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County Executive George Latimer marks the reopening of Playland with his wife, Robin, and youngsters and young at heart. Photo by Peter Katz.

FUN IS BACK Playland reopens after lost season

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

“W e had a fabulous weekend at Playland. The weather was perfect for going to the amusement park, perfect for going to a beach and we had really tremendous attendance at Playland,” Westchester County Executive George Latimer said in reporting on the park’s first weekend back in operation after having been closed for a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

On opening day, Saturday, June 27, there were 7,100 people who went to Playland. Another 6,832 visited on Sunday for a weekend total of 13,932. “This is a reduced season for Playland so we’re going to have less attendance in the aggregate than we would in other years,” Latimer said. The county’s beach at Playland drew 714 visitors on Saturday and 1,417 on Sunday for a weekend total of 2,131. Overall, the county’s beaches and pools drew a total of 8,346 people over the weekend. “The parks and recreation of Westchester County, part of the quality of life in this county, really

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CT ‘in a good place’ with voting reforms, outgoing Secretary of the State Merrill says BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

was cranking on all cylinders over the weekend,” espite the various Latimer said. election issues Leading up to opening — especially votday at Playland, invited ing rights — that have been TWB Loan Decision officials, other guests in the national headlines, Bannerand Ad members of the 6” wmedia x 1.5” h Denise Merrill is sanguine 7-6-21 went to the park Friday about their state of play afternoon of June 25 for a here. preopening opening. “Connecticut I conThere was a remindsider to be pretty well seter that the virus still is tled,” she told the Business » PLAYLAND 8 Journal. “We’re in a good

place.” Although she did not say that that opinion played a part in her decision not to run for a fourth term in 2022, announced late last month, the outgoing secretary of the state gave the impression that she believed the issue is for all intents and purposes solved. Instead, she expects to remain involved with the movement — mostly Democratic — to franchise

all voters on a national level. Merrill has been a strong advocate for a pair of state initiatives that would allow for early voting, which will likely be on the 2022 ballot, and for no-excuse absentee voting, expected to be on the 2024 ballot after Republican lawmakers opposed its inclusion for next year. Both measures will » VOTING REFORMS

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Gateway II project in White Plains gets preliminary approval for $34.2M in tax breaks BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

he Westchester County Industrial Development Agency granted preliminary approval June 24 for $34.2 million in tax breaks for the proposed $275 million Gateway II project in White Plains. The inducement resolution was approved by a 6-1 vote, with Richard McSpedon Jr. dissenting over the developer’s request for less stringent labor requirements. Greystar Real Estate Partners and the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. want to build a 25-story tower intersected by a 16-story tower, on a parking lot at 25 N. Lexington Ave., across the street from the White Plains train station. The structure would include 500 apartments, 19,000 square feet of ground floor retail space and parking for 755 cars. Greystar plans to create a public promenade along Hamilton Avenue and a canopied walkway from the city’s bus depot to the 1 N. Lexington office building. The housing would include 15 subsidized apartments, and the developer would pay $3.8 million to the White Plains affordable housing fund to cover its obligation to provide another 25 affordable housing units. The project would employ 600 con-

struction workers, according to Greystar’s application for financial assistance, and then 20 full-time employees. Construction could begin in August and would be completed in three years. Greystar asked for a $1,650,000 mortgage tax exemption, $5,360,000 sales and use tax exemption, and property tax abatement for 25 years that would be worth $27,183,162. Without the tax breaks, the site will continue to be used as a parking lot, the application states, and create “a void in the urban fabric.” The developer’s attorney, Eon S. Nichols, told the board that Greystar recently submitted a letter to the IDA asking for relief from labor policies enacted by the IDA in February. The letter had not been shared with the full board before the meeting. The policies require developers to hire 84% of their workers locally from the five-county lower Hudson Valley and the Bronx, participate in apprenticeship programs, and comply with other safety, workers compensation and payroll certification regulations. Nichols said Greystar’s construction manager is making its best effort to hire local workers and expects to hire 30 apprentices. But if the developer must adhere strictly to the labor policies, construction costs would

A rendering of the project. increase by 20%. McSpedon, a business representative for Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, was miffed that Greystar’s letter had not been shared with board members. He wanted to see the data that supports the developer’s position before voting. He noted that Greystar includes Albany County, two hours away, as part of the local pool of workers. Greystar vice president Ryan Souls said the project construction manager has begun “outreach” with unions, but he is concerned about the availability of labor for such a big construction project.

Michael Curti, an attorney for the IDA, said the agency could “recapture” some of the foregone taxes if the developer does not follow through with its commitments. IDA Chairwoman Joan McDonald recommended that the board induce the project and that the government and unions continue to work with the developer on hiring 85% of the workers locally. “If it’s not achieved,” she said, “we have the ability to claw back the benefit that has been granted.” A public hearing on the proposed development will be held before the IDA votes on a final approval.

Waterwheel owners claim Ardsley condominium is defective in $1M lawsuit BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

aterwheel Condominium in Ardsley is leaky and moldy, the homeowners association claims, and owners of the low-cost housing blame the developers. The homeowners association is demanding $1 million from developer Ardsley Waterwheel Partners, project architect Conrad J. Roncati and real estate broker Matthew Perasso in a lawsuit filed June 17 in Westchester Supreme Court. Buyers “were promised a pathway to homeownership,” the lawsuit states, “only to find that they were defrauded, received false promises, and are now forced to suffer through worse living conditions than … they had hoped to escape.” Roncati, the principal in Ardsley Waterwheel Partners and CEO of Architectura Inc., both in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and Perasso did not respond to email requests for their side of the story. Waterwheel Condominium is com-

posed of 22 dwellings in four buildings along Saw Mill River Road, across from V. E. Macy Park. The town of Greenburgh acquired the land in a foreclosure sale. The town required the property to be developed as low-cost housing and in 2013 sold it to Ardsley Waterwheel Partners. The developer agreed to designate 17 dwellings as affordable housing for households making no more than 80% of Westchester’s area median income, and five as workforce housing, for households making no more than 120% of the area median income. The first condo was sold in March 2017. The condos must be free of defects for one year from poor workmanship or substandard materials, according to the offering plan; two years for plumbing, electrical, heating and ventilation systems; and six years for foundations, floors, walls and roof framing. The homeowners association claims that the materials and construction deviated from these standards.

