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hile marking 75 years in business is a fairly singular accomplishment, claiming your product is “Made in Danbury, used in outer space” is unique indeed. Barden Corp., a ball-bearing manufacturer at 200 Park Ave., is the only company that has done both.

“It’s a combination of making quality products and having the desire and determination to satisfy our customers,” said Plant Manager Brian Williams. “I know it’s a cliché, but the pride we take in innovative solutions rather than just being ‘Bearings R Us’ has made the difference.”

Since 2002 Barden has been a segment of German manufacturer Schaeffler Group, as part of that company’s $650 million acquisition of FAG Kugelfischer; the latter purchased Barden in 1990 for $131.1 million. While revenue figures for Barden — which also has a plant in Winsted — were not available, Schaeffler itself posted 2017 revenues of $17.1 billion, a 5.9 percent increase over 2016.

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Developers Greg Belew, Peter Chavkin and Clayton H. Fowler were joined on a panel by Roxana Q. Girand and Tim Jones discussing “The Next Generation: Live-Work-Play Developments” sponsored

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Hartsdale landlords, residents push new vision for Four Corners

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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t the Four Corners intersection in Hartsdale, where Hartsdale and Central Park avenues meet, lies “a sea of asphalt” that residents describe as overburdened by traffic, hostile to pedestrians

and tough for business.

But hidden behind honking vehicles at rush hour, residents of nearby neighborhoods see the potential for a community gathering place with greenery, retail and new spaces to live and work.

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Westfair panel: How Westchester and Fairfield can capitalize on live, work, play model

Greg Belew

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n a “golden time” for real estate development in Westchester and Fairfield counties, a panel of developers gathered April 24 and stressed the importance of building communities with energy and life.

To a sold-out crowd of about 250 at the C.V. Rich Mansion in White Plains, the panel discussed trends pushing young professionals to Westchester and Fairfield and the challenges in meeting that demand and creating the type of communities people want to live in.

The discussion was in line with the panel’s theme, “The Next Generation: LiveWork-Play Developments.” The event was presented by Westfair Communications, the publisher of the Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journals.

The panelists were Tim Jones, CEO of Robert Martin Co. LLC; Clayton H. Fowler, chairman and CEO of Spinnaker Real Estate Partners; Peter Chavkin, managing partner of Biddle Real Estate Ventures; Roxana Q. Girand, president and CEO of Sebastian

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Capital; and Greg Belew, city president of the NY/Tristate Area of Lennar Multifamily Communities.

To open the discussion, Jones said the traditional barriers to multifamily live-workplay type projects, including regulation or a lack of viable land, have been helped by municipal officials in places such as Yonkers, White Plains and New Rochelle becoming more open to development.

“Recently what we’ve seen in the last several years is what I would consider almost a golden time for real estate development in Westchester, particularly in the cities,” Jones said. “And that’s been driven by the recognition of the municipal authorities that this is really important, so they’ve really allowed the market to speak.”

While Fowler joked it’s a “pain in the ass” to work in Westchester, his Spinnaker Real Estate Partners has completed more than 3,000 housing units between the county and neighboring Fairfield. Lately, he said he’s focusing on train stations in Fairfield where he can build village-type neighborhoods that have appeal to all demographics. “(People) all want the same things: they want to be able to talk to other people and

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go downstairs, maybe there’s music, or next door to a bar,” Fowler said. “It’s important to have those recreational opportunities.”

Multiple panelists stressed the importance of attracting young professionals priced out of New York City.

If apartments in White Plains or New Rochelle can offer the same level of amenities and a quicker, one-seat train ride to midtown Manhattan, it’s possible to lure young city dwellers to cheaper rents up north to areas such as White Plains and New Rochelle.

That was part of the goal described by Belew. Through Lennar, he’s leading two major development projects in White Plains: two apartment towers expected to total more than 700 units at the former Pavilion Mall site and a 434-apartment project on Mamaroneck Avenue.

“We’re trying to design a product that’s going to be appealing to someone that’s been living in Brooklyn or the Lower East Side and amenitizing it in such a way that they don’t feel like they’re giving much up,” Belew said. “They have a better lifestyle and a lower rent check every month.”

And by attracting those new residents,

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Chavkin said job growth and opportunity would follow.

“To me the opportunity is not so much ‘live, work, play’ as it’s ‘live, play, work,’” Chavkin said. “Let’s create housing solutions that give people a reason to want to be here, the creative class, and once we are able to harness that, jobs will come.

Companies will relocate, whether it’s through co-working satellites or jobs will follow the community.”

Chavkin is a lead consultant on the billion-dollar Edge-on-Hudson redevelopment of the former General Motors assembly plant in Sleepy Hollow, which will bring a hotel, thousands of apartments and homes and some retail and office space to the former industrial site.

Working to create a sense of community was also a goal stressed by Girand. Her company, Sebastian Capital, is managing the repositioning of the former IBM and PepsiCo office parks in Somers. She described her efforts to help draw tenants to buildings that, after being left by their Fortune 500 occupants, dropped about 1.6 million vacant square feet on the marketplace.

For the PepsiCo building, Sebastian Capital created an in-house brand, The Suite Project, for new co-working space it market-

To me the opportunity is not so much ‘live, work, play’ as it’s ‘live, play, work.

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There are also external factors: rising interest rates, changes in government regulation and the possibility of an economic slowdown in the region or country.

But, as Chavkin summarized, in Westchester there are the right “bones” for lasting success.

“It has the transportation infrastructure, the scenic location, the school systems to really propel it through the next couple of real estate cycles,” he said.

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What’s helped draw people to that space, she said, is offering the right amenities.

“You want to have that lifestyle and wellness,” Girand said, which includes an updated health club and even a vegetable garden behind the building.

“We try to be as eco-friendly as we can and cater to this fast-paced community of live, work,” she said.

While the panelists were mostly bullish on Westchester and Fairfield’s potential, each noted obstacles that could hold things up.

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urchenal Green, president of the National Maritime Historical Society, gave an impromptu tour of her nonprofit organization’s Peekskill headquarters on a recent weekday morning.

She gestured to the various historical artifacts on display, from model ships to an aging library of texts to a newspaper proclaiming the sinking of the Titanic.

“I grew up every summer on boats,” she said, “and I think we all have an affinity for water.”

The National Maritime Historical Society brands itself as the national voice for America’s maritime heritage. Along with hosting a variety of educational seminars, conferences and award ceremonies (“We’re sort of the Oscars of maritime,” she quipped), the organization also works to save historic ships in trouble.

“It’s important to keep some of these ships alive,” she said. “They’re all part of the story of America, so we continue to tell that story.”

The organization also publishes a variety of educational materials and programs, including a periodical, Sea History, which is distributed worldwide to its roughly 10,000 members.

Those members are a diverse group, from shipbuilders to sailors, historians to military personnel.

“You have to tell the stories,” said Greene, who has served as the organization’s president for more than two decades. “It’s just critical.”

The Cortlandt Manor resident said that at her home along Cortlandt Lake, she enjoys watching cardinals, woodpeckers or the occasional Kingfisher. At work, she gazes out the windows of her waterfront office, taking in the eagles and other wildlife who call the Hudson River home.

“The view has changed a bit,” she said with a laugh, gesturing to a recently constructed addition to Charles Point Marina, the building that houses her offices. “They built this little ledge.”

That ledge is just one of a number of changes that have come to Charles Point Marina in recent years. The structure at 5 John Walsh Blvd. has been transformed into a multipurpose attraction, complete

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with a restaurant, brewery, ropes course and laser tag arena.

The multimillion-dollar project, which was constructed around and above the society’s offices, was led by Diamond Properties co-owner William Diamond, who signed a 50-year lease for the property with the Peekskill Industrial Development Agency in 2014. Other partners in the project include Peekskill restaurateurs Louis Lanza and John Sharp and Captain Lawrence Brewery founder Scott Vaccaro. Today, the marina is home to Spins Hudson, Fin and Brew restaurant and the recently opened River Outpost Brewery.

“Because our mission is to save historic vessels, I can’t object when they want to save an old historic building,” Greene said. “This is one of the great old brick buildings along the Hudson River. It had been deteriorating and we wanted this

building to be saved.”

Construction caused some issues for the organization, Greene said. Noise and dust created by the redevelopment made for some lessthan-ideal working conditions for the organization’s employees.

“But we’re on the other side of that now,” she quickly added. “I’m very appreciative of the fact that they did some quality work in taking care of the building.”

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Atlantic Station, latest addition to Stamford’s skyline

An architect’s rendering of RXR Realty’s mixed-use redevelopment of Atlantic Station in downtown Stamford.

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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XR Realty hosted a grand opening April 19 for the first phase of its luxury residential development, Atlantic Station, at 355 Atlantic St. in Stamford.

The all-glass, 26-story tower, containing 325 residential units and 15,985 square feet of net rentable retail space, was lauded by Mayor David Martin as “just plain terrific.”

“This is a section of the city that has languished a little bit in my opinion,” Martin continued, adding that Atlantic Station is a symbol of “what Stamford is becoming.”

“This project is an important part of our emerging submarket strategy,” said Seth Pinsky, executive vice president and investment manager of the RXR Metropolitan Emerging Market Strategy.

He said that the goal of that strategy, which was launched in 2013, “is to find markets where we can bring private capital — either to partner with the public sector or to build on public-sector investments — to create new services, employment opportunities and economic activity.”

Atlantic Station is RXR’s first Connecticut residential development. Along with projects in all five New York

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City boroughs, Westchester County and Long Island, the company’s submarket portfolio now includes nearly 2 million square feet of office space and “thousands” of residential units, he said.

Pinsky told the Business Journal that Stamford was chosen as the site of its inaugural Connecticut residential development due to its being well connected by transit to New York City, its walkable streets, diverse population and the general rebirth that its downtown has been experiencing over the past few years. “Stamford checked every one of the boxes” RXR was looking for, he said.

When fully completed, the $140 million Atlantic Station will consist of two towers with a total of 650 rental apartments complemented by 50,000 square feet of ground floor retail and restaurants, plus an indoor parking garage that will accommodate more than 800 cars. The second tower should be ready to open next year.

The rentals in the newly opened building consist of 20 studios, 155 one-bedroom and 150 two-bedroom apartments, ranging from 490 to 1,290 square feet. All have 9-foot ceiling heights and high-end finishes and amenities, according to Louis R. Cappelli, chairman and CEO

at Cappelli Organization, the White Plains real estate development and general construction company that brought RXR in on the project.

Pinsky said that rents range “from the low $2,000’s for studios to $3,000 to $3,500 for the larger two-bedroom units.” About a third of the units have already been leased, he said.

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longtime landlords and a planning and architecture firm based in Hartsdale is leading an effort to push for new zoning that could bring that vision to fruition. The group’s plan is backed by a neighborhood group as well.

Patrice Ingrassia and Christine Broda, founders of the Hartsdale-based real estate consulting firm Inspired Places LLC, walked the Greenburgh Town Board through a vision for Four Corners at its April 10 meeting.

“We want to talk about a neighborhood — which we don’t have by the way, we have an intersection — where people live, work and play,” Ingrassia, a markets consultant, told the board.

“We want to talk about how Four Corners becomes a destination, a place where people like to linger.”

One path to get there, the firm says, is through a form-based zoning code

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II, when Theodore Barth and Carl Norden — whose surnames were combined to form “Barden” — joined forces to make precision ball bearings for Norden’s bombsight.

The problem, Williams said, was that “they couldn’t find a manufacturer who could produce the bearings necessary for the quality and precision needed. They were literally forced to do it themselves.”

Within two years, Barden was established well enough with the military to receive an “E” (for excellence) award from both the U.S. Army and Navy. Growth has continued apace, as Barden’s products today are used in sectors ranging from the military — including bearings used to make the current Seawolf class of nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines “more quiet at full speed than its predecessor was idling at the dock,” in Williams’ words — communications satellites, GPS weather and communications devices to high-performance machine and med-

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that allows for mixed uses and includes measures to alleviate traffic and make the area more pedestrian friendly.

Inspired Places started looking at ways to revitalize the Four Corners last summer, Ingrassia said in a phone interview following the meeting. The company was approached by the Chen Corp., a family business that’s owned properties on the southeast corner of Four Corners for more than 20 years.

They asked what could be done with their properties to make them more viable. After reviewing the zoning for the area, the answer was not much.

That realization set Inspired Places to work on developing a framework for modernized zoning. The company got other landlords on board as well, as the firm is also working with property owners on the northeast corner of Four Corners, Michael Corotolo

ical tools and automotive applications.

The company is also active in aerospace, with its super-precision ball bearings used in NASA’s Mars rovers and the Cassini spacecraft, which dove into Saturn’s atmosphere last September.

Such projects, Williams said, prove Barden’s quality and durability: “It’s not like you’re going to get them back to recalibrate them — once they’re out there, they’re out there, and they’ve got to perform.”

A pair of 1955 floods at Barden’s original East Franklin Street location in Danbury led to the move to Park Avenue, where Barden overlooks the airport and Danbury Fair Mall. “If flood waters reach here, we’ll need to build a large wooden boat and start pairing animals off two by two,” Williams quipped.

Today the company maintains about 420 employees in Danbury. Williams noted that Schaeffler has remained active in its operations, having invested some $55 million in Barden since

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and James Cartelli.

The firm’s plan is also backed by the Hartsdale Neighbors Association, a community group founded in 2016 to address a range of issues of interest to Hartsdale residents.

Susan Seal is chairwoman of a committee the neighbors association created to advocate for improvements at Four Corners. She said once they heard about Inspired Places’ efforts, they asked Ingrassia and Broda to present their plans last fall. More than 100 residents showed up, Seal said, and voiced unanimous approval.

The neighborhood group circulated a petition in favor of Inspired Place’s outlined proposal before the Greenburgh Town Board meeting that received more than 500 signatures “It’s an intersection you drive through and say, Oh, there’s another ‘For Rent’ sign,” Seal said of Four Corners. “We’d like

to see it be a place where people enjoy a sense of community.”

The intersection already has strong numbers: 14,000 cars drive by each day. It is near the center of a hamlet with about 5,000 residents and a median income that Census data show is well above the regional average.

But those numbers haven’t added up to a strong business district. Neighbors have noted only “transactional” businesses have survived, with few retail destinations. Landlords say finding retail tenants in the district is “nearly impossible,” and the ones they do find have low success rates, according to a summary of the research by Inspired Places.

Ingrassia and Broda walked the town board through slides showing the heavy traffic, empty storefronts and unsightly power lines emblematic of the area’s area.

“We want to go from

pictures of what you just saw, which are downright depressing, to a vibrant, revitalized and neighborhood-focused area,” Ingrassia said. “Where people can live in a downtown hub, have easy access to transit and vibrant stores and neighborhoods that are reconnected, where businesses can thrive.”

The revitalization would focus on attracting millennials priced out of New York City and other downtowns for the residential portion, as well as empty nesters downsizing. The main attraction would be its location near the Hartsdale train station.

The vision for Four Corners described by Ingrassia and Broda would add modern, smaller scale mixed-use apartment buildings and community-oriented designs that could combine with the Hartsdale Village and East Hartsdale Avenue to create a true downtown vibe.

“We really could create a destination,” Ingrassia said. “Talk about taking a problem market and re-engineering it so it can become an attractive market.”

Inspired Places asked the town board to consider adding a supplement to its comprehensive plan which would allow it to initiate a study for rezoning the area.

Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner wrote in an email to residents following the presentation that he has asked the town’s school district and fire commissioners to designate a liaison for a rezoning effort.

He encouraged residents to watch the video of the presentation online.

“With Amazon and the changing business environment, if we don’t act now we’re going to lose Central Avenue,” Feiner said at the meeting. “This is a major opportunity to really do something before it’s too late.”

A display of some of Barden’s products.

Gov. Dannel Malloy at the Barden anniversary.

taking it over; the majority of that money has been for systems and equipment upgrades, he said.

Georg F.W. Schaeffler, family shareholder and chairman of Schaeffler’s supervisory board, attended an April 17 event to mark the Danbury firm’s 75th anniversary, alongside Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy.

“Connecticut’s manufacturing industry is a significant driver of innovation and exports, and world-class companies like Schaeffler are largely the reason why,” Malloy said. “Schaeffler’s

commitment to our state and our residents is proof that Connecticut is a great place to do business, and I look forward to many more celebrations as this wonderful partnership continues to flourish.”

Williams said that, for all the hoopla, Barden is determined to remain focused on the job at hand. “Being able to celebrate the last 75 years was of course a wonderful thing,” he said. “But equally important is looking forward to what we can do in terms of continued diversification and working with our customers for the next 75-plus years.”

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he U.S. Supreme Court this month ruled that service advisers who work in car dealerships and similar businesses are not eligible for overtime. The way the court arrived at that conclusion represents a major shift in the court’s approach to interpreting federal wage and hour laws.

The outcome of this case does not come as a surprise; it is a continuation of the Supreme Court’s pro-employer, or some would say pro-business, stance when deciding labor and employment cases.

At the micro-level, the 5-4 ruling, is a major victory for management at some 18,000 dealerships nationwide that together employ more than 100,000 service advisers. Those service advisers no longer have to be paid overtime under federal law.

Up until 2011, service advisers were considered exempt from overtime. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor reversed course and issued a rule that interpreted “salesman” to exclude service advisers, which meant service advisers would be paid overtime. It remained this way through the Obama administration.

No longer. From now on, service advisers will join a long list of positions, such as outside salespersons, administrative employees, seamen, taxicab drivers and many others that are considered exempt from overtime pay no matter how many hours they work.

As a practical matter for service advisers, in many cases this represents a significant amount of money since dealerships tend to be open for longer hours to be available to the public.

The specific case involves service advisers at a MercedesBenz dealership in Encino, California, who argued that the dealership violated

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the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by failing to pay them overtime. They claimed that they were not covered by the section of the FLSA, which states that “any salesman primarily engaged in selling or servicing automobiles” is an “exempt” FLSA employee who doesn’t have to be paid overtime. The dealership argued that the definition of salesman includes service advisers, whose job responsibilities range from helping diagnose mechanical problems to estimating repair costs.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion that the “ordinary meaning of ‘salesman’ is someone who sells goods or services” and that service advisers, “do precisely that.”

In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said service advisers “neither sell nor repair automobiles” so they should not be exempt from overtime payments.

This is the second time the case has been before the Supreme Court, the first coming in 2016, after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia when the court had only eight members. The remaining eight-members of the Supreme Court avoided a decision sending it back to the Ninth Circuit, which after reviewing it ruled a

Supreme Court stays pro-business in service adviser case second time in favor of the service advisers.

While the direct holding of the Supreme Court’s decision may appear to have somewhat limited impact, the manner in which the court arrived at its conclusion has far reaching implications for future interpretations of federal wage and hour exemptions.

The pendulum has swung 180 degrees and now favors the employer. The court backpedaled from decades of precedent where it had narrowly construed FLSA exemptions against the employers. Now, when interpreting exemptions to minimum wage or overtime laws, federal courts must give them a “fair” reading. The ruling gives employers legal ammunition to challenge FLSA overtime exemptions, particularly as U.S. Department of Labor regulations and decisions read them, which the Supreme Court has held should now be construed by courts neutrally.

An open question of importance to Connecticut employers and employees is whether our state courts will follow the Supreme Court’s lead when they interpret Connecticut’s minimum wage and overtime exemptions. Since as early as 1955, the Connecticut Supreme Court has held that wage and hour laws should be interpreted liberally to accomplish their purpose in protecting workers.

In 1960, the Connecticut Supreme Court, relying on U.S. Supreme Court cases, stated that “it is essential that exemptions or exclusions be strictly and narrowly construed.” Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has departed from that principle, how our State will interpret exemptions to state minimum wage and overtime protection remains to be seen.

Employers in Connecticut are required to follow both

federal and state wage and hours laws and where state law gives employees greater protection than federal laws, businesses must comply with the state laws. And, as employers in the state are all too aware, the Connecticut Department of Labor is

more likely than the federal agency to come knocking on an employer’s door to investigate alleged wage and hour abuses.

Sheahan PC. She represents individuals and employers in all aspects of employment litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. She can be reached at 203-873-0240 or mgarcia@mitchellandsheahan.com

Maria Garcia-Quintner is an attorney with the Stratford law firm Mitchell &

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10 Ways To Protect Your Business From A Cyber Attack

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Did you know that cybercrime is a 1.5 trillion-dollar industry? Yes, I called it an industry, sad but true and everyone is a target. As an executive, the onus falls on you to ensure that the proper safeguards are in place. This is a daunting task when attacks are coming from every direction.

Vulnerabilities include mobile devices, PC's, servers, cloud applications, email, websites, control systems (IoT) and last but not least humans. Unfortunately, there’s no magic bullet. Defense in depth is the best strategy and achieved through a layered approach. A multitude of tools must be utilized to mitigate threats from multiple attack vectors. I’ve put together a list of safeguards that should be on your radar.

Small businesses will suffer a cyber breach this year.

81%

Of all breaches happen to small and mediumsized businesses.

97%

Of breaches could have been prevented with today’s technology.

8. WEB SECURITY Internet security is a race against time. Use web security products to detect threats as they emerge on the internet and blocks them within seconds – before they reach the user.

2. EMAIL SECURITY Secure your email with enhanced security features.

Basic antispam is not enough.

9. ENCRYPTION Enable hard drive encryption and encrypted file systems whenever possible. The goal is to encrypt files at rest, in motion (think file transfer) and especially on laptops.

3. PASSWORD SECURITY Apply security policies on your network. Examples: Deny or limit USB file storage access, enable enhanced password policies, set user screen timeouts, and limit user access.

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1. SECURITY ASSESSMENT It's important to establish a baseline and close existing vulnerabilities. When was your last assessment? Get a certified cybersecurity professional to do this on a routine basis.

4. SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING Utilize services to train your users - often! Teach them about data security, email attacks, and your policies and procedures. The HUMAN FIREWALL is one of your biggest weak spots.

6. DARK WEB RESEARCH Utilize a Dark Web scanning service. Knowing in realtime what passwords and accounts have been posted on the Dark Web will allow you to be proactive in preventing a data breach.

5. ADVANCED ENDPOINT SECURITY Protect your computers and data from malware, viruses, and cyber-attacks with advanced endpoint security. Regular Antivirus won’t cut it anymore. Today's latest technology can even rollback a ransomware attack.

7. SIEM (SECURITY INCIDENT & EVENT MANAGEMENT) Use a SIEM product to collect logs from machines and network devices, review data, correlate data with threat intelligence feeds, and deliver actionable intelligence to thwart attacks.

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10. BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY Backup local and offsite to the cloud. Include in your DR plan a way to spin up servers and access data in the event of a disaster. Test backups often.

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State fiscal commission chiefs want tough love strategies

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tions that would survive a change in administration. If the state’s policies zigzag election after election, we won’t be able to achieve stability.”

Among the most notable aspects of the report was the recommendation to eliminate the estate tax. “The estate tax is the proverbial juice that’s not worth the squeeze,” he explained. “The squeeze is only about $130 million a year in tax revenue. The psychological and practical impact it is having on high-networth families — the state being only one of 14 around the country having an estate tax — is not worth the $130 million.”

The commission also called for an increase in business taxes, which Patricelli acknowledged came amid much debate. “We’re

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n offering an overview of the final report from the Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth that was tasked to plot a course for saving Connecticut’s ailing economy, commission Co-chairman James C. Smith facetiously insisted that the report could unite all sides of the political and economic spectrum.

“There is something in this report for everyone to hate,” deadpanned Smith, chairman and former CEO of Webster Bank, in an April 20 presentation before members of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council. Smith, who was joined by commission Co-chairman Robert Patricelli, noted that while the commission was supposed to dissolve on March 1, he had no intention of walking away from his work.

“Bob and I had 10 presentations this week,” he continued. “We’re going to keep telling the story and not let this go away.”

Smith noted that the 14-member commission sifted through more than 10,000 pages of research and held eight public hearings during its 76-day state-mandated timeline. The result, according to Smith, was a detailed view of the dismal fiscal environment for Connecticut, with a forecast $2.5 billion deficit by Fiscal Year 2022.

“The deficit is growing at a rate of $500 million a year,” he lamented, adding that the state is weighed down by unfunded liabilities that cannot be erased via legislation or executive order. “There are about 1 million homeowners in Connecticut and $100 million in unfunded liabilities is about a $100,000 mortgage on every person’s home.”

Smith produced a chart that showed Connecticut was above the national average for income tax (6.97 percent versus the national 5.5 percent rate), corporate tax (7.5 percent versus 6.2 percent), sales tax (6.4 percent versus 5.1 percent), property tax (1.5 percent versus 1.1 percent) and estate tax (12 percent versus 4.3 percent). He also pointed out that households moving into Connecticut earn an average of $93,000 per year while those moving out of the state earn an average of $123,000.

“It took us a long time to dig this hole,” Smith said, throwing in a dig at a state government which he blamed for much of the problem. “Bad policies are causing people to lose their confidence.”

Patricelli, a former chairman and CEO at Women’s Health USA, offered highlights from the commission’s 119-page report, and he acknowledged that their recommendations were a mix of tough love and political compromise.

“This isn’t about tweaking the dials,” he said.

“We knew we had to be comprehensive, we knew we had to be bold. But it also had to be down the middle philosophically in order to be bipartisan. We needed a set of recommenda-

James Smith (left) and Robert Patricelli, co-chairs of the fiscal stability commission, during their presentation before the Bridgeport Regional Business Council. Photo by Phil Hall.

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Seated, from left, Chris Combe, Chairman, Combe, Inc; Bud Hammer, President, Atlantic Westchester, Inc; Lisa Hammer, CFO, Atlantic Westchester, Inc; Gerri Pell, CEO, Pell Wealth Partners, and Thomas LaPerch, Commercial Group Director, Houlihan Lawrence. Standing, from left, Hall of Fame Dinner Co-Chair James Giangrande, Managing Director & Partner, Altium Wealth; Akshay Shetty, Co-CEO, Combe, Inc; BCW Chairman Anthony Justic, Partner, Maier, Markey & Justic, LLP; Marsha Gordon, President and CEO, BCW; Robert Schaeffer, President & CEO, D&D Elevator; Nunzio Meccariello, Treasurer, D&D Elevator, and Michael Bonardi, Vice President, D&D Elevator. Not pictured, Seth Pinsky, Executive Vice President and Investment Manager, RXR Realty.

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BCW Honors Six ‘Change Makers’ ore than 600 business leaders were on hand April 24 for the Business Council of Westchester’s 16th Annual Hall of Fame Awards Dinner. This year’s program, which was held at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, honored six “change makers” who have transformed their industries and added to the economic vitality of the region.

in Rye Brook, Houlihan Lawrence ranks in the top 20 of all brokerages nationally and achieved a total sales volume of more than $6.5 billion in 2017.

RXR Realty is a vertically-integrated private real estate company with expertise in investment management, property management, development, design, construction, leasing and financing. The company, which markets and manages 74 commercial real estate properties and investments in the tristate region, has major projects under way in the downtowns of Yonkers and New Rochelle where it is building transit-oriented luxury rental complexes.

The honorees in their respective categories were: Corporate Citizenship – Houlihan Lawrence; Entrepreneurial Success – RXR Realty; Family Owned Business – Combe, Inc.; Small Business Success – D&D Elevator; Women in Business – Geri Pell, Combe, Inc. of White Plains is a Pell Wealth Partners; Chairman’s privately-held, family-owned personal Recognition – Atlantic Westchester, Inc. care company. Founded by Ivan B. Combe in 1949, the company current Meet the Winners brands are category leaders in markets Houlihan Lawrence is the leading real around the world. Building on Ivan estate brokerage serving New York Combe’s vision and leadership, his son, City’s northern suburbs. The familyChris Combe, oversaw the robust growth run company has 30 offices and more of the company for two decades until than 1,300 agents serving Westchester, his retirement in 2014. Today, Chris’ Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Ulster daughter, Keech Comb Shetty, and and Orange counties in New York and son-in-law, Akshay Shetty, are steering Fairfield County in Connecticut. Based the company into the future.

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YMCA selling its White Plains building

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he YMCA of Central and Northern Westchester plans to sell its building on Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains.

Officials said that rising maintenance costs for the structure at 250 Mamaroneck Ave. prompted the decision to list the property for sale. In the past four years, the organization has poured more than $1 million into the nearly century-old building.

“Given the unsustainable costs of maintaining this aging building, we felt this was our best option to continue offering our many services to our valued members,” said Cynthia Rubino, president and CEO of the YMCA of Central & Northern Westchester. “These funds would be better spent bringing vital services to our community at various locations throughout our service area.

The building was constructed in 1927 and, along with offering a range of youth development programming, features a fitness center and recreation area. There is also an aquatics center on the premises, though the pool has been out of commission for months.

Rubino said that growing competition from health clubs also contributed to the organization’s decision to sell the property. In the past, the Rubino said the YMCA “was the only gym in town.”

“That’s changed dramatically.”

The facility is also home to roughly 140 short- and long-term tenants. These tenants, who can pay a daily, weekly or monthly rate, are given furnished rooms and full access to the YMCA’s facilities.

Rubino said that prior to announcing the sale, she reached out to a number of local and county officials.

Together with those officials, the nonprofit plans to organize a housing fair in May,

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The building on Mamaroneck Avenue was built in 1927. Photo by Aleesia Forni

which will give the building’s residents options for finding a new home.

“We did this so far in advance, because we want people to get the right thing they need,” she said.

The organization estimates the sale process could last between 18 to 24 months, and the YMCA of Central & Northern Westchester will continue to operate out of the facility during that time.

After the building’s sale, the YMCA plans to transition into a “nonfacility YMCA” model, which brings services to its members through other non-YMCA owned locations.

The YMCA said it is seeking program partners as it moves to this new model.

“We don't need a building,” Rubino said. “We really think this model, being the ‘Y on the Move,’ is going to resonate with the community. It would be great to go to say, The Slater Center, and offer a diabetes program, or to get out there in the community and partner with people who have a built-in audience, instead of making everyone come to us.”

Rubino said this new “Y on the Move” model will allow the organization to grow its programming and serve additional communities.

With this transition, the YMCA will become one of more than 200 nonfacility

branches of the nonprofit across the country.

“It’s very much a trend,” Rubino said. “The world is changing.”

Still, she said that “the anchor we have will continue in White Plains at another location.”

The organization’s child care center, which serves 200 children each day, will be moved to another site. That location has yet to be determined but will likely have additional space for senior or youth development programming, Rubino said.

“The Y is not a building.

The Y is a movement,” she said. “That’s what we’re trying to bring to the community.”

The future of the aging building remains uncertain.

“We’ve had a number of inquiries,” Rubino said, from private developers who may redevelop the site to other nonprofits who would transform the structure into workforce housing.

The White Plains YMCA, which serves communities including Scarsdale, Elmsford, Hartsdale, Larchmont, Port Chester, Mamaroneck and Greenburgh, is one of three branches of the YMCA of Central and Northern Westchester. The organization also operates Camp Combe, a Putnam Valley summer day camp, and the Community YMCA in Purdys.

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needed an organization that told the stories of our maritime heritage.”

Since that time, the group has worked to save ships like the paddlewheel tug, Eppleton Hall; the World War II ship, John W. Brown; and the Elissa, a ship built in 1877.

Along with saving the ships themselves, the organization also aims to raise awareness for the nation’s shipping industry.

“Unbeknownst to most people, 95 percent of all the goods you have come by ship.

The sneakers you wear, the food you eat, your clothes,” she said. “But because shipping has become so efficient, it’s a hidden industry. It’s totally invisible.”

Still, she added, “people have to realize that America has to support this industry.”

America’s maritime history is also important, Greene said, because many of the population’s ancestors came to the country by ship.

“It’s important to understand what they

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The organization’s lease at the waterfront structure runs until June 2020.

“Our lease has not been renewed, so we’ve been looking around for other places,” she said.

Greene hopes the organization’s headquarters will remain in the area, with most of the staff traveling to work from northern Westchester or southern Dutchess counties.

“We would like some kind of water location,” she said. “There are some of my staff who would love to get out of this old building, but I don’t really see us moving into anything really modern.”

Greene said she’s in the process of working with the town of Cortland to build a new headquarters, along with a museum or visitors center.

She hopes the new museum would be “more interactive” and “hopefully involve

getting people out in some kind of boat on the water.”

“It’s just in the beginning phases,” she said. “The Hudson River has so much history, and the ships on the Hudson have so much history.”

Eventually, Greene hopes to turn the area into a maritime attraction for visitors.

