhalla, NY 10595. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #62081 Signature Virgin Hair Extension LLC Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY)on 01/08/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to LLC at 40 Memorial Highway #2M, New Rochelle, NY 10801.General Purpose. #62082 The Articles of Organization of KRISTEN N. GIZZI, ESQ., PLLC, a professional service limited liability company, (the ìCompanyî) were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on August 14, 2018. The office of the Company is located in Westchester County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company served upon him or her is: 201 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers NY 10701. The Company was formed to perform legal services a professional service limited liability company under the New York Limited Liability Company Act. #62083 Notice of Formation of JP AUTO SERVICE LLC, a domestic, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/22/2019 Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3 Stanley Avenue, Ossining NY, 10562.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #62084 Notice of Formation of WIN ADVISORS, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/1/19. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the WIN ADVISORS, 1011 King St, Chappaqua, New York 10514 Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62085

Notice of formation of CHARLTON PLAINS, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/7/2019. Office loc. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process Charlton Plains, LLC 1 Grosbeak Rd, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62086 Notice of Formation of RETIREMENT INCOME SPECIALISTS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on February 5, 2019. Office Location: Westchester Country.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Lee, Nolan & Koroghlian Attn: W Keith Schmidt 622 3rd Ave., Suite 900, New York, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62087 Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: TMD Construction JV 4 LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/07/19. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 200 Business Park Dr, Ste 203, Armonk, NY 10504, which is the principle business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62088 Notice is hereby given that a license (#TBA) for LIQUOR, WINE & BEER has been applied for by TACO PROJECT BRONXVILLE LLC, at retail, in a RESTAURANT, under the ABC LAW at, 65 PONDFIELD ROAD BRONXVILLE, NY 10708 for on-premises consumption #62089 Sushi Vida Bronx LLC ,Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/8/2019. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 3 Sadore Ln., Apt. 6U, Yonkers, NY 10710.General Purpose. #62091 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Norm Avenue Pizza, Inc d/b/a Sinapi’s Pizza Rustica to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 5 Norm Avenue Bedford Hills NY 10507. #62092 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Heart & Soul Hospitality Group, Inc d/b/a Casa Amore to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 65 1st Street Pelham NY 10803. #62093 Notice of Formation of RIVER TUTI LLC. Principal office Westchester County. Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 2 Wilson Place, 1st Floor, Mount Vernon, NY 10550.

Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on February 20, 2019. Purpose: Any lawful act(s). #62094 225 Husted LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/14/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 9 Castle Landing, Port Chester, NY 10573. General Purpose. #62095 NOTICE OF FORMATION of OLA Services, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 13, 2019.

Location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: OLA Services, LLC, 50 Broadway, Hawthorne, NY 10532. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62096

NOTICE OF FORMATION of OLA Associates, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 13, 2019.

Location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: OLA Associates, LLC, 50 Broadway, Hawthorne, NY 10532. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62097 CVL2018, LLC. Art. of Org. filed 3/22/18. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to Reg. Agent: Christine Levinson, 35 Mayhew Ave, Larchmont, NY 10538. Purpose: Any lawful activity #62098 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: Golden Goose 2 LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/17/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 21 Willet Ave. Apt. 322, Port Chester, NY 10573, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity.” #62099 MGM Rhodes LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/28/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Midco Accounting Services, c/o Michael Dicostanzo, 1075 Central Park Ave., Ste. 205, Scarsdale, NY 10583. General Purpose. #62101 FB RENOVATION LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/8/15. Cty: Bronx.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to LLC c/o Florin Bunjaj, 1091 Neill Ave. Apt 1, Bronx NY 10461. General Purpose. #62102 FBU LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/11/19.

Cty: Bronx. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to LLC c/o Florin Bunjaj, 1091 Neill Ave. Apt 1, Bronx NY 10461. General Purpose. #62103 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KAE CONSULTANTS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/17. Offc. loc: WESTCHESTER Cty. SSNY desig. agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 1967 WEHRLE DRIVE, SUITE 1 #086, Buffalo, NY 14221. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62104 Notice of Formation of The Edible Gardenist, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/3/18. Loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY design.

As agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 980 Broadway, #320, Thornwood, NY 10594. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62105 Notice of Formation of FALCON GROUP LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Principal office Westchester County. Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 2 Wilson Place, 1st Floor, Mt. Vernon, NY 10550. Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on May 4, 2004. Purpose: Any lawful act(s). #62106 Notice of formation of WCDB RE LLC. Arts. of Org. Filed with SSNY on 6/19/18. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Gwendolyn Clark, 230 Broadview Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62107

INDEX NO. 62158/2016 Plaintiff designates WESTCHESTER as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 99 BANK STREET WHITE PLAINS, NY 10606 District: Section: 130.26 Block: 5 Lot: 14 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

GIUSEPPE DIACO AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS DIACO, NELLA MADERA A/K/A NELLA KATHERINE MARLEY A/K/A NELLA MARLEY A/K/A PETRINELLA DIACO AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS DIACO, NICOLE CARROLL AS HIER AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS DIACO, ROBERTO JOSLIN AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS DIACO, MICHAEL (LAST NAME UNKNOWN) AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS DIACO, if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS DIACO any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants._______________________________________ To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $280,075.00 and interest, recorded on August 22, 2012, at Instrument number 522073092, of the Public Records of WESTCHESTER County, New York, covering premises known as 99 BANK STREET WHITE PLAINS, NY 10606.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

WESTCHESTER County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: SAHAR HAMLANI, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 #62110

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LEGAL NOTICES E Connís Magic Mirror Photo Booth, LLC, filed with SSNY 01/09/2019.

Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Registered Agent: Naomi Halevi., 10 California Rd., Mount Vernon, NY 10552.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #62108 Notice of Formation of The Gallo Firm Certified Public Accountants, LLP with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/27/2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1492 Jacob Rd, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62109 Notice of Formation of D’Nick Home Improvement, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/19/19.

Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 68 S Stone Ave, Elmsford NY 10523. Purpose: any lawful purpose. # 62111 COE Consulting LLC Filed 3/12/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: PO Box 136, Rye, NY 10580 Purpose: all lawful # 62112

Notice of Formation of PAWS FUR LOVE LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/4/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 62 Hancock Street West Harrison NY 10604. Purpose: any lawful purpose. # 62113 Notice of Formation of Mind Body and Soul Mental Health Counseling, PLLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/6/19. Office Location: Westchester County, NY. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jenna McKean 626 Avalon Gardens Drive Nanuet, NY 10954 .Purpose: To provide Mental Health Counseling. # 62114 K.A.R Styless Boutique, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/11/2019.

Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 98 North Evarts Avenue, Elmsford, NY 10523.Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62054 Notice is hereby given that an onpremise license, #TBA has been applied for by TCB Enterprises Inc d/b/a Tredici Social to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 104 Kraft Ave Bronxville NY 10708 # 62100

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER ---------------------------------------------------------------------------X U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016CTT, Plaintiff,

NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT

Filed: 02/05/2018

Index No. 51571/2018

-againstTHE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW, NEXT-OF-KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING, UNDER, BY OR THROUGH THE DECEDENT CHARLES DAUBEK, JR. BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE, ANY RIGHT TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO THE PREMISES DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN; EARL J. JORDAN; JOHN KOLODY; WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (SOUTHERN DISTRICT); ANDREW M. ROMANO; AMETIA L. JENNINGS; STATE OF NEW YORK; "JOHN DOE #1" through "JOHN DOE #10" inclusive the names of the ten last name Defendants being fictitious, real names unknown to the Plaintiff, the parties intended being persons or corporations having an interest in, or tenants or persons in possession of, portions of the mortgaged premises described in the Complaint, Defendants.