Roofs and exteriors leak, the homeowners association claims. High levels of moisture have caused significant water damage. “Disturbing levels of mold” pose a health hazard to residents. For example, there is no insulation behind sheetrock on sections of interior walls, according to the lawsuit. Foundations are not waterproofed and do not have a continuous vapor barrier. Windows were installed with inferior masonry and no flashing and sills are angled incorrectly. Roncati and Perasso were the only members of the homeowners association from March 2017 through June 2019, the complaint states. They allegedly deferred maintenance, failed to fix defects and delayed transferring control of the homeowners association “to avoid bearing the expense.” The homeowners association accuses the developer of breaches of contract and warranty. It accuses Roncati and Perasso of breach of fiduciary duty. The association is represented by Yonkers attorney Ryan P. Kaupelis. FCBJ

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STARTUP SPOTLIGHT Jake Allyne brings physical fitness to clients with developmental disabilities

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itness training can be a challenge for the average person, but for individuals with developmental disabilities the pursuit of gym-bound wellness comes with a wealth of additional considerations. A new gym in Hartsdale called Breakthrough Fitness Co. offers a distinctive special-needs fitness program under the supervision of Jake Allyne, a personal trainer who has become an expert in this niche within the fitness world. Allyne had not previously considered opening his own business until the Covid-19 pandemic forced the temporary closing of his bigbox gym employer. “I didn’t go back to my regular job,” he said. “I pivoted when the pandemic hit and worked virtually. And I had a large client base within the special needs community, including clients with autism and

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cerebral palsy.” Allyne was introduced to this client base during his college years when he worked with a special needs fitness program at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. His popularity in this field quickly grew, and during his big-box gym gigs he became the go-to trainer for special needs clients. As the pandemic restrictions began to ease, he would meet with his clients at parks and later in his garage, which he turned into a workout space. To his surprise, these clients sought him more during this time. “They increased their frequency because so many other things were cut off and that was a big impact on them socially,” he said. But for a post-pandemic environment, Allyne realized he needed something that could accommodate a growing client base. “I realized I couldn’t do it as a solo endeavor,” he said. “I needed to get out of my garage and into an actual space.” Allyne worked with the Westchester County Office of Economic Development’s Launch1000 program. The result is a new gym that will be ready for

a soft opening in late July, with a grand opening set for September. In approaching the training regimens of clients with developmental disabilities, Allyne explained that an in-depth analysis of individual needs is crucial for planning a successful strategy. “I’ll normally take a good hour or two to spend with them and see how their body moves, what gets them to tick, what they like,” he said. “And then, we’ll start with simple everyday movements and coordination — some of them work better within one plane of motion, some of them work better with patterns.” Allyne is planning for a combination of one-on-one and group training sessions. But he is also cognizant on creating an environment that will not disrupt his clients’ concentration on training. For example, the typical gym design with a seemingly endless number of monitors and screens on machines and walls would work against a 13-year-old client who is obsessed with video imagery. “When you put 200 screens in a room, it’s very hard to get him to focus,” he said. “But when we took the screens away, that was when he flourished.” Actually, he went beyond flourishing — Allyne added that he received word that his young client recently took first place in the 200meter sprint at a Special Olympics tournament. Allyne also highlighted a client with autism who used the pandemic period to increase her exercise frequency, resulting in a 40-pound weight loss. Allyne also maintains a base of nondisabled clients, and he stressed one key instruction that applies to all of his clients is the value of maintaining a state of wellness. “I think that daily movement and a moderately balanced diet can decrease a lot of the health risks that we as a society take on,” he said. “This is especially more beneficial to the special needs community.”

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NYMC highlights $1M in state funds for disaster training BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

he New York Medical College (NYMC) Center of Excellence in Precision Responses to Bioterrorism and Disasters, which is housed in NYMC’s Center for Disaster Medicine, had its place in the sun on June 29 as scores of invited guests gathered under a tent in front of the center’s 7 Dana Road headquarters on NYMC’s Valhalla campus. The event was to celebrate the work of the center while thanking state senators who helped secure $1 million in state funding for the center this year. New York state has increased its financial support for the center from an initial amount of $500,000 in 2017 to today’s $1 million annual level. NYMC describes the center as the first civilian resource of its kind in the nation. It offers education, training, structured simulations, drills and consulting to prepare for bioterrorism and mass casualty incidents along with natural and man-made disasters. Training is offered to first responders and law enforcement along with the business, education and health care sectors. Among the facilities at the center are sensory deprivation and sensory overload training rooms, a simulated clandestine drug laboratory, a simulated residential apartment, simulated patient rooms and an intensive care unit. Mannequins are used allowing for practice of procedures such as airway management and insertion of chest tubes. The center is funded through the Empire State Development Corp.’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation program. The center is one of 11 Centers of Excellence in New York. “As we continue to face down the pandemic, our world has never been in greater need of repair. In response, this center, the Center for Disaster Medicine is helping fulfill New York Medical College’s mission to offer solace, help and service by protecting the health of New York citizens and those around the world who look here for guidance,” Rabbi Moshe D. Krupka said in his invocation. Alan Kadish, president of NYMC and the Touro College and University System, said, “Despite our sophistication both politically and scientifically, in the current century we’ve been faced with a number of huge surprises: 9/11, hurricanes Sandy and Katrina, the Covid pandemic and just this past week the terrible collapse of a residential tower in Surfside, Florida, in Dade County. “Despite everything we’ve accomplished as a society, disasters both natural and manmade still happen and that’s why the Center for Disaster Medicine is so important because regardless of where we think we are we know, unfortunately, that these challenges will happen in the future and the job of educating first responders, public health officials and the general public about how to do bet-