“You have 40 million visitors to New York each year and most of them, when they come from overseas, they would like to see at least one other city,” she said, “and now that there are so many cruise ships that go up and down the Hudson River, to have them stop here, it could be a real tourist destination.”

Despite the organization’s somewhat uncertain future, Greene remains hopeful.

“I think it’s good for the community, and I think sometimes you have to get away from yourself and look at the larger picture,” she said of the revitalization of Charles Point.

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Auto firms trade new accusations

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fter trading lawsuits alleging kickbacks and defamation, North State Custom and Mercedes-Benz of Goldens Bridge appeared to have settled their differences.

But now the automotive companies are accusing one another of violating the settlement agreement itself, in new litigation filed this month in Westchester Supreme Court.

The terms of the settlement were supposed to be confidential, North State President Gregory Coccaro Jr. claims, yet dealership owner Thomas Maoli issued a press release that falsely claimed vindication.

“It was Mr. Coccaro who violated the agreement,” attorney Marc J. Gross said on behalf of Maoli’s company, Celebrity Auto of Westchester. “We are confident this is going to resolve in favor of Celebrity.”

Maoli, who heads a group of luxury car dealerships in New Jersey, bought the Goldens Bridge Mercedes dealership last year from Estate Motors. Estate had sponsored North State as an authorized Mercedes repair shop for 13 years.

Coccaro claimed in an October lawsuit that Maoli’s representatives had demanded kickbacks to continue referring customers for repair work and that it had dropped sponsorship of the repair shop when it refused to do so. Coccaro had given an interview to a trade publication in which he stated that Celebrity had demanded a “flat out mafia-style bribe.”

Celebrity countersued in December, claiming that Coccaro had defamed the dealership by placing it in a false light. Earlier this year, they worked out a settlement and in March they filed to discontinue their lawsuits.

They agreed not to disclose the settlement and to keep the terms confidential.

But if asked about the settlement they would respond, “The parties have resolved their differences without the exchange of any money and are satisfied with the resolution.”

Around April 2, Coccaro claims, Maoli issued a press release to Cision PR Newswire, falsely claiming that MercedesBenz of Goldens Bridge had been vindicated, that North State had made “egregious allegations” and that Coccaro had retracted his litigation.

FenderBender.com and Repairer Driven News published articles based on this press release. The press release was also allegedly emailed to Celebrity customers.

Celebrity claims that it was Coccaro who violated the confidentiality clause, by disclosing terms of the settlement during an interview with Repairer Driven News around April 3. The dealership and repair shop are accusing one another of breach of agreement, trade libel, tortious interference and other charges.

Coccaro is seeking damages of $2.5 million. Maoli is demanding $5 million.

Plan would ban single-use plastic bags at retailers

BY ALEESIA FORNI aforni@westfairinc.com

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he use of single-use plastic bags would be restricted under a new plan proposed by two Westchester County legislators.

Legislators Kitley Covill and Nancy Barr announced legislation aimed at encouraging the use of reusable bags.

“This is the first step toward a goal we all share, to improve the environment by eliminating the plastic bags that pollute our waterways, clog our sewers, back up our storm drains, endanger our marine life and litter our streets,” said Covill, a Katonah Democrat.

The goal of the Reusable Bag Initiative, legislators said, is to eliminate single-use plastic bags at retail checkouts.

Stores and other sellers would only be allowed to provide reusable bags or bags made of recycled paper. The initiative

also proposes a fee of at least 10 cents for every bag provided by a seller.

“This legislation reflects an increasing awareness of how destructive, permanent and unnecessary single-use plastic bags actually are,” said Nancy Barr, a Democrat from Rye Brook.

Certain kinds of bags, such as dry cleaner garment covers, produce bags and those used for prescriptions, are exempt from the initiative. Legislators said shoppers using the New York State Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and the New York State Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) would be exempt from the fee.

“While several municipalities around Westchester already have reusable bag legislation and several others are considering similar laws, it’s time for the county as a whole to join other counties like Suffolk in leading the

state and the nation towards a cleaner, more sustainable future for ourselves and for our children,” Barr said.

Municipalities, including Larchmont, have similar bans in place. In Connecticut, plastic bags have been banned from retail stores in Westport for nearly a decade and Greenwich passed a ban on plastic bags earlier this year.

The legislation also takes aim at polystyrene foam packing materials, banning their use in food containers and other uses in the county. The measure notes that these materials “live forever” and are a “significant source of pollution as they are difficult to recycle.”

“The introduction of this measure is the first step in the legislative process,” Covill said. “The various committees at the Board of Legislators will be listening to everyone — store owners, consumers, environmental scientists and others — as we work together to shape a law that is not

an undue burden on anyone, but one that will make the Westchester we leave for our children better, cleaner and more sustainable.”

Still, some believe the bill’s inclusion of a bag fee would be a burden on the working poor.

“The working poor are already fighting to make ends meet,” said Westchester County Legislator Lyndon Williams, a Mount Vernon Democrat. “The county should not burden them further with a bag fee.”

Williams said the fee would not deter residents

would be a windfall to the business owner. Instead, he proposed the fee be funneled to remediate negative environmental conditions in poor communities.

Just days after legislators announced their plan, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a similar bill that would ban all single-use, plastic carryout bags across the state. The bill would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2019.

In March 2017, Cuomo launched the New York State Plastic Bags Task Force, a group he created to study the impact of single-use plastic bags and develop a solution. The group, led by State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos, released their findings in January.

“The blight of plastic bags takes a devastating toll on our streets, our water and our natural resources, and we need to take action to protect our environment,” Cuomo said.

who are financially well off, noting that they would instead pay for the convenience of a bag that would eventually end up as waste.

He also questioned the sufficiency of exemptions for WIC and SNAP recipients, noting that many working poor are not part of those programs.

“I want to support my colleagues’ effort on the environment, but just not at the expense of those who can least afford to bear the burden of this fee,” Williams said.

He added he was also concerned that the bag fee

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BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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estchester County’s air quality received an “F” from the American Lung Association, but that may not be a surprise to anyone who has been tracking the organization’s annual State of the Air report.

The national organization, which has a regional office in White Plains, has released yearly national air quality rankings for 19 years.

Westchester County has failed its standards 19 times.

Fairfield County fared no better, as it has also received a failing grade for the same 19 years.

It’s both counties’ elevated levels of ozone, the main gaseous component of smog, that drag down their scores.

All those hot summer days when “AIR QUALITY ALERT” flash across electronic highway screens and on local

newscasts add up.

Westchester County had 18 high ozone days between 2014 and 2016, the threeyear period examined by the American Lung Association.

That puts the county third highest among the 25 counties in New York that the Lung Association had data.

Fairfield County had 50 such days, leading all of Connecticut.

Asked about Westchester County’s failing grade, the American Lung Association’s Michael Seilback said things are improving, despite the red ink on the report card.

Seilback, vice president of public policy and communications for the American Lung Association, said measures at the local, state and federal level to clean up air have been effective. An increase in hybrid and electric vehicles and stricter air quality standard set by the Clean Air Act have helped the situation from when the

American Lung Association first launched the report.

So, while Westchester may still be failing, “This is like going from a 15 out of 100, to a 55 or a 60 out of 100,” Seilback said. “We still have a long way to go before putting this up on the fridge, but the trend is moving in the right direction.”

The report from the American Lung Association looked at both particle pollution and ozone pollution.

Data on particle pollution is hard to come by, only about 900 of the 3,000 counties in the U.S. have sensors to track

it. Westchester is among the counties that does not.

The nearest county with such sensors, Orange County, received an A for its lack of pollution, as did the other 14 counties in New York with sensors.

Fairfield County does have particle pollution calculator and receiving a passing grade of B for having only two days with high particle pollution.

Ozone pollution carries significant health risks such as worsened asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It can contribute to cardiovascular harm leading

to heart attack and stroke, as well as damage to the central nervous system.

The report noted that Westchester's population of 974,542 has a large number of groups especially vulnerable to air pollution: 219,289 children under 18; 157,555 adults 65 and older; 41,034 people with COPD and 92,337 with adult or pediatric asthma.

The New York-Newark Tristate region ranked as the 10th most polluted city in the U.S. by ozone pollution.

The report noted that ozone pollution isn't just generated through local sources, such as cars and industry. It can also travel from far away regions and stick in the Northeast.

In Fairfield County, for example, the 50 high ozone days between 2014 and 2016, made it the most ozone-polluted county east of the Mississippi. But the report noted that the majority of its ozone pollution came from

sources outside the county.

“Even coal-fired plants in the Midwest, ozone that’s produced there ends up traveling and settling over our region,” Seilback said. "Because of weather patterns and topography, this is where it sort of settles. The Northeast is sometimes called the tailpipe of the nation, we get stuck with the pollution produced elsewhere.”

Nationwide, the report found ozone pollution worsened from 2014 through 2016 compared to the 2013 to 2015 period examined last year.

More than 40 percent of people in the U.S. live in counties with unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution. In New York, it’s 47 percent of residents.

The report blamed the increase in nationwide ozone pollution in part on record-setting heat in 2016. Its findings, according to the Lung Association, show how climate change is making it harder to protect human health.

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airfield County’s housing market recorded its fifth consecutive annual increase in median sales prices and eighth consecutive year-overyear decline in listing inventory during the first quarter of 2018, according to new data released by Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

The average sales price in Fairfield County during the first quarter was $636,369, down from $696,086 in the fourth quarter of 2017 quarter and down from the $645,782 that was recorded in first quarter of 2017. The median sales price for the county in the first quarter was $385,000, down from $390,000 in the fourth quarter but above the $380,000 level set one year earlier. The number of closed sales for the first quarter totaled 2,021, down from 2,743 in the previous quarter and slightly lower than the 2,092 closed sales one year earlier.

The days on market was 145 for the first quarter, up 12.4 percent from the 129 days in the fourth quarter and up 22.9 percent from 118 days in the first quarter of 2017. Listing inventory in the first quarter totaled 4,609, up from 3,839 in the first quarter but down from 5,044 in the previous year.

Among property types, the average sales price for a single-family Fairfield County home in the first quarter was $751,434, down 7.3 percent from the $810,272 price in the fourth quarter and down 0.5 percent from the first quarter of 2017 price of $755,483. The median sales price in the first quarter was $466,500, up from $457,000 in the previous quarter and up from $450,000 one year earlier.

A total of 1,484 single-family homes were sold, a 28.2 percent drop from the 2,067 level in the fourth quarter and a 4.5 percent decline from the 1,554 in the first quarter of last year.

The average sales price for condos was $318,388, down from $346,941 in the previous quarter and down from $328,911 one year earlier. The median sales price of $250,000 was lower than the fourth quarter’s $258,500 price but higher than the $245,000 in the first quarter of 2017. There were 537 condos sold in the first quarter, compared with 676 in the previous quarter and 538 one year earlier.

In the luxury market, the average first quarter sales price was $2.6 million, down from $2.9 million in the fourth quarter but only 1.5 percent below the $2.64 million in the first quarter of 2017. The median sales price of $1.9 million was below

the $2.2 million in the previous quarter and the $2.1 million in the first quarter of last year. Sales activity also slumped, with 234 properties sold in the first quarter, slightly below the 237 properties sold in the fourth quarter and well under the 195 level from one year earlier.

Among the Fairfield County submarkets, Greenwich recorded the highest average sales price for a single-family home at $2.71 million, down from $2.8 million in the previous quarter and up from the $2.5 million one year earlier. Greenwich also had the highest average sales price on condos at $875,570, a 21 percent drop from $1.1 million in the fourth quarter and a 12.2 percent decline from $997,741 in the first quarter of 2017.

Scott Elwell, Douglas Elliman’s senior executive regional manager of Westchester and Connecticut, was satisfied with the market’s performance. “Prices are high and there are plenty of buyers trying to find homes,” he observed. “We have a very high demand at several price points.”

Elwell forecast that the Darien submarket, with its average first quarter sales price of $1.4 million, could become a major center of sales activity during the course of 2018. “Darien is having a strong market,” he said. “The lower price points are going exceedingly fast.”

Facing cuts, colleges look for new revenues

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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ven before the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities’ (CSCU) controversial plan to consolidate its 12 community colleges into one system was rejected by accrediting body the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) in a letter dated April 24, schools were busy trying to come up with new ways of creating revenue.

After all, they said, cuts in government aid are not likely to be reversed anytime soon.

“We know we all face the prospect of more budget cuts next year,” said Norwalk Community College (NCC) President David Levinson.

“We’re hoping that they could come up with some

additional appropriations for us, but we’re not assuming that.”

For fiscal year 2018, NCC is receiving nearly $13.8 million from the state — compared with $15.1 million in fiscal 2017. “And when it comes to basic operating revenues, including fringe benefit costs for our employees, the state is no longer subsidizing that,” Levinson noted.

All told, the 12 community colleges in the CSCU system, which also includes Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, recorded an operating loss of $454.3 million for the year ended June 30, 2017, compared with an operating loss of $412.3 million for the year ended June 30, 2016.

As a result, schools are looking to get creative when it comes to trying to cover their costs.

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Three ways to drive more traffic with Instagram

nstagram is more than just a place to share your favorite photos.

Many brands and marketers have jumped on this engagement-centric social network to communicate with a larger segment of their audiences.

You should use Instagram to grow your business, too.

However, Instagram has some differences from other popular social media marketing options like Facebook and Twitter. You need a picture for each post and while Pinterest allows you to turn pictures into clickable links, Instagram does not give you that luxury. In fact, if you put a link into a picture’s description, that link is not clickable.

Even with these two disadvantages, Instagram’s high-level engagement and effective marketing have allowed some business owners to grow their brands with it. Here are three ways that you can start driving more traffic with Instagram.

PICTURE PERFECT BRANDING

When you post something on Instagram, it competes for attention with every recent Instagram post. If you post random, unconnected pictures, your followers may come across your pictures without knowing they’re from you. Sure, people can look to see who posted the picture, but most people quickly do so. Some of your followers will engage by briefly looking at your picture, liking it and scrolling down.

You’ll get people to remember your brand if you include your brand’s logo within each picture. You can include a small logo at the bottom right of your pictures to reinforce your brand and build trust with your followers. As they see your brand more often, your followers will go directly to your profile.

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The link you use in your bio is critical. In the end, only two links work. The first link is one that leads your followers to a landing page. You grow your email list as people click on the link and optin for a free offer.

This is a great option if you don’t post as consistently or don’t use a call-to-action in your Instagram descriptions. However, you can also include a link to your blog, YouTube channel, podcast or any other platform where you’re consistently publishing new content. That way, you can publish Instagram pictures that inform people of your new content.

After you briefly discuss the content in the description, you can say that the link to the content is in your bio. This way, you can get consistent traffic to your free content and if that content is optimized to drive people to your opt-in offers, you’ll grow your email list. This is a less-direct approach to growing your email list, but you’ll set up Instagram as a potent platform for spreading your latest content.

CONSISTENCY IS CRUCIAL

To capture the full power of any social network, and especially Instagram, you need to post consistently.

You can start with one post per day and monitor your

followers’ engagement with your content. However, you don’t want to flood your followers’ feeds.

If you link to your blog, podcast or YouTube channel (i.e., a platform where you consistently publish new content), you’ll have plenty of opportunities to post new pictures on Instagram, especially if you publish new content every day.

I recommend using Canva to create your pictures. Even if you have pictures from your smartphone, I still recommend putting them into Canva so you can include your logo at the bottom right of each picture.

That builds brand awareness and trust as we previously discussed. If you create all of the pictures that go on your Instagram, you can create a rubric picture. In a rubric picture, you keep the basic layout the same but change a few things. When I promote Breakthrough Success episodes on Instagram, the pictures have a similar structure. The guest is on the left side of the picture, the episode number and title appear on the upper right, and the Breakthrough Success logo appears on the lower right of the picture. With this rubric in play, I just change the picture’s text and guest picture and I have my next Instagram post.

Instagram is a social network bustling with potential for those who aspire to master it. Take the small action steps now like posting something on Instagram — today — so you can build on the positive reinforcement loop.

Marc Guberti is a student at Fordham University and a social media and business blogger and author. He’s on Twitter @MarcGuberti and can be reached by phone at 914-722-6005 or email at Marc@MarcGuberti.com.

Cappelli breaks ground on New Rochelle project, plans more

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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t the groundbreaking for a building in New Rochelle on April 25, developer Louis Cappelli told the Business Journal that his company has “paid its dues” following the 2008 economic downturn and plans to be very active from now on. “I believe we’re going to be doing a lot of projects in Westchester in the next two, three, four years,” Cappelli said.

“I think there’s a whole resurgence in our company; a lot of young people in our company versus ‘older me’ and they want to get cranking and I’m all for it.”

Cappelli revealed that he would like to be involved in the redevelopment of the train station area in White Plains, having previously proposed a project for that part of the city that sparked only mixed interest from elected officials, some of whom believed it was too massive. At the time, Cappelli offered to under-

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not crazy about that idea, but we think it is so important to reposition the tax structure to go where there is some effort,” he said. “Business taxes in Connecticut are relatively low compared to other states.”

Patricelli also called for increasing the gas tax by seven cents over a four-year period, which he claimed would cost the average driver an additional $70 per year. He also envisioned a $15 minimum wage to be reached via incremental increases over the next four years. “The state has to be a place where people of all income levels can live, succeed and aspire. And it is awfully hard to live on $10.10 in Connecticut.”

write the costs of the city studying the possibilities for creating a transportation, business and retail center that would attract people the way Grand Central Terminal does in Manhattan.

“I did come up with an idea about eight years ago for three large office buildings and residential buildings. It seems like now’s the time,” he said.

Cappelli told the Business Journal that he had put his name “in the hat” with respect to the current effort regarding White Plains Transit District redevelopment.

The New Rochelle groundbreaking was for a building to be called The Standard. It will be a 14-story residential building on the site of the former Standard Star newspaper. The building site spans the block between 251 North Ave. and LeCount Place, across from Cappelli’s New Roc City project. Features of that project include a movie multiplex, a Stop and Shop supermarket and a Marriott Residence Inn. Nearby is the 194-unit Trump Plaza Condominium tower

built by Cappelli.

The building will have 112 apartments and approximately 4,000 square feet of retail space. Cappelli told the Business Journal that the building would be targeted to attract millennials.

New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson was among those attending the groundbreaking, which was held in a tent due to the rainy weather.

“Today’s groundbreaking for The Standard marks yet another important step toward achieving our community’s vision of a walkable, vibrant and diverse downtown that honors its history while embracing its future,” he said.

Cappelli said his company has owned the site of The Standard for several years. “When we opened New Roc City almost 20 years ago, we were pioneers in the revitalization of the downtown. Since then, the city has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance. The site of The Standard is an important in-fill parcel linking the New Roc complex to North Street,” he said.

Patricelli added the commission approved of the concept of electronic tolls in principle but had yet to see a viable solution for implementing this revenue stream. “We’re the only state on the Atlantic Coast that doesn’t have tolls,” he said. “The gas tax is going to peter out. There’s got to be a substitute. There has to be a way to fund transportation infrastructure.”

Furthermore, the commission recommended that municipalities be given options to expand their revenue streams, including the charging of service fees in lieu of taxes to nonprofits. “Our big hospitals and colleges and universities surely can pay something for the services they use without losing their tax-exempt status,” Patricelli said.

However, Patricelli said that the limited time left in the current legislative session and a reluctance by legislators from both parties to vote for tax increases in an election year could doom the commission’s recommendations.

Still, he insisted that the private sector get involved in lobbying legislators on issues important to their operations.

“The private sector has to get back in the game,” he said. “We need to make it clear to our legislators that doing nothing is not an option. We need something approaching a private sector movement, basically to say to our elected representatives: ‘Your election is in doubt if you don’t approve at least some of the commission’s suggestions.’”

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THE LIST: Veteran-Owned Businesses

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Aaron Kershaw Photography & Media

Aaron Kershaw Founder and lead photographer 2011

Media production

ACA Environmental Services

Frank Garito President 1984

Specializes in asbestos, lead-based paint, mold and mercury removal and decontamination services

Accel Printing and Graphics Corp.

Bill Harden Owner and CEO 1976

Printing company

Campfire Capital

Peter W. Gaudet Owner 2008

Provider of investment banking and corporate finance services to middle-market companies

Eagle Air Conditioning Inc.

Matthew Lazarus Executive manager 1984

Provider of heating, ventilation and air conditioning solutions for buildings

James A. Jenkins Jr. General manager 2016

Worksite wellness for employed veterans

Hearts for Heroes (H4HUS)

Brian VandePutte Executive director 2016

Nonprofit that provides animal-assisted therapy programs to active duty and military veterans

Income & Asset Advisory Inc.

James McCauley Jr. President and CEO 1996

Provider of investment and financial advice

600 Mamaroneck Ave., Suite 400, Harrison 10528 517-7010 • aaronkershawphotography.com

791 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers 10703 965-5828 • acaenv.com

128 Radio Circle, Mount Kisco 10549 241-3369 • accelprinting.com

81 Campfire Road, Chappaqua 10514 861-2113 • campfirecap.com

16 Sherman Ave., White Plains 10605 681-0670 • eagleairconditioning.net

First Approach EA Worksite Wellness

75 S. Broadway, White Plains 10601 861-2376 • pickaveterantotreat.org

P.O. Box 394, Bedford 10506 844-224-4487 • h4hus.org

80 Business Park Drive, Suite 304, Armonk 10504 273-6800 • theadvisory.com

A video production company providing Edward Roy Producer and director production services to businesses in the N/A Hudson Valley

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20 W. Main St., Suite 2, Beacon 12508 845-809-4253 • j6mediaworks.com

Name Address Area code: 914 unless otherwise noted Website

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Netcast Corp.

Bert L. Belasco Jr. Founder 1997

Specializing in executive search, executive development and performance management needs for businesses

Noreast Property Management

Anthony M. Gisondi Owner and operator 2015

Services include painting and wall covering, interior design and snow removal

Joseph Randolla Owner 2009

Accounting and business services for small businesses

Pagani PR

Frank Pagani Founder and president 2012

Strategic public relations and marketing consultant/ senior creative writer

Peter F. Gaito & Associates

Peter F. Gaito Sr.

Razamataz! Events Unlimited

Dennis Star Owner 1993

An intermediary destination management company providing full coordination and planning services

Real Estate Solutions

Jeffrey J. Beal Owner 1996

Specializes in valuation of commercial and residential real estate where there is the potential for litigation or there are tax issues

Regiment Technology Group LLC

Myles Bartleyl Owner N/A

Information technology service provider offering hardware, software, cyber security and cloud solutions

Rothman Consulting LLC

Michael Rothman President 1997

A preeminent boutique investigative consulting firm

Scott Tag and Label Co. Inc.

Joel A. Robinson President 1975

Printing company

Segel & Co.

William Segel President 2017

Construction

Top Chef Meals

Paul Ghiron President 2010

Prepared meal delivery service

Jason Varian and Louie Maiello Co-owners 2013

A buy, sell and trade business that allows people to exchange their unwanted personal belongings for money

P.O. Box 614, Carmel 10512 523-1886 • netcastcorp.com

414 Elwood Ave., Hawthorne 10532 557-0281 • noreastpm.com

Padgett Business Services Westchester

92 Hudson Point Lane, Ossining 10562 752-4411 • padgettwestchester.com • padgettossining.com

43 Concord Road, Ardsley 10502 843-5079 • paganipr.com

333 Westchester Ave., Suite S303, White Plains 10604 President 1972 682-3381 • pfga.net

1333A North Ave., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10804 654-9200 • razevents.com

5 Latonia Road, Rye Brook 10573 877-990-4200 • resol.us

81 Pondfield Road, Suite D279, Bronxville 10708 222-3071 • regt-tech.com

42 Main St., Bedford Hills 10507 666-4900 • rothmanconsulting.com

James T. Colburn LLC

James T. Colburn Owner N/A

An economic consulting firm specializing in agricultural and energy markets

Law Office of Mark Smalec

Mark Smalec Owner N/A

Law firm representing traffic ticket defense and moving violation defense

2 Westchester Park Drive, White Plains 10604 236-5455 • segelandco.com

Mazzille Hillman & Thornton Inc.

Richard Hillman Sr. President N/A

Independent insurance agency serving personal and commercial clients

175 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford 10523 372-7080 • topchefmeals.com

Michael Bellantoni Inc.

Michael Bellantoni CEO 1963

Full-service landscape design firm

21 Nassau Road, Larchmont 10538 914-834-4405 • N/A

695 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie 12603 845-877-1777 • trafficticketdefenseny.com

1454 Route 22, Suite B103, Brewster 10509 592-1910 • mhtinc.net

121 Lafayette Ave., White Plains 10603 760-6060 • bellantonilandscape.com

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19 Maple Crest Drive, Peekskill 10566 212-517-2200 • scotttag.com

XTRA Change

369 Route 6, Mahopac 10541 845-621-0906 • theextrachange.com

Architecture and engineering and planning firm

This list is a sampling of veteran-owned businesses that are located in the region.

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Moving customers toward making the purchase Some customers have told us that they don’t have the budget right now to buy. We know they’re not going somewhere else, they’re just postponing the purchase. How can we get them to take action sooner rather than later?

Thoughts of the Day: Sometimes customers lack the will to act.

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Trying to find a way to help everyone around them but not sure how to do that?

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Ask for details. Are there competing options? Is any group stuck or not engaged?

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Eliminate surprises down the line. Give your customer a ballpark budget up front.

Verify that funds could be found if the need is great enough. Stay within budget when it comes time to quote exact prices.

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THE LIST: Veteran-Owned Businesses

FAIRFIELD COUNTY

Veteran-owned Businesses

Listed alphabetically.

Name Address Area code: 203 unless otherwise noted Website

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Anastasia Plumbing LLC

6 Kneen Court, Shelton 06484 627-2862 • anastasiaplumbingllc.com

Anvil Search Group

45 Church St., Suite 301, Stamford 06906 356-9999 • internetcrossings.com

Assets Home Inspection LLC

7 Old Hawleyville Road, Newtown 06470 297-7587 • assetshomeinspection.com

Blue Trail Realty LLC

22 Knapp St., Stamford 06907 475-619-9405 • bluetrailrealty.com

Robert Anastasia Owner N/A

Residential and commercial plumbing company

Alexander Walker Founder and managing partner 2000

An executive search firm specializing in biotechnology, telecommunications and media

Dennis Furse Owner N/A

Home inspection services

Kathleen and Brad Hay Owners 2016

Real estate brokerage

Bob Callahan Design

Bob Callahan Owner 1992

Graphic design firm

Café Xpresso

Bob Schlump President 2015

Specialty coffee shop, bakery and café

Connecticut Firearms Training LLC

William Reed Senior instructor N/A

Licensed firearm instructors teaching pistol permit classes and advanced training

Cooperbey & Associates

Dan Cooperbey Owner N/A

Creative marketing agency offering freelance and consulting services

Edward Stodolski Owner and manager 1998

Office equipment supplier and service provider

181 Thornridge Drive, Stamford 06903 912-9085 • gaellad.wix.com/bobcallahandesign

150 S. Main St., Newtown 06470 304-9955 • cafexpressonewtown.com

146 Danbury Road, New Milford 06776 748-4867 • connecticutfirearmstraining.com

168 Mayfield Drive, Trumbull 06611 913-7758 • cooperbey.com

Copiers Plus Worldwide LLC 7365 Main St., No. 122, Stratford 06614 381-0399 • copierspluswwllc.com

Fairfield County

Name Address Area code: 203 unless otherwise noted Website

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CT Hydromechanical LLC *

Marcelo Assis Owner N/A

Plumbing, heating and HVAC services, as well as remodels and additions

Frank Holleran Owner 1981

Installation services for inground sprinklers

Jose Merc Owner N/A

Carpet and cleaning restoration company

William Flow Business development manager N/A

Environmental remediation services company

Andrew Fox Captain N/A

Fishing charters and other services, including sightseeing trips, transportation and special events

Walter Jacques Owner N/A

Provider of blanchard grinding and surface grinding and double disc grinding

Daniel Lanigan Owner 2006

Barbecue food truck

Chad Smith Owner 2009

Paint and sip studios, with additional locations in Norwalk and Mamaroneck, N.Y.

Scott Sokolowski, founder, and Jessica Ewud, founding partner and executive director 2011

Nonprofit that supports veterans through their transition back into civilian life

Shelton 06484 449-6754 • cthydro.org

Frank's Inground * Sprinkler Systems

Bridgeport 06606 258-3708 • franksingroundsprinkler.com

Global One Cleaning & Restoration Services

2365 Main St., No. 265, Stratford 06614 646-2036 • globalonecleaning.com

Herbert Recovery

27 Davenport St., Stamford 06902 938-7066 • hebertrecovery.com

Magic Touch Charters

242 S. Water St, Greenwich 06830 914-563-2743 • magictouchcharters.com

New England Grinding and Machining LLC

30 Radel St., Bridgeport 06607 333-1885 • newenglandgrindingandmachining.com

Pig Rig BBQ

950 Yale Ave., Wallingford 06492 265-0765 • pigrigbbq.com

Pinot's PaletteMetro North Studios

25 Harbor Point Road, Stamford 06902 588-9893 • pinotspalette.com

Save-A-Suit

137 Greenwood Ave., Bethel 06801 456-6801 • saveasuit.org

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tude of the proposed changes, the proposed timeline, and the limited investment in supporting the changes, the Commission is concerned that the potential for a disorderly environment is too high to approve the proposed Community College of Connecticut as a candidate for accreditation based on this proposal,” Angel wrote.

Resubmitting the proposal to NEASC could take up to five years, Ojakian said. "The problems that our institutions and students face cannot wait five years,” he wrote to CSCU staff. “In five years, our institutions will be financially insolvent.”

The colleges could go ahead with the consolidation plan, but without NEASC approval they would not be able to present diplomas to graduating students.

Ojakian came up with “Students First” as a means of saving money; he estimated that consolidating the system would save nearly $28 million a year in administrative costs. Even if the plan had been approved, however, Ojakian maintained that the system would still face a $13.2 million deficit in the next fiscal year. The following two fiscal years would have been profitable if enrollment was strong, he projected.

“Students First was created to avert a major crisis for our institutions and our students,” Ojakian and Matt Fleury, chairman of the CSCU Board of Regents — which approved the plan 12-0 last December — wrote to CSCU staff. “Today, NEASC has issued a response to our Students First consolidation plan. It is not the decision that is best for our students, nor is it the decision for which we had hoped.

“This decision by NEASC is devastating to our ability to hold the line on tuition and keep all campuses open,” the letter continued. “In the face of an ongoing fiscal emergency, it forces us to consider options that we have strongly fought against because it will harm the 50,000 students who rely on their campuses and their campus communities.

“In the coming days we will review all of our options, including legislative and accrediting options, a review of tuition rates and the closing of one or more of our campuses,” the letter concluded.

Ojakian did not respond to Business Journal requests for further comment. But he has brought up the possibility of closing some campuses before — something that State Sen. Beth Bye (D-West Hartford) said was now a real possibility.

Calling the NEASC decision “extremely shortsighted and harmful,” Bye said the move “has put the Board of Regents and our community college students in an untenable position: completely close several college campuses, raise tuition rates substantially, demand tens of millions of dollars more every year from state government, or some combination of all of the above.

“For those who opposed the Board of Regents’ Students First proposal, this NEASC rejection may come as good news,”

Bye continued, “but I would remind my colleagues that we still expect the Board of Regents to achieve a huge cost savings in its operating budget, and its options for doing so in a timely manner have been severely curtailed. The Board of Regents system is already suffering due to the legislature’s cuts — $61 million, or 17 percent less, since 2015.”

Levinson at NCC, who had supported the plan, said the NEASC decision “just underscores the financial challenges we have.”

He noted that significant staff reductions had already taken place at the school over the past few years. “At our peak we had 104 full-time faculty and today we have 87,” he said. “We used to have seven people in

This decision

by NEASC is devastating to our ability to hold the line on tuition and keep all campuses open.

enrollment management and now we have four.”

As a result, Levinson said, “There’s been a lot of doubling up of duties. Our director of human resources (Therese Marrocco) is also our chief operating officer, so what had been two distinct jobs have been combined into one.”

He said he’d informed staff that more of the same is probably on the way.

“We need to continue to do the entrepreneurial things we’ve been doing,” Levinson said. “That means doing even more to attract grants, streamline our administrative processes, and to do what we can to be more effective while at the same time continuing to serve our students.”

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IN COURT

BY BILL HELTZEL

Investors sue Red Hat restaurant for $2M

I WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY?