Plaintiff designates WESTCHESTER County as place of trial Venue is based upon County in which premises are being situate SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE

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At an IAS Part of the Supreme Court of the State of New York held in and for the County of Westchester at County Courthouse located at 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, White Plains, New York on the _____day of March 2019 Present Supreme Court Justice HON.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance upon the Plaintiff's attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the date of service or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. If you fail to so appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

DATED: Elmsford, New York February 5, 2018

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INDEX NO: 70121/18 Order for Service by

NOTICE

Publication AMIYO MUKHERJEE

YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME

Plaintiff, V. THE CITY OF YONKERS; THE VALLEY FARMS CO. OF YONKERS: PARK HILL ON HUDSON, INC.; JOHN DOE said name being fictitious and intended to designate any and all individuals, ; corporations, or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest the property described in the complaint, Defendant(s), UPON, the summons, complaint and notice of pendency of action heretofore filed herein in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Westchester, front which it appears that the complaint herein demands the determination as to the ownership of specific real property within the County of Westchester and the State of New York, and it appearing that there is a sufficient cause of action stated therein against the Defendant, and their successors a heir and disibutees who are necessary party defendants herein, and the affirmation of due diligence of Andrew M. Romano, Esq. from which it appears that all such defendants cannot be served personally within the State of New York, Plaintiff having made proof to the Court's satisfaction that the names and locations of all the heirs and distributees of the Defendants cannot with due diligence be ascertained, and that the Plaintiff will be unable, in the exercise of such due diligence, make personal service of the summons herein, or by any other prescribed method on such unknown defendants within the State of New York, and it appearing that service upon all said heirs/defendants pursuant to CPLR 308(1 ), (2), (4) is impractible. Therefore, it is ORDERED, the service of the summons in this action upon the unknown of The Valley Farms Co. of Yonkers Park Hill on Hudson, Inc. and JOHN DOE, and his/her/its next of kin, distibutees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming, under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, and right title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the Plaintiff and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, be made by publishing the summons with notice, in two (2) newspapers, at least one in the English language, hereby designated as most likely to give notice to the said defendant; together with a notice and brief property, viz,.

The Journal News and Westchester County Business Journal both publised and distributed in the County of Westchester, in the State of New York, once a week for four (4) consecutive weeks, the first such publication to be made within thirty (30) days of the entry of this Order; and it is further ORDERED, that the provisions of section 15.19(2) of the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law be dispensed with.

If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

THE OBJECT of the above-entitled action is to foreclose a reverse mortgage bearing date August 3, 1995 given by Charles Daubek, Jr. (deceased) to BNY Mortgage Co., Inc. to secure the sum of $228,543.00 and recorded in Liber 20843 at Page 17 in the office of the County Clerk/City Register of Westchester County on September 14, 1995 and which reverse mortgage was ultimately assigned to the Plaintiff herein as evidenced by written instrument dated July 20, 2017 and recorded with the Westchester County Clerk/City Register on July 28, 2017 in Control Number 572093001 covering the premises described as follows: 49 Heath Place, Hastings-On-Hudson, New York 10706 The relief sought in the within action is final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the mortgage described above.

The Plaintiff makes no personal claim against any Defendants in this action.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable Joan B. Lefkowitz, J.S.C. dated and filed February 19, 2019.

Help for Homeowners in Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully.

Summons and Complaint You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself.

Sources of Information and Assistance The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at (800) 342-3736 or visit the Department’s website at http://www.dfs.ny.gov.

Rights and Obligations YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale.

Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay property taxes in accordance with state and local law.

Foreclosure Rescue Scams Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.

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YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016-CTT AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.

Richard F. Komosinski Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 565 Taxter Road Suite 590 Elmsford, NY 10523 Phone: (914) 345-3020 NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016-CTT IS FORECLOSING AGAINST THE OWNER OF THIS PREMISES. IF YOU LIVE HERE, THIS LAWSUIT MAY RESULT IN YOUR EVICTION. YOU MAY WISH TO CONTACT A LAWYER TO DISCUSS ANY RIGHTS AND POSSIBLE DEFENSES YOU MAY HAVE.

ENTER: Dated: March 7, 2019 White Plains, New York HON. GERALD E. LOEHR Supreme Court Justice

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