ter next time, how to respond better to the next pandemic, that’s crucial for our society.” Kadish noted that the center had held training programs in responding to diseases such as Ebola, Zika and flu and did its first webinar on Covid-19 on Jan. 31, 2020, before there was a single case of coronavirus in the U.S. “The Center for Disaster Medicine has tried to remain in the forefront of helping us prepare for these disasters,” Kadish said. State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said, “Here we are in 2021 and we know there’s no typical emergency, we know that there’s no one way to handle anything that happens, and we know that the responsibility of making sure that the public service and the public safety is secure falls

on government, and falls on our health care system in a whole lot of ways.” State Sen. Peter Harckham was credited with helping lead the effort to secure increased funding for the center. “I very early on realized the importance of this center, both medically and as a jobs creator, as an economic engine, as an economic multiplier,” Harckham said. “Yes, we train for the big disasters that we hope and pray never come, but there are hundreds of little disasters every day all across this state and that’s what the medical college also helps us prepare for at a grass roots level.” Robert W. Amler, NYMC’s vice president of government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice and Institute

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of Public Health, who served as master of ceremonies, had special praise for state Sen. Anna Kaplan of Nassau County who is chair of the senate’s Committee on Economic Development. “It’s a committee with many, many aspects to it but they all drill down to the sharp point of a pencil and that is economic development, small business, improving the economy here in New York and the Northeast region,” Amler said, expressing thanks for her support of the Center of Excellence program. David S. Markenson, medical director for the Center for Disaster Medicine, said the additional $1 million in state funding will enable the center to offer more training where it is needed, such as for businesses.

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Voting reforms— require amending the state’s constitution, and can be viewed as part of the national debate over how and when voters can cast their ballots — an issue that gained traction last year when Covid-19 threatened to derail the election cycle. “People were frantic about not being able to vote,” Merrill said of the 2020 process, “which was so fraught. Remember, in March and April of 2020 people were being told, ‘Do not leave your house, especially if you’re a vulnerable person.’ They were trying to avoid going out of their houses at all. “But if all you have is one day of voting and you have to do it in person unless you meet certain exceptions in the constitution — that didn’t work for a lot of people,” she continued. “That’s why the governor and I took action and the governor issued the executive order that included Covid as a sickness under the constitution (allowing absentee voting).” The result: A record 1.86 million residents, roughly 80% of registered voters, casting ballots in the Nov. 3 contest, including about 659,000 absentee ballots. Not that it was all smooth sailing. Merrill’s decision to mail absentee ballot applications to every registered voter ahead of time was the cause of both criticism and confusion. “There were a lot of questions,” she acknowledged. “‘Why am I getting this?’ ‘What is this thing?’ But you get applications for credit cards in the mail all the time. It doesn’t mean you’re being forced into getting a credit card. It wasn’t as big a deal as some people made it.” Some states have allowed voting absentee or by mail “for years and years,” she added. “I have a brother in Colorado who told me, ‘I can’t imagine what all the fuss is about.’ They’ve done it by mail for years, and nobody seemed to notice or mind.” Merrill also has little time for the aspersions being cast upon the U.S. electoral system. “This is a very perilous time for the nation,” she said. “I never thought I’d see a time when people distrusted an American election with no real reason. “Of course,” she continued, “when President Trump lost the election, you had all these people who didn’t think he should have.” That situation has been exacerbated by attempts by other nations to influence the elections of 2016 and 2020, she said. It was for such reasons that she was instrumental in establishing and chairing the Connecticut Cybersecurity Task Force in 2018. Merrill said she believes the cyberattacks are not so much to sway opinion toward one candidate over another as they are to “sow mistrust. There’s an incredible amount of misinformation on the internet, which just gets people frantic. I don’t even call it ‘misinformation’ — lots of it are downright lies. Some of the craziest, wildest theo-

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Secretary of the State Denise Merrill at the Amelia Earhart Day celebration at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks with a constituent in July 2019. ries are out there and people are sometimes just not that discerning.” The fear is that “people will feel that elections don’t matter and their votes don’t count,” she said. “That has an influence on absolutely everybody.”

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The outgoing secretary said she is also proud of Business One-Stop, the modernized online system that streamlines processes at one central location for building and running a company that will officially be launched next month. “When I came into office (in 2011) everything was still being done on paper,” Merrill said. “There was shockingly little being done online.” Business One-Stop will allow a user to login once, whereupon they receive a number that can be used throughout the database. The idea is to link it to the Department of Revenue Services, Department of Consumer Protection, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and others “so that their systems can work with ours.” Efforts to improve the state’s “clunky” online registration system has taken years, she said, “but now it’s finally been completely overhauled.” Updating clunky systems is nothing new to Connecticut government — the Department of Labor famously ran into numerous snafus in the midst of its own updating when the flood of unemployment claims came in during the early days of WCBJ

Covid — but Merrill is confident that what emerges will make for a much more streamlined, pleasant experience. She further noted that “we have a very elderly group of employees” in her office. “Something like 60% are eligible for retirement over the next two years. That’s an opportunity to operate using fewer people with higher skills.” The 72 year old doesn’t necessarily include herself in that cohort, as she has repeatedly said she’s simply not running for re-election, not retiring. In addition to her voting rights efforts, she hopes to encourage more women to get involved with government. “About a third of the General Assembly is women, which is the highest it’s been for many years,” she said. “But if we’re half the population, we should be half of those who represent the people. “It’s difficult, because (women) still don’t necessarily see themselves in those types of leadership roles,” she continued. “They lack the confidence or feel they lack the skills.” Involvement with such organizations as the Campaign School at Yale, Merrill said, “can help give women the skills they need to run — fundraising, public speaking, how to access the resources you need to run a successful campaign.” Merrill’s own 30-year-career in politics began with an unsuccessful campaign for Mansfield’s school board, though she later joined it by appointment, “and I haven’t lost an election since,” she laughed.