BY MARK STEVENS

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’m staging an unarmed insurrection against my doctor.

What? Why? Have I gone

mad?

Well, you decide please.

Here’s the story in a nutshell. If I lived my life the way my good doc would have it: • The delicious pasta prima vera that I’m having at a business party tonight would morph into a plate of plain kale followed by eight ounces of coconut milk.

• My glorious wine cellar would be bulldozed and transformed into an herb garden.

• My muscular trim and fit body that is the product of daily hikes, yoga, weight training and boxing would be shrink wrapped from its current 200 pounds to what my cardiologist seriously calls “Chinese rice farmer thin.”

The “thin” thing he told me in his office (just a routine exam turned into an annual SOS) while he munched away on a crinkly package of M&M’s.

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“I have to do to stay extremely healthy.”

And that’s admirable. And we’re supposed to dutifully follow along.

But why does it have to be that way?

Well, it doesn’t. Here’s why: • It’s our lives. If we did everything we’re advised to do by medical experts, we’d be sunless, wineless, weightless specimens but we’d never have fun and likely get hit by a bus while we’re crossing the street counting calories.

• We work hard. We run businesses, have demanding jobs, take care of house and home. Don’t we deserve to bask in the sun now and then (if it ever gets warm again), drink a bottle of champagne once a year and chase it down with a fried egg and bacon on a roll hangover helper?

I say yes!

Of course this is all in gest (sort of) but there is a math of life that holds everything we do and don’t do adds and subtracts from something else.

So yes, let’s all be healthy and successful but every once in awhile, sneak up on the doc and steal his M&M’s.

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nvestors in Red Hat on the River, a popular dining destination in Irvington, are suing the owners for $2 million.

In Your Hat LLC said it invested $700,000 to launch the bistro in 2007 and later another $l00,000 to keep it going, but investors claim late last year owners Mary Beth Dooley and James Parker stopped making payments.

“This is a dispute that goes back 10 years,” Dooley responded in a brief telephone interview.

She would not discuss details, but said there will be no impact on restaurant operations, adding “we hope to resolve it quickly.”

Dooley and Parker opened their French bistro

on Main Street in Irvington in 2002. In 2007, they leased a space across the railroad tracks at 1 Bridge St., in the former Lord and Burnham greenhouse factory.

Dooley and Parker transformed a boiler room into an airy, two-level brick and glass space and rooftop bar, steps away from the Hudson, with panoramic views of Manhattan, the New Jersey Palisades and the Tappan Zee Bridge.

In Your Hat was formed with the sole purpose of funding Red Hat Bistro LLC. The investors include Sushil Malhotra, Frank Martucci, Jeffrey Reich and William Thompson.

The loan’s interest rate was set at the prime rate and capped at 10 percent. Under the agreement, the investors also received a share of gross receipts, starting at 4 percent on the first $1 million and culminating at 7 percent above $2 million.

They also got free food.

Every month Martucci got seven $100 dining coupons to distribute among the investors “as he sees fit,” according to the funding agreement.

Dooley and Parker secured the loan with a sec-

Banks ask court to force D’Alessio liquidation

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hree banks have petitioned U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains to force developer Michael P. D’Alessio into Chapter 7 liquidation.

The Westchester Bank, Greater Hudson Bank and BNB Bank claim that D’Alessio owes them more than $6.3 million.

D’Alessio is head of Michael Paul Enterprises, a White Plains company that claims a 25-year record of building and managing commercial and residential real estate projects. But in the past four months, 14 people and four companies have filed lawsuits accusing him of fraud over failed real estate projects.

“There was absolutely no fraud committed,” D’Alessio said in an email. “Just a case of disgruntled seasoned real estate investors with big

damaged egos.”

D’Alessio solicited investments for seven residential real estate projects, according to lawsuits filed in Westchester and Manhattan supreme courts.

Four of the projects entailed Upper East Side townhouses; three were houses in Scarsdale, Southampton and Westhampton.

Total project costs were estimated at more than $114 million.

The Manhattan business model was to buy townhouses, demolish or gut them and build luxury condominiums.

One of the townhouses was once the home of actress Brooke Shields, according to a news account in The Real Deal real estate publication.

He promised investors returns of 10 to 16 percent a year and quick repayment

ond mortgage on their house in Irvington.

The agreement was revised in 2009, increasing the funding by $100,000, setting the share of gross receipts at a flat 3 percent and doubling the dining allowance to 14 coupons.

Martucci, Reich and Thompson had also made a short-term loan of $150,000 in 2007. That was paid off by 2009, and the second mortgage was satisfied.

The agreement was amended again in 2013, creating a new five-year loan as of 2015, on an expected principal balance of $637,000.

The agreement was revised, according to the lawsuit, filed in Westchester Supreme Court, to do everything possible to assist in Red Hat’s success. In Your Hat said it has received no loan payments or percentages of gross receipts since November 2017.

The investors claim that Red Hat and its owners have mischaracterized the terms of the funding agreement and have stated in a letter their intention not to abide by the deal. The bistro is currently $75,000 in arrears, the lawsuit states, with damages ultimately totaling $2 million. of principal. But last year, the lawsuits state, payments stopped.

High-end condominiums in Manhattan were hot when he launched the first project seven years ago, D’Alessio told investors in a recent report. Since then, the market has cooled and the “strictest regulatory administration” in city history has driven up costs and slowed down construction.

He also said banks shut down his lines of credit and stopped funding construction loans when they saw a newspaper story about a lawsuit. BNB Bank in Hauppauge claims in the bankruptcy petition that D’Alessio owes $3.2 million.

Greater Hudson Bank in Bardonia is claiming $2.25 million on a line of credit.

Westchester Bank, White Plains, says he owes $879,026.

D’Alessio has 21 days to respond to the involuntary bankruptcy petition.

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GLOBAL AND LOCAL INFLUENCES, secular changes and cyclical forces continue to shape Westchester and national real estate markets as the economic cycle progresses. Beijing’s renewed efforts to control excessive leverage by corporations is altering China’s real estate investment presence in major U.S. cities. China’s recent steps regulating outbound investments have been a factor in the decline of U.S. real estate investment sales, particularly in major markets such as New York and San Francisco. Should Chinese conglomerates decide to shed U.S. real estate assets, there could be noteworthy transactions that establish fresh valuation benchmarks.

In the retail front, home or on the go from a mobile device, have become the consumer’s preferred shopping venues. Retailers are mining social media data looking for clues as to changing consumer preferences. Similarly, retail owners are searching for alternative tenants and trying to adapt to higher turnover and lower rents.

Planners and developers are busy transforming Westchester cities into urban-like hubs that attract residents of all ages and help increase commercial activity. Pedestrian traffic seems to be the sought-after element of success that investors and owners are striving for. Real estate data demonstrates that properties strategically located along commuter’s traffic areas and other walkable pathways command higher rents and trade at lower capitalization rates.

Despite headwinds impacting retail properties, the overall financial health of commercial real estate appears sound. Research by Trepp indicates that commercial mortgage-backed (debt) instruments are seeing falling rates of delinquency throughout the country. Multifamily properties are experiencing the lowest delinquency rates and retail, the highest. These statistics are positive for commercial real estate assets and, in general, suggest that lenders will continue to provide ample capital to the sector.

Multifamily properties comfortably remain as the top-performing major sector in Westchester.

Effective rents are 1.7 percent higher than average first-quarter rents in 2017. Absorption of multifamily units has been very strong over the last two quarters — 1.2 percent of existing stock — and up to now, new deliveries have not negatively impacted rents. Westchester multifamily construction has been focused on locations near commuter transportation hubs and consumer preference for these locations has helped sustain robust new unit demand. Increasingly, retailers and other service providers seek to locate their businesses along the commuter’s path reinforcing the benefits that households derive when choosing to live in proximity to transport-oriented hubs.

Westchester office vacancy has stabilized after declining for several quarters. The first quarter of 2018 was challenging for office landlords’ leasing efforts as net absorption was negative. Small pricing gains reported in the first quarter of 2018 appear to reflect leasing contracts that were negotiated toward year-end 2017 in a slightly more positive leasing environment.

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An example of office tenants expanding in Westchester is the recently completed project at 11 Skyline Drive in Hawthorne. Although this property is located north of I-287 and outside the geographical area we discuss in this report, the transaction is noteworthy because it highlights the attractiveness of Westchester. The Tenant (a Data Center company that houses computer systems and components) is building 13,500 square feet of raised-floor data-center space that is part of an expansion program that will include several phases. The Tenant offers its clients connectivity and ultra-low latency (data retrieval time), which is less than a millisecond to Manhattan’s financial district.

Westchester retail continues to improve despite the challenges posed by retailer repositioning and store closings. Net absorption was positive in the first quarter and reported vacancy is now under 4 percent. On the ground it feels weaker than reported numbers convey but improvement is tangible, in particular, around village centers. At a national level, mall developer/ owner General Growth Properties agreed to sell a remaining ownership stake to Toronto-based Brookfield Property Partners LP. Consolidation of control by Brookfield may bring changes in mall retailing strategy that have broad implication for the retail real estate sector.

Industrial/flex properties continue their stellar performance. Absorption was strong during the quarter and Costar reported vacancy is now under 4.5 percent. In the case of industrial properties, it feels tighter on the ground with few choices available for tenants seeking this type of space. In general, remaining unoccupied space is in need of re-positioning and falls short of fulfilling the needs of potential tenants.

In summary, Westchester real estate markets continue to reflect an improved economy and relative tightness that is consistent with shortages of developable land and a growing population. Investment sales have recovered slightly, however, they are still approximately half (in dollar volume) as compared to the same quarter of last year. Interest rate increases have made investor and financing underwriting more challenging. However, multifamily apartments and industrial properties continue to see very strong investor demand.

In this dynamic and ever-changing environment, data and insights are ever more valuable.

Houlihan Lawrence Commercial Group is ready to help you evaluate market trends utilizing a wealth of knowledge, transaction information and experience. We would be delighted to provide our professional advice as you consider present needs and the future of your real estate assets.

-Teresa Marziano, Real Estate Salesperson Houlihan Lawrence Commercial Real Estate Group

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new report from a Stamford group has found that corporate board members are growing increasingly concerned about cybersecurity — specifically how they feel poorly equipped to deal with the ever-increasing pace of technology and business disruption.

According to the 15th annual “What Directors Think” survey by Corporate Board Member, a division of Stamford-based business leader networking and conference company Chief Executive Group LLC, nearly 60.5 percent of its 200-plus respondents — all directors at publicly traded U.S. companies — cited cybersecurity as the topic they’d most like to bring in a panel of experts to their boardroom to discuss — easily eclipsing disruptive innovations (39.5 percent) and succession planning (20 percent).

“Cybersecurity being at or near the top of the survey has been somewhat consistent over the past few years,” said Melanie C. Nolen, research editor, Corporate Board Member, who directs the annual survey. “But this year it’s taken center stage and is way ahead of all the other issues.”

Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of directors surveyed said their board has at least one member with the technical skills to engage in a meaningful discussion with senior information security executives on matters of a highly technical nature.

However, a similar proportion (67 percent) reported having had to bring in subject-matter experts to help solve complex cyber issues. Twenty percent of those who had not yet done so at the time of the survey said they were considering

doing it in the near future.

Corporate Board Member’s feeling is that the high-profile cybersecurity breaches over the past several months have played a significant role in the increased apprehension.

Nolen pointed at consumer credit reporting agency Equifax, which last September announced that cybercriminals had accessed some 145.5 million of its American consumers’ personal data; the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, which just two weeks later announced that in 2016 hackers had breached its cache of files on publicly traded companies; and Uber, which last November revealed that during the previous year a data breach had disclosed personal information on about 600,000 drivers and 57 million customers.

Directors’ concerns are well placed — and not just because of the potential damage to their companies, Nolen said. “There’s more and more talk about how directors could be held liable for such breaches.”

A November 2017 Fordham Journal of Corporate & Finance Law article noted that since directors owe their corporation and shareholders a duty of care and oversight, and publicly traded corporations have a duty to disclose relevant information across a range of subjects, “a failure to disclose a data breach can result in liability under regulatory and common law.”

However, it added, “Equifax did not actively mislead anyone; thus, its level of intent is an unlikely basis for criminal prosecution. Negligence is only a basis for corporate criminal prosecution in food, drug and environmental cases.”

The article further noted that circuit courts have been split on questions of civil liability claims in such instances.

Nolen noted that Equifax

and the other cases have also played a part in directors’ opinions about the potential effectiveness of additional government regulation. In the 2017 “What Directors Think” survey, 78 percent of respondents said they felt additional regulation would have little effect in curbing cyberattacks and would overburden companies and their boards. This year, 20 percent said that those high-profile breaches had convinced them to change their stance in favor of more cyber regulation, bringing the figure up to 60 percent.

Nevertheless, devoting more company resources to the issue remains anathema to most directors. Eighty-two percent of directors said they did not see the need for distinct cyber risk committees, in line with last year’s findings.

Instead, many feel it should fall under the auspices of their existing audit committees.

“At many companies, the audit committee has been overburdened for some time now,” Nolen wrote in the report. “With an increasing number of issues falling within the audit committee’s purview, perhaps the solution lies in shifting risk oversight out of its scope of responsibility, as proposed by one of our respondents, either by creating a pure risk committee, making risk a full-board responsibility or periodically rotating committee chairs and members.”

“I think we’ll start seeing a shift there,” Nolen said.

“Cybersecurity is a topic that is being deeply felt throughout organizations — it’s not something that you can sit on the sidelines about. Everyone understands it now, to varying degrees.”

Realizing that cybersecurity is an enterprise issue that deserves more specific attention is the next step for many companies, she said.

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A workable cybersecurity solution for Westchester

BY JONATHAN H. HILL

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t is hard not to feel helpless in the face of the latest news from the war on our digital privacy. Facebook, the place where we share our vacation photos and receive reminders about our best friends’ birthdays, has been “mined” for personal data on millions of individuals, some of which was used to send “fake news” to vulnerable users.

The list of attacks on major consumer sites and major businesses continues to grow unabated. 2018 is not even halfway through and we have already learned of major attacks on the likes of travel search site Orbitz. Attacks are not limited to corporate victims: hospitals, like St. Peter’s Surgery and Endoscopy Center in Albany, which was hit with a major malware attack, are also under threat. Even the Department of Homeland Security was breached by an insider who lifted Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on more than 240,000 staffers and contractors.

Westchester County, one of the nation’s wealthiest counties with its concentration of major corporate headquarters, is seen as a particularly rich target by cyber hackers around the world.

The county was the target of a high-profile cyberattack on an industrial control system (ICS) — the Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye Brook — by Iranian hackers, and was also the scene of a sophisticated identity theft ring that allegedly defrauded ride-sharing drivers of millions of dollars.

New technologies, despite being developed in this era when the risk of cyber vulnerability is well known, are under just as much pressure and are, likewise, in danger of being overwhelmed by cyberattacks. Cryptocurrency platforms like Ethereum have suffered ongoing attacks and substantial financial losses.

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trolled technologies like driverless cars and drones is a significant concern. In addition, the emergence of a variety of “internet of things” devices like home security systems, many of which run on outdated and therefore more vulnerable, software, represents a new opportunity for cyberhackers to attack individuals directly.

IBM predicts that more than 11 billion devices will be connected to the internet this year.

While the first generation of cyberhackers were often “script kiddies”’ whose motivations were often just the thrill of breaking in to a closed system, today we grapple with much more sophisticated professional hackers whose motivations are either financial, or destructive in the military offensive context. As such, they are either employed by organized crime rings, or are part of an official or quasi-official national security apparatus from a government that is competing with, or hostile to, the United States. These people are motivated and they are good technologists operating in a world where the stakes for the theft of personal information, the opportunity to take control of an industrial controlling device, or to influence the outcome of an election are the highest that they have ever been. We know that these attacks will continue and that they will increase in number and in sophistication.

Short of turning off our computers and leaving our cellphones in a basket by the door, what solutions do we have? The most powerful tool that we have at our disposal is education. We must

teach people both the tools to defend their businesses and homes from cyberattacks, and the open sharing of information, because in that way we can learn from each other and be resilient in the face of ongoing attacks.

At Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, a National Security Agencycertified Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education, we bring government, law enforcement, industry and academic leaders together on a regular basis to share their tools, tactics, successes and failures to ensure that the community is fully aware of the current state of the cybersecurity threat. In this way, we also learn from one another and can build a substantial database of the techniques that have worked in cybersecurity, as well as those that have not worked.

It is unfortunate that, as with any crime, those who have been victimized are often reticent to share their experiences and to admit to their peers that they were attacked.

The growing movement to hold corporate officers, including the board of directors and executives, liable for cybersecurity break-ins can make them even less willing to share.

This needs to change: the need for open sharing of vulnerabilities, attacks, responses and successful recovery plans is a way to get actionable information into the hands of the chief information security officers, law enforcement professionals and technologists who can employ them as part of a broader national strategy to make the internet safe for business transactions — as well as safe place to wish your best friends an enthusiastic happy birthday.

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Hostage-taking, cyber style

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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n March 9, 114 servers within Connecticut’s judicial system were impacted by a ransomware attack. This was the second ransomware attack aimed at the state government. Two weeks earlier, the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services reported that a virus resembling the Wannacry ransomware infected about 160 computers in a dozen state agencies.

In both attacks, Connecticut got off lucky because the viruses were caught and mitigated early. But this was the latest in ransomware attacks aimed at government computer networks. The city of Atlanta, which was hit with a ransomware attack in

late March that crippled much of its online services, has set aside $2.7 million to cover the costs of incident response, recovery and crisis management efforts. Colorado’s Department of Transportation experienced a ransomware attack on its back-end operations offline in February, which took approximately six weeks and $1.5 million to mitigate.

Ransomware is a form of malicious software — also known as malware — that takes control of an individual computer or a network and threatens to deny access to all stored files unless a ransom is paid.

These types of attacks have been traced back to 1989 with the virus known as both the PC Cyborg and AIDS — the latter name was given by its creator, Joseph Popp, who insisted the money gathered via his cyberattacks would be channeled

to AIDS research nonprofits.

In recent years, ransomware attacks have become more prevalent, with ransom payment demands made in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that cannot be easily traced by law enforcement agencies. (See related story on the page 31.)

The main reason why ransomware has become so frustrating is that there is no easy way to expel the virus once it locks the computer system’s encryption key. John Yoon, associate professor of cybersecurity at Mercy College, has his students practice the breaking of the encryption key, which consists of an unknown number of characters. Their success rate can charitably be described as minimal.

“If we know the number of characters, it is a lot easier,” Yoon said, adding

that the encryption key can involve any quantity of characters. “Capturing the key is not really impossible, but it takes a long time.”

But paying a ransom to gain access to the files may not be the end of the problem. “Who’s to say that in two days, two weeks or two months from now something lingering in the system won’t strike again?” asked Kevin Frost, operations manager at Tarrytech Computer Consultants in Elmsford.

Robert Cioffi, co-founder and chief operating officer at Yonkers-based Progressive Computing, warned that cybercriminals are also aware of which companies are too eager to pay ransom. “That makes you susceptible to attacks,” he said. “I am aware of cases of companies that paid ransom, only to be re-in-

fected in 30 days.”

So, what can be done to prevent a ransomware attack?

Cioffi recommended what he dubbed “basic training on what bad email looks like,” noting that ransomware often infects a system by opening an infected file attached to e-mails or clicking a link within the message. He added that ransomware creators are “highly incentivized into tricking people to do things” that will ultimately shut down their operations.

Al Alper, president of Wilton-based Absolute Logic, recommended wariness with emails that could be spoofed.

“Around tax season, CPA firms and their clients get emails that come with what are supposed to look like tax papers,” he said, noting that what appears to be legitimate attachments might be the opening for a ransom-

ware infection.

Keeping an updated backup system is also a crucial line of defense, in case a ransomware-blocked system needs to be reset to a period before the infection occurred.

However, the problem with that approach is that all data that was compiled in the period after the infection took root would be lost with a system reset to an earlier date.

Tarrytech’s Kevin Frost said his clients have backup systems that take images of their files every hour, thus enabling a speedy recovery and no loss of data if a ransomware attack happens. “We were able to get systems back up in 45 minutes,” he said.

Still, not every business is backing up its data, which infuriates Patrick O’Donnell, CEO of Bridgeport-based Post Road Software.

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report by U.K.based Juniper Research last year found that criminal data breaches could cost businesses worldwide a total of $8 trillion through 2022.

Juniper’s research found that ransomware is becoming a far more advanced form of malware, as cybercriminals hold businesses’ stored data and devices hostage until they are paid for their release. The ransom strategy exploits businesses that run older software and don’t budget enough to keep their systems secure.

The company also pre-

dicts that the number of personal data records stolen by cybercriminals will reach 5 billion by 2020.

According to Mike McGuire, senior lecturer in criminology at Surrey University in England, cybercrime generates at least $1.5 trillion in revenues every year. McGuire studied the criminal economy that’s thriving on the internet for 10 months on behalf of cybersecurity company Bromium.

The result of his work is the study “The Web of Profit.”

McGuire found that illicit and illegal online markets generated annual revenue of $860 billion; trade secret and IP theft had $500 billion; data trading, which includes revenue from trading in credit

and debit card information, $160 billion; cybercrime as a service, $1.6 billion; and ransomware, $1 billion.

According to his findings, high-earning cyber-

criminals can make $166,000-plus per month, while middle-earning criminals can make $75,000-plus per month. Even what he categorized as “low earn-

ers,” these criminals can make $3,500 per month.

And how do you hide all those ill-gotten gains? It follows the age-old criminal way: you launder it.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the estimated amount of money laundered globally in one year is 2 to 5 percent of the global gross domestic product, or $800 billion to $2 trillion.

The UN states, “Though the margin between those figures is huge, even the lower estimate underlines the seriousness of the problem governments have pledged to address.”

According to McGuire, an estimated $80 billion to $200 billion is laundered

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each year via digital payment systems such as PayPal and cryptocurrency trading platform BTC-e.

Another sneakier way to do it is through gaming platforms. McGuire found that games such as Minecraft, FIFA, World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, Star Wars Online and GTA 5 are “among the most popular options because they allow covert interactions with other players that allow trade of currency and goods.”

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wrote. “But another key takeaway is that there needs to be greater collaboration to address this issue. To effectively combat cybercrime, we need a holistic approach.

Focusing on specific types of cybercrime and the way they are committed is only effective to a point. Without a holistic overview, one that considers the dynamic and interconnected nature of the cybercrime economy, we will never have a full and accurate understanding of the problem.”

This is where the tech companies have stepped in.

“The devastating attacks from the past year demonstrate that cybersecurity is not just about what any single company can do but also about what we can all do together,” Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a statement.

With a collective mindset, 34 international technology and security companies on April 17 mounted a unit-

ed defense against the incessant global cyberattacks by signing a “Cybersecurity Tech Accord.”

Smith said, “This tech sector accord will help us take a principled path towards more effective steps to work together and defend customers around the world.”

The 520-word pact secured the 34 companies’ commitment to essentially protecting users and customers everywhere in the world via shared efforts, tools and partnerships.

One interesting aspect of the accord is the separation of business and state with no geopolitical alignment. The line in the pact reads: “We will not help governments launch cyberattacks against innocent citizens and enterprises from anywhere.”

In March, the Trump administration cast blame on Russia for engineering cyberattacks on U.S. and European nuclear power plants as well as electric and water utilities that could have potentially shut down their operations.

The accusation was backed up by an alert from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reporting Russian government cyber activity targeting “U.S. government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and critical manufacturing sectors.”

In August 2013, an international-based cyberattack came to Westchester County when an Iranian hacker gained acces to the controls of the Bowman Avenue dam in Rye Brook. Hamid Firoozi was indicted in March 2016 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the cyberattack. Six other Iranians were also indicted for conducting a coordinated campaign of cyberattacks against the U.S. financial sector on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the first-in-the-nation cybersecurity regulation to protect the state’s financial services industry and consumers

Understanding revenue generation and how it flows can help the tech community develop new options to disrupt cybercrime and can help law enforcement fight the problem.

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from cyberattacks. The regulation, which was phased in over a 180-day period, requires banks, insurance companies and other financial services institutions regulated by the Department of Financial Services to establish and maintain a cybersecurity program. By September of this year, all of the financial institutions need to be in compliance.

In addition to Microsoft, the companies that signed the accord are ABB, Bitdefender, Cisco, Arm, BT, Cloudflare, Avast!, CA Technologies, DataStax, Dell, HPE, SAP, DocuSign, Intuit, Stripe, Facebook, Juniper Networks, Symantec, Fastly, LinkedIn, Telefonica, FireEye, Tenable, F-Secure, Nielsen, Trend Micro, GitHub, Nokia, VMware, Guardtime, Oracle, HP Inc. and RSA. “The Tech Accord will help to protect the integrity of the 1 trillion connected devices we expect to see deployed within the next 20 years,” said Carolyn Herzog,

general counsel of U.K.based technology company Arm. “It aligns the resources, expertise and thinking of some of the world’s most important technology companies to help to build a trusted foundation for technology users who will benefit immensely from a more security connected world.”

Gregory Webb, CEO of Bromium, said his company sponsored McGuire’s study to “instigate a meaningful conversation about how to disrupt the economic systems and poor security practices that enable cybercrime around the world; frankly because it’s far too easy for them.”

“Law enforcement, the cybersecurity industry and both the public and private sectors need to be vigilant about disrupting cybercrime. Protecting applications that access sensitive data is an absolute requirement. We need a whole new approach to cybersecurity or these figures will continue to increase over time.”

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Facts & Figures BANKRUPTCIES MANHATTAN JF Hospitality LLC. 701 W. 135 St., New York 10031. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gabriel Del Virginia. Filed: April 18. Case no. 1811063-smb.

Vinus and Mars Inc. 1825 Second Ave., first floor and basement, New York 10128. Chapter 11, voluntary.

Represented by Christine T. Rubenstein. Filed: April 23. Case no. 1811129-scc.

WHITE PLAINS 908 Route 45 LLC. 56-58 Palisade Ave., Yonkers 10701. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by 908 Route 45 LLC. Filed: April 18. Case no. 1822561-rdd.

Briar Court LLC. 120 N. James St., Peekskill 10566. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Briar Court LLC. Filed: April 18. Case no. 1822559-rdd.

COURT CASES Bambu Restaurant & Night Club Inc. Filed by J&J Sports Productions Inc. Action: U.S.C.A. Cable Communications Policy Act. Attorney: Robert B. Hunter. Filed: April 19. Case no.

7:18-cv-03390-CS. Brinckerhoff and Neuville Inc. Filed by Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Action: diversity action. Attorney: John Gerard Stretton. Filed: April 23. Case no. 7:18-cv-03386KMK.

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Champion Painting Specialty Services Corp. Filed by the trustees of the Local 806 Structural Steel and Bridge Painters of Greater New York Employee Trust Funds and the Trustees of the D.C. 9 Painting Industry Insurance Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A.– civil enforcement of employee benefits. Attorney: Dana Lynne Henke. Filed: April 19. Case no. 7:18-cv-03375-VB. El Calvario Restaurant Inc. Filed

by G&G Closed Circuit Events LLC. Action: U.S.C.A. Cable Communications Policy Act. Attorney: Robert B. Hunter. Filed: April 23. Case no.

7:18-cv-03541-VB. Glamour Night Club Inc., et al.

Filed by Fabian Osorio and Marvin Diaz. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Helen F. Dalton. Filed: April 23. Case no. 7:18-cv-03529KMK. Gourmet Laguna Restaurant Inc. Filed by J&J Sports Productions Inc. Action: U.S.C.A. Cable Communications Policy Act. Attorney: Robert B. Hunter. Filed: April 19. Case no.

7:18-cv-03400-NSR. Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO). Filed by Christopher Ayala and Benjamin Lamkin. Action not listed. Attorney: Michael John Palitz. Filed: April 23.

Case no. 7:18-cv-03583.

Jedson Company LLC. Filed by Miguel Rodriguez Lugo, Richard Macas and Hernan G. Corail Sr. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Darren Raul and Brian Rumack. Filed: April 23. Case no.

7:18-cv-03564.

SHM RGB Hardware LLC, Safe Harbor Marinas. Filed by Anthony Lividini. Action: job discrimination (age). Attorney: Saul David Zabell. Filed: April 20. Case no.

7:18-cv-03461-VB. United States Department of Agriculture. Filed by Rihanna Deli Grocery Corp. Action: U.S. defendant. Attorneys: Victor Jose Molina Jr. and Benjamin Sharav. Filed: April 23. Case no. 7:18-cv-03495-NSR.

DEEDS Above $1 million 65 King Street LLC, New York City. Seller: Soleil Property LLC, Katonah. Property: 65 King St., New Castle. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed April 18.

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BRP 506 Main LLC, New York City. Seller: 506 Main NR LLC, Chappaqua. Property: 506 Main St., New Rochelle. Amount: $1.2 million.

Filed April 17.

276653 Holdings Corp. Seller: Joyce A. Brown, Mount Vernon.

Property: 165 Warburton Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $227,901. Filed April 18.

Gala Management Realty Corp., New Rochelle. Seller: Roberto Lopez, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 72-74 Third St., New Rochelle.

Amount: $800,000. Filed April 16.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Connecticut. Seller: Tyler W. Lockton, et al, Rye. Property: 308 Rye Beach Ave., Rye. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed April 18.

44 South Washington LLC, Tarrytown. Seller: MCM Properties Management Corp., Carmel. Property: 44 S. Washington St., Greenburgh. Amount: $875,000. Filed April 18.

Immobiliare Assets LLC, South Salem. Seller: Scott Bagdan, Port Chester. Property: 50 Perry Ave., Rye. Amount: $375,000. Filed April 20.

Dro Gah Sang Foundation Corp., Chappaqua. Seller: Marvin Baten, et al, White Plains. Property: 1 Sycamore Lane, White Plains.

Amount: $2.1 million. Filed April 18.

Maple Sheldrake LLC, New York City. Seller: Sheldrake Station Development LLC, New York City. Property: 147 Plaza Ave., Mamaroneck.

Amount: $5.1 million. Filed April 19.

MG RMC Main LLC, et al, Elmsford. Seller: Mack-Cali WP Realty Associates LLC, Jersey City, New Jersey. Property: 50 Main St., White Plains. Amount: $53 million. Filed April 16.

MG RMC Martine Lower Floors LLC, Elmsford. Seller: Mack-Cali WP Realty Associates LLC, Jersey City. New Jersey. Property: 1-11 Martine Ave., C-6, White Plains. Amount: $13 million. Filed April 16.

MG RMC Martine Lower Floors LLC, et al, Elmsford. Property: 1-11 Martine Ave., C-2, White Plains.

Amount: $10.7 million. Filed April 16.

MG RMC Martine Upper Floors LLC, et al, Elmsford. Seller: Mack-Cali WP Realty Associates LLC, Jersey City, New Jersey. Property: 1-11 Martine Ave., C-12, White Plains. Amount: $6.1 million. Filed April 17.

Below $1 million 134 Hawthorne Avenue Corp., West Harrison. Seller: Pamela Ventura, Cortlandt Manor. Property: 62 Lafayette Place, Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $350,000. Filed April 16.

14 W Fourth St LLC, Lakewood, New Jersey. Seller: ZPA LLC, New York City. Property: 14 Fourth Street West, Mount Vernon. Amount: $875,000. Filed April 20.

24 Madison Partners LLC, White Plains. Seller: Anthony S. Colavita, Eastchester. Property: 24 Madison Ave., Rye. Amount: $361,737. Filed April 18.

80 Olcott Avenue LLC, Briarcliff Manor. Seller: Holdings of A&S LLC, Croton-on-Hudson. Property: 80 Olcott Ave., Cortlandt. Amount: $227,500. Filed April 19.

Alchris LLC, Ossining. Seller: Myra Zirella, Ossining. Property: 51 Campwoods Road, Ossining. Amount: $270,000. Filed April 20.

Amak Development LLC, Ossining. Seller: Vincenzio Bombs, et al, Putnam Valley. Property: 136 Croton Ave., Ossining. Amount: $795,000. Filed April 16.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Connecticut. Seller: Nuwoe Goteh, et al, Scarsdale. Property: 65 Standish Drive, New Rochelle.

Amount: $675,000. Filed April 20.

DAJD Realty LLC, New York City.

Seller: Carl Finger, White Plains.

Property: 34 Durham Road, Greenburgh. Amount: $390,000. File April 19.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Dennis Krolian, White Plains. Property: 438 S. Third Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $714,739.