That path included representing the 54th district (Mansfield and Chaplin) in the statehouse for 17 years, rising to the rank of House Majority Leader from 2009-2011, and serving as House chair of the Appropriations Committee from 2005-2009; as vice-chair of the Education Committee from 19941999; and as a member of the Government Administration and Elections Committee from 1995-1997. “I was always interested in politics as an advocate, starting in the ’70s,” she said, noting that she grew up near San Francisco at a time when the environmental movement was in its first full flowering. Contrary to some reports, Merrill said she hadn’t seriously considered stepping down from secretary of the state until a few months ago. Of her June 23 announcement that she would not stand again, she said: “People had started asking me about it, and since I’d made the decision I thought it was only right to announce it. Other people ought to get the chance to decide if they want to run for the office and the public needs the opportunity to vet people.” Although her official statement said, “While I’m not running again, I am not retiring,” it did not specify whether she might run for some other office. “No,” she said. “I’ve spent 30 years doing this and I feel I need to use my time and energy in other ways. That includes helping to get the voting amendments passed and nationally being a part of addressing voting rights and other election issues.”

THE AMERICAN STORY Felicia Feng Zhang, founder of All Talent Academy BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

ast month, the entertainment news was abuzz over a report that 3-yearold pianist Brigitte Xie of Ridgefield secured a performance slot at Carnegie Hall in the American Protégé International Music Talent Competition scheduled for November. And while much of the media spotlight focused on the very youthful pianist, some of the spotlight went to her teacher, Felicia Feng Zhang, who runs the All Talent Academy in Greenwich. In this edition of the Business Journal’s new recurring feature The American Story, which celebrates the impact that foreign-born business professionals have on the regional economy, we speak with Zhang about her life experiences.

Where does the Felicia Feng Zhang story begin? “I was born and grew up in Qingdao, which is a beautiful coastal city in China. I grew up in a professional music family — my mom is a distinguished piano professor and I admired and respected her vision and how she trained kids. “I went to Beijing Normal University and I got lucky: I was among the first of the graduate students for the piano pedagogy degree. In 1995, I was sent as a visiting scholar by the government in an exchange type of program. I visited Columbia College and Carnegie Mellon, learning and researching and then exchanging ideas on how to teach. I went to Florida to the University of South Florida in Tampa and got my second master’s degree in piano performance and pedagogy. “After that, I went to California and got a job as a musical education consultant. I got to know more about people in all different situations. At the time, I made up my mind

to create the most simple and easy-to-understand way to help more students.” Who are your piano students? “I teach from two-and-half all the way to seniors, with all different nationalities and all different backgrounds. I (do) interactive teaching. I found that the traditional way of how to learn is not the best way — because even if the students memorize the notes very well, they may not recognize the rhythm. “I stress the ‘five cores theory’ to train and develop the student’s learning journey and growth, which are eyes-earsmind-fingers feelings. I also emphasize the three EFM principles — the three Es are efficiency, effectiveness and enthusiasm; the three Fs are focus, follow and flow; and the three Ms are mindset, manners and motivation. “Once this is set up, there’s an open mind to absorb new things — their fingers can flow nicely in many ways they didn’t before while training the other way.”

the subject. I prefer if they are three or four years old because it is like a blank paper. I have three classes of adults — the students are from 40 to 70 years old — and many of them are more stubborn because they think they are right, but piano gives instant feedback. So, no matter how strong minded you are, you have to adjust and listen.”

What lies ahead for you? “I also run the Piano Village Foundation, which is a nonprofit volunteer platform that shares high-quality music education. During Covid time, we gave the community free piano training online. “My mission is for everyone to enjoy the piano. Everyone can benefit and I want to reach more people.”

What is the story behind Brigitte Xie’s success at such a young age? “When she came to me, her parents knew she was interested in music. When many kids do new things, they’re afraid to make a mistake. I needed to tell her not to be afraid of new things. I’m helping her and she becomes more open and willing to try more new things. “My two children also learned with my method. When my daughter was six, she was playing at Carnegie Hall was featured on NBC’s ‘Today’ show, and she played three times in Madison Square Garden at the NBA halftime.” Is it easy to teach children versus older people? “That’s two different ways to approach

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Independent review of PPP loans finds mixed results BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

sked to rate the Small Business Ad m i n i s t r at ion’s Paycheck Protection Program, Anna Serio, a commercial loan officer at Finder.com, is very much to the point: “Hopefully they’ll have a better plan if there’s a next time.” Finder.com, an independent comparison platform and information service based in Manhattan, recently published an analysis of the PPP that — while positive overall — certainly finds room for improvement. As of March 31, when the second and most recent round of PPP ended, the SBA had approved about 11.8 million loans for a total of just under $800 billion. (Those totals include the nearly 6.7 million loans approved for $277.7 million between January 1-May 31, 2021.) Texas, California, Florida and New York received the most funds and the highest number of loans, due to the size of their economies. But Connecticut did well, with 55,612 loans approved totaling about $3.2 billion. Serio noted that the majority of businesses that received PPP

loans really were small businesses — something that should be, but wasn’t, self-evident. The loans were based on a business’ payroll costs, with most applicants allowed to borrow 2.5 times its monthly average payroll cost. But, she added, close to 50% of PPP funding went to loans of $150,000 or more, meaning that 4.6% of businesses received over half of the funds. And, as reflected by the dollar amount, most of the money went to larger companies than would seem to have been the intended recipients. Headlines were made last summer when the PPP’s initial $350 billion ran out in just two weeks, with several not-so-small businesses ultimately returning their PPP funds. Those included Shake Shack, a publicly traded company with 8,000 employees and 189 restaurants in the U.S., returning $10 million, and Ruth’s Hospitality Group, which includes the Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and Mitchell’s Fish Market chains, sending back $20 million. In both instances, the chains were able to take advantage of a since-closed loophole that allowed any business with 500 or fewer employees per location — not total — to apply.