Filed April 20.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Jeffrey Kosterich, Tuckahoe. Property: 41 Mill Road, Eastchester. Amount: $997,193. Filed April 19.

Equity Trust Co., Hartsdale. Seller: Quorum Federal Credit Union, Purchase. Property: 9 Armstrong, Cortlandt. Amount: $281,500. Filed April 20.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Barbara Lerman, Larchmont. Property: 23 Emmalon Ave., North Castle. Amount: $645,671. Filed April 17.

Finance of America Structured Securities Acquisition Trust 2017-HB1. Seller: Jeffrey A. Kosterich, Tuckahoe. Property: 17 Kress Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $603,969. Filed April 20.

J.D.G. Builders Inc., Carmel. Seller: Kahn’s Kids LLC, New York City.

Property: 1455 Hiawatha Road, Yorktown. Amount: $55,000. Filed April 17.

Jamy Holdings LLC, Larchmont.

Seller: Thomas Novembre, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 175 Huguenot St., 1108, New Rochelle. Amount: $340,000. Filed April 18.

Liguria LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: Angelo Dileo, Mount Vernon. Property: 6 N. 10th Ave., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $820,000. Filed April 18.

Lone Pine Ventures LLC, Great Neck. Seller: Eugene L. Mittelgluck, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 40 Wildwood Road, New Rochelle.

Amount: $510,000. Filed April 19.

Lord and Chin Properties LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Barbara Lerman, Larchmont. Property: 64 William St., Yonkers. Amount: $230,000.

Filed April 16.

Mastrantoni Brothers Inc., Mahopac. Seller: Jean Arena, Yonkers. Property: 12 Hickory, Somers.

Amount: $95,000. Filed April 17.

MBRG Inc., Yorktown Heights.

Seller: Naomi Duker, White Plains.

Property: 2423 Loring Place, Yorktown. Amount: $317,264. Filed April 16.

MJD Contracting Corp., Mahopac. Seller: Jerry F. Kebrdle II, White Plains. Property: 3284 Tamarac St., Yorktown. Amount: $282,000. Filed April 19.

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Momentum Home Buyers LLC, New York City. Seller: Domenica Mortati, Yonkers. Property: 420 Pelhamdale Ave., Pelham. Amount: $525,000. Filed April 16.

NYC REO LLC, Whitestone. Seller: Edmund A. Gardiner, et al, Yonkers.

Property: 6 Waring Row, Yonkers.

Amount: $194,203. Field April 16.

RCN Capital LLC, South Windsor, Connecticut. Seller: Leonard Aloi, Bronx. Property: 223 Sixth Avenue North, Mount Vernon. Amount: $322,627. Filed April 18.

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GOOD THINGS WESTCHESTER

CNR NURSING GRADUATES HONORED

From left: Marie T. Ascher, the Lillian Hetrick Huber Endowed Director of the Health Sciences Library; Edward C. Halperin, NYMC chancellor and CEO; Matthew Pravetz, professor of cell biology and anatomy, program director and assistant dean for basic sciences; Anne Bayefsky, director, Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust; and Rabbi Moshe D. Krupka, executive vice president, Touro College and University System.

From left: Adrienne Wald, assistant professor of nursing at CNR; Robert Baker; Marisa Porgpraputson; and Myrantz Assade.

From left: Ed Applebaum, Rosanne Lana, Charlotte Ostman, Meryl Allison, Shari Applebaum and Charlie Lagond.

NYMC MARKS HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

MHA ANNOUNCES $15K DONATIONS

The New York Medical College (NYMC) community commemorated Yom Hashaoh, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on April 17. Guest speaker Howard Israel gave a presentation on the role of Nazi medicine in the holocaust.

Israel is a professor of clinical surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, adjunct professor and course director for pain and anxiety control at Touro College of Dental Medicine at NYMC and director of the New York Institute of Clinical Oral Pathology. He is regarded as an important voice in bioethics for his key role in recognizing the Nazi origins of the classic illustrated anatomy atlas, “Pernkopf’s Anatomy.”

As a student in the 1970s, he first became familiar with the atlas and its detailed paintings. Later, he heard a rumor about its author being a Nazi and the bodies of holocaust victims being used by artists who did the illustrations.

Israel publicly raised questions about the ethics of continuing to use the atlas and his perseverance resulted in an official investigation of the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Vienna where the author, Eduard Pernkopf, was the director.

The Mental Health Association of Westchester (MHA) on April 17 announced that it and The Lagond Music School received donations of $15,200 each from Music & Miles: Changing Minds, as a result of the Living Proof event which took place on March 10.

Held at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, Living Proof featured musicians, performers and artists sharing their personal stories regarding mental health issues. Proceeds from the event were donated to the Miles Applebaum Music Scholarship Fund at The Lagond Music School and MHA. The scholarship fund is in memory of Miles Applebaum who committed suicide in 2014 when he was 21.

“My husband Ed and I were delighted to partner with Lagond Music School and MHA to bring the concept of Living Proof to fruition,” said Shari Applebaum, Miles’ mother, founder of Music and Miles and a suicide bereavement specialist at MHA. “We hit a high note as a result of the fundraiser, touching the heart, soul and minds of people with the power of music.”

Two high school students were awarded scholarships: 16-year-old Liam Kharem of Tarrytown and 17-year-old Audrey Pretnar of Mohegan Lake.

MORGAN STANLEY ADVISERS HONORED Morgan Stanley has announced that Peter Chieco of Bedford Corners, a managing director and financial adviser in its Greenwich office, has been named to the list of America’s Top 400 Financial Advisors compiled by The Financial Times. To qualify for consideration, an individual must manage a minimum of $300 million in assets and have 10 or more years of industry experience.

Chieco also was named to Barron’s Top 1,200 Advisors. That survey considers assets under management, revenue produced and quality of service provided to clients. In addition, he was named to Forbes magazine’s inaugural list of America’s Best-in-State Wealth Advisors.

Kevin M. Peters of Goldens Bridge, a managing director and wealth adviser in Morgan Stanley’s Purchase office, also was named to the Forbes list. Forbes does its rankings based on analysis of qualitative and quantitative data.

SPECIAL CHILDREN LEARN ABOUT A SPECIAL RIVER

SELLING HOUSES? THINK CULTURE It’s not just location, location, location that’s important for many people hunting for a house; they also want to know about the schools, municipal services and cultural opportunities.

With the latter in mind, the Neuberger Museum of Art recently held a “Breakfast with Realtors” to introduce the real estate community to the museum.

The Neuberger is considered to be one of Westchester’s cultural jewels, with more than 7,000 objects in its permanent collection. It houses a noteworthy collection of African art along with collections of contemporary and modern art.

The real estate agents went on a tour of the museum and met with museum officials.

The Neuberger Museum is affiliated with Purchase College and located on its campus at 735 Anderson Hill Road in Purchase.

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Two former leaders of the Student Nurses Association at The College of New Rochelle (CNR) were recently selected by the Westchester County Board of Health as 2018 Public Health Honorees. The award presentation took place April 19 at the Jeannette J. Phillips Building in Peekskill at a National Public Health Week celebration with Westchester Board of Health President Robert H. Baker.

Myrantz Assade, a 2017 graduate of CNR, who is now an emergency room nurse at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, and Marisa Porgpraputson, a 2018 graduate of CNR now employed as a nurse at White Plains Hospital, received Public Health Honoree certificate awards.

The new president of CNR, Bill Latimer, said, “Marisa and Myrantz are so emblematic of the students that CNR serves — both are children of immigrants and first-generation college graduates. And both had parents who emphasized the importance of higher education as a means to develop a profession, have access to health care and build a better life.”

From left: Clearwater’s Tom O’Dowd; student Desmond; and Coleman School music teacher Meghan O’Brien.

Ten young residents of the Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center, who are students at the Yonkers campus of the John A. Coleman School, went on a field trip to the Yonkers Pier on April 13, two days ahead of Earth Day, to learn about the Hudson River.

The Sloop Clearwater’s Tideline Program Director Eli Schloss, was among those introducing the youngsters to Hudson River fish, shoreline artifacts, the history of the river and traditional folk songs.

Schloss said, “After our program, there is no question that these students, like many, understand that the estuary is a beautiful, diverse place and that we all must take part in protecting and restoring the river.”

Allison Klein, a teacher at the Coleman School, is a longtime volunteer and coordinator of the children’s area at the Clearwater Festival. Klein was named the 2017 NYS Council for Exceptional Children Award Winner for Excellence in Teaching. “This program was another wonderful way to engage our medically complex and technology-dependent children with their community. The Clearwater educators made this experience unforgettable for all of our children through their enthusiasm, creativity and passion,” she said.

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RAKOW HONORED BY FEEDING WESTCHESTER

Rick Rakow, president of Rakow Commercial Realty Group, Inc. based in White Plains, was honored by Feeding Westchester (FW) , the county’s leading hunger-relief organization, at the organization’s 30th anniversary celebration at Tappan Hill Mansion in Tarrytown.

“He has been a longtime supporter of Feeding Westchester,” said Leslie Gordon, CEO of FW, formerly known as the Food Bank for Westchester. “Rick has served on our board of directors since 2000 and we’re honored to call him our dear friend.”

Rakow said, “No one should ever experience hunger, much less in a county as affluent as Westchester. None of this could happen without the hard work of our incredible staff and the nearly 30,000 hours provided by our volunteers, without the generosity of our donors and the important work and generosity of our great board of directors and our more than 300 community food programs throughout Westchester County.”

Sue Norton of PepsiCo, Rick Rakow and Leslie Gordon.

SERNIAK JOINS THE WESTCHESTER BANK

BREWSTER FIRM ACQUIRED

WILLIAMS HEADS DIGITAL AT HOULIHAN LAWRENCE

Jay Serniak

Ronald Tetelman

Stephanie Lynch Williams

The Westchester Bank has announced the appointment of Jay Serniak to the position of vice president, commercial lending. He will be responsible for organizing and generating new commercial loan activity while strengthening an existing loan portfolio from various business sectors.

Serniak has been in banking for more than 25 years with institutions such as Citibank, US Trust and BNY Mellon. He is a member of The Business Council of Westchester, the Westchester County Association, the White Plains Chapter of USA 500 and the Real Estate Finance Association in Fairfield County.

John M. Tolomer, president and CEO of The Westchester Bank, said, “He understands from firsthand experience that ‘bigger is not always better’ and that a local community bank offers solutions that more small and midsize business owners are seeking in today’s marketplace.”

Barton & Loguidice, an engineering, planning, environmental and landscape architecture firm with more than 250 employees throughout the Northeast, has acquired Eberlin & Eberlin PC, a 70-year-old Brewster-based planning and landscape architecture company. The Brewster office is Barton & Loguidice’s ninth in New York state and fourth in the region. It already was in Newburgh, New Paltz and Ellenville.

Eberlin President Ronald Tetelman said, “We are excited about what this means for our clients on both sides and for our ability to grow well into the future in Westchester County. By bringing together our assets to work for municipalities, public agencies, private industry and other design professionals, our clients will get the best of our mutual expertise.”

Barton & Loguidice will stay at its existing office at 31 Sodom Road in Brewster for now and plans to relocate to larger space in Somers this summer.

Houlihan Lawrence has announced the appointment of Stephanie Lynch Williams as its new head of digital. She will oversee all digital and mobile marketing, product and strategy efforts for the firm’s agents.

Williams had been with Goldman Sachs where she served as vice president of brand and content strategy, responsible for corporate branding, marketing and advertising initiatives.

Houlihan Lawrence CMO Anne Marie Gianutsos said, “Stephanie is a pro at using data to drive marketing results, and we look forward to unleashing her prowess for the benefit of our agents and their home buyers and sellers.”

Williams, who grew up in Rye and currently lives in Port Chester said, “It is exciting to move my career back to my roots.”

A community garden in Port Chester.

COMMUNITY GARDENS GROWING IN PORT CHESTER Port Chester Community Gardens Inc. has received formal approval to operate as a public charity in New York state, it was announced by Alex Payan, the organization’s founding member and president.

The group’s mission is to promote access to locally grown food, inform the community about healthy eating and sustainable living and reuse vacant or underused land through the operation of community gardens.

Payan previously helped develop the Weber Community Garden and plans to use a partnership with the Port Chester Housing Authority to transform vacant plots of land into additional gardens for its residents.

“We will offer neighborhood youth a place to develop and grow through hands-on learning, so they can later share their knowledge on healthy and sustainable living. Port Chester Community Gardens will encourage food, social and environmental sustainability through practice, awareness, advocacy in public policy supporting community gardens,” said Payan.

PANEL ADDRESSES THE OPIOID CRISIS White Plains Hospital led an event to shed light on the opioid crisis in the U.S., which involves illegal use of the drugs as well as over-prescription by medical practitioners. The panel discussion took place in the auditorium of White Plains High School and brought together leaders in government, behavioral health and law enforcement.

Westchester County Commissioner of Health Sherlita Amler reported on a dramatic increase in opioid-related deaths in the county. In an 8-year span, opioid-related deaths almost quadrupled, rising from 27 in 2010 to 124 in 2016.

Christina Spano, a detective with the White Plains police department, reported that 2018 has already seen six opioid-related deaths in that city.

Richard Ellsasser, director of psychiatry at White Plains Hospital, said that 215 million prescriptions for opioids are written in the U.S. every year. He said that only about 40 percent of patients actually finish the medications, leaving a lot of drugs available for misuse.

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GOOD THINGS FAIRFIELD

RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION NAMES DOLCH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Gov. Dannel Malloy, center, with the historical society’s curator of education Anna Greco, left, and Director of Development Katrina Dorsey.

GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY RECEIVES $389K The Greenwich Historical Society has received a $389,800 STEAP (Small Town Economic Assistance Program) grant from the state of Connecticut to assist with the completion of site improvements and walkways for its expanded campus at its Bush-Holley House site. The program funds economic development, community conservation and quality-of-life capital projects because “preserving the historical integrity and beauty of our small towns is vital to our economy and quality of life,” according to the Office of Policy and Management.

The funding from the State Bond Commission will complete the Bush-Holley campus with landscape plantings, pathways, accessible ramps and walks and restored landscape features as well as drainage, slope and embankment protection.

BANKING VETERAN JOINS FIRST COUNTY BANK

Edward Nusbaum

NUSBAUM LISTED IN 2018 BEST LAWYERS CONNECTICUT Edward Nusbaum, a Westport-based family law attorney, was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in Connecticut 2018 in the practice area of family law. Nusbaum has been listed in Best Lawyers in Connecticut since its inception in 2011.

Inclusion in the list is based entirely on peer review, which is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area. The organization’s belief has always been that the quality of a peer-review survey is directly related to the quality of its voting pool.

Nusbaum has been practicing family law in Westport for more than 35 years.

William Catanzaro has joined First County Bank’s commercial banking division as vice president, commercial banking officer.

“Bill is a Stamford native with over 20 years’ experience in commercial real estate lending. In that time, he has developed an extensive business network in the community.

He will be originating and building commercial relationships for the bank. We know Bill will be a strong contributor to the bank’s commercial lending team,” said Reyno Giallongo, chairman and CEO. Prior to joining First County Bank, Catanzaro held commercial real estate lending and portfolio management positions that focused on the Fairfield County market. He has extensive expertise with commercial and industrial and commercial real estate lending.

Catanzaro and his family reside in Stamford.

DIMATTEO GROUP DELIVERS 68 EASTER BASKETS

ABILIS TO HOST SEMINAR Abilis, the Fairfield County-based nonprofit organization that provides services and support for individuals with special needs and their families, is hosting an informational seminar titled “Navigating the Special Needs Journey” on May 12 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., at the UCONN Stamford Campus, GEN RE Auditorium, at One University Place in Stamford. This seminar is free and open to the public.

The seminar is designed to aid parents, caregivers and professionals of special-needs children to help prepare for and successfully navigate key transitions from birth into adulthood.

Keynote speaker Susan Senator will share stories of parents of children with autism and her own personal journey. Susan Senator is the author of “Making Peace with Autism, The Autism Mom’s Survival Guide, and Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life.” Senator is the mother of three boys, her eldest has autism.

Michael Beloff, a financial adviser at Barnum Financial Group, will provide legal and financial insights to help families prepare for the future of their special-needs child.

This seminar is underwritten by a grant from The Rudolph J. and Daphne A. Munzer Foundation. Registration is required. For more information and to register online please visit abilis.us.

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The Connecticut Restaurant Association (CRA) board of directors announced that Scott Dolch has been selected as the association’s new executive director. Dolch began his duties on April 16 and will guide the CRA’s mission of promoting, protecting and improving the state’s restaurant industry.

“Scott’s expertise in not only promoting, but growing organizations and brands, is a perfect fit for the CRA, which represents some of the most exciting, dynamic and diverse businesses in Connecticut,” said Dan Meiser chairman of the board of the association and restaurant owner of the Oyster Club, Engine Room and Grass & Bone in Mystic.

Dolch comes to the association with more than 15 years of marketing, communications and sales experience in the athletics industry throughout the state, including for the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship, the University of Connecticut, and most recently for the University of Hartford.

The state’s restaurant industry employs more than 150,000 people and generates more than $7.5 billion annually.

The association has almost 700 members across the state.

Kim DiMatteo of Bethany, left, and her daughter, Jessica, deliver the gift baskets.

For the 19th year in a row, the DiMatteo Group in Shelton distributed 68 baskets to homeless children in the region. Since its inception, nearly 1,800 baskets have helped thousands of area children in need. The baskets were donated by employees, family, friends and clients of the DiMatteo Group.

Kim DiMatteo of Bethany, a partner and vice president of the DiMatteo Group in Shelton along with her three children, organized this annual community service drive. Each basket was filled with age-appropriate necessities specifically for children age birth to 3 years of age and 13 to 17 years of age.

Baskets were delivered to four shelters in Fairfield County: Norwalk Emergency Shelter and Domestic Violence Crisis Center, both in Norwalk, and Inspirica Inc. and Domestic Violence Crisis Center, both in Stamford.

“The community and our staff are to be commended for doing an outstanding job,” DiMatteo said.

“We want to thank everyone who contributed. Their kindness does not go unnoticed. Each of the shelters was so appreciative and grateful for the tremendous volunteer effort.”

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GOATBOYS AND NEWEST KIDS AT GARDENING EVENT

Goatboy Soaps of New Milford and other natural products were featured at Litchfield Crossings’ recent Get the Dirt on Gardening event also in New Milford.

Goatboy’s owners Lisa and Rick Agee, smoothed on their lotions and introduced their newest baby goats to visitors.

The Agee’s company is the result of their search for alternative food products for their severely allergic son, Bobby. Lisa Agee said, “He was able to tolerate goat milk and quickly became obsessed with all things goat. So, did my husband and I. Before long, we became the owners of two goats, which fulfilled Bobby’s dream.”

A portion of the day’s proceeds sales benefited the Connecticut Chapter of the Sierra Club, the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.

From left: Tomassina Cicchini, Karen Knettel, Alice Staley and Angela Colabella.

NEW CANAAN DOG DAYS OF SUMMER Pet Pantry Warehouse of New Canaan at 21 Grove St., will host the ninth annual New Canaan Dog Days of Summer on May 6 from noon to 4 p.m. It’s Pet Pantry’s fourth consecutive year hosting the “ultimate fun-raiser for pet lovers and the whole family” at the New Canaan location. Admission is free and all event proceeds will support local pet rescue organizations such as Adopt-a-Dog and Strays and Others.

Afternoon activities include classes, contests, exhibitors giveaways, Q&A with professional trainers available for behavioral questions, a meet-and-greet with onsite veterinarians, family and pet portraits with Venture Photography, caricature drawings, art activities for kids, including a build-your-own birdhouse sponsored by Weed & Duryea and a DJ. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Event parking will be available at the New Canaan Metro-North Railroad Station, 198 Elm St.

LYN BLACK JOINS HOULIHAN LAWRENCE

RON AGABABIAN JOINS ANGEL COMMERCIAL

CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER RECEIVES $60,000 A nonprofit agency providing mental health services to children, adolescents and their families, The Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut, has received a grant for $60,000 from the Robie and Scott Spector Fund at Fairfield County’s Community Foundation. The grant will provide general operating support to the organization, which serves Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan and Stamford.

“We are grateful for the support of Robie and Scott Spector and Fairfield County’s Community Foundation,” said Eliot Brenner, president and CEO of the guidance center. “General operating support is critical to our organization’s ability to provide high-quality mental health services to children and adolescents, most of whom are considered low income and require subsidies for payment. These granted funds help offset the cost for our critical services.”

An estimated 20 percent of the 764,000 children in Connecticut have a diagnosable mental health condition and only 20 percent of those receive the treatment they need. The demand for mental health services is particularly acute in Fairfield County, where many mental health providers in private practice do not accept Medicaid or private insurance. Although state-funded treatment programs and services have been reduced, the guidance center is committed to providing mental health services for children and teens regardless of their families’ ability to pay.

IMPACT FAIRFIELD TO VOTE ON GRANT RECIPIENTS Impact Fairfield County, the women’s only giving circle of Fairfield County, is in its third year as a philanthropic force in the community. In its first two years, Impact has provided $340,000 in grant funding to nonprofits in the area for new projects or the significant expansion of existing programs. In its third grant cycle, it has achieved a record number of members and will be awarding, for the first time, two $100,000 grants to area nonprofits whose missions and projects embody Impact’s definition of transformational programming.

The grant process began last fall with an initial pool of 57 nonprofit applicants. Nearly half of Impact’s members, 85 women, over a six-month period have reviewed letters of inquiry, evaluated full proposals and conducted 10 site visits to select the finalist organizations.

These finalists will present to the entire membership on May 2, when the winners will be announced after a final vote of the membership at UCONN Stamford.

Lyn Stevens Black

Ron Agababian

Houlihan Lawrence has announced that Lyn Stevens Black, a top producer in the Greenwich real estate market for more than 23 years, has joined its Greenwich brokerage.

Black, who most recently was with the Greenwich office of Douglas Elliman, ranks among the top agents in town. She was a founding member of the Fieldstone Group there and is well-known in area real estate.

“Lyn has built an incredible reputation here in the Greenwich community,” said David Haffenreffer, who manages Houlihan Lawrence’s Greenwich brokerage. “We’re thrilled she’s chosen to partner with us and use our powerful data, technology and marketing resources to grow her already-successful business even more.”

Originally from Michigan, Black has been a Greenwich resident for 32 years and is a passionate equestrian, skier and cyclist. She is a member of the National Association of Realtors, Connecticut Association of Realtors, SmartMLS and GMLA.

Angel Commercial LLC, a commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm in Fairfield County, has announced that Ron Agababian of Weston has joined as a vice president.

With more than 30 years of brokerage experience, Agababian has successfully represented a wide range of office tenants, property owners, investors and developers as they leased and acquired properties.

Throughout his brokerage career, he has worked in Washington, D.C., Boston, Manhattan and Fairfield County.

Agababian and his family have resided in Weston since 1998.

NEW STAFF AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL The following physicians have been added to Greenwich Hospital’s active medical staff ” Toby Chai joins the department of urology. A graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine, Chai will treat patients at 55 Holly Hill Lane in Greenwich.

Amanda Collins-Baine joins the department of medicine. She earned her medical degree from St. George University School of Medicine and will treat patients at 53 Old Kings Highway North in Darien.

Storm Liebling joins the pediatric emergency department. Liebling earned his medical degree from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine in Israel.

Omar Shakir joins the department of surgery in the section of ophthalmology.

He earned his medical degree at Albany Medical College and will treat patients at 600 W. Putnam Ave. Benjamin Vaccaro joins the department of medicine in the cardiology section. Vacarro earned his degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He will treat patients at 15 Valley Drive in Greenwich.

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Facts & Figures Reverse Mortgage Solutions Inc., Houston, Texas. Seller: Aldo V. Vitagliano, Rye. Property: 271 Cordial Road, Yorktown. Amount: $389,389. Filed April 16.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Michael J. Khader, Yonkers. Property: 7 S. Clinton Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $619,288.

Filed April 16.

Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mount Vernon. Seller: 18 South High LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 18 S. High St., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $348,500. Filed April 20.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Tyrone Brown, Yonkers. Property: 351 First Avenue South, Mount Vernon. Amount: $364,908. Filed April 18.

SDF Capital LLC, Mamaroneck.

Seller: The Truth Label LLC, Bronx.

Property: 91 Lincoln Ave., Eastchester. Amount: $455,000. Filed April 19.

SSEL Corp., Brewster. Seller: Ae Suk Clement, Lynn Haven, Florida.

Property: 12 Howland Drive, Lewisboro. Amount: $110,000. Filed April 19.

T-Kettle Enterprise Inc., Mahopac. Seller: Ramsumsush Inc., Peekskill. Property: 324 Simpson Place, Peekskill. Amount: $80,000. Filed April 16.

The Truth Label LLC, Tuckahoe.

Seller: Dawn Simons, Groveland, Florida. Property: 91 Lincoln Ave., Eastchester. Amount: $260,000.

Filed April 16.

Trade Estates LLC, Monroe. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 2 Brendon Hill Road, Yonkers. Amount: $438,900. Filed April 18.

Twilight Equities LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: Woodworth Riverside Realty Corp., Yonkers. Property: 106 Oliver St., Yonkers. Amount: $850,000.

Filed April 20.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Jeanine Dorvelus, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 38 Leland Ave., New Rochelle.

Amount: $555,540. Filed April 17.

William Yonkers LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: William D. Grieve, et al, Elmsford. Property: 23 William St., Yonkers. Amount: $700,000. Filed April 20.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Edward C. Brown, et al, Mount Vernon. Property: 465 Ninth Avenue South, Mount Vernon. Amount: $336,118. Filed April 20.

FORECLOSURES BUCHANAN, 207 Westchester Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Peter Bell.

Referee: Steven Goldenberg. Sale: May 2, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $454,060.81.

CORTLANDT MANOR, 562 West Brook Drive. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Stern & Eisenberg PC, 215-572-8111; 485 Route 1 South, Iselin, New Jersey 08830. Defendant: Wilfred Cruz. Referee: Dan Pagano.

Sale: May 14, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $358,885.54.

CROTON-ON-HUDSON, 208 Cleveland Drive. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Jonathan Karpoff.

Referee: Maria Rose Sammarco.

Sale: May 2, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $372,803.08.

HARTSDALE, 1 Cornell Drive.

Single-family residence; lot size: .35 acre. Plaintiff: Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-7591835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Anna Sinopoli. Referee: Joseph Maria. Sale: May 14, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $777,175.94.

HAWTHORNE, 204 Sherman Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .22 acre. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin, 516-280-7675; 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury 11590. Defendant: Robert Angiello. Referee: Gary Rikoon. Sale: May 14, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: JoAnn Cambareri, White Plains. Property: 1486 Cross Road, Yorktown. Amount: $367,877.

Filed April 17.

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KATONAH, 16 Hilltop Road.

Single-family residence; lot size: 3.33 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801.

Defendant: Frank Celli. Referee: Steven Feinstein. Sale: May 1, 10 a.m.

Approximate lien: $1,406,409.76.

MOUNT VERNON, 420 S. Fourth Ave. Two-family dwelling; .08 acre.

Plaintiff: Bank of America National Assoc. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Paul Campbell.

Referee: Judith Reardon. Sale: May 7, noon. Approximate lien: $1,028,821.38.

MAMARONECK, 614 Second Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .1 acre. Plaintiff: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Rose Tucker. Referee: James Hyer. Sale: May 2, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $611,677.49.

NEW ROCHELLE, 46 Saxon Way. Single-family residence; lot size: .31 acre. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Christopher Cuomo as administrator for the estate of Gloria Elgarten. Referee: Carl Finger. Sale: May 9, 2 p.m. Approximate lien: $559,723.58.

MOHEGAN LAKE, 3039 High St. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Stern & Eisenberg PC, 215-572-8111; 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury 11590.

Defendant: Kenneth Martin. Referee: Janet Paganelli. Sale: May 14, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. MOUNT VERNON, 5 S. 13 Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff: James B. Nutter & Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin, 516-280-7675; 9000 Merchants Concourse, Westbury 11590. Defendant: Samuel Blake. Referee: Clement Patti. Sale: May 14, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. MOUNT VERNON, 19 S. Terrace Ave. Three-family residence; lot size: 08 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Norman Hoo. Referee: Lawrence Schiro. Sale: May 10, 10 a.m.

Approximate lien: $688,141.87.

MOUNT VERNON, 21 Union Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .11 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin, 516-280-7675; 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury 11590. Defendant: Jon Wilson. Referee: John Brophy. Sale: May 7, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. MOUNT VERNON, 45 Marion Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .22 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates LLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Jose Suero. Referee: Warren Cohen.

Sale: May 10, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $804,313.88.

JUDGMENTS CSI Landscaping Inc., Mamaroneck. $7,460 in favor of HO Penn Machinery Company Inc., Poughkeepsie. Filed April 17.

De Re Me Farms Inc., New Hampton. $7,947 in favor of Zeltsman Associates Inc., Ossining. Filed April 17.

Elq Industries Inc., New Rochelle. $74,146 in favor of MTR Earth LLC, Frederick, Maryland. Filed April 20.

HVAC Technologies USA Inc., Tarrytown. $5,584 in favor of Daikin Applied Americas Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota. Filed April 20.

PEEKSKILL, 1136 Elm St. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank Trust National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Barbara Bussum.

Referee: Bijal Jani. Sale: April 30, 2 p.m. Approximate lien: $414,232.71.

J Rama Construction Inc., Ossining. $6,410 in favor of Xavier Electrical Contracting Inc., Putnam Valley.

Filed April 17.

SLEEPY HOLLOW, 194 Webber Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .14 acre. Plaintiff: National City Real Estate Services LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Frank Occhipanti. Referee: Thomas Galivan. Sale: May 9, 1 p.m.

Approximate lien: $568,286.87.

Montefiore Medical Center, Yonkers. $14,626 in favor of Clinical Drug Information LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana. Filed April 17.

WHITE PLAINS, 9 Pleasant Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Todd Ruffalo. Referee: Joseph Maira. Sale: May 17, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $808,860.37.

WHITE PLAINS, 46 Alexander Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin, 516-280-7675; 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury 11590. Defendant: Pauline Drago.

Referee: David Gelfarb. Sale: May 21, 9:15 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. YONKERS, 139 Remsen Road.

Single-family residence; lot size: .15 acre. Plaintiff: 21st Mortgage Corp.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Helfand & Helfand, 212-599-3303; 350 Fifth Ave., New York 10118. Defendant: Paul Vincent Mangieri. Referee: Robert Schechter. Sale: May 15, 2 p.m. Approximate lien: $420,062.40.

Mattis Group LLC, White Plains. $23,228 in favor of A and F William St LLC, White Plains. Filed April 18.

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

Almondovar, Magaly, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $258,903 affecting property located at 599 Van Cortlandt Park, Yonkers 10701. Filed Jan. 31.

Any unknown heirs, devisees, distributees or successors in interest of the late Celia Silver, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 36 Ledgewood Commons, Millwood 10546. Filed Jan. 30.

Fernandez, Rufina, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $280,000 affecting property located at 13 Sybil St., White Plains 10606.

Filed Jan. 31.

Flood, Charles, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $529,500 affecting property located at 160 Forster Ave., Mount Vernon 10552. Filed Jan. 31.

Garcia, Celia, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $470,250 affecting property located at 17 Charles St., White Plains 10606. Filed Jan. 30.

Jacobs, Wanda, et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $343,151 affecting property located at 149 S. 10th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Jan. 30.

Jalca, Felix, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 285 Ravencrest Road, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed Jan. 30.

Jones, Alfred C., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $382,500 affecting property located at 265 Coligni Ave., New Rochelle 10801.

Filed Jan. 31.

Jones, Lawanda M., et al. Filed

by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $280,250 affecting property located at 31 Ramapo Road, Ossining 10562. Filed Jan. 31.

Lapolice, Homer A., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $337,500 affecting property located at 13 Glenwolde Park, Tarrytown 10591. Filed Jan. 30.

Mcallister, Kenneth, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $447,200 affecting property located at 32 Sageman St., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Jan. 31.

McClafferty, Amy Adler, et al.

Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $560,000 affecting property located at 21 Stratton Road, Scarsdale 10583. Filed Jan. 31.

McDermott, James J. Jr., et al.

Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $2.3 million affecting property located at 787 and 789 Old Sleepy Hollow Road, Briarcliff Manor 10510. Filed Jan. 31.

O’Keefe, Rosemarie A., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $227,506 affecting property located at 8 Doris Lane, Tarrytown 10591. Filed Jan. 30.