“The SBA has never had hard and fast definitions of what a ‘small business’ is,” Serio said. “It’s always been based more on industry. But by trying to be more inclusive with PPP, they ended up being more exclusive.” The average loan size in Connecticut was $83,000, with

the average company size being nine employees, she noted. Another disappointment with the SBA’s PPP data, she said, was when it came to the ethnicity of applicants. Despite a new era that purportedly strives for equity across a number of categories, just 29% chose to disclose their

ethnicity, with 13.7% identifying as White, 12.4% as Black and 2.4% as Asian. Serio said that while the refusal to identify their ethnicity was “a little bit of a surprise,” she believed the questionnaires were faulty. She noted that originally the choices included the outdated “Eskimo” instead of “Alaska Native,” and “Puerto Rican.” “That’s a nationality, not an ethnicity,” she said. And despite remarks by some SBA officials that initial PPP problems were quickly addressed, Serio said she wasn’t convinced. “They never quite got everything ironed out,” she said. “They were making changes right up to the very end. They were mostly good changes, but it just added to a lot of the confusion. You couldn’t really say it was ever fully fixed.” Asked for an overall assessment, Serio said, “There were mixed results. They helped a lot of small businesses — of the 82% who applied in 2020, 77% got approved for all of the funds they applied for. But I think a grant program would have worked a little better than a forgivable loan program, which made it more complicated and overworked its staff.”

gallop. Both of the rides were operating for the event, as was Playland’s famous insignia ride, the Dragon Caster. When Latimer succeeded Rob Astorino, one of his early actions was to cancel the contract that had been negotiated between the Standard Amusements and the Astorino administration to operate Playland. Standard went to court to fight the contract cancellation and at the same time filed for bankruptcy. The case was eventu-

ally settled and a new agreement between the county and Standard was approved by the bankruptcy court. The county is operating the park for the current season with Standard moving into the management role next year. Among the provisions of the settlement are that beginning on Aug. 31, 2022, and each year thereafter, Standard Amusements will pay the county a management fee, which in the first year is $300,000, rises to $400,000 in the second year and each year thereafter is adjusted by the change in the Consumer Price Index. On top of that, the county is to receive 5% of the money that comes in above a $12 million target. Latimer said that the park has shown signs of neglect but now the necessary capital projects are moving forward to create a revived Playland. “What you specially will see that we’re very proud of is the work that’s gone into reopening our historic carousel, which reopens this year after a major fire decimated it,” Latimer said.

“There had to be major construction on the roof and major repair of these historic horses.” Latimer discounted views that had been expressed by some in the past that it was time to close down Playland and open the land for development. “We believe that restoring it as close as we could to its former glory was the right strategy, that there’s a new generation of Westchester residents, and for that matter Bronx and Connecticut residents, anybody from these neighboring communities, that could come and enjoy this park the same way that I did when I was seven years old living in Mount Vernon,“ Latimer said. The formal ribbon cutting to celebrate the park’s forthcoming season opening was punctuated with sparklers shooting a dozen feet into the air and blasts of confetti fired from miniature cannons. After the ceremonies, Latimer and his wife, Robin, were among those going for an inaugural ride on the carousel.

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lurking in the form of an electric road sign advising visitors who have not been vaccinated to wear masks while at the park. Another visible sign of change came in the form of a construction fence at the end of Playland Parkway, where work is underway to reconstruct the Playland pool and rehabilitate the beach bathhouse. More than $100 million is being put into physical facilities at the park. In addition to the pool work, entrance towers, the administration building, other buildings, restrooms and electrical switching gear are undergoing repairs and upgrades. At the afternoon event, Latimer celebrated the park’s history, outlined plans for the season and took note of the fact that the 106-year-old carousel has been fully restored and put back into service following a fire in 2017. The carousel originally was built by W.F. Mangels with animals carved by Charles Carmel. It originally went into service at an amusement park in Connecticut

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Yeshivah proposes adaptive reuse of former Pace campus BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

Yeshivah is asking Briarcliff Manor to approve an adaptive reuse of the former Pace University campus in the village so it can open a place of worship and religious school. In documents submitted to the village Board of Trustees, Attorney Anthony B. Gioffre III of the White Plains law firm Cuddy & Feder said the campus would be used for approximately 250 male students between the ages of 17 and 20. Construction costs for the adaptive reuse is estimated at about $3 million. The applicant is Yeshivath Viznitz Dkhal Torath Chaim. It proposes renovations to some of the existing structures which had been used by Pace. The parcel of land is approximately 37.16 acres, with driveway access on Elm Road approximately 350 feet east of Tuttle Road and approximately a half-mile from the Route 9A entrance/exit at Pleasantville The property is owned by the Khal Torath Chaim of Rockland, which is an affiliate of the applicant. It will lease the premises to the Yeshivah. There are nine existing buildings,

The former Pace campus. Courtesy Google Maps. approximately 223 striped-at-grade parking spaces plus approximately 12,798 square feet of other paved parking areas in addition to recreational areas. The property had been bought by Pace University in 1977, according to Gioffre. He explained that the Yeshivah is a religious

educational institution accredited by the Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools with its main campus in Monsey. Gioffre said that the Yeshivah would operate at a much lesser capacity than when it was a college. He said that most of

the 250 students would live in on-campus dormitories with the balance commuting. There will be approximately 40 faculty and staff members per shift who will commute to the campus by bus or shuttle, Gioffre said. The applicant anticipates approximately two or three buses and four minivans would enter and exit the campus each school day. Meals would be prepared and served in the campus dining hall. The only instances in which the public is expected to visit the campus are during special events such as holiday gatherings and graduations, according to the application. The application proposes the use of all of three buildings and part of a fourth. The total space to be occupied comes to approximately 72,706 square feet. Gioffre said the proposal complies with the applicable special permit use standards and presents no adverse impact to the neighborhood or community. It would constitute a significant reduction in the intensity of the use and operations that had taken place on the campus and would generate little to no environmental impacts or increases in vehicle trips, demand on utilities and municipal resources, or population increase.