Shivers, Yvonne, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $395,550 affecting property located at 19 Lincoln Terrace, Yonkers 10701. Filed Jan. 31.

Facts & Figures Stewart, Margaret E., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $47,838 affecting property located at 170 Lindsey Ave., Buchanan 10511. Filed Jan. 30.

Zegelstein, Howard, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $700,000 affecting property located at 9 Falcon Woods Court, Bedford 10506. Filed Jan. 31.

Cas Car Auto, 95 Woodside Ave., West Harrison 10604, c/o Thomas R. Annunziato. Filed Dec. 8.

Clever Words Consulting, 734 Union Drive, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Janine Ludmila Marion Clement. Filed Dec. 8.

Evon E. McKoy Cleaning Services, 7 S. Perkins Ave., Elmsford 10523, c/o Evon E. McKoy. Filed Dec. 12.

Mechanic’s Liens

Ghema Stone, 427 Center Ave., Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Harving Rosales. Filed Dec. 12.

Choi, Boo Yun, et al, as owner. $6,820 as claimed by Bruce Yablon, New York City. Property: in Scarsdale. Filed April 19.

Gregg Segnit Waterproofing, 201 Tate Ave., Buchanan 10511, c/o Gregg Segnit. Filed Dec. 12.

Cygnet IV LLC, as owner. $4,630 as claimed by Durante Rentals LLC, Flushing. Property: in Rye. Filed April 18.

Dauman, Stewart, as owner. $26,900 as claimed by Mark D. Levy Horticultural Service, Verplanck.

Property: in New Castle. Filed April 20.

Freiman, Adam, et al, as owner. $19,498 as claimed by Labella Electric Inc., Port Chester. Property: in Harrison. Filed April 17.

Moss, Cornelia E., as owner. $30,000 as claimed by A101 Construction and Design Inc., Maspeth.

Property: in Pelham. Filed April 20.

Silvera, Peter, as owner. $2,270 as claimed by Alexander Holding LLC, Copiague. Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed April 19.

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

Ironwood Strategic Advisor, 14 Burdsall Drive, Port Chester 10573, c/o Kevin Watson. Filed Dec. 8.

Konscious Reasoning, 300 Battle Ave., Apt. 5, White Plains 10606, c/o Kenneth Samine Roberts. Filed Dec. 12.

Michael Delacy, 85 Adelphi Ave., Harrison 10528, c/o Michael Delacy.

Filed Dec. 12.

Michael M. Arons, 2001 Palmer Ave., Suite 201, Larchmont 10538, c/o Michael Arons. Filed Dec. 7.

MoRock Drilling, 31 Elmwood Ave., 2, White Plains 10604, c/o Carlos F. Morocho Wazhima. Filed Dec. 8.

MTC Autoshipping, 60 W. First St., Unit 605, Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Maxwell Thompson. Filed Dec. 8.

NAS Co., 189 Drake Ave., Apt. 1E, New Rochelle 10805, c/o Nicholas Staropoli. Filed Dec. 11.

Opheliac Artistry, 239 Maple Brook Court, Yorktown Heights 10598, c/o Rebecca Bitondo. Filed Dec. 7.

Sole Proprietorships

Refinishing Touch, 140 Princeton Drive, Hartsdale 10530, c/o Michael Maglia. Filed Dec. 7.

A. Carlos Contracting Co., 175 Forest Ave., Yonkers 10705, c/o Antonio Carlos Generoso. Filed Dec. 11.

Stay Sharp Boxing and Fitness, 215 Sarles Lane, Pleasantville 10570, c/o Mark Taino. Filed Dec. 8.

ATRIA Employee Holiday Gift Fund, 1017 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley 10502, c/o Paul Gonick. Filed Dec. 7.

The QA Exchange, 31 Cedar Lane, Ossining 10562, c/o Suzanne Raphael. Filed Dec. 7.

Tita’s Dry Cleaners and Custom Tailoring, 1 Babbitt Road, Bedford Hills 10507, c/o Berta Odilia Pineda.

Filed Dec. 8.

U.K. Cycle Works, 51 Doyer Ave., White Plains 10605, c/o Stanton F. Erixon. Filed Dec. 11.

PATENTS Crosstalk reduction between signal layers in a multilayered package by variable-width mesh plane structures. Patent no. 9,955,567 issued to Jinwoo Choi, Austin, Texas; Sungjun Chun, Austin, Texas; Jason L. Frankel, Hopewell Junction; Paul Walling, Austin, Texas; and Roger D. Weekly, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Distributed load processing using forecasted location-based Internet of things device clusters. Patent no. 9,954,953 issued to Aaron K. Baughman, Silver Spring, Maryland.; Thomas Benjamin Harrison, Holly Springs, North Carolina; Brian M. O’Connell, Cary, North Carolina; and Herbert D. Pearthree, Cary, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Dynamic data compression.

Patent no. 9,954,924 issued to David Q. Li, North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Obtaining camera device image data representing an event. Patent no. 9,955,061 issued to Lee A. Carbonell, Flower Mound, Texas; Tsz Shing Cheng, Grand Prairie, Texas; Jeffrey Lynn Edgington, Keller, Texas; and Pandian Mariadoss, Allen, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Optimizing scheduled charging of battery-enabled devices based on a predicted battery consumption factor for an area.

Patent no. 9,955,428 issued to David J. Bacarella, Naperville, Illinois; Lawrence Candes, Jersey City, New Jersey; Ying Chen, San Jose, California; Aaron M. Cohen, Westford, Massachusetts; and Ravi Mani, Scarsdale.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Protocol selection for transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP). Patent no.

9,954,979 issued to David A. Herr, Cary, North Carolina; Constantinos Kassimis, Cary, North Carolina; and Jerry W. Stevens, Raleigh, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Scheduling optimized charging of battery-enabled devices based on power usage impact data received from multiple sources. Patent no. 9,955,313 issued to David J. Bacarella, Naperville, Illinois; Lawrence Candes, Jersey City, New Jersey; Ying Chen, San Jose, California; Aaron M. Cohen, Westford, Massachusetts, and Ravi Mani, Scarsdale. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Specifying a map of available locations for recharging battery-enabled devices based on a schedule of predicted locations for a user. Patent no. 9,955,314 issued to David J. Bacarella, Naperville, Illinois; Lawrence Candes, Jersey City, New Jersey; Ying Chen, San Jose, California; Aaron M. Cohen, Westford, Massachusetts; and Ravi Mani, Scarsdale. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Techniques for promoting and viewing social content written by nearby people. Patent no.

9,954,929 issued to Gregory R. Hintermeister, Rochester, Minnesota.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Utilizing eye tracking to determine attendee engagement.

Patent no. 9,955,116 issued to Gary I. Givental, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Kaleb D. Walton, Fenton, Michigan. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million Macollo LLC, Woodstock, as owner. Lender: Rondout Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 1802 Route 28 and Maverick Road and Old Route 28, Woodstock 12498. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed April 17.

Phoenix Delaware Ohio LLC, as owner. Lender: Walker and Dunlop Commercial Property Funding LLC. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $2.2 million. Filed April 19.

Below $1 million A-Class Management Inc., Carmel, as owner. Lender: Lima One Capital LLC, Greenville, South Carolina.

Property: 386 Route 52, Kent 10512.

Amount: $105,662. Filed April 5.

Banker, Douglas H., et al, as owner. Lender: Toorak Repo Seller 1 Trust, Summit, New Jersey.

Property: in Philipstown. Amount: $350,000. Filed April 13.

Blumberg, Daniel, as owner.

Lender: Mahopac Bank. Property: in Pawling. Amount: $560,000.

Filed April 17.

Brubaker, Breana, et al, Ellenville, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Wawarsing. Amount: $144,500.

Filed April 19.

Denver, Paul A., et al, Warwick, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 6 Rita Marie Lane, Warwick 10990. Amount: $125,000. Filed April 19.

DEEDS Above $1 million 11 Ruzhin Holdings LLC, Monroe. Seller: Chaya Jermias, Monroe.

Property: in Monroe. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed April 16.

F and M Equipment Ltd., Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Seller: T S and K Associates LLC, Pine Bush. Property: 24 Sibbel Court, Kent. Amount: $2.3 million. Filed April 16.

Gilbert Street Realty LLC, Monroe. Seller: Gilbert Street Associates LLC, Monroe. Property: 70 Gilbert St., Monroe 10950. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed April 19.

Girl Scouts heart of the Hudson Inc., Pleasantville. Seller: River to River Holding LLC, Montgomery.

Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed April 17.

Enkler, James J., et al, as owner.

Lender: Rhinebeck Bank. Property: in Clinton. Amount: $355,000. Filed April 13.

Green Farmland LLC, Flushing.

Seller: Donald B. daParma, Pine Island. Property: 1010 Route 1, Pine Island 10960. Amount: $1.5 million.

Filed April 16.

Global Property Group LLC, Pomona. Seller: First Equity Funding LP, Sea Girt, New Jersey. Property: 1156 Lakes Road, Monroe 10950.

Amount: $60,700. Filed April 20.

Healthy Agricultural Products LLC, Flushing. Seller: Outfoxed Farm Realty LLC, Chester. Property: in Blooming Grove. Amount: $1 million. Filed April 18.

Lake House Inc., et al, Kingston, as owner. Lender: The Bank of Greene County, Catskill. Property: 41 Tall Oaks Drive, Kingston 12401.

Amount: $200,000. Filed April 18.

Link Farm II LLC, Amenia. Seller: Wethersfield Foundation Inc., Amenia. Property: in Stanford. Amount: $2.3 million. Filed April 19.

Lapp, Timothy, Accord, as owner.

Lender: The Bank of Greene County, Catskill. Property: in Rochester.

Amount: $170,000. Filed April 16.

Property Saints Inc., Middletown, as owner. Lender: Grand Coast Capital Fund I LLC, Quincy, Massachusetts. Property: 4 Beth Place, Middletown. Amount: $151,000. Filed April 16.

SSS Realty Holdings LLC, Brewster, as owner. Lender: Rehab Financial Group LP, Rosemont, Pennsylvania. Property: 58-60 Allview Ave., Brewster. Amount: $109,065. Filed April 12.

Vanessa Properties LLC, Chester, as owner. Lender: Lima One Capital LLC, Greenville, South Carolina.

Property: 5 Acorn Court, Highland Mills 10930. Amount: $133,263. Filed April 19.

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Warwick Properties Inc., Warwick. Seller: Medrosh Holding LLC, Spring Valley. Property: in Wallkill.

Amount: $1.8 million. Filed April 20.

Wiccopee Farm LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Heritage Acre LLC, West Newton, Ma. Property: 85, 93, 137 and 475 E. Hook Road, East Fishkill. Amount: $3.8 million. Filed April 19.

Below $1 million 129 Rt 306 LLC, Monroe. Seller: Tamr Ventures LLC, Monroe. Property: 30 Maple Ave., Monroe 10950.

Amount: $180,000. Filed April 16.

16 Laila LLC, Monroe. Seller: Balance Equity LLC, New York City.

Property: 16 Laila Lane, Highlands.

Amount: $212,000. Filed April 16.

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Seller: A and T Properties LLC, New Hampton. Property: 1959 Route 284, Slate Hill. Amount: $655,000. Filed April 16.

Big Indian Development LLC, Sebring, Florida. Seller: Walter D’Ull, Plam Beach, Florida. Property: in Shandaken. Amount: $48,000.

Filed April 19.

22 Prices Switch Corp., White Plains. Seller: Richard Cass, et al, Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $225,000.

Filed April 16.

Bluebird Equities LLC, Monroe.

Seller: 22 Prag Realty Holdings Corp., Monroe. Property: 22 Prag Blvd., Unit 114, Monroe 10950.

Amount: $100,000. Filed April 16.

22 South Center Street LLC, Millerton. Seller: Cynthia Lynn Howe, et al, Patrick Springs, Virginia.

Property: in North East. Amount: $60,000. Filed April 19.

Catskill Hudson Bank, Kingston.

Seller: 93 Brookside LLC, Goshen.

Property: 93 Brookside Ave., Chester 10918. Amount: $219,971. Filed April 16.

22 South Center Street LLC, Millerton. Seller: Cynthia Lynn Howe, et al, Patrick Springs, Virginia.

Property: in North East. Amount: $130,000. Filed April 19.

Catskill Hudson Bank, Kingston.

Seller: 95 Brookside LLC, Goshen.

Property: 95 Brookside Ave., Chester 10918. Amount: $358,901. Filed April 16.

6100 LLC, Port Ewen. Seller: Griffin Realty LLC, New York City. Property: in Rochester. Amount: $225,000.

Filed April 18.

Catskill Hudson Bank, Kingston.

Seller: JJB LLC, Chester. Property: 97 Brookside Ave., Chester 10918.

Amount: $25,000. Filed April 16.

72nd Street Broadway Realty Inc., New York City. Seller: Weyrauch Construction Company Inc., Montgomery. Property: 30 Panorama Drive, New Windsor. Amount: $425,000. Filed April 20.

Catskill Mountain Real Estate Holding Company LLC, Kingston. Seller: Datum Developers Company Inc., Kingston. Property: in Ulster. Amount: $78,500. Filed April 13.

AJK Financial Services LLC, Allendale, New Jersey. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 3411 Whispering Hills, Unit 255 B, Chester 10918.

Amount: $133,000. Filed April 19.

Cherso Realty Inc., Greenwood Lake. Seller: Minisink Trail Corp., Goshen. Property: 11 Robalene Drive, Goshen 10924. Amount: $125,000. Filed April 20.

Amante and Norris Associates LLC, Washingtonville. Seller: Brian Slattery, et al, Florida. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $70,000. Filed April 20.

D.L. Stroup LLC, Pearl River. Seller: Iama LLC, Brooklyn. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $97,500. File April 19.

Antar Holdings Corp,, Poughkeesie. Seller: William G. White, Clinton Corners. Property: 5 Henry St., Pawling 12564. Amount: $157,000. Filed April 19.

ATM Sportsman Club LLC, Red Bank, New Jersey. Seller: John Koch, et al, Deer Park. Property: Franke Road, Huguenot 12746. Amount: $57,000. Filed April 19.

Davis Avenue Holdings LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Gale Marie Patrick, et al, Arlington, Texas. Property: 21 Davis Ave., Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $295,000. Filed April 18.

Derekh LLC, Stone Ridge. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 30 Winchell Lane, Rosendale 12472. Amount: $71,551.

Filed April 19.

B4 Holdings LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Aladesanmi K. Anjorin, Walden.

Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $124,100. Filed April 19.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Joseph A. Ruggiero, Yonkers. Property: 34 Floridan Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $300,678. Filed April 5.

Big Indian Development LLC, Sebring, Florida. Seller: Walter D’Ull, Palm Beach, Florida. Property: in Shandaken. Amount: $352,000.

Filed April 19.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Martin Goldberg, Middletown. Property: 31 Lakeside Drive, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $335,469. Filed April 16.

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Diplomat Property Manager LLC, New York City. Seller: James C. Crawford Jr., et al, Mount Kisco. Property: 8 Long Ridge Trail, Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $209,437. Filed April 13.

DMF and CJF Holdings LLC, Fishkill. Seller: Kevin L. Wright, Mahopac. Property: 45 Old Farms Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $150,000. Filed April 13.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Anthony J. Centone, White Plains. Property: 16 Marshall Drive, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $160,307. Filed April 16.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Joseph A. Ruggiero, Yonkers. Property: 2005 Dunhill Drive, Brewster 10509. Amount: $435,877. Filed April 10.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Michele Babcock, Walden. Property: 302 Homestead Ave., Maybrook 12543. Amount: $203,090. Filed April 16.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Sarah Ramos, Goshen. Property: 157 Main St., Cornwall-on-Hudson 12518.

Amount: $156,879. Filed April 17.

Global Property Group LLC, Pomona. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Property: 1156 Lakes Road, Monroe 10950.

Amount: $185,000. Filed April 20.

Gold Score Properties Inc., Monroe. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 23 Neversink Drive, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $112,500.

Filed April 17.

Goshen Mortgage REO LLC, New York City. Seller: Mary Angel Joyce Magno Hotung, Saugerties. Property: 1388 Glasco Turnpike, Saugerties 12477. Amount: $6,250. Filed April 19.

Herring Empire LLC, Newburgh.

Seller: Craig Sloane, et al, Newburgh.

Property: 1504 Cortland Drive, Unit 15D, Newburgh. Amount: $63,000.

Filed April 19.

High Equities LLC, Monroe. Seller: Brendan M. Haslett, et al, Monroe. Property: in Blooming Grove.

Amount: $367,500. Filed April 16.

Hod Shbehod LLC, Monroe. Seller: Michael Blustein, Goshen. Property: 574 Route 17M, Middletown 10940. Amount: $99,001. Filed April 19.

Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Evan D. Zucker, Chester. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $139,877. Filed April 19.

Hunter Lake Development LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Nancy Osganian Poulos, Tomball, Texas. Property: in Denning. Amount: $48,000. Filed April 20.

KJAM LLC, Garrison. Seller: David S. Stairs Jr., et al, Beacon. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $200,000. Filed April 16.

Leb Land Development LLC, Goshen. Seller: Richard J. Smith, et al, Pine Bush. Property: 22-26 Riverside Drive, Middletown 10941.

Amount: $80,000. Filed April 17.

MTGLQ Investors LP, New York City. Seller: Oleg Nemkin, et al, Smyrna, Georgia. Property: 42 Warford Road, Westtown 10998.

Amount: $246,380. Filed April 16.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Antonia Asmussen, Fishkill. Property: 18 Ketcham Drive, Fishkill 12524.

Amount: $445,000. Filed April 17.

I. Doolittle LLC, Millbrook. Seller: Harold E. Friedman, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $45,000. Filed April 18.

Leto Realty LLC, Hopewell Junction. Seller: Hopewell Holdings LLC, Hopewell Junction. Property: 871 Route 82, Hopewell Junction 12533.

Amount: $32,500. Filed April 19.

Ianni LLC, Hopewell Junction.

Seller: Hopewell Holdings LLC, Hopewell Junction. Property: 434 Route 376, Hopewell Junction.

Amount: $157,500. Filed April 19.

Leto Realty LLC, Hopewell Junction. Seller: Hopewell Holdings LLC, Hopewell Junction. Property: 873 Route 82, Hopewell Junction 12533.

Amount: $300,000. Filed April 19.

Ianni LLC, Hopewell Junction.

Seller: Hopewell Holdings LLC, Hopewell Junction. Property: 881 Route 82, Hopewell Junction 12533.

Amount: $187,000. Filed April 19.

Lexelle Properties LLC, Wappingers Falls. Seller: NYC REO LLC, Whitestone. Property: 32 Rombout Ridge Road, Poughkeepsie 12603.

Amount: $130,000. Filed April 13.

Ianni LLC, Hopewell Junction.

Seller: Hopewell Holdings LLC, Hopewell Junction. Property: 879 Route 82, Hopewell Junction 12533.

Amount: $187,000. Filed April 19.

Live Your Best Realty LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada. Seller: Mark T. Starkman, New Windsor. Property: 515 Upper Ave., Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $46,100. Filed April 19.

Ianni LLC, Hopewell Junction.

Seller: Hopewell Holdings LLC, Hopewell Junction. Property: 875 Route 82, Hopewell Junction 12533.

Amount: $187,000. Filed April 19.

m-m2 RE Holdings 12 LLC, Salt Point. Seller: Debra A. Mannain, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $80,000. Filed April 13.

Northern Enterprise NY LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: Michael E. Catania, Newburgh. Property: 28 Washington Road, Chester 10950. Amount: $170,000. Filed April 20.

Jah LLC, Goshen. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 740 Blooming Grove Turnpike, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $113,134.

Filed April 18.

Mastiff Manor LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: Virginia Hanchar, et al, Cold Spring. Property: in Marbletown.

Amount: $765,000. Filed April 18.

Porteus and Son Builder, Ossining. Seller: AA Total Realty Corp., Fishkill. Property: in Wappinger.

Amount: $35,000. Filed April 16.

Megafunworks Inc., Highland.

Seller: County of Dutchess, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Fishkill.

Amount: $19,000. Filed April 13.

Prof-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust V. Seller: Josephine Porter, et al, Monroe. Property: in Blooming Grove.

Amount: $188,815. Filed April 19.

MGM Property Holdings LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Property: 136 John St., New Windsor 12553.

Amount: $60,000. Filed April 18.

Property Saints Inc., Middletown. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 4 Beth Place, Middletown.

Amount: $145,705. Filed April 16.

JCHV Holdings LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 2 Sandi Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $159,000.

Filed April 13.

Jemzo-Hudson Development Corp., Milton. Seller: TD Bank N.A. Property: 5325 Route 9W, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $150,000.

Filed April 19.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: John E. Bach Jr., Goshen. Property: 82 Jacobs Road, Westtown 10998.

Amount: $571,368. Filed April 17.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Todd Carpenter, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 8 Brick Row, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $173,500. Filed April 17.

Kiel Contracting LLC, Middletown. Seller: 6 Crescent Place LLC, Goshen. Property: in Middletown.

Amount: $76,000. Filed April 17.

MGM Property Holdings LLC, Newburgh. Seller: City of Newburgh. Property: 35 Grove St., Newburgh. Amount: $21,150. Filed April 17.

MJD Contracting Corp., Mahopac. Seller: Joseph A. Charbonneau, Brewster. Property: 87 Montrose Drive, Carmel 10512. Amount: $59,020. Filed April 10.

Mortgage Equity Conversion Asset Trust 2011-1. Seller: Jeffrey Stuart Altbach, Ferndale. Property: 2117 Whispering Hills Drive, Chester 10918. Amount: $143,667. Filed April 20.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Mark D. Stern, Goshen. Property: 15 Marc Terrace, Monroe 10950. Amount: $300,000. Filed April 17.

Nexamp Free Holdings LLC, Boston, Massachusetts. Seller: UFP Eastern Division Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan. Property in Wappinger.

Amount: $275,000. Filed April 17.

Noam Estates R LLC, Monroe.

Seller: Jacob Strulovic, et al, Monroe. Property: 7 Garfield Road, Unit 111, 301, Monroe 10950. Amount: $990,000. Filed April 16.

Northern Enterprise NY LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: Joseph A. Catania, Newburgh. Property: 21 Orchard Terrace, Monroe 10950.

Amount: $155,500. Filed April 20.

Raywood Realty LLC, et al, Monroe. Seller: Gold Score Properties Inc., Monroe. Property: 23 Neversink Drive, Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $140,000. Filed April 17.

Retained Realty Inc., New York City. Seller: Kathryn S. Lazar, Hopewell Junction. Property: 8252 Albany Post Road, Red Hook 12571.

Amount: $210,000. Filed April 13.

RTLSR Church St LLC, Manhasset. Seller: Estate of Betty Budney, Philipstown. Property: 15 Church St., Philipstown. Amount: $695,000.

Filed April 12.

Facts & Figures Sarah Wells LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: Lincolndale Ltd., Campbell Hall. Property: 13 Sarah Wells Trail, Campbell Hall 10922. Amount: $250,000. Filed April 16.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Shane Egan, Pawling. Property: 10 Parker Ave., Hyde Park 12538.

Amount: $171,500. Filed April 19.

La Bellas Pizzeria, Ellenville. $6,544 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

Spiro Brothers Inc., et al, Kingston. Seller: Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Kingston. Property: in Hurley. Amount: $129,000.

Filed April 19.

Wembly Equities Corp., New Windsor. Seller: Wallkill Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association, Wallkill. Property: Square Hill Road, New Windsor. Amount: $175,000.

Filed April 16.

Millens Trucking LLC, Kingston. $160 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

SSS Realty Holdings LLC, Brewster. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 58-60 Allview Ave., Brewster 10509.

Amount: $400,000. Filed April 12.

TEL 4 Rentals LLC, Mahopac.

Seller: Frances Cipriano, et al, Yorktown Heights. Property: 533 Fox Run Lane, Unit 4D, Carmel 10512.

Amount: $64,000. Filed April 6.

TFLFG LLC, Carmel. Seller: High Garden Holdings LLC, White Plains.

Property: 36 Birch Trail, Kent 10512.

Amount: $93,000. Filed April 12.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Sandra Y. Salguero, Monticello. Property: 101 N. Montgomery St., Walden 12586.

Amount: $396,998. Filed April 16.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Virginia Napolitano, et al, Newburgh. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $270,965.

Filed April 16.

United Family Real Estate LLC, Ossining. Seller: Jorge L. Amendano Ortega, Putnam Valley. Property: 31 Barger St., Putnam Valley 10579.

Amount: $240,000. Filed April 12.

Vanessa Properties LLC, Chester.

Seller: CitiMortgage Inc. Property: 5 Acorn Court, Highland Mills 10930.

Amount: $111,000. Filed April 19.

Var Properties NY LLC, Brewster.

Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 314 Overland Road, Mahopac 10541.

Amount: $125,000. Filed April 10.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Karen E. Hagstrom, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 8105 Chelsea Cove North, Hopewell Junction 12533. Amount: $297,000. Filed April 17.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Manuel I. Rodriguez, et al, Fishkill.

Property: 344 First St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $177,967. Filed April 16.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Ralph Puglielle, New Windsor.

Property: 36 Houston St., Florida 10921. Amount: $237,503. Filed April 16.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: John J. Byrnes Jr., New Windsor. Property: 100 Washington Ave., Montgomery 12549.

Amount: $211,780. Filed April 16.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Monica A. Sneyd, et al, Wappingers Falls. Property: 5 Blackthorn Loop, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $225,000. Filed April 18.

Paltz Pizza Corp., New Paltz. $1,162 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

Panoramic Landscaping, Kingston. $1,186 in favor of Top Cut LLC, Bearsville. Filed April 18.

Pisciotta Brothers Construction LLC, New Paltz. $809 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

Wilmington Trust N.A. Seller: Chester Gordon, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 479 Butts Hollow Road, Dover Plains 12522. Amount: $298,000. Filed April 18.

Precision Welding, Saugerties. $338 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

JUDGMENTS

Ruth Silvers Mack Photography, Shandaken. $609 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

A Day Apart Inc., Kingston. $11,015 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

AAAA Lou Grotto Pest Control Corp., Wallkill. $204 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

Bennington Bloom Productions Inc., Olivebridge. $3,039 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

Celebrity Hair Studio Inc., Newburgh. $1,046 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 27.

Garden Housing Inc., Monroe. $1,046 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 27.

Grahamserv Vending, New Paltz. $143 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

Kings Town Inc., Kingston. $8,879 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

San Marino’s Pizzeria Café Corp., New Windsor. $1,046 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Feb. 27.

SCC Holding Corp., Highland. $103 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

Studio Selvage, Kingston. $669 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

Ted’s Interiors and Remodeling Inc., Chichester. $103 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

The Glass House Antiques, New Paltz. $1,036 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 17.

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

79 West Lake Boulevard LLC, et al. Filed by The Putnam County National Bank of Carmel. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $350,000 affecting property located at 79 W. Lake Blvd., Carmel.

Filed April 9.

Alston, Steven A., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $266,750 affecting property located at 47 Elm St., Ellenville 12428. Filed April 18.

Any unknown heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of the late Edward M. Killmer, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $146,201 affecting property located at 53 Perrys Corners Road, Amenia 12501. Filed April 12.

Ashline, Karen, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $119,670 affecting property located at 5 Sycamore Drive, Hyde Park 12538. Filed April 20.

Bercy, Willy K., et al. Filed by PrimeLending. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $297,250 affecting property located at 13 East St., Beacon 12508. Filed April 16.

Carlucci, Philip A., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 37 Elk Road, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed April 12.

Cramer, Candice D., et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $196,350 affecting property located at 156 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz 12561. Filed April 16.

Cumberbatch, Lionel I., et al.

Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $349,760 affecting property located at 165 South Ave., Beacon 12508. Filed April 17.

Danza, Mark, as heir to the estate of Theresa Danza, et al.

Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $427,500 affecting property located at 117 Park St., Hurley 12443. Filed April 16.

De Puy, Diana J., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $104,350 affecting property located at 1 Wylie St., Napanoch 12458. Filed April 18.

Deagan, Joanna S., et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $315,000 affecting property located at 37 Shindagen Hill, Carmel 10512. Filed April 13.

Degiorgio, Nicole, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $224,000 affecting property located at 46 Malloy Road, Wallkill 12589. Filed April 18.

Detrinca, Thomas H., et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $60,000 affecting property located at 11 Tommy Court, Mahopac 10541. Filed April 16.

Jackson, Edward Jr., individually and as heir to the estate of Shirley Jackson, et al. Filed by Reverse Mortgage Solutions Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $360,000 affecting property located at 53 Ridge Drive, West Hurley 12491. Filed April 18.

Jamison, Eva M., et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $348,313 affecting property located at 795 Huntington Drive, Fishkill 12524. Filed April 19.

Jette, Norman L., et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $67,450 affecting property located at 33 Lucas Ave., Kingston 12401.

Filed April 19.

Kanoff, Tabitha, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $94,530 affecting property located at 660 Lakewood Road, Pine Bush 12566. Filed April 16.

Duggins, Jason T., et al. Filed by Carrington Mortgage Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $234,000 affecting property located at 19 Laurel Park Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed April 18.

Lacerte, Danielle, et al. Filed by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $246,310 affecting property located at 1 Finch Lane, Lake Peekskill 10537. Filed April 16.

Edwards, Kristopher, et al. Filed

by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $174,325 affecting property located at 2306 Whispering Hills Drive, Chester 10918. Filed Feb. 23.

Laskus, Stanley P. Jr., et al. Filed

by Flagstar Bank FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $328,500 affecting property located at 14 Blueberry Hill, Greenwood Lake 10925. Filed Feb. 23.

Gross-Hutchinson, Leah, et al.

Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $748,000 affecting property located at 47 Spy Glass Hill, Hopewell 12533. Filed April 19.

Lewis, Norma J., et al. Filed by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $474,000 affecting property located at 10 Long Meadow Drive, Staatsburg 12580. Filed April 19.

Heirs and distributees of the estate of Thomas H. Johnson, et al. Filed by Reverse Mortgage Solutions Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $240,000 affecting property located at 24 Anderson Road, Dover Plains 12522.

Filed April 18.

Matthews, Todd R., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $294,400 affecting property located at 404 Kensington Court, Brewster 10509. Filed April 11.

Hossain, Sayda, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $243,000 affecting property located at 15 E. Arnold Road, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed April 20.

Howard, Eric, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $50,235 affecting property located at 7 Alvin Court, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 13.

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Maurno, Michael J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $220,180 affecting property located at 527 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed April 16.

McHale, Margaret, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure undisclosed amount affecting property located at 5 Cindy Lane, Wappinger Falls 12590. Filed April 20.

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Montalvo, Carol, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $333,000 affecting property located at 7 Gold Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed April 17.

Morse, Douglas, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $188,000 affecting property located at 60 Airport Road, Accord 12404. Filed April 19.

Navarra, Vincent, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $220,000 affecting property located at 77 Friedlander Drive, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed April 13.

Patterson Crossing Realty Company LLC, et al. Filed by TD Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $7.4 million affecting property located at Route 311, Kent and Patterson 12563. Filed April 12.

Planck-Kuney, Kristin M., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $158,700 affecting property located at 14 North St, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed April 12.

Power, John F. Jr., et al. Filed

by Citibank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 690 Gipsy Trail Road, Carmel 10512. Filed April 12.

Rahmel, Richard J., et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $170,000 affecting property located at 113 Russell St., Cornwall-on-Hudson 12518. Filed Feb. 23.

Rosenblatt, Edward, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $109,500 affecting property located at 59 Church St., Ellenville 12428.

Filed April 18.

Sala Development Company LLC, et al. Filed by Rhinebeck Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $670,715 affecting property located in Beekman.

Filed April 16.

Santana, Jose, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $486,034 affecting property located at 5 Sugarbush Court, Mahopac 10541. Filed April 12.

Scott, Doreen, as co-administrator of the estate of Ralph Arce, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $235,000 affecting property located at 20 First St., Beacon 12508. Filed April 16.

Shareef, Akhter Ahmed, et al.

Filed by Trustco Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 19 Kendall Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Filed April 13.

Short, William J., et al. Filed by Flagstar Bank FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,347 affecting property located at 12 Fair St., Highland 12528. Filed April 16.

Silberman, Anthony A., et al.

Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $107,402 affecting property located at 191 Elmendorf St., Kingston 12401. Filed April 18.

Rimmer, Erin, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $248,348 affecting property located at 85 Salem Road, Fishkill 12524. Filed April 18.