Arson, manslaughter among charges leveled against six men in fatal Evergreen Court fire BY KATHY ROBERTS

ix people have been arrested in connection with the deadly fire that destroyed Evergreen Court assisted living in Spring Valley on March 23 and took the lives of volunteer firefighter Jared Lloyd and an elderly resident. Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh announced the arrests on June 29, the result of a three-month investigation that culminated in the seizing of dozens of records from Spring Valley Village Hall on June 23. Arrested were Rabbi Nathaniel Sommer and his son, Aaron, who had “kashered” for Passover the assisted living facility’s kitchen shortly before the fire began and set the building’s alarm system to standby. Both have been charged with manslaughter, arson, assault and reckless endangerment. After being arraigned in Spring Valley Justice Court, they were taken to Rockland County Jail. Two former building inspec-

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Firefighters at the scene of the fatal fire in March. Photo by Kathy Roberts. tors for the village, Wayne Ballard and Raymond Canario, have been charged with falsifying the home’s records. Both were released on appearance tickets to return to Spring Valley court in July. Two arrest warrants were also issued for the assisted living home’s former director, Denise Kerr, and an employee, Manuel FCBJ

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Lima, in connection with the conditions within the facility. Both face charges of reckless endangerment and impersonation, misdemeanors. The fast-moving fire engulfed the three-story, block-long building, trapping Lloyd on the top floor as he searched for residents. At one point, an entire wall of the

building fell, sending firefighters and onlookers running for their lives. The battle to douse the raging inferno was hampered by the lack of water in the immediate area. Firefighters had to run hoses for several blocks — in some cases, more than a half-mile — to get to hydrants that had enough pres-

sure. Over 20 fire companies responded to the fire. Hundreds of firefighters from across the tristate area attended funeral services at Boulder Stadium for Lloyd, a 35-year-old firefighter and married father of three. A Go Fund Me Page started for Lloyd’s family raised nearly $500,000 in a single day.

Karen Daley takes the reins at Sacred Heart University’s nursing school BY PHIL HALL

One of the items on Daley’s agenda is the expansion of the school’s doctoral programs. She encourages nursing faculty to go for their doctoral degrees, noting the Ph.D. is “all about the philosophy and the science that underlies the degree.” Sacred Heart is New England’s second-largest independent Catholic university and Daley, who is Catholic, praised the school for what she dubbed its “Catholic intellectual tradition.” “There’s always been sort of a juxtaposition between faith and reason,” she explained. “So, we’ve always had faith over here, and reason and science over here. And what I see, Sacred Heart is the way they’re bringing the two together. “The other thing that I love about their mission and vision,” she continued, “is it really talks about the betterment of the community. Being a university is not just about educating people and getting them out the door, but it really is how we better impact our community and improve the lives of the people we serve and the communities we’re in. That’s also part of the Catholic intellectual tradition and it really made me feel like this is a place I want to be a part of.”

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s the newly appointed dean of the Davis and Henley School of Nursing, Karen Daley is the latest addition to the Sacred Heart University (SHU) faculty. But while she may be a new face to the students, she is already familiar with the Fairfield-based school. “My daughter graduated in 2009 from their media studies program, and so I got to know them as a parent and was very impressed with the way that they take care of the quality of their programs,” she said. “And then over the years, I’ve watched just their exponential growth.” Daley also kept a professional eye on the school from 2001 to 2011, when she was the master’s degree coordinator for the nursing department at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. She left Connecticut to become dean of the College of Health Professions at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Michigan — and while she enjoyed that experience, she welcomed a return to Fairfield County. “My family’s back in Connecticut,” she said, noting her daughters both had babies recently and were “asking if I could return. I didn’t want to do it unless I really felt good about a job opportunity in the area. And when that SHU advertisement came up, I was really excited to see it and to really sit down with them and have some conversations.” Daley said that in her new role at Sacred Heart she did not have to worry about addressing quality control concerns in the nursing school. “I can see from the curriculum, the awards they’ve gotten and the accreditations they have that it is excellent,” she said. “But a nursing program is a demanding program, because we’re teaching people to save lives.” Daley acknowledged that the Covid19 pandemic put the nursing profession in a new spotlight and helped the public to “finally understand what nurses do and understanding our role in helping people get through and heal from a disease.” But for the nurses in the center of the crisis, Daley added, the demands of the past 17 months have been beyond challenging. “We have an exhausted workforce,” she continued. “There’s some post-traumatic kind of stress, in a sense, that we’re all feeling after the pandemic. Nurses on the frontlines took the brunt of helping people through this pandemic.” For the next wave of nurses, Daley is focused on ensuring the nursing school students have a full understanding of the profession’s demands — she defined the work as a “difficult profession with a lot of different nuances,” and she saw the post-pandemic version of the new-normal as a work that is very much still in progress.

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urke Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains has opened its new $2.4 million Alice B. Harmon Patient Welcome Center. The center is designed to make the admissions process easier and more pleasant for patients since many patients arrive in an ambulette from an acute care hospital. Burke describes the welcome center as being “a beautifully appointed, dedicated space that ensures safe, socially distanced, comfortable and dignified entry to Burke.” After meeting with admissions personnel, patients are taken to their rooms. Ninety out of the 150 beds at Burke are at the same level as the welcome center, generally avoiding an elevator ride. Funding for the center came from donations by the Marsal Family Foundation and the Burke Auxiliary along with a federal grant through the CARES Act that provided funding for coronavirus aid and relief work. Speakers at a ribbon-cutting ceremony during the June 28 opening expressed special thanks to the Marsal family for its latest major contribution to Burke. In 2018, the Marsal Caregiver Center was opened at Burke. As with the new welcome center, the caregiver center was created to enhance the experi-

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ence at Burke for patients as well as their family members. The caregiver center provides a space for family members or others to relax, enjoy a snack and beverages and recharge themselves. Burke is a member of the Montefiore Health System and Montefiore Medicine’s President and CEO Philip O. Ozuah said, “The Marsal family is our biggest benefactor at Burke. That ought to tell you everything that you need to know about the Marsal family and why I’m so honored to call them my friends.” Ozuah recalled that Bryan Marsal at one time was a patient at Burke, receiving rehabilitation therapy. Margaret Smith, who joined Burke a few months ago as its chief marketing officer, said, “This ribbon-cutting is the culminating event of a series of major projects that have been ongoing and have come to fruition during my four-month tenure here.” She pointed out that Burke administered more than 5,000 Covid vaccinations to the public and its staff, converted to a new electronic records system, completed two accreditation surveys and completed additional construction on the campus during that time span. “Now we’re unveiling a splendid new campus facility that will enhance the patient

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“To be able to support a facility and a rehab center like Burke that helps and changes the lives of so many is an honor and we are happy to be a part of it,” Megan Marsal said. experience for everyone who’s admitted to Burke Rehabilitation Hospital,” Smith said. Jeffrey Menkes, president and CEO of Burke, said, “If you know anything about Burke you know that we’re an organization that highly values providing a top-notch quality health care experience to our patients and their families. “That’s why we established the patient experience department several years ago. We asked ourselves, ‘How could we continue to enhance the patient experience?’ Well, the Alice B. Harmon Patient Welcome Center will now offer private and dignified entrance to Burke making the patient’s first experience with us positive and memorable.” Megan Marsal, representing the Marsal

Family Foundation, said that in addition to her father, her mother, Kathleen, also received rehabilitation care at Burke. “To be able to support a facility and a rehab center like Burke that helps and changes the lives of so many is an honor and we are happy to be a part of it,” Marsal said. Westchester County Executive George Latimer said that Burke’s connection with Montefiore is important and adds to the medical services offered through Montefiore’s association with the White Plains, New Rochelle and Mount Vernon hospitals. “We know that the care and concern of our people here in Westchester County is being well-served by what’s happening here at Burke and elsewhere,” Latimer said. “The reason Burke can thrive in Westchester is because of the community support,” state Assemblywoman Amy Paulin said. White Plains Mayor Tom Roach praised the appearance of the center. “The architectural work here is fantastic. It conveys clean, new and at the same time melding with this very traditional campus,” Roach said. Other speakers included state Sen. Shelly Mayer, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and John R. McCarthy, chairman of Burke’s Board of Directors.

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Changing jobs? Don’t forget your 401(k) BY NORMAN G. GRILL

ne of the most important questions when changing jobs is what to do with the money in your 401(k). Making the wrong move could cost you thousands in taxes and lower returns. Let’s say you put in five years at your current job and had the company take a set percentage of your pretax salary and put it into your 401(k) plan. Now that you’re leaving, what should you do? The first rule of thumb is to leave it alone. You have 60 days to decide whether to roll it over or leave it in the account. Resist the temptation to cash out. The worst thing an employee can do when leaving a job is to withdraw the money from their 401(k) plans and put it in his or her bank account. Here’s why: If you decide to have your distribution paid to you, the plan administrator will withhold 20% of your total for federal income taxes, so if you had $100,000 in your account and you wanted to cash it out, you’re already down to $80,000. Furthermore, if you’re younger than 59½, you’ll face a 10% penalty for early withdrawal come tax time. Now you’re down another 10% from the top line to $70,000. If you separate from service during or after the year you reach age 55 (age 50 for public safety employees of a state, or political subdivision of a state, in a governmental defined benefit plan), there is an exception to the 10% early withdrawal tax penalty. This applies to 401(k) plans only. IRA, SEP, SIMPLE IRA, and SARSEP plans do not qualify for the exception. In addition, because distributions are taxed as ordinary income, at the end of the year, you’ll have to pay the difference between your tax bracket and the 20% already taken out. But that’s not all. You also might have to pay state and local taxes. Between taxes and penalties, you could end up with little over half of what you had saved, short-changing your retirement savings significantly.

What are the alternatives? If your new job offers a retirement plan, the easiest course of action is to put the money into the new plan before the 60-day period ends. This is known as a “rollover” and is relatively painless to do. The 401(k) plan administrator at your previous job should have all of the forms you need. The best way to roll funds over from an old 401(k) plan to a new one is a direct transfer. With the direct transfer, you never receive a check, you avoid all of the taxes and penalties mentioned and your savings will continue to grow tax-deferred until you retire. One word of caution: Many employers require that you work a minimum period of time before you can participate in a 401(k). If that is the case, one solution is to keep your

money in your former employer’s 401(k) plan until the new one is available. Then you can roll it over into the new plan. Most plans let former employees leave their assets several months in the old plan. 60-day rollover period If you have your former employer make the distribution check out to you, the Internal Revenue Service considers this a cash distribution. The check you get will have 20% taken out automatically from your vested amount for federal income tax. But don’t panic. You have 60 days to roll over the lump sum (including the 20%) to your new employer’s plan or into a rollover individual retirement account (IRA). Then you won’t owe the additional taxes or the 10%

early withdrawal penalty. If you’re not happy with the fund choices your new employer offers, you might opt for a rollover IRA instead of your company’s plan. You can then choose from hundreds of funds and have more control over your money. But again, to avoid the withholding hassle, use direct rollovers.

is a direct rollover into an IRA. The same applies if you’ve decided to go into business for yourself. Once you turn 59½, you can begin withdrawals from your IRA without penalty, and your withdrawals are taxed as ordinary income. The IRS “Rule of 55” allows you to withdraw funds from your 401(k) or 403(b) without a penalty at age 55 or older. With both a 401(k) and an IRA, you must begin taking required minimum distributions when you reach age 72, whether you’re working or not. Norm Grill, CPA, is managing partner of Grill & Partners, LLC, certified public accountants and consultants to closely held companies and high-net-worth individuals, with offices in Fairfield and Darien, 203-254-3880.