The estate of William B. Conran, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $145,000 affecting property located at 84 Slater Road, Patterson 12563.

Filed April 11.

Torres, Edwin N., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $126,500 affecting property located at 38 Melrose Ave., New Windsor 12553. Filed Feb. 23.

Toscano, Francesca, et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $240,600 affecting property located at 27 Wilson St., Beacon 12508. Filed April 20.

Turner, Stephen D. Jr, et al. Filed

by Quicken Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $190,272 affecting property located at 63 Upton Road, Lagrangeville 12540. Filed April 13.

Turner, Thomas W., et al. Filed

by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $151,000 affecting property located at 5 S. Grand Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 17.

Uhric, Joseph Jr., et al. Filed

by Keybank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $15,000 affecting property located at 332 Ruth Court, Middletown 10940. Filed Feb. 23.

Waltenberg, Robert L. Jr., et al.

Filed by TD Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $133,620 affecting property located at 39 Hoslers Road, Westtown 10998. Filed Feb. 23.

Way, Grant, as proposed executor of the estate of Valari L.B. Way, et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 112 Chris Lane, Olivebridge 12461. Filed April 17.

Woroschinski, Christine E., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 350 Grand St., Newburgh 12550. Filed Feb. 23.

Mechanic’s Liens Moskowitz, Bassie, et al, as owner. $4,000 as claimed by CMC Construction Group Inc., Slate Hill.

Property: 21 Israel Zupnick Drive, Unit 204, Monroe 10950. File April 23.

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Newbuy Inc., as owner. $5,675 as claimed by KC Engineering and Land Surveying PC, New York City.

Property: 2036 Route 9D, Wappinger. Filed April 19.

Ridge Hudson Valley LLC, as owner. $509,197 as claimed by Harrison French and Associates Ltd., Bentonville, Arizona. Property: in Newburgh. Filed April 16.

X LLC, as owner. $4,750 as claimed

by Hudson Valley Build Solutions Inc., Campbell Hall. Property: 109 Brookside Ave., Chester. Filed April 20.

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

Sole Proprietorships

Keldon Photo, 591 Otis St., Kingston 12401, c/o Keldon Christopher Polacco. Filed April 18.

A.P.M. Seal Coating and Driveway Repair, 70 Hull Ave., Clintondale 12515, c/o Salvatore P. Rosso.

Filed April 19.

Keldon Wood Productions, 180 Delaware Ave., Kingston 12401, c/o Keldon Christopher Polacco. Filed April 18.

Beesmer Enterprises, 246 Stone Road, West Hurley 12491, c/o Cory Michael Beesmer. Filed April 16.

Kristine Glass LMT, 1136 Ulster Landing Road, Saugerties 12477, c/o Kristine Lynn Glass. Filed April 16.

Caden Consulting, 11 Olev Lane, Apt. B, New Paltz 12561, c/o Caden Ganzekaufer. Filed April 16.

Landscaping Pluss, 232 Hall Hill Road, Ancram 12502, c/o Brett Michael Hough. Filed April 16.

Catskill, Painting, and Renovations, P.O. 542, Hunter 12442, c/o Charles J. Moore. Filed April 13.

Mauro Sanchez Landscaping, 9 Colletta Lane, Marlboro 12542, c/o Mauro Sanchez-Lopez. Filed April 13.

CJG Carpentry and Home Improvement, 12 Orr Hutch Drive, Cornwall-on-Hudson, c/o Christopher James Gruttemeyer. Filed Aug. 15.

Noria Restaurant, 118 Broadway, Newburgh, c/o Carmen A. Nizama.

Filed Aug. 14.

Doing Business As

Clean Queen, 120 N. Main St., No. 5, Monroe 10950, c/o Joanna Maczuga.

Filed Aug. 14.

Adirondack Transit Lines Inc., d.b.a. Trailways of New York, 499 Hurley Ave., Hurley 12443. Filed April 19.

Communications Contractors, 74 B Center St., Pine Bush 12566, c/o Arthur William Larson. Filed Aug. 14.

Laon Acupuncture PC, d.b.a.

Newburgh Acupuncture, 280 Broadway, First floor, Newburgh 12550. Filed Aug. 16.

Dana’s Decadence, 91 Liberty St., Newburgh 12550, c/o Dana Charres.

Filed Aug. 16.

Passenger Bus Corp., d.b.a. Trailways of New York, 499 Hurley Ave., Hurley 12443. Filed April 19.

Pine Hill-Kingston Bus Corp., d.b.a. Trailways of New York, 499 Hurley Ave., Hurley 12443. Filed April 19.

Partnerships Blonde Media, 9 Holland Lane, New Paltz 12561, c/o Sarah Alexandra Stratton and Katharine Sky Knudsen Brantmeyer. Filed April 16.

Lawn Enforcement, 37 Gardnerville Road, New Hampton, c/o Robert Stevenson and Maria Miale. Filed Aug. 14.

Vasquez Cousins Construction, 101 Henry Ave., Newburgh 12550, c/o Erick G. Vasquez, Guillermo R. Vasquez, and Guillermo DaFael Vasquez Alpaca. Filed Aug. 14.

Earthen Essences, 20 Marthas Court, Saugerties 12477, c/o Brooke Suzanne Reisigl. Filed April 18.

Fogarty Property Maintenance, 11 Riozzi Court, 11B, Saugerties 12477, c/o Donald P. Fogarty, II. Filed April 19.

Goshen High School Chris Herren Fund, 4 Bella Vista Court, Campbell Hall 10916, c/o Marybeth A. Tyrrell. Filed Aug. 16.

Granny Brown Farms, 351 Lake Shore Drive, Pine Bush 12566, c/o Tania R. Santana. Filed April 13.

Higherwise, 21 E. Bridge St., Saugerties 12477, c/o Beth M. Faichney.

Filed April 19.

Home Repair For Less, 20 Woodbury Road, Highland Mills 10930, c/o Miguel Marin-Torres. Filed Aug. 16.

In The Cut Barbershop, 416 E. Main St., Middletown, c/o Mitchell K. Turner. Filed Aug. 16.

North Coast Knot, 230 Hufcut Road, Middletown 10941, c/o Susan E. Baldwin. Filed Aug. 14.

Personal Types, 78 Seward Road, New Hampton 10958, c/o Cindy C. Smith. Filed Aug. 16.

Pete Rosenkranse Trucking, 411 South St., Clintondale 12515, c/o Peter D. Rosenkranse, III. Filed April 16.

Pirtle Design, 89 Church Hill Road, New Paltz 12561, c/o Woodrow T. Pirtle. Filed April 16.

Renew Finish, 77 Alexander Road, Monroe 10950, c/o Nathan Allan Young. Filed Aug. 14.

SarahRose Counseling, 5 Playhouse Lane, Woodstock 12498, c/o SarahRose M. Stern. Filed April 16.

Save Tillson Lake, 945 N. Mountain Road, Gardiner 12525, c/o Anne O’Neill. Filed April 17.

TG Upstate Handyman Services, 980 Ulster Landing Road, Saugerties 12477, c/o Travis Lee Gandara. Filed April 19.

Tiny Shiny Noodle Head, 253 Manorville Road, Saugerties 12477, c/o Michael J. Ferrara. Filed April 19.

Facts & Figures ATTACHMENTSRELEASED Bernier, Norma L., Norwalk.

Released by Anne Jasorkowski. $105,360 in favor of 1 Burr Place Operating Company II LLC. Property: Lot 40, Map of Property to be conveyed by Irma A. Olsen to Rose Fiorilla. Norwalk. Filed April 3.

Gleason, Theresa and John Gleason, Newtown. Released by Lori A. DaSilva-Frano. $190,000 in favor of Howard Gleason. Property: 10 and 15 Old Town Road, Newtown. Filed March 22.

Gleason, Theresa and John Gleason, Newtown. Released by $202,721 in favor of Andrew Durden and Marcella Durden. Property: 10 and 15 Old Town Road, Newtown.

Filed March 22.

BUILDING PERMITS COMMERCIAL Eagle Fence, Plainville, contractor for Greater Bridgeport Housing Corp. Add a fence to an existing single-family residence at 4190 Park Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $35,750. Filed March 29.

Farnsworth, Paul B., Fairfield, contractor for Anthony G. Santomauro. Install a three-story elevator in an existing commercial space at 475 Fencerow Drive, Fairfield.

Estimated cost: $35,345. Filed March 27.

Fayerweather Yacht Club, Bridgeport, contractor for self. Construct stairs on the property of an existing single-family residence at 51 Brewster St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed March 28.

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ON THE RECORD

Hereford, Sergio, contractor for Mark Jarvis. Add temporary tents to the property of an existing commercial space for a special event at 2399 Main St., Stratford. Estimated cost: $200. Filed March 29.

Archer, Monroe, contractor for self. Renovate the bathrooms and windows in an existing single-family residence at 121 Purdy Hill Road, Monroe. Cost undisclosed. Filed March 26.

J&J Concrete Foundations, contractor for Alzira Ribeiro. Add a detached garage to an existing single-family residence at 57 James St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $15,000.

Filed March 22.

Ilama General Contracting LLC, contractor for R-K Brick Walk 1 LLC. Perform an interior fit-out in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 1221 Post Road, Fairfield.

Estimated cost: $2,200. Filed March 29.

Bauman, Liucija, Fairfield, contractor for self. Convert a half bathroom into a full bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 80 Weeping Willow Road, Fairfield.

Estimated cost: $6,000. Filed March 27.

J Peck Construction Services Inc., Woodbury, contractor for Chris Sarandon. Add a dormer to the barn in an existing single-family residence at 2232 Redding Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $5,000.

Filed March 29.

MGL Construction Inc., Bridgeport, contractor for 118 Lindley LLC. Add a storage building to the property of an existing single-family residence at 116-118 Lindley St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $100,000.

Filed March 28.

Better Built Basements LLC, contractor for George Smirnoff III. Finish the basement for a recreation room in an existing single-family residence at 141 Margemere Drive, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $37,000.

Filed March 26.

Jay Construction LLC, Fairfield, contractor for self. Build a two-story colonial with a two-car attached garage with a rear open deck and two covered front porches at 49 English Lane, Shelton. Estimated cost: $284,200. Filed March 22.

Monroe Senior, contractor for the town of Monroe. Replace the kitchen cabinets and counters in an existing single-family residence at 235 Cutlers Farm Road, Monroe. Cost undisclosed. Filed March 29.

Bodakowski, Steven, Fairfield, contractor for self. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence at 65 Edgewood Place, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $7,000.

Filed March 28.

Keep Me Home, contractor for Manuel Silva. Add a handicap ramp to an existing single-family residence at 660 Light St., Stratford.

Estimated cost: $4,500. Filed March 29.

Morris Roofing Solutions Inc., contractor for the Town Union of The King’s. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 152 Westport Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $332,000. Filed April 5.

Brown, Tim, contractor for Jeff Boisvert. Remodel the kitchen in an existing single-family residence at 136 Lobdell Drive, Stratford. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed March 23.

Lifestyle Kitchen & Bath Design, contractor for Martin Mass and Jean Mass. Remodel the kitchen in an existing single-family residence at 96 Old Academy Road, Fairfield.

Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed March 28.

Pro Home Builders, Milford, contractor for Brenda Ortiz. Add an access ramp to an existing commercial space at 798 Park Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $22,000. Filed March 28.

RPOC Management Inc., contractor for Doctors Newtown Road.

Demolish the partitions in an existing commercial space and install new ones at 103-109 Newtown Road, Unit 700, Danbury. Estimated cost: $26,000. Filed April 10.

Santanaven LLC, Danbury, contractor for self. Expand the liquor store in an existing commercial space at 3 Clapboard Ridge Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $500.

Filed April 11.

Trinity Baptist Church of Fairfield, Fairfield, contractor for self.

Perform an interior fit-out in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 300 N. Benson Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed March 29.

RESIDENTIAL Andros, John, contractor for Jing Fong. Add a garage to an existing single-family residence at 15 Harvest Hill Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $120,000. Filed April 10.

Casceillo, Jean P., Fairfield, contractor for self. Replace the footings and posts in an existing single-family residence at 26 Southfield Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $1,000.

Filed March 26.

Donofrio, Leonard, Stratford, contractor for self. Replace the roof on the garage of an existing single-family residence at 475 Howard Ave., Stratford. Estimated cost: $500. Filed March 23.

Edwards, Mark A., Danbury, contractor for self. Repair a foundation wall in an existing single-family residence at 46 Starrs Plain Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $3,000.

Filed March 21.

Fairfield Beach Club Inc., Fairfield, contractor for self. Pour the foundation for a beach club at 41 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $95,000. Filed March 29.

Farris, Jim, contractor for Joanne Potratz. Add a new deck to an existing single-family residence at 48 Meritine Ave., Stratford. Estimated cost: $5,800. Filed March 23.

Harmanli, Dilara and Oz Harmanli, Shelton, contractor for self.

Add solar panels onto the roof of an existing single-family residence at 28 Nature Lane, Shelton. Estimated cost: $80,000. Filed March 22.

Losey, Anthony, Fairfield, contractor for self. Finish part of the basement and bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 41 Grist Mill Lane, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $13,511. Filed March 29.

Mceice, Charles, Stratford, contractor for self. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 6344 Main St., Stratford. Estimated cost: $6,900. Filed March 23.

McIntire, contractor for Michael J. Schnepf and Elaine Schnepf. Finish the basement and bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 77 Winding Ridge Way, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $42,000. Filed April 9.

Merritt 7 Venture LLC, Norwalk, contractor for self. Renovate the second floor of an existing single-family residence at 201 Merritt 7, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $159,000.

Filed April 4.

Morissey, Kevin, Stratford, contractor for self. Enclose the porch and extend the deck on an existing single-family residence at 273 Curtis Ave., Stratford. Estimated cost: $4,000. Filed March 23.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY

O’Connor, Thomas, Stratford, contractor for self. Add temporary tents to the property of an existing single-family residence for a special event at 96 Margherita Lawn, Stratford. Estimated cost: $5,600. Filed March 23.

Papageorge, contractor for Alfred J. Candido. Gut and restore house after a fire at 125 Old Tannery Road, Monroe. Cost undisclosed. Filed March 20.

Pinnacle Peak Inc., contractor for self. Construct a new two-story one-family residence with a two-car attached garage, front porch and rear patio at 1115 Banks Road North, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $440,000.

Filed March 27.

Power Home Remodeling Group, Chester, Pennsylvania, contractor for Sindy Maignan. Replace the windows on an existing single-family residence at 280 Quenby Place, Stratford. Estimated cost: $12,000. Filed March 23.

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Primo Carpentry LLC, contractor for Linda F. Storhoff. Remodel an existing single-family residence at Albert, Danbury. Estimated cost: $38,000. Filed April 10.

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Raymond, Kristein, Norwalk, contractor for self. Construct a deck on the property of an existing single-family residence at 2 Burchard Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $4,000. Filed April 4.

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Ritch, Julie and Shawn Robinson, Norwalk, contractor for self.

Replace the deck on an existing single-family residence at 15 Fullin Court, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $9,000. Filed April 4.

Sheehan, Jack, contractor for Matt Adzima. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 50 Paradise Green Place, Stratford.

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Smith, Micah, contractor for Susan Richards. Finish the basement in an existing single-family residence at 900 Silver Lane, Stratford.

Estimated cost: $18,871. Filed March 23.

Taylor, Trudy N. and Michael O. Taylor, Danbury, contractor for self. Convert the existing second-floor bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 14 Marldon Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed April 9.

Total Remodeling & Repair LLC, contractor for Maher A. Sarkis.

Remove and replace the windows in an existing single-family residence at 4 Daniels Drive, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $14,511. Filed April 9.

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Facts & Figures Wormser Development Group Inc., contractor for Michael T. Fulton and Hernan Fulton. Remove the deck on an existing single-family residence at 36 Sigwin Drive, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed March 29.

Zhingri Homes LLC, contractor for self. Add a roof, windows and door to an existing single-family residence at 16 Blaine St., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed March 21.

COURT CASES The following court cases represent the allegations made by plaintiffs in the initial filings of civil lawsuits, and do not represent legally binding judgments made by the courts.

Bridgeport Superior Court CT Auto, Trumbull. Filed by I.A.C. Inc., New Haven. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jacobs & Rozich LLC, New Haven.

Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendant alleging that it had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for a recourse agreement. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding principal balance due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, attorney’s fees, court costs, prejudgment interest, post-judgment interest and such other and further relief as the court deems just and proper. Case no.

FBT-CV18-6073545-S. Filed April 13.

Garrison Property and Casualty Insurance Co., et al., Hartford. Filed by Elenie Savvoulides, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Joel T. Faxon, Faxon Law Group LLC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendants alleging that she was in a car driven by a motorist insured by the defendant and suffered injury. The insurance policy carried by the underinsured motorist is inadequate to fully compensate for the damages. The plaintiff alleges that her injuries are the legal responsibilities of the motorist’s insurance company and related parties, the defendants. The plaintiff claims money damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as in law or equity may apply. Case no. FBTCV18-6073425-S. Filed April 10.

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Gastroenterology Associates PC, et al., Stratford. Filed by Kenneth Pond, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder PC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this medical malpractice suit against the defendants alleging that they failed to properly monitor the plaintiff’s decedent for a gastrointestinal condition and missed her bowel obstruction. As a result, the plaintiff’s decedent allegedly suffered emotional distress, severe pain and death. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and any further relief in law or equity which may appertain. Case no. FBT-CV18-6073312-S. Filed April 9.

Geico Indemnity Co., et al., Hartford. Filed by Shanta Jackson, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Nicholas R. Nesi, East Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendants alleging that she collided with an underinsured motorist and suffered injury. The insurance policy carried by the underinsured motorist is inadequate to fully compensate for the damages. The plaintiff alleges that her injuries are the legal responsibilities of her insurance company and related parties, the defendants. The plaintiff claims money damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as in law or equity may apply. Case no. FBTCV18-6073300-S. Filed April 9.

Greenwich-376 Restaurant Company LLC, et al., Hartford.

Filed by Pagano’s Inc., Norwalk.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Jacobs & Rozich LLC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendants alleging that they had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for goods sold. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding principal balance due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, attorney’s fees, court costs, prejudgment interest, post-judgment interest and such other and further relief as the court deems just and proper.

Case no. FBT-CV18-6073548-S. Filed April 13.

IDS Property Casualty Insurance Co., et al., Hartford. Filed by Beatriz Quiceno, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bruce J. Corrigan Jr., Westport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendants alleging that she collided with a motorist and suffered injury. The plaintiff has exhausted the insurance policy payout of the motorist and it is inadequate to pay for the plaintiff’s injuries. The plaintiff alleges that her injuries are the legal responsibilities of her insurance company and related parties, the defendants. The plaintiff claims money damages in excess of $15,000 and all other just relief at the court deems appropriate and proper. Case no. FBT-CV186073437-S. Filed April 11.

Nationwide General Insurance Co., Hartford. Filed by Rafael Velez Jr., Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: James O. Gaston, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendant alleging that she collided with an underinsured motorist and suffered injury. The insurance policy carried by the underinsured motorist is inadequate to fully compensate for the damages. The plaintiff alleges that her injuries are the legal responsibilities of her insurance company, the defendant.

The plaintiff claims money damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as in law or equity may apply.

Case no. FBT-CV18-6073375-S. Filed April 10.

Maefair Health Care Center Inc., et al., Hartford. Filed by William Tote, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Kennedy Johnson Schwab & Roberge LLC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that he was on a wheelchair on premises owned by the defendants when he fell backwards and hit his head on the floor, causing damages. This was allegedly due to the negligence of the plaintiff and their employees in that they failed to use attachments and guards on the wheelchair to prevent it from tipping over. The plaintiff claims compensatory damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBTCV18-6073469-S. Filed April 11.

One Stop Deli, et al., Stratford.

Filed by Com Link Inc., Stratford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: John R. Bryk, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendants alleging that they had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for ATM fees.

The plaintiff has declared all outstanding costs due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, post-judgment interest, attorney’s fees, costs of suit and such other legal relief as may appertain. Case no. FBT-CV186073524-S. Filed April 12.

Main Coffee House LLC, Trumbull. Filed by Clement Bellegarde, Milford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Pol, Merced & Associates LLC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendant alleging that he tripped over exposed wiring on property owned by the defendant and sustained injuries. This dangerous condition was allowed to exist due to the negligence of the defendant and its employees in that they failed to properly inspect the premises to determine if there were dangers there. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 and such other relief as this court may deem equitable and just.

Case no. FBT-CV18-6073533-S. Filed April 12.

Mark IV Construction Company Inc., et al., Milford. Filed by Main Street Business Management Inc., Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Pellegrino Law Firm, New Haven.

Action: The plaintiff has brought this suit against the defendants alleging that they dumped hazardous waste on his property. The defendants allegedly concealed their actions by covering up the fill materials beneath the surface. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBT-CV186073550-S. Filed April 13.

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Rooster Stone Works LLC, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Latreana Thompson, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Miller, Rosnick, D’Amico, August & Butler, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that she was hit by a car owned by the defendants and driven by an employee of the defendants during the course of their work. The defendants were allegedly negligent in that they operated their motor vehicle at an unreasonable rate of speed and failed to keep a proper lookout. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs, and such other relief as the court deems just and proper.

Case no. FBT-CV18-6073505-S. Filed April 11.

Stanley Steemer International Inc., et al., East Hartford. Filed

by Gustavo Diaz, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Carter Mario Injury Lawyers, North Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that he was hit by a car owned by the defendants and driven by an employee of the defendants during the course of their work. The defendants were allegedly negligent in that they failed to drive within the single lane on the road, causing damages. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs, and such other relief as the court deems just and proper.

Case no. FBT-CV18-6073423-S. Filed April 10.

United Service Automobile Association (USAA), et al., Hartford.

Filed by Michael Smith, Bridgeport.

Plaintiff’s attorney: James O. Gaston, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that he was hit by a car owned by the defendants and driven by an employee of the defendants during the course of their work. The defendants were allegedly negligent in that they operated their motor vehicle at an unreasonable rate of speed. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as the court deems just and proper. Case no. FBT-CV186073373-S. Filed April 10.

Danbury Superior Court C.E. Schabacker, Wethersfield.

Filed by Gregory Bartlett, Ridgefield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Hastings, Cohen & Walsh LLP, Ridgefield. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendant alleging that he was hit by a car owned by the defendant and driven by an employee of the defendant during the course of work.

The defendant was allegedly negligent in that it operated the motor vehicle at an unreasonable rate of speed. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as the court deems just and proper. Case no. DBD-CV186026249-S. Filed April 10.

Sky Zone LLC, et al., Los Angeles, California. Filed by Sean Kennan, Redding. Plaintiff’s attorney: Perkins & Associates, Woodbridge.

Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that he slipped and fell down an exercise wall while in their care, causing damages. The defendants were allegedly negligent in that they permitted the wall to be difficult and dangerous for use. the plaintiff claims monetary damages and such other and further relief as the court deems fair and equitable. Case no. DBD-CV186026272-S. Filed April 11.

The Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Co., et al., Hartford.

Filed by Mary C. Barron, Danbury.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Patricia M. Cruz, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendants alleging that she collided with an underinsured motorist and suffered injury. The insurance policy carried by the underinsured motorist is inadequate to fully compensate for the damages. The plaintiff alleges that her injuries are the legal responsibilities of her insurance company and related parties, the defendants.

The plaintiff claims money damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as in law or equity may apply. Case no. DBD-CV18-6026279-S. Filed April 11.

Stamford Superior Court CRG Holdings LLC, Stamford.

Filed by The Greenwich Bank & Trust Co., Greenwich. Plaintiff’s attorney: Eric B. Miller, Hartford.

Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendant alleging that it had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for a credit account. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding balance of $407,210 due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment.

The plaintiff claims money damages, court costs, attorney’s fees, interest and such other and further relief as the court may deem equitable and proper. Case no. FST-CV186035873-S. Filed April 12.

Home Depot USA Inc., et al., Hartford. Filed by Anna Zapotosky, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: McManus Law Firm LLC, New Haven.

Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of construction contract against the defendants. The defendants had failed to properly install the windows, damaged the interior walls and damaged the personal property of the plaintiff, causing damages. The plaintiff claims money damages, punitive damages, treble damages and such other relief as in law or equity may pertain.

Case no. FST-CV18-6035862-S. Filed April 11.

Facts & Figures Modular Space Corp., et al., Hartford. Filed by Annie Bell, Stamford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Wocl Leydon LLC, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that she was hit by a car owned by the defendants and driven by an employee of the defendants during the course of their work. The defendants were allegedly negligent in that they operated their motor vehicle at an unreasonable rate of speed. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs, and such other relief as the court deems just and proper. Case no. FST-CV186035828-S. Filed April 11.

Ralph Lauren Corp., New York, New York. Filed by Thurles LLC, Greenwich. Plaintiff’s attorney: Robinson & Cole LLP, Hartford.

Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendant alleging that it had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for rent provided. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding rent payments of $70,289 due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, court costs, attorney’s fees and such other and further relief as the court deems just and proper. Case no. FST-CV186035872-S. Filed April 12.

Total Property Services LLC, et al., Stamford. Filed by O&G Industries Inc., Torrington. Plaintiff’s attorney: Joseph M. Metzger, Torrington. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendants alleging that they had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for materials and services provided to them. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding principal balance of $12,090 due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, court costs, interest, attorney’s fees and such other and future legal and equitable relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV186035888-S. Filed April 13.

FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT Fusco Corp., New Haven. Filed

by Manganero Northeast LLC, Woburn, Massachusetts. Plaintiff’s attorney: Halloran & Sage LLP, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of construction suit against the defendant alleging that the plaintiff was a subcontractor for the defendant on a construction project. The defendant directed the plaintiff to perform construction work, which was outside the scope of the original project. The defendant allegedly refused to properly pay the plaintiff in time, causing damages. The plaintiff claims damages, costs and such other and further relief as may be justified in law or equity. Case no.

3:18-cv-00619-MPS. Filed April 10.

National Railroad Passenger Corp., New Haven. Filed by George Proto, Higganum. Plaintiff’s attorney: Garrison, Levin – Epstein, Fitzgerald & Pirrotti PC, New Haven.

Action: The plaintiff has brought this federal employer liability suit against the defendant alleging that he hit his head on an overhead metal rod in a train cab car while the plaintiff was working for the defendant. The plaintiff claims damages, costs and such other and further relief as may be justified in law or equity. Case no. 3:18-cv-00631-SRU. Filed April 13.

Octagon GP LLC, et al., Fairfield.

Filed by Valerie McKeon, Pinehurst, North Carolina. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Office of Jeffrey Hellman LLC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendants alleging that the plaintiff was a partial equity owner of the defendants’enterprise. Money was allegedly withheld from the plaintiff when the defendant paid out a distribution.

The plaintiff allegedly received an inaccurate K-1, causing the plaintiff to have tax liabilities on money which she didn’t receive. The plaintiff claims $4.6 million in monetary damages, attorney’s fees, punitive damages and such other and further relief as may be justified in law or equity. Case no. 3:18-cv-00628VLB. Filed April 12.

Sig Sauer Inc., New Hampshire. Filed by Marcie D. Vadnais, Loudoun County, Virginia. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jeffrey S. Bagnell, Westport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendant alleging that she was injured when a gun manufactured by the defendant discharged in her holster without being touched, causing severe leg injuries to the plaintiff. The plaintiff claims $10 million in monetary damages, costs, attorney’s fees and such other and further relief as may be justified in law or equity. Case no.

3:18-cv-00605-WWE. Filed April 9.

Sound Manufacturing Inc. Filed by W.S. Old Saybrook Realty LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Robinson & Sole LLP, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this contract dispute suit against the defendant alleging that it was in default of a lease given to them by the plaintiff.

The plaintiff claims compensatory damages, prejudgment interest, post-judgment interest, attorney’s fees, costs and such other and further relief as may be justified in law or equity. Case no. 3:18-cv-00609AWT. Filed April 9.

DEEDS

176 PRW LLC, Westport. Seller: PMR Fairfield Housing LLC, Westport. Property: 176 Post Road West, Westport. Amount: $5 million. Filed April 4.

21 Alden Road LLC, North Palm Beach, Florida. Seller: Dorothy W. Stapleton, North Palm Beach, Florida. Property: Lots 12 and 14, Alden Road, Greenwich. For an unknown amount paid. Filed April 4.

381 Barn Hill Road, Monroe. Seller: Live Well Financial Inc., Monroe.

Property: 381 Barn Hill Road, Monroe. Amount: $163,845. Filed March 29.

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583 Howe Avenue LLC, Shelton.

Seller: R&R Valley Properties LLC, Shelton. Property: 583 Howe Ave., Shelton. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed March 26.

Allen, Michael T., et al., Westport. Appointed committee: Robert Cardone, Westport. Property: 32 Regents Park, Westport. Amount: $566,000. Docket no. FST-CV166029687-S. Filed March 26.

Antbrisa LLC, Monroe. Seller: Nancy E. Olsen, Newington. Property: 8 Rose Lane, Unit 24-9, Danbury.

Amount: $144,000. Filed March 29.

Cruz, Carlos N., et al., Stratford.

Appointed committee: Albert T. Strazza, Stratford. Property: 453455 King St., Stratford. Amount: $222,000. Docket no. FBT-CV166054838-S. Filed March 19.

Guerrero, Fabio J., et al., Stratford. Appointed committee: Raymond W. Ganim, Stratford. Property: 420-422 Soundview Ave., Stratford. Amount: $200,000. Docket no. FBT-CV15-6052678-S. Filed March 21.

Karn, Christa, et al., Danbury. Appointed committee: Christopher P. Norris, Danbury. Property: 6 Kendell Terrace East, Danbury. Amount: $234,000. Docket no. DBD-CV-146014991-S. Filed March 26.

Kovack, Mindy S., et al., Newtown. Appointed committee: Gary R. Michael Jr., Newtown. Property: 26 Maplewood Trail, Newtown.

Amount: $185,076. Docket no. DBDCV-17-6021974-S. Filed March 26.

Long, Mary Ann, et al., Westport.

Appointed committee: Anthony J. DePanfilis, Westport. Property: 2 Florian Court, Westport. Amount: $568,524. Docket no. FST-CV176032044-S. Filed March 22.

COMMERCIAL 142 Cedar Cliff LLC, Greenwich.

Seller: Alejandro Ventosa and Cristina Lazaro, Greenwich. Property: Lot 74, Map 1086, Greenwich. Amount: $13.4 million. Filed March 27.

Bluewater Soundview LLC, Westport. Seller: 27 Soundview LLC, Southbury. Property: 27 Soundview Drive, Westport. Amount: $2.4 million. Filed March 26.

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank NA, Monroe. Property: 237 Guinea Road, Monroe. Amount: $10.

Filed March 29.

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Seller: Bank of America NA, Plano, Texas. Property: 97 Yarwood St., Stratford. Amount: undisclosed. Filed April 12.

RESIDENTIAL Adrien-Marie Maitre and Jacques C. Adrien Jr., Danbury.

Seller: Ralph Malanca and Margaret Malanca, Danbury. Property: 34 Tanglewood Drive, Danbury.

Amount: $500,000. Filed March 27.

Aguayo, Cristian, Danbury. Seller: Jeanne D’Ark Madkour, Samir Madkour and Violette Madkour, Danbury. Property: 16 South St., Danbury. Amount: $165,000. Filed March 29.

Aguierre, Jose W. Poscadas, Danbury. Seller: Anselmo Arias and Maria V. Arias, Danbury. Property: 354 Main St., Danbury. Amount: $224,500. Filed April 10.

Connecticut Restoration Builders LLC, Greenwich. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Carrollton, Texas. Property: 11 Tuckahoe Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $371,100. Filed March 29.

Alladin, Regina T., Danbury.

Seller: Regina T. Dimasi, Danbury.

Property: 104 Larson Drive, Danbury. Amount: undisclosed. Filed March 27.

E&B Investments LLC, Stamford. Seller: U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 45 Soundview Drive, Stamford. Amount: $640,000. Filed March 28.

Asif, Muhammad and Denise Laws, New York, New York. Seller: Connecticut Property Management LLC, Stamford. Property: Lot 17, Map 6326, Norwalk. Amount: $455,000.

Filed April 4.

HI Poppy Holdings LLC, Stamford. Seller: Lorenzo Mattera Jr., Burbank, California. Property: 31 1/2 Lexington Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $70,000. Filed April 2.

Pellegrino Family Trust, New Fairfield. Seller: Dennis Nichols, Danbury. Property: 9 Amber Drive, Danbury. Amount: $225,000. Filed March 28.

Phase Two LLC, Darien. Seller: Francis J. Ambrogio, Greenwich.

Property: 34 Annjim Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $900,000. Filed March 29.

SIR-168 Imperial LLC, Westport.

Seller: Nicholas M. Shields and Leila C. Jones, Westport. Property: 168 Imperial Ave., Westport. Amount: $640,000. Filed March 22.

Babinski, Katarzyna and Andrzej Babinski, Weston.

Seller: Joseph Tarqueno and Marianne Tarqueno, Westport.

Property: 12 Wedgewood Road, Westport. Amount: $950,000. Filed March 20.

Baird, Robert and Karen Fisher-Baird, Greenwich. Seller: Lisa J. Treil, Stamford. Property: 75 W. Glen Drive, Stamford. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed April 2.

Behn, Tiffany and Justin Behn, Shelton. Seller: Vicente Checchia Jr. and Holly Checchia, Newtown.

Property: Lot 11, Map 3059, Newtown. Amount: $334,000. Filed April 9.

Berrios, Amber M., Stamford.

Seller: Jennifer Lee Wong, Stamford. Property: 91 Strawberry Hill Ave., Unit 825, Stamford. Amount: $187,000. Filed April 6.

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Blechinger, John, New Fairfield.

Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon, trustee, New Fairfield. Property: 1 Revolutionary Lane, New Fairfield.

Amount: $79,000. Filed March 27.

Bolivar, Salieu S. and Lauren C. Finkbeiner, Norwalk. Seller: Linden Higgins, Stratford. Property: 35 Pine Tree Road, Stratford. Amount: $316,500. Filed April 6.

Booth, Shawn, Stratford. Seller: Richard Garrow and Martha Fernald, Mansfield, Texas. Property: 31 Linksview Place, Stratford. Amount: $268,000. Filed April 2.

Brown, Dean A. and Emelyn Celestina Brown, Stamford. Seller: Edward Fitzgerald, Norwalk. Property: 7 Southwind Drive, Norwalk.

Amount: $330,000. Filed April 4.

Brunett, Nora and Eric Brunett, Harrison, New York. Seller: CIT Bank NA, Austin, Texas. Property: 1897 Long Ridge Road, Stamford.

Amount: $602,000. Filed April 2.

Bruno, Nicholas J., Newtown.

Seller: Ryan’s Partnership, Danbury.

Property: Lot 89, Map 9, Danbury.

Amount: $420,000. Filed April 2.

Bruyn, Alex and Shane Peterson, Danbury. Seller: Nancy T. Hill, Danbury. Property: 55 Mill Plain Road, Unit 19-1, Danbury. Amount: $148,500. Filed March 29.

Cacchillo, Kelly, Shelton. Seller: Patrick Jeanetti and Nicole Colleran-Jeanetti, Shelton. Property: 43 Laurel Wood Drive, Shelton.

Amount: $345,000. Filed March 27.

Cambone, Molly, Putnam, NewYork. Seller: Roy M. Lucchese and Susan B. Lecchese, New Fairfield.

Property: 10 Topstone Road, New Fairfield. Amount: $374,000. Filed March 19.

Cannizzaro, Patricia A., Bridgewater. Seller: Clare M. Erickson, Danbury. Property: 51 Bear Mountain Road, Danbury. Amount: $240,000. Filed March 26.

Carr, Kimberly R. and Derek Carr, Ridge, New York. Seller: Margaret M. Doyen and Peter W. Doyen, New Fairfield. Property: 4 Short Hill Drive, New Fairfield. Amount: $369,000. Filed March 21.

Carvajal, Monica and Mark P. Bouvier, Fairfield. Seller: Javier Torres and Judy Marcano, Stratford.

Property: 35 Minor Cross, Stratford.

Amount: $193,500. Filed April 3.

Castillo, Jose, Stratford. Seller: Sterling National Bank, Stratford. Property: 582 Cutspring Road, Stratford.

Amount: $200,000. Filed April 6.

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Facts & Figures Godejohn, Barbara and Daniel Godejohn, Newtown. Seller: Joseph J. McGowan, Newtown. Property: 50 Gelding Hill, Newtown.

Amount: $245,000. Filed March 29.

Chapa, Marcela and Luis G. Martinez, Stamford. Seller: Gregory Valente and Sheri-Lynne Valente, Westport. Property: 15 Ridge Drive, Westport. Amount: $1.2 million.

Filed April 2.

Doyle, Meredith and Jamien Scarpati, Norwalk. Seller: Katherine Fibiger and Ryan Fibiger, Norwalk. Property: 1 Hickory Road, Norwalk. Amount: $570,000. Filed April 2.

Christoph Jr., Robert W., Miami Beach, Florida. Seller: Loretta Bortner, Westport. Property: 1 Sturges Hollow Road, Westport. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed April 4.

Duarte, Alvaro, Stamford. Seller: Geoffrey Weiss, Stratford. Property: Lots 66-67, Map 274, Stratford.

Amount: $275,100. Filed April 5.

Gomez-Sinchi, Efrain S. and Luis H. Gomez-Morocho, Danbury.

Seller: Hashim Fayad, Danbury.

Property: 26 E. Pearl St., Danbury.

Amount: $399,500. Filed March 29.

Dunn, Jeanne and Curtis S. Pugh, Danbury. Seller: Michelle Nethercott, Newtown. Property: 11 Moody Drive, Danbury. Amount: $295,000. Filed March 29.

Gordon, Paul James, Newtown.

Seller: Sandhya Sridhar and Ravi Mandya Kumar, Newtown. Property: 18 Ridge Road, Newtown.

Amount: $365,000. Filed March 19.

Duvoisin, Jacqueline P., Westport. Seller: Jacqueline P. Duvoisin, Westport. Property: Lots 31, 32 and 33, Map 180, Westport. Amount: $0.

Filed March 19.

Greene, Tanya L., Stratford. Seller: Noemi Rodriguez, Stratford. Property: Lot 76, Map 2605 and 2606, Stratford. Amount: $410,000. Filed April 11.

Echevarria, Joel, Stratford. Seller: Mary Ellen Fontane, Seabrook, New Hampshire. Property: Lots 1 and 2, Reed Park, Stratford. Amount: $207,000. Filed April 9.

Grogan, Jaclyn and James Grogan, Westport. Seller: John Caputo and Gene Marie Caputo, Westport.

Property: 7 Indian Point Lane, Westport. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed March 21.

Cooper, Theresa, Karen Cooper and Alyssa Neal, Stratford. Seller: Haiyu Huang, New Canaan. Property: 130 Wellington St., Stratford.

Amount: $225,000. Filed April 4.

Cordero, Mariana C., Luis W. Cordero and Alejandro Cordero, Glendale, New York. Seller: Larry S. Crosby and Nancy B. Crosby, New Fairfield. Property: Lot 36, Map 1215, New Fairfield. Amount: $297,000.

Filed March 27.

Costa, Joice and Matheus Costa, Port Chester, New York. Seller: Maryann Fernandes and Eugene Fernandes, Newtown. Property: 16 Hanover Road, Newtown. Amount: $475,000. Filed March 20.

Creusat, Marion Julie Ann Gery and Jean-Baptiste Vincent Creusat, Westport. Seller: Matthew Libby and Gillian Cummins, Westport.

Property: Map 5040, Westport.

Amount: $1.3 million. Filed April 10.

Daoust, Josephine T. and Michael D. Daoust, Newtown. Seller: Mark T. Macchiarulo and Lynne T. Maccchiarulo, Newtown. Property: 9 Yearling Lane, Newtown.

Amount: $925,000. Filed March 29.

Delgado Jr., Ariel and Melissa Janet Marchany Delgado, Stratford. Seller: Donald A. Santossio and Amelia G. Stamos, Stratford.

Property: Lot 89, Map 495, Stratford.

Amount: $349,000. Filed April 2.

DeMichele, Nicole and Michael A. Clark, Brewster, New York.

Seller: Michael Kitson and Renee Kitson, New Fairfield. Property: 140 Shortwoods Road, New Fairfield.

Amount: $385,000. Filed March 19.

Dempsey, Donald J., Newtown.

Seller: Donald J. Dempsey, Newtown. Property: Parcel B, Map 7245, Newtown. Amount: undisclosed.

Filed April 9.

Donnelly, Eugene and Ryan Donnelly, Stratford. Seller: 2304 Group LLC, Stratford. Property: 2304 Barnum Ave., Stratford.

Amount: $325,000. Filed April 11.

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Eivazians, Rosita and Raymond Eivazians, Bethel. Seller: Wayne Jones and Francine Jones, Redding.

Property: 5 Cross Hill Road, Bethel.

Amount: $465,000. Filed March 29.

Endo, Kelly and Jose Ortiz, Astoria, New York. Seller: Joseph Siladi and Luisa F. Siladi, Fishkill, New York. Property: 57 Arthur Place, Stamford. Amount: $415,000. Filed April 4.

Farfan, Magdalena G. and Luis H. Munoz-Ordonez, Danbury.

Seller: Rogerio F. Lima and Maritza E. Lima, Danbury. Property: 34 Victor St., Danbury. Amount: $285,000.

Filed March 26.

Fogelstrom, Christie L., Newtown. Seller: Yongsuk Seo, Newtown. Property: 5 Cooper Creek Circle, Unit 5, Newtown. Amount: $237,000. Filed March 23.

Gay, Isaac Esau and Jovan Vitagliano, New York, New York. Seller: Young Sun Yang, Danbury. Property: 162 Warrington Road, Danbury.

Amount: $342,500. Filed March 28.

Gerdsen, Scott C., Bridgeport. Seller: Melissa Pilchard, Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. Property: 189 Hanover Road, Newtown.

Amount: $245,000. Filed March 27.

Giannitti, Erica, Stamford. Seller: Nancy Kathleen Montgomery, Stamford. Property: 85 Riverside Ave., Unit F1, Stamford. Amount: $280,000. Filed April 4.

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Guaman, Pedro, Danbury. Seller: U.S. Bank NA, Owensboro, Kentucky. Property: 1 Oak St., Danbury.

Amount: $120,000. Filed March 28.

Hammond, William A., Bethel. Seller: Alexander Hernandez and Toni Hernandez, Norwalk.

Property: 18 Katrina Circle, Bethel.

Amount: $385,000. Filed March 27.

Herman, Henry J., Westport. Seller: Donald J. Ercole and Martha B. Ercole, Westport. Property: 14 Danbury Ave., Westport. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed March 20.

Hunnicutt, Elise C. and John C. Hunnicutt, Westport. Seller: John J. Neves, Westport. Property: 47 North Ave., Westport. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed April 10.

Jimenez, Jonhatan R., Waterbury.

Seller: Tri D. Nguyen, Danbury.

Property undisclosed. Danbury.

Amount: $218,000. Filed April 12.

Juliano, Merritt A. and Michael J. Juliano, Westport. Seller: J. Taylor Gordy and Mindy Gordy, Westport.

Property: 95 Long Lots Road, Westport. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed March 19.

Khan, Rahman and Sahair Khan, Brookfield. Seller: Marie Siebuhr Douglass, Danbury. Property: 19 Fairview Drive, Unit 2, Danbury. Amount: $115,000. Filed April 11.

Kintner, Lindsey and Alexander J. Kintner, New York, New York. Seller: John M. Costello Jr. and Christine K. Costello, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Property: Lot 6, Map 3802, Greenwich. For an unknown amount paid. Filed April 2.

Klein, Eric S. and Jamie S. Klein, Westport. Seller: Jamie S. Klein, Westport. Property: Lot 14, Map 2896, Westport. For an unknown amount paid. Filed April 2.

Kurpiel, Jeffrey F., Westport.

Seller: Joanne C. Klouda, Westport.

Property: Lot 3, Map 5504, Westport. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed March 19.

Landi, David O., Danbury. Seller: H. Peter Schorr, New Fairfield. Property: 3 Schermerhorn Drive, New Fairfield. Amount: $232,000. Filed March 14.

Larsen, Janice, Nanci Larsen and Patricia L. Larsen, Shelton. Seller: Patricia L. Larsen and Janice Larsen, Shelton. Property: 156 Wooster St., Shelton. For no consideration paid.

Filed March 28.

Laurie, Kaitlin M. and Len D. Cearley, Norwalk. Seller: George W. Stevens, Norwalk. Property: 64 Center Avenue Ext., Unit B, Norwalk.

Amount: $300,000. Filed April 2.

McKenna, Conor, Westport. Seller: Russell C. Polin and Robin S. Polin, Westport. Property: 22 Berndale Drive, Westport. Amount: $885,000. Filed March 19.

McNease, Stephanie, Danbury.

Seller: Daniel Vargas, New Fairfield.

Property: 51 Route 37, New Fairfield.

Amount: $240,000. Filed March 22.

Messner, Danielle and Brian Messner, New Haven. Seller: Kenneth L. Kitzmiller and Rosanne M. Kitzmiller, Newtown. Property: 71 Marlin Road, Newtown. Amount: $575,000. Filed April 13.

Miller, Christina L. and Kevin Brook Miller, Redding. Seller: Keith A. Badinelli and Meghan C. Badinelli, Newtown. Property: 6 Brookwood Drive, Newtown.

Amount: $350,000. Filed April 2.

Miller, Mari-Eleanor, Westport.

Seller: Hope Feller, Westport. Property: Lot 2, Block B, Map 2896, Westport. Amount: $2.9 million. Filed March 19.

Morales, Hellen and Santos O. Turcios, Norwalk. Seller: Ronald D. Wolfson, Norwalk. Property: 79 Benedict St., Norwalk. Amount: $630,000. Filed April 4.

O’Malley, Deborah A. and Jason M. Pilalas, Westport. Seller: CG Development LLC, Bridgeport.

Property: 5 Devon Road, Westport.

Amount: $3.4 million. Filed March 20.

Ortiz, Yasmin, Danbury. Seller: MRO Property LLC, Danbury.

Property: 2A Jeanette St., Unit 28, Danbury. Amount: $194,000. Filed March 29.

Ozmore, Jason D., Shelton. Seller: Linda Nizzardo, Naples, Florida.

Property: 17 Freedom Way, Shelton.

Amount: $460,000. Filed March 27.

Paltin, Maria Teresa, Naugatuck.

Seller: Bank of America NA, Houston, Texas. Property: Lot 166, Map 2007, Danbury. Amount: $164,250.

Filed March 29.

Pappas, Nicholas S. and Michael J. Pappas, Monroe. Seller: Eleanor A. Carpenter, Monroe. Property: 368 Webb Circle, Monroe. Amount: $200,000. Filed March 29.

Payne, Christine A. and Loel Z. Payne, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Seller: Charles W. Copp Jr. and Suzanne D. Copp, Newtown. Property: 10 Trout Brook Circle, Unit 10, Newtown. Amount: $285,000. Filed March 26.

Murthy, Mukund Narayana, Norwalk. Seller: Shin Tsai Chu and Ngan Seakfoon Chu, Norwalk. Property: 95 Fawn Ridge Lane, Unit 95, Norwalk. Amount: $369,000. Filed April 4.

Pearson, Michael S., Greenwich.

Seller: Homestead 112 LLC, Greenwich. Property: 775 W. Putnam Ave., Unit 112, Greenwich. Amount: $332,000. Filed March 29.

Nelson, Philip K., Trumbull. Seller: Christin L. Estrada and Christian F. Estrada, Stratford. Property: 270-272 Franklin Ave., Stratford.

Amount: $336,900. Filed April 5.

Petrashka, Matthew, Stratford.

Seller: Anthony Petrashka, Stratford. Property: 39 Wiebe Ave., Stratford. Amount: $210,000. Filed April 10.

Niblock, Eliza and Andrew Niblock, Greenwich. Seller: Bernard Vanderlande, Greenwich. Property: 14 Mead Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed April 2.

Philbin, Kimberly, Danbury.

Seller: Toll Connecticut III LP, Danbury. Property: 10 Enclave Drive, Danbury. Amount: $658,690. Filed April 2.

Marino, Laura and Pete Marino, Stratford. Seller: Dana Shannon, Stratford. Property: 55 Tucci Drive, Stratford. Amount: $245,000. Filed April 4.

Nieuwoudt, Nina L. and Egbert J. Nieuwoudt, Greenwich. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon, trustee, Coral Gables, Florida. Property: 15 Greenway Drive, Greenwich.

Amount: $820,000. Filed March 29.

Pinto, Jonathan M., Danbury.

Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., West Palm Beach, Florida.

Property: 27 Crows Nest, Unit 101 of Birchwood, Danbury. Amount: $148,004. Filed March 27.

Martins, Victor, New Milford. Seller: Joao Filipe Roxo, Danbury. Property: 1 Beaver Brook Road, Unit 29, Danbury. Amount: $75,000. Filed March 26.

Nowak, Kyle M., Newtown.

Seller: Charles E. Corner, Wilmington, North Carolina. Property: 4 Longview Terrace, Newtown.

Amount: $225,900. Filed March 19.

Pjura, James, Monroe. Seller: Heather Bartolini Lee and Scott David Lee, Monroe. Property: Unit 104 B 1 in Northbrook of Monroe, Monroe. Amount: $220,000. Filed March 27.

McCleave, Charmaine and Robert Weizenecker, Somers, New York. Seller: Joseph Pascento and Rose Marie Pascento, Stuart, Florida. Property: 7 Biggs Ave., New Fairfield. Amount: $285,000. Filed March 19.

O’Brien Jr., James S., Westport.

Seller: Andrea Favaretto Rubelli, Westport. Property: 15 Hills Lane, Unit 15, Westport. Amount: $330,000. Filed April 12.

Lazaro, Cristina and Alejandro Ventosa, Greenwich. Seller: 142 Cedar Cliff LLC, Greenwich. Property: 142 Cedar Cliff Road, Greenwich.

Amount: $6.4 million. Filed March 26.

Leahy, James D., Weston. Seller: Eileen Lorenz, Union, New Jersey.

Property: 17 Morris Road, Newtown.

Amount: $215,000. Filed March 19.

Lima, Aloisio Serra, Danbury.

Seller: Wayne Barzetti and Terrilee Barzetti, Bethel. Property: 14 Garella Road, Bethel. Amount: $210,000.

Filed March 22.

Pollock, Holly and Tyler Base, Shelton. Seller: Elsa G. Garcia, Rocky Hill. Property: 167 Wooster St., Shelton. Amount: $235,000. Filed March 28.

Facts & Figures Ponce, Erick, Stratford. Seller: Michael C. Priddle and Madeline M. Priddle, Stratford. Property: 170 Dahl Ave., Stratford. Amount: $267,000. Filed April 2.

Richmond, Timothy, Bethel. Seller: Alec Joseph Belardinelli, Bethel.

Property: 14 Sycamore Court, Bethel. Amount: $339,900. Filed March 26.

Potter, Renee L., Greenwich. Seller: Barbara D. Jackson, Greenwich.

Property: Lots 25 and 26, Map 4059, Greenwich. Amount: $2.5 million.

Filed April 4.

Rogovin, Wendy Meryl, Greenwich. Seller: P. Wayne Osborne, Palo Alto, California. Property: Plot 5, Map 3803, Stamford. Amount: $660,000. Filed April 6.

Price, Brett, Stamford. Seller: Miron Bajus, Stamford. Property: 87 Givens Ave., Stamford. Amount: $310,000. Filed April 2.

Rotella, Marcia, Port Saint Lucie, Florida. Seller: Patricia A. McCarthy, New Fairfield. Property: 2A Jeanette St., Unit 30, Danbury. Amount: $191,000. Filed April 2.

Pritchard, Danielle and David Pritchard, Stamford. Seller: Samaha LLC, Prospect. Property: Lot 1, Map 8307, Newtown. Amount: $576,000. Filed March 20.

Psathas, George, Stamford. Seller: Juan Gomez and Pasqualina Pettita-Lecce, Norwalk. Property: 50 Aiken St., Unit 443, Norwalk. Amount: $202,000. Filed April 5.

Psathas, George, Stamford. Seller: Juan Gomez and Pasqualina Pettita-Lecce, The Woodlands, Texas.

Property: 50 Aiken St., Unit 441, Norwalk. Amount: $200,000. Filed April 5.

Purcell, Arielle M., Shelton. Seller: Mary A. Vagnini, Monroe. Property: 304 Pepper St., Monroe. Amount: $284,500. Filed March 29.

Rabinovich, Dina and Arkady Rabinovich, Old Bridge, N.Y. Seller: Toll Connecticut III LP, Danbury.

Property: 20 Enclave Drive, Danbury. Amount: $742,319. Filed April 5.

Ramesh, Manish and Yashodhara Dash, New Rochelle, New York.

Seller: W. Jason Hancock, Ridgefield.

Property: 5 Sylvan Road, New Fairfield. Amount: $95,000. Filed March 21.

Ramos-Wake, Blanca J. and Brian E. Wake, South Glastonbury.

Seller: Brittany Provenzano and Nicholas Provenzano, Monroe.

Property: 1318 Monroe Turnpike, Monroe. Amount: $605,000. Filed March 28.

Raymond, Janine M. and Daniel B. Raymond, Danbury. Seller: Matthew G. Marion and Ellen A. Maron, New Fairfield. Property: Lot 11, Map 1864, New Fairfield. Amount: $325,000. Filed March 19.

Ready, Annette and Alan Ready Jr., Newtown. Seller: Christopher D. Hodge and Jill Terlaga, Newtown.

Property: 8 Kelly Court, Newtown.

Amount: $432,201. Filed March 21.

Salvatore, Randall M., Bethel.

Seller: RMS Bethel LLC, Bethel.

Property: 67 Copper Square Drive, Bethel. Amount: $458,894. Filed March 22.

Sanapala, Srividya and Chiranjeevi Pydi, Danbury. Seller: The Woods Phase II LLC, Danbury.

Property: 16 Barnum Court, Bethel.

Amount: $285,000. Filed March 23.

Sanchez, Lidia A. and Ramon A. Nunez, Fairfield. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Greenville, S.C. Property: Lots 51 and 52, Map 90, Fairfield. Amount: $260,000. Filed March 29.

Santana, Alexis, Danbury. Seller: Angelica Almonte and Tania Almonte, Danbury. Property: 1 Fairview Ave., Unit A-19, Danbury.

Amount: $166,000. Filed March 29.

Santomero-Rosenblum, Jennifer, Brewster, New York. Seller: Jennifer A. Cangialosi, Danbury.

Property: 64 Tucker St., Danbury.

Amount: $325,500. Filed April 9.

Sartor, Thomas, Norwalk. Seller: Gregory Kocak and Christine Lawrence, Norwalk. Property: 18 1/2 Knollwood Road, Norwalk.

Amount: $430,000. Filed April 6.

Scherwin, Christina L. and Mark J. Fletcher, Westport. Seller: Christina I. Scherwin and Mark J. Fletcher, Westport. Property: Lots 36, 37 and 50, Map 3188, Westport.

Amount: $1.1 million. Filed April 3.

Seymour, Jane Jansen and Paul Thomas Seymour, Norwalk.

Seller: Rafael Ostendarp Aparicio, Darien. Property: 202 Rowayton Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $462,000.

Filed April 3.

Shau, Yung Sun, Shelton. Seller: Pathana N. Varada, Arlington, Virginia. Property: 60 Heather Ridge, Unit 60, Shelton. Amount: $158,000.

Filed March 27.

Shelton-Houser, Sarah and Jedidiah Shelton-Houser, McDonough, Georgia. Seller: Paride De Calice and Deane De Calice, Fairfield. Property: 100 Cherry Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $2.5 million.

Filed March 29.

Silva, Jordan S. and Kevin M. Silva, Greenwich. Seller: Alexandra Tanner, Greenwich. Property: 17 Roosevelt Ave., Greenwich.

Amount: $5.4 million. Filed March 29.

Silva, Mileane, Danbury. Seller: Andrea K. Ferry, Danbury. Property: 38 Padanaram Road, Unit 29C, Danbury. Amount: $110,000. Filed March 29.

Simek, Troy, Newtown. Seller: Kortze Brother Holdings LLC, Newtown. Property: 101 Churchill Road, Newtown. Amount: $375,000. Filed March 26.

Sims, Elba R. and Shamus P. Sims, Stratford. Seller: Nan Xu, Stratford. Property: 47 Cottage Place, Stratford. Amount: $317,000.

Filed April 5.

Singer, Ian, New York, New York.

Seller: Christopher James Wallace Agnew and Genevieve Agnew, Westport. Property: Maps 912 and 2141, Westport. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed March 19.

Tran, Amy and Tien Tran, Newtown. Seller: John W. Kortze IV, Newtown. Property: 8 Pepperidge Road, Newtown. Amount: $259,000. Filed April 2.

Trinkle, Steven, Bethel. Seller: Christopher S. Nota and Janet M. Nota, Bethel. Property: 10 Grove Place, Bethel. Amount: $335,000.

Filed April 3.

Wachowski, William E. P and Edward Wachowski Jr., Bethel.

Seller: Michael Tallon and Clare M. Tallon, Newtown. Property: 62 Toddy Hill Road, Newtown. Amount: $395,000. Filed April 6.

Warner, Karin A. and Timothy P. Warner, Clarkston, Michigan.

Seller: Gary L. Vaughan and Debra D. Vaughan, Newtown. Property: 10 Yogananda St., Newtown. Amount: $540,000. Filed April 10.

Weis, Jennifer C. and Katherine Williams, Danbury. Seller: Nicholas Hovan, Monroe. Property: 7 Padanaram Road, Unit 203, Danbury.

Amount: $96,000. Filed March 28.

Wenitzky, Lauran L. and Mark D. Wenitzky, Greenwich. Seller: U.S. Bank NA, Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Property: 3 Mayfair Lane, Westport. Amount: $950,000. Filed March 22.

Smith, Doak G., Tuscon, Arizona.

Seller: Yirong Wang and Weiqiong Xue, Newtown. Property: 9 Ironwood Drive, Newtown. Amount: $470,000. Filed April 4.

Williams, Renee and Garett C. Ceraso, Stamford. Seller: Toll Connecticut III LP, Horsham, Pennsylvania. Property: 34 S. Crossing Way, Bethel. Amount: $664,270. Filed April 11.

Stiel, Roberta, New York, New York. Seller: Frank W. E. Dinsmore II, Danbury. Property: 18 Marion St., Danbury. Amount: $347,000. Filed March 27.

Wolski, Anna, Ridgewood, New York. Seller: Sandra Alves, Delray Beach, Florida. Property: 33 Nature View Trail, Bethel. Amount: $195,000. Filed March 23.

Sukhdeo, Ceratan, Richmond Hills, New York. Seller: Business Strategy LLC, Leesburg, Virginia.

Property: 33 Sky Edge Drive, Bethel.

Amount: $290,000. Filed March 26.

Yin, Ping and Jun Liu, Bethel.

Seller: Louis Garone and Elizabeth Garone, Bethel. Property: 21 Idlewood St., Unit 136, Bethel. Amount: $190,000. Filed April 4.

Tavolacci, Katelyn and Gregg Tavolacci, Fairfield. Seller: Ian Kraus and Domenica Kraus, Norwalk. Property: 67 Bayne St., Norwalk. Amount: $585,000. Filed April 2.

Zurawski, Gabriel, Norwalk. Seller: Christine M. Conway, Bethel.

Property: 20 Deer Run, Unit 35D, Bethel. Amount: $155,000. Filed March 20.

Terminelle, Victor and Thomas Terminelle, Howard Beach, New York. Seller: Christopher P. Rayner and Mary B. Rayner, New Fairfield.

Property: 29 Sunset Trail, New Fairfield. Amount: $255,000. Filed March 23.

Tidgewell, Melissa and Thomas Tidgewell, Southlake, Texas.

Seller: Donna Tagliarino and Scott Tagliarino, Greenwich. Property: 5 Osee Place, Greenwich. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed March 26.

Zuvich, Lauren, Bethel. Seller: Stephen Troiano, Bethel. Property: 23-53 Hudson St., Unit 53, Bethel.

Amount: $197,000. Filed March 19.

FORECLOSURES Dance, Nils R., et al. Creditor: New Penn Financial LLC, Greenville, South Carolina. Property: 15 Sycamore Court, Bethel. Mortgage default. Filed March 23.

Dennis, Aaron T., et al. Creditor: U.S. Bank NA, Irvine, California.

Property: 59 Plaskon Drive, Shelton.

Mortgage default. Filed March 28.

Furey, Thomas J., et al. Creditor: Wilmington Trust NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 4 Lake Road, Danbury. Mortgage default. Filed March 26.

Kendrick, Edward T., et al. Creditor: Roundpoint Mortgage Servicing Corp., Charlotte, North Carolina.

Property: 48 E. Hayestown Road, Unit 305, Danbury. Delinquent common charges. Filed March 28.

King, James S., et al. Creditor: First County Bank, Stamford. Property: 456 Ocean Ave., Stratford. Mortgage default. Filed March 29.

Martinez Jr., Carlos R., et al.

Creditor: NS164 LLC, Eureka, California. Property: 117 Rennell St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed March 27.

Potenziani, Cesare, et al. Creditor: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 27 Saddle Rock Road, Danbury.

Mortgage default. Filed March 26.

Smith, Jullian, et al. Creditor: U.S. Bank NA, Irvine, California. Property: 42-44 Washington Place, Bridgeport. Delinquent common charges.

Filed March 28.

Surovy, Brian, et al. Creditor: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 18 Triangle St., Unit C3, Danbury. Delinquent common charges. Filed March 26.

Szekeres, David, et al. Creditor: Ditech Financial LLC. Property: 5 Bungalow Terrace, Newtown. Mortgage default. Filed March 26.

Vilarinho, Elena, et al. Creditor: The Bank of New York Mellon, New York, New York. Property: 70 Canaan Road, Stratford. Mortgage default. Filed March 28.

JUDGMENTS Acosta, Noel, Stratford. $1,236 in favor of Portfolio Associates LLC, Norfolk, Virginia, by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 73 Hollister St., Stratford. Filed March 26.

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Akam, Edward, New Fairfield. $3,827 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 4 Spruce Ridge Drive, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Almeida, Lizete P., Bethel. $489 in favor of Western Connecticut Medical Group, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 13 Linda Lane, Bethel. Filed March 21.

Angione, Colleen, et al., Norwalk. $2,749 in favor of Norwalk Hospital Association, Norwalk, by Lovejoy and Rimer PC, Norwalk. Property: 57 Field St., Norwalk. Filed April 3.

Bishop, Donald, Stratford. $13,772 in favor of The United Illuminating Co., New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 175 Emerald Place, Stratford. Filed March 27.

Catchings, Raymond, Stratford. $14,326 in favor of The United Illuminating Co., New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 1584 North Ave., Stratford. Filed March 27.

Chizmadia, David, Fairfield. $2,455 in favor of Portfolio Associates LLC, Norfolk, Virginia., by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 458 Unquowa Road, Fairfield. Filed March 26.

Dann, John T., Bethel. $1,084 in favor of Western Connecticut Medical Group, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 104 Plumtrees Road, Bethel. Filed March 21.

David, David, Bridgeport. $1,337 in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Valhalla, New York, by Tobin Melien & Marohn, New Haven. Property: 325 Sylvan St., Bridgeport. Filed March 29.

Demarr, Janine, Stratford. $1,742 in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Valhalla, New York, by Schreiber/Cohen LLC, Salem, New Hampshire.

Property: 61B Wedgewood Road, Stratford. Filed March 19.

Emslie, Elizabeth, Bethel. $520 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury.

Property: 8 Woodlawn Drive, Bethel. Filed March 21.

England, Kathleen, New Fairfield. $981 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 1 Great Meadow Road, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

England, Kathleen, New Fairfield. $1,370 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 1 Great Meadow Road, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

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Facts & Figures Ferreira, Steven, Bridgeport. $9,064 in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Valhalla, New York, by Tobin Melien & Marohn, New Haven. Property: 424 Summit St., Bridgeport. Filed March 29.

Hirsch, Neal, New Fairfield. $836 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury.

Property: 24 Curtis Ave., New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Horace, Lewis, et al., Stratford. $16,992 in favor of The United Illuminating Co., New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 58 Spring St., Stratford. Filed March 27.

Kiney, Joseph, Danbury. $4,932 in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Valhalla, New York, by Schreiber/Cohen LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 8 Irving Place, Danbury. Filed March 28.

Koppe, Timothy, New Fairfield. $1,254 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 9 Flak Lane, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Lewis, Cathy R., et al., Stratford. $9,127 in favor of The Southern Connecticut Gas Co., Orange, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 473 Birdseye St., Stratford. Filed March 23.