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Dutchess Community College flying high with new aviation center BY KATHY ROBERTS

eaching soared to new heights as Dutchess County Community College unveiled its $16 million aviation education facility at Hudson Valley Regional Airport. SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras and DCC’s acting President Ellen Gambino welcomed Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and scores of officials to the grand opening of DCC@HVR on June 24. “We already have the reputation for being one of New York’s leading aviation education providers,” said Gambino as she welcomed guests. “With this outstanding education center, we are even more strategically positioned to meet the workforce needs of the aviation industry now and in the years to come. Students who finish their training with us will be on a pathway to great jobs and successful careers.” The sizable investment, with funding provided by Dutchess County and New York state, allows the college to offer the kind of hands-on learning and experience that will give candidates the opportunity to earn a Part 147 Federal Aviation Administrationapproved license. FAA-certified aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs) work in highly technical specialty occupations, pro-

viding the operational safety needed to keep U.S. aircraft operating at peak performance. The new training center is the pride and joy of John Trosie, assistant professor and program chair of the college’s aviation science program. Trosie started the program in 2005, offering flight management and aircraft maintenance technology classes. He first broached the idea of offering the Part 147 License program six years ago. “There’s a tremendous call for qualified mechanics to work on planes, and this teaching facility fills an essential need in the aerospace industry. Because we are a Part 147 Certificate Holder, the FAA is our partner, and we do things the way it wants them done. We are the first Part 147 school, and the agency was very impressed when they came to inspect us.” The 32,000-square-foot teaching facility has five classrooms, a technical library and a break-room with grab-and-go snacks; its two 15,000-square-foot and 11,000-squarefoot hangars will give aviation students hands-on mechanical/technical experience, offering a welding and sheet metal shop, a specialized tool and equipment room and a fully functioning test cell turbine and piston engine. DCC@HVR recently

acquired a new Redbird full-motion flight simulator that will allow students to take lessons when the weather isn’t cooperating. Out on the hangar floor, a selection of Cessna aircraft, a Beechcraft T34, a Piper P26, a Robinson 22 helicopter and a Mooney MC20 will give students real-time opportunity to learn their trade. The new school’s centerpiece is the1984 Grumman G3-C20 jet previously owned by the U.S. government on the tarmac outside the hangar. Falcon One was used by two presidents, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, and flew U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf back and forth to the Middle East. The Part 147 Licensing program will be separated into three cohorts: general maintenance, air frame and power plant — with each composed of 25 participants. “Students will start in general maintenance for three months, then move on to air frame for three months; after that, they will spend three months in power plant. Another 25 will come in to begin the GM program; eventually all three classes will rotate out,” continued Trosie. “This is an intense course — seven hours a day, five days a week with written tests and practical testing. After our first year, we expect to graduate 75 students.” DCC@ FCBJ

HVR will have eight full-and part-time instructors working with future aviation maintenance technicians. “Recently, American Airlines grounded some planes because they did not have enough staff,” Trosie said. “There is also a demand for mechanics as well, especially as older workers age out. When our students graduate, they will start out earning $60,000 plus a year and over $100,000 if they go to work for an airline.” Molinaro said the county’s $8 million investment to build the education center is “part of multipronged strategy focused on increasing enrollment in DCC and creating a pipeline to new jobs. “This new aviation center offers students the opportunity to gain in-demand skills for high-paying jobs while serving as a magnet to attract aviation maintenance and related businesses to locate at the Hudson Valley Regional Airport, where they can take advantage of a skilled workforce.” Classes for the new aviation technician program begins Aug. 16; pilot and aviation management instruction begins Aug. 23. For more information about DCC@HVR and Dutchess Community College’s aviation classes, visit sunydutchess.edu/aviationionion.

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rganic light-emitting diode, or OLED, displays are not uncommon in our current day and age — many of us have them right in our phone screens. eMagin is the only manufacturer of OLED microdisplays in the United States, which are smaller and of a higher resolution than normal OLED displays. An OLED TV, for example, might have 1,920 by 1,080 lines of resolution. eMagin’s microdisplays can pack a higher resolution into a chip that is an inch or half-inch wide. The result is a product that is more powerful, efficient and compact than other microdisplay industry alternatives, which are valuable in several areas. “We sell a lot to the military in the form of aviation helmets, weapons sights, night vision, thermal imaging training, and the like, for the military side,” said Mark Koch, acting CFO at eMagin Corp. in Dutchess County. “We also sell to some medical customers in the eyecare market (for ocular surgery) and also in the veterinary market, for the use of viewers for ultrasounds.”

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An OLED microdisplay made by eMagin Corp., showcasing a military use of the product. making revenue in the range of $25 million to $30 million annually, and is set for a new expansion from federal grants of roughly $39 million, to support its manufacturing abilities at iPark. The grants are from the Department of Defense; as eMagin is the only domestic OLED microdisplay manufacturer, the military has a stake in expanding and strengthening its production. With the funding, awarded in the summer of 2020, eMagin will be able to upgrade equipment. “We’re putting our display into a helmet for the F35 fighter jet, we’re putting it into night-vision goggles, which are used by U.S. military special forces,” Koch said. “The military really likes these OLED displays because they’re high resolution, they use very little power, they’re very bright and they’re very rugged. So part of the reason was to support us as a company, as the only company in the U.S. manufacturing these, and the military has a strong buy-American component ... so it’s just part of the military wanting to protect their supply chain and keep up as much domestic manufacturing for military products as possible.” The $33.6 million comes from a Defense Production Act Title III program grant, with funds authorized and appropriated from the CARES Act, intended to help replace and update aging equipment to increase output and allow the company to retain and expand its staff. The other $5.5 million are marked under the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) Program, for supply chain assurance for eMagin’s OLED manufacturing. Installation of capital equipment is the main purpose for it.

“This is a significant grant in terms of our equipment,” Koch said. “When you look at the book’s value of our equipment, it’s around $9 million. So we’re receiving a $39 million grant to upgrade and expand our factory equipment. So this is a huge grant for us where, you know, we’re very excited about it. It’s going to improve our efficiency and our capacity and our output and a large part of it is for a new tool to really advance our direct patterning technology.” The first of that $39 million has been spent on an advanced wafer inspection tool valued at $1.1 million, delivered in January. Along with that grant comes one from Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp., through a Wireless Innovations and Job CreationAttraction economic development program. It goes hand-in-hand with the federal funding. It will