McCarthy, Joseph P., Newtown. $2,361 in favor of Unifund Corp., Westbrook, by Unifund Calistrone & Airone LLC, Westbrook. Property: 4 Forest Drive, Newtown. Filed March 23.

Novicky, Susan and James Novicky, New Fairfield. $779 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury,

by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 8 Twin Rocks Drive, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Petrillo-Rachel and Rachel Hugnou-Petrillo, New Fairfield. $645 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury.

Property: 2 Pleasant View Road, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Petrillo-Rachel and Rachel Hugnou-Petrillo, New Fairfield. $485 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury.

Property: 2 Pleasant View Road, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Petrillo-Rachel and Rachel Hugnou-Petrillo, New Fairfield. $682 in favor of Eastern New York Medical Services, Bethel, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 2 Pleasant View Road, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

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Reynolds, Patricia, New Fairfield. $406 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 97 Route 39, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Rezvaya, Olga and Peter Rezvaya, Bethel. $406 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 9 Henry St., Bethel. Filed March 21.

Riverview At Brookfield LLC, et al., Danbury. $229,095 in favor of East Haven Builders Supply-US LBM LLC, East Haven, by Robert A. Ziegler and Taryn D. Martin, Plainville. Property: 7 Petersons Lane, Danbury. Filed April 5.

Rodriguez, Miriam, New Fairfield. $660 in favor of Western Connecticut Medical Group, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury.

Property: 1A Ball Pond Road, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Shaeffer, William, New Fairfield. $1,583 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 3 Madison Road, New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Smith, Stephanie A., Stratford. $5,597 in favor of The United Illuminating Co., New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 1910 Broadbridge Ave., Stratford.

Filed March 27.

Webb, Suzanne L., New Fairfield. $1,283 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 4 Renda St., New Fairfield. Filed March 28.

Webb, Terry, New Fairfield. $1,198 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury.

Property: 4 Renda St., New Fairfield.

Filed March 28.

Webb, Terry, New Fairfield. $1,414 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury.

Property: 4 Renda St., New Fairfield.

Filed March 28.

LEASES Autozone Northeast LLC, by Raymond A. Pohlman. Landlord: Danpar Associates Limited Partnership, New York, New York. Property: 1 and 3 Padanaram Road, Danbury. Term: 10 years, commenced March 1, 2018.

Filed March 26.

Franklin, Nicole L., et al., by self.

Landlord: Stonybrook Gardens Cooperative Inc., Stratford. Property: 35 Bullard Court, Stratford. Term: 3 years, commenced March 21, 2018.

Filed March 21.

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Jimenez, Irene May, by self. Landlord: Stonybrook Gardens Cooperative Inc., Stratford. Property: 7 Marsh Way, Stratford. Term: 3 years, commenced March 21, 2018. Filed March 26.

Juddy’s Place LLC, by Daniel J. Mulvihill. Landlord: Sugar Hollow Holdings LLC, Ridgefield. Property: 66 Sugar Hollow Road, Danbury.

Term: 5 years, commenced Jan. 1, 2018. Filed March 27.

Moore, Lisa S., by self. Landlord: Stonybrook Gardens Cooperative Inc., Stratford. Property: 1092 Success Ave., Stratford. Term: 3 years, commenced March 21, 2018. Filed March 26.

Uddin, Kawchar, by self. Landlord: Success Village Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Apt. 81, Building 19 in Success Village, Stratford. Term: 37 years, commenced March 15, 2018. Filed March 19.

LIENS FEDERAL TAX LIENS-FILED Claudio, Carlos J. Ayala, 25 Ely Ave., Norwalk. $24,386, a tax debt on income earned. Filed April 3.

Corona, Miriam and Emilio Hernandez, 6 Neptune Ave., Norwalk. $61,983, a tax debt on income earned. Filed April 3.

Estores, Lyn L. and Jon F. Estores, 168 Taunton Hill Road, Newtown. $70,508, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 19.

Evans, Barbara, 46 Milltown Road, New Fairfield. $32,556, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 26.

Skordeles, Christine J., 111 Towne St., Apt. 811, Stamford. $30,892, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 27.

Ruzalski, Joseph J. and Laura A. Short, 90 State Route 39, New Fairfield. $21,743, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 19.

Tavolacci, Michael D., 48 Karen Drive, Norwalk. $16,797, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 27.

Sobotka, Ann and Joseph Sobotka, 200 Judith Terrace, Newtown. $32,566, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 19.

Wickson, Karen C. and Robert E. Wickson, 23 Hattertown Road, Monroe. $15,362, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 27.

FEDERAL TAX LIENSRELEASED

MECHANIC’S LIENS-FILED

Derito, Ann Marie and Douglas J. Derito, 96 Gillotti Road, New Fairfield. $58,914, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 19.

Azoulay, Michael, Westport. Filed

by HM Construction & Painting LLC, Danbury, by Helio Mota. Property: 10 Rowland Place, Westport.

Amount: $24,425. Filed March 26.

Garbarino, Carol and William Garbarino, 109 Castle Hill Road, Newtown. $55,745, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 19.

Garbarino, Carol and William Garbarino, 109 Castle Hill Road, Newtown. $28,599, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 19.

Grimaldi, James V., 26 Paugussett Road, Newtown. $2,253, payroll taxes and quarterly payroll taxes. Filed March 19.

Klingner, Kathryn and Edward G. Davis, 31 Park Ave., Greenwich. $67,270, a tax debt on income earned. Filed April 3.

Longo, Roberto A., 20 Cozy Hollow Road, Danbury. $23,443, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 26.

Loring, William, 15 Pleasant Drive, Danbury. $21,961, a tax debt on income earned. Filed April 11.

Flynn, Andrea G. and David W. Flynn, 8 Smoke Hill Drive, New Fairfield. $50,780, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 26.

Lyles, Timothy A., P.O. Box 616, Bridgeport. $14,163, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 29.

Fox, Tara D., 217 Bridge St., Apt. C2, Stamford. $75,652, a tax debt on income earned. Filed April 4.

Marston, Mary A. and Peter W. Marston, 240 Greenwood Ave., Apt. A, Bethel. $7,222, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 19.

H and T Inc., 5 Queen St., Newtown. $4,486, quarterly payroll taxes.

Filed March 26.

Iarusso, Donna and John Iarusso, 10 Settlers Hill Road, Danbury. $32,286, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 29.

Keefe, Kathleen M. and Brian E. Keefe, 7 Lexington Ave., Danbury. $32,701, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 29.

Stokes, Sandra Y. and Travis L. Simms, 28 MLK Drive, Apt. 43, Norwalk. $4,150, a tax debt on income earned. Filed April 3.

Mineu, Daniela H. and Roberto A. Longo, 38 Lake Avenue Extension, Apt. 4, Danbury. $29,809, a tax debt on income earned. Filed March 26.

Perry, Dana L., 322 Beachmont Ave., Second floor, Bridgeport. $1,259, a tax debt on income earned.

Filed March 28.

MECHANIC’S LIENSRELEASED 13 Prospect Road LLC, Westport.

Released by East Coast Irrigation LLC, Norwalk, by Christine Felt.

Property: 13 Prospect Road, Westport. Amount: $7,965. Filed March 20.

27 Soundview LLC, Southbury.

Released by Peter Cadoux Architects PC, Westport, by Peter Cadoux. Property: 464 Heritage Road, Suite F, Westport. Amount: $197,586.

Filed March 20.

Elmship Associates LLC, Stamford. Released by A&B Mechanical LLC, Monroe, by Arnold Jones Jr. Property: 587 Elm St., Stamford.

Amount: $191,603 Filed April 6.

Erickson, Clare M. and Henry W. Erickson, Danbury. Released

by Joe’s Junk Removal & More LLC, Meriden, by Yusuf Chater. Property: 51 Bear Mountain Road, Danbury.

Amount: $5,300. Filed March 29.

Indian Head Partners LLC, Stamford. Released by Greenwich Construction LLC, Greenwich,

by Louis Van Leuwen. Property: 15 Indian Head Road, Greenwich.

Amount: $57,798. Filed April 4.

LIS PENDENS 168 Kelsey St. LLC, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Law Office of Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 168170 Kelsey St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport and take immediate possession of the premises.

Filed March 29.

Daniell, Barry M., et al., New Fairfield. Filed by Glass & Braus LLC, Fairfield, for Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Property: 127 Warwick Road, New Fairfield.

Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $392,500, dated October 2006. Filed March 26.

Delepine, Julien, et al., Westport.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Keybank National Association. Property: 16 Long Lots Road, Westport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $310,000, dated December 2011. Filed March 20.

Faith Hour Ministries LLC, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Law Office of Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 166 Hollister Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed March 29.

Feenstra, Chaja F., et al., Stratford. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Ditech Financial LLC. Property: 164 Pauline St., Stratford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $338,200, dated January 2006. Filed April 2.

Fit Properties III LLC, et al., Westport. Filed by Zullo & Jacks LLC, East Haven, for Bridgewell Capital LLC. Property: 33 Hickory Drive, Westport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $450,000, dated March 2007. Filed March 19.

Florek, John A., et al., Stratford.

Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for National Cooperative Bank NA. Property: 1190 Success Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $43,125, dated November 2012.

Filed March 29.

Maresca, Michael A., et al., Danbury. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Property: 6 Hamilton Drive, Danbury. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $322,400, dated June 2007. Filed April 4.

Martin, Joseph C., et al., Bethel.

Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 5 Hudson St., Bethel.

Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $310,000, dated December 2006. Filed March 21.

Facts & Figures Minella, Keith G., et al., Westport.

Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank NA Property: 5 Melwood Lane, Westport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $500,000, dated March 2003. Filed March 23.

Sherwood, Robert, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Law Office of Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 1012 Cottage Place, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed March 29.

Myers-Alston, Neze Frenita, et al., Stratford. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Guild Mortgage Co. Property: 145 Stonybrook Road, Stratford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $137,464, dated September 2015.

Filed April 10.

Singh, Meera, et al., Westport.

Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 7 Bayberry Ridge Road, Westport.

Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $800,000, dated December 2004. Filed March 27.

Perry, William Richard, et al., Bethel. Filed by Glass & Braus LLC, Fairfield, for DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc. Property: 60 Reservoir St., Bethel. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $42,104, dated August 2014. Filed March 26.

Smith, James E., et al., Newtown.

Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank NA, Frederick, Maryland. Property: 80 Riverside Road, Newtown. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $200,000, dated July 2013. Filed March 26.

Pierre-Louis, Myrlande Alexis, et al., Stratford. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 238 Canaan Road, Stratford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $256,000, dated July 2006 Filed March 23.

Porter, Fiona, Norwalk. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Ditech Financial LLC. Property: 8 Lori Lane, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $468,750, dated November 2010. Filed April 2.

Robinson, Marc, et al., Greenwich. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Charles Schwab Bank. Property: 71 Buckfield Lane, Greenwich. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $50,000, dated April 2011. Filed April 2.

Russell, Patrick F., et al., Stratford. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for The Bank of New York Mellon, New York, New York. Property: 217 Short Beach Road, Stratford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $172,500, dated November 2005.

Filed March 22.

Samuels, Peter S., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank NA, Frederick, Maryland.

Property: 175-177 Ohio Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $214,051, dated December 2013. Filed March 28.

Wiles, George A., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for HSBC Bank USA NA, Buffalo, New York. Property: 155 Brooklawn Ave., Bridgeport.

Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $375,000, dated May 2007. Filed March 28.

Williams, Terrence, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Leopold & Associates PLLC, Stamford, for HSBC Bank USA NA, Buffalo, New York.

Property: 122 Polk St., Bridgeport.

Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $236,700, dated May 2006. Filed March 28.

Wrobel, Sandra Jean C., et al., Danbury. Filed by Frankel & Berg, Norwalk, for Village Square At Park Avenue Condominium Association Inc. Property: 97-99 Park Ave., Unit 81AU, Danbury. Action: to foreclose on a condominium lien for delinquent common charges and assessments and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed March 27.

Zbrzezna, Boguslawa, Stratford.

Filed by Bender, Anderson and Barba PC, North Haven, for The Success Village Apartments Inc., North Haven. Property: 250 State St., Stratford. Action: to foreclose on a condominium lien for delinquent common charges and assessments and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed March 22.

MORTGAGES 1660 Barnum Avenue LLC, Milford, by Anup Kurra. Lender: Fairfield County Bank, Ridgefield. Property: 1660 Barnum Ave., Stratford.

Amount: $213,000. Filed April 2.

316 Courtland Realty LLC, by Joseph Simone. Lender: M&T Bank, Buffalo, New York. Property: 316 Courtland Ave., Stamford. Amount: $12.7 million. Filed April 2.

36 Atlantic Street LLC, Stamford,

by Nagi M. Osta. Lender: First County Bank, Stamford. Property: 36 Atlantic St., Stamford. Amount: $3.9 million. Filed April 2.

381 Barn Hill Road, Monroe,

by Stephen Shapiro. Lender: DAC Retail, Dallas, Texas. Property: 381 Barn Hill Road, Monroe. Amount: $194,778. Filed March 29.

B.R.H. Property LLC, Newtown,

by Bryan Roth. Lender: Savings Bank of Danbury, Danbury. Property: Parcel A, Map 7717, Newtown.

Amount: $268,000. Filed March 22.

Chabad Lubavitch of Fairfield Inc., Fairfield, by Rabbi Shlomo Landa. Lender: Fairfield County Bank, Ridgefield. Property: 452 Brookside Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed March 28.

CNS 537 LLC, by Lyndsey Frankel. Lender: Citibank NA, O’Fallon, Missouri. Property: 537 North St., Greenwich. Amount: $2.3 million.

Filed April 6.

LD 9 Lafayette Connecticut LLC, Greenwich, by Elsie Webster.

Lender: Coventus LLC, San Francisco, California. Property: 9 Lafayette Court, Greenwich. Amount: $600,000. Filed April 6.

Lewis Properties LLC, Stratford,

by David F. Owen. Lender: The Milford Bank, Milford. Property: 2103 and 2083 Main St., Stratford.

Amount: $495,000. Filed March 29.

NEW BUSINESSES A&M Lawn Care, 25 Newport Ave., Stratford 06614, c/o Anthony Trerotola. Filed March 26.

All City Sports Club, 300 Honey Spot Road, Stratford 06614, c/o Troy M. Lopes and Nigel Smith. Filed March 28.

ALR Consulting Services, 181 Sugar St., Newtown 06470, c/o Annemarie Larussa. Filed March 29.

MK Cleaning Services & Property Maintenance, 23 Scuppo Road, Unit 1-7, Danbury 06810, c/o Mohamed Kacimi. Filed March 29.

New England Masonry, 24 Green Briar Lane, Newtown 06470, c/o Adrian Ajdinoski. Filed March 19.

Newtown Real Estate Co., 9 West St., Newtown 06470, c/o Kevin Donovan. Filed March 23.

Bel Air Auto, 443 McKinley Ave., Stratford 06615, c/o Ivy Royster.

Filed March 26.

Pillow Chit Chat, 54 Milwaukee Ave., Bethel 06801, c/o Leslie Jensen. Filed April 6.

Brightview Shelton, 30 Beard Sawmill Road, Shelton 06484, c/o Brightview Shelton LLC. Filed March 29.

Rexel Commercial & Industrial, 480 Lordship Blvd., Stratford 06615, c/o Rexel USA Inc. Filed March 19.

Cellmark’s Plastics and Resins, 80 Washington St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Cellmark Inc. Filed March 28.

Colonial Chiropractic Centre, 19 Church Hill Road, Newtown 06470, c/o Della M. Schmid. Filed March 26.

DeCava Electrical, 1700 Broadbridge Ave., Unit B-16, Stratford 06614, c/o James M. DeCava. Filed March 20.

G.A. Cadadei LLC, 69 Chestnut St., Bethel 06801, c/o Gladyann Casadei. Filed March 27.

Irie Rockers FM, 8B Oaklawn Ave., Danbury 06810, c/o Sci Clarke. Filed March 28.

Robert 12 Enterprises LLC, Stamford, by Robert Jaworski.

Lender: Suma (Yonkers) Federal Credit Union, Yonkers, New York.

Property: Lot 45, Map 54, Norwalk.

Amount: $360,000. Filed April 5.

John A. Valentino Delivery, 414 Avalon Lake Road, Danbury 06810, c/o John Valentino. Filed March 27.

Turkey Ridge Development LLC, Woodbridge, by John N. Guedes. Lender: Ion Bank, Naugatuck. Property: Lot 1-11, Map 8373, Newtown. Amount: $1.6 million.

Filed March 20.

Mitchell and Ashley Schrader Education Fund, 46 Horseye Coach Road, Newtown 06482, c/o Thomas Schrader. Filed March 26.

Andrew’s Moving Services, 880 Hancock Ave., Bridgeport 06605, c/o Andrew Hernandez. Filed March 28.

Merritt 8 Owner LLC, Woodland Park, New Jersey, by Lee R. Lieb. Lender: Bankunited NA, New York, New York. Property: 99 Hawley Lane, Unit 1, Stratford. Amount: $14.8 million. Filed March 29.

Silich Properties LLC, Bethel, by Anthony J. Silich. Lender: Newtown Savings Bank, Newtown. Property: 153 Greenwood Ave., Unit 8, Bethel.

Amount: $132,000. Filed April 6.

Martinez Iron Works, 245 Access Road, Stratford 06614, c/o Wilbert Martinez. Filed March 21.

iZeek, 571 Boston Ave., Bridgeport 06610, c/o Bryan Gonzalez. Filed March 27.

Krypto Comics, 249 CT-39, New Fairfield 06812, c/o Gabriel Salas.

Filed March 16.

Lakeside Deli & Variety, 249 State Route 39, New Fairfield 06812, c/o Mindy Brown. Filed March 19.

Little Red Sandyhook School House, 2 Gray’s Plain Road, Newtown 06470, c/o John Gillis. Filed March 23.

Rick’s Bikes, 45 Maher Road, Stamford 06902, c/o Ricardo Salas.

Filed March 27.

Steel Points Gallery, 285-305 Knowlton St., Bridgeport 06608, c/o Yovan Barraza Jr. Filed March 28.

Thailand Laos Students, 363 Circle Drive, Stratford 06614, c/o Pom Sirichantho. Filed March 19.

Tru Lyfe Kutz, 1400 W. Broad St., Stratford 06615, c/o Alex Smith Jr. Filed March 19.

TruGreen Lawncare, 70 Mill Plain Road, Danbury 06811, c/o TruGreen Limited Partnership. Filed March 26.

Vira Deli RK CT LLC, 1055 C. Main St., Stratford 06615, c/o Rana Khouja. Filed March 27.

NEW LIQUOR LICENSES New Hong Kong Tokyo, 411 Barnum Avenue Cutoff, Stratford 06614, c/o You Z. Chen. Permit no.

LRW.0004713. Filed March 28.

Stop and Shop Supermarket Co., 200 E. Main St., Stratford 06614, c/o Steven C. Letterle. Permit no.

LGB.0012534. Filed March 28.

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PATENTS Apparatus for use in spinal interbody fusion. Patent no.

9,949,844 issued to Scott McLean, Sandy Hook; Fabio Amaral Pinto, Stamford; Peter Barreiro, West Haven; and David Boisvert, Meriden. Assigned to Spine Wave Inc., Shelton.

Automating repairs to audio systems. Patent no. 9,949,046 issued to Graham Hammell, Sandy, Utah. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Asymmetrical passive group delay beamforming. Patent no.

9,955,260 issued to Douglas J. Button, Simi Valley, California. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Cable armor stop. Patent no.

D815,604 issued to Lawrence J. Smith, Stamford. Assigned to Bridgeport Fittings Inc, Stratford.

Drive shaft coupling. Patent no.

9,951,821 issued to Joseph J. Franzino, Redding. Assigned to Crossford International LLC, Stamford.

Eye vergence detection on a display. Patent no. 9,952,665 issued to Davide Di Censo, San Mateo, California; and Stefan Marti, Oakland, California. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Gradient microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microphone with varying height assemblies. Patent no. 9,955,246 issued to Marc Reese, Indianapolis, Indiana; John Baumhauer, Indianapolis, Indiana; Fengyuan Li, Carmel, Indiana; and Spiro Iraclianos, Bloomington, Indiana. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Opioid agonist formulations with releasable and sequestered antagonist. Patent no. 9,949,930 issued to Christopher Breder, Greenwich; Curtis Wright, Norwalk; and Benjamin Oshlack, New York.

Assigned to Purdue Pharma LP, Stamford.

Quina zolin- 4(3H) - one-t y pe piperidine compounds and uses thereof. Patent no. 9,951,038 issued to Dawit Tadesse, Parlin, New Jersey.

Assigned to Purdue Pharma LP, Stamford.

Stand-alone chemical dispenser. Patent no. 9,950,302 issued to David L. Walsh, Stamford; and Joseph J. Franzino, Redding. Assigned to Crossford International LLC, Stamford.

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LEGAL NOTICES Jackís Shack LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/5/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 577 King St., Portchester, NY 10573. General Purpose. #61623 1075 NY LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/2/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 5600A Broadway, Bronx, NY 10463. General Purpose. #61624 Urban Scholars Network, LLC, filed with NY Secy. of State on 02/22/18.

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: 249 Prospect Avenue, White Plains, NY 10607 - the LLCís primary business location. Said LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61625 Shapeshifter Enterprises LLC. Filed 3/8/18 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 53 Romer Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 10570 Purpose: all lawful #61626 VDO CARDIOLOGY PLLC. Filed 2/20/18 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: PO BOX 282, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510 Purpose: Medicine #61627 Deutsch Capital LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/6/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1 Renaissance Sq., V9C, White Plains, NY 10601. General Purpose. #61628 The Naked Porch, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/6/2018.

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, 136 5th Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #61629 174 Gramatan, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/29/2017. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 174 Gramatan Ave., Mt. Vernon, NY 10550.

General Purpose. #61630 AEAT, LLC Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 03/09/2018.

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: 126 Barker Street, Mount Kisco, New York 10549 (the LLCís primary business location).

LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61631 NEXT CHAPTER FARMS LLC Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 03/06/2018. 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: 126 Barker Street, Mount Kisco, New York 10549 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61632

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The Savage Law Office, PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/27/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to John S. Savage, 27 Dalewood Dr., Hartsdale, NY 10530. Purpose: Law. #61633 Meaningful Kihoto, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/15/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 509 Route 22, North Salem, NY 10560. General Purpose. #61634 North Adams Gas Realty LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/16/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2 Overlook Realty Corp., Po Box 311, Yonkers, NY 10710. General Purpose. #61636 Notice of Formation of Eastview Holdings, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/21/18. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Eastview Holdings, LLC, 27 Storm St, Tarrytown, New York 10591. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61637 Sherman Avenue Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/2/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 26 Woodside Ave., West Harrison, NY 10604. General Purpose. #61638 Notice of formation of Mitton Law Firm, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/19/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The PLLC: 75 South Broadway, Suite 400, White Plains, NY 10601.

Purpose: practice of the profession of law. #61639 Azarmsa Consulting LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 6/23/17. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail copy of process to: US Corp Agents, 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #61640 36 HC LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/16/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to c/o Sal Attina, 909 Midland Ave., Ste. 3, Yonkers, NY 10704. General Purpose. #61641 Notice of Formation of Caremore Landscaping, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/02/18. Offc.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 980 Broadway #521, Thornwood, NY 10594. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61642 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: VSK PUBLIC RELATIONS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/02/2018. 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 Sycamore Road, Scarsdale, New York 10583, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61643

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Notice of Formation of Root to Market Consultants, LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/08/2018.

Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 11 Adams Hill Road, Cross River, NY 10518. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61644 Wings Air Helicopters, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 10/25/12. 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: 18 Hangar Road, Suite 200, White Plains, NY 10604 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61646 Notice of Formation of PRIMITIVA, LLC. Address of LLC: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, New York 10803.

County of business: Westchester County, Article of Organization originally filed with SSNY on 03/02/2018. Agent for Service: Secretary of State. Mail Process to: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #61647 GOURMET GLOBETROTTERS LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/28/18. 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, 27 Lily Pond Ln, Katonah, NY 10536, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61651 25 Irving NY LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/17/2017. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 124-18 Metropolitan Ave., Kew Gardens, NY 11415. General Purpose. #61652 49 Premium Point LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/9/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Lisa Mansfield, 192 Rock Creek Ln., Scarsdale, NY 10583.

General Purpose. #61653 DTF ROSEMOUNT, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/18/17. 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: The LLC, 560 Fenimore Road, Mamaroneck, New York 10543, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61654 SOMNIUM VILLA, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/24/16. 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: 97 Birch Brook Road, Bronxville, NY 10708, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity #61655 Aperl Gadgets LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/29/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 37 N. Central Ave., Apt. 5H, Hartsdale, NY 10530. General Purpose. #61656

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Notice of formation of Find Your Plug, LLC filed with SSNY on 3/15/18. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. As an agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 115 Drisler Ave. White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: Marketing. #61657

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68 Woodland Street LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/22/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 30 Sunrise Dr., Armonk, NY 10549.

General Purpose. #61658

ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE LATE KUNIGUNDE F. WACHTER A/K/A KUNIGUNDE WACHTER A/K/A KUNIGUNDE FRIEDRICH WACHTER, IF LIVING, AND IF ANY BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS WHO ARE SPOUSES, WIDOWS, GRANTEES, MORTGAGEES, LIENORS, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF SUCH OF THEM AS MAY BE DEAD, AND THEIR SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE,

Notice is hereby given that an onpremise license, #TBA has been applied for by R & M Imperial Wok Inc to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 736 N Broadway White Plains NY 10603. #61659 Notice of Formation Ikoyi Collections, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/5/18. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 51 Watson Avenue, Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61660 Timbos Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/7/2018. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 860 Post Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583. General Purpose. #61661 Notice is hereby given that a license (#TBA) for LIQUOR has been applied for by QUINCY AMUSEMENTS INC, at retail, in a THEATER RESTAURANT, under the ABC Law at TWO SOUTH DRIVE YONKERS, NY 10704 for on-premises consumption." #61662 BIDHUB.TV LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 4/3/18. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to: 75 S Broadway, FL 4, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any lawful activity #61663 Marcellino Management , LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 04/16/18. 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 16 Matthes Rd, Briarcliff, NY 10510.

LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61664 Notice of Formation of Danny's Cycles ML LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/2018. Offc.Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 101 Secor Lane, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 . Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61665 Notice of Formation of Danny's Cycles RY LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/2018. Offc.Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 101 Secor Lane, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 . Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61666

SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS

Plaintiff,v.

Index No. 57714/2017

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 attorneys within thirty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, 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 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 your mortgage company will not stop this 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. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Honorable Joan B. Lefkowitz, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 26th day of March, 2018, at White Plains, New York.

Tax I.D. No. 11.19ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, Northerly of the City of Peekskill, bounded and described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a stake on the northerly side of the Jack or Wood Road leading from the Estate of Van Cortlandt to the State Road, which stake is distant Seven hundred thirty-six (736) feet Easterly from another stake in the center of a stone wall dividing the lands of said Francis from the lands of the Van Cortlandt Estate, when the measurement is taken along the northerly side of the said Jack or Wood Road as the same is staked on the ground; THENCE North Ten degrees ten minutes West (North 10∫ 10' W) Ten hundred forty-two (1042) feet to a stake distant on a course North Seventy-nine degrees Thirty-five minutes East (N. 79∫ 35' E.) Eight hundred sixty-three (863) feet Easterly from a spike in a chestnut stump on the division line of the said Francis and the Van Cortlandt Estate; THENCE North Seventy-nine degrees Thirty-five minutes East (N. 79∫ 35' E.) Two hundred eighty (280) feet to a stake; THENCE South Eight degrees Twenty-four minutes East (S. 8∫ 24' E.) Nine hundred fifty-nine (959) feet to the northerly side of the Jack or Wood Road; THENCE along the northerly side of said Jack or Wood Road the following courses and distances: North Seventy-five degrees Fifty-seven minutes West (N. 75∫ 57' W.) Thirty-nine and seventy-nine hundredths (39.79) feet; South Eighty-three degrees Eleven minutes West (S. 83∫ 11' W.) Forty-three and seventy-eight hundredths (43.78) feet; South Fifty-one degrees Eleven minutes West (S. 51∫ 11' W.) One hundred sixty-nine and Eighteen hundredths (169.18) feet to a small stump marked; South Thirty-four degrees Thirty-nine minutes West (S. 34∫ 39' W.) Thirty and seventy-seven hundredths (30.77) feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. These premises are also known as 122 Jack Road, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567.

WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads Building 2 State Street Rochester, NY 14614 #61649

LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Formation of Kate Giordano LLC. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/19/2018. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC,153 Webster Avenue, Harrison, NY,10528. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61667

Notice of Formation of Denee Properties LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/22/2018. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 117 South Highland Ave, Apt. 2L Ossining, NY 10562 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61672

Notice of Formation of NorthRiver RE LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/15/18. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC: PO Box 462, Yonkers, NY 10703. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #61668

Notice of Formation of AJT Landscape & Home Improvement LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/28/2017. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 45 Yale Ave Apt. 2 Ossining, NY 10562 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61673

Notice of Formation of Idyllwild, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/19/2018. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. As agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 95 Mount Hope Blvd, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61669 Notice of Formation of VDL VENDING LLC, a domestic LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/19/2018.

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, 185 Kisco Avenue, Ste. 604, Mount Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #61670 Chapin Melrose LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/27/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 345 E. 93rd St., #24H, NY, NY 10128. General Purpose. #61671

Notice of Formation of The Observatory Shop, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNYon 3/29/18.

Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 5 Main St., HOH NY 10706 Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61675 Notice of Formation of E Cleaning Services, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/13/18. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 42 Kent Rd, White Plains NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61676 SHRUB OAK CLINICAL SERVICES OT, PT, SLP, LMSW, Psychology, PLLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/12/2018.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o General Counsel, 80 Broad Street, Suite 1702, New York, NY 10004. Principal place of business is 3151 Stoney Street, Shrub Oak, NY 10547. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61677

Notice of Formation of Suite 201 Holdings LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/04/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mohamed H. Shiliwala, 2 Park Avenue, Somerville, NJ 08876.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61678 Notice of Formation of LITTLE TUSKERS CENTER, LLC, a domestic limited liability company. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/18/18. NY Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at 25 Lincoln Ave., Lincolndale, NY 10540.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose. #61679 Notice of Formation of Chamalil Properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/23/2018. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mohamed H. Shiliwala, 2 Park Avenue, Somerville, NJ 08876. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61680 Notice of Formation of WOW Maintenance LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/01/2017. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 13 Dailey Dr. Croton on Hudson, NY 10520 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. # 61681

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Name: 1510 Broadway Commercial LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on April 25, 2018. 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 1510 Broadway Commercial LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.# 61682 RLS Fintech, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/18. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC: 3179 Arbour Lane, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. # 61635 Notice of Formation of MCFLY 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 33 McCollum Place, Yonkers, NY 10704. Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on 3/22/2018. Purpose: Any lawful act(s). # 61645

Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court of the State of New York County Of Westchester Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: 63067/2017 U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee For J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2006-S2, Plaintiff vs Antonio Velardo, Aida Velardo, Friendly Fuel Petroleum Inc., Jilco Window Corp., Braulio Chuchua If Living, And If He/She 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 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, Workers' Compensation Board Of The State Of New York, Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.A., People Of The State Of New York, United States Of America Acting Through The IRS, John Doe (Those unknown tenants, occupants, persons or corporations or their heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors claiming an interest in the mortgaged premises.), Defendant(s) Mortgaged Premises: 9 Gualtiere Lane Ossining, NY 10562 SBL #: 89.11-2-21 To the above named Defendant: 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 Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Westchester. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO Braulio Chuchua Defendant In this Action.

The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Gerald E. Loehr of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Seventeenth day of April, 2018 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Westchester, in the City of White Plains. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, dated March 7, 2006, executed by Antonio Velardo by the attorney in fact and Aida Velardo by the attorney in fact to secure the sum of $1,000,000.00. The Mortgage was recorded at Instrument Number 461350917 in the Office of the Westchester County Clerk on May 23, 2006. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed July 3, 2012 and recorded on August 2, 2012, in the Office of the Westchester County Clerk at Instrument Number 522013492.The property in question is described as follows: 9 GUALTIERE LANE, OSSINING, NY 10562 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 your mortgage company will not stop this 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. DATED: April 19, 2018 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 53877-1 #61674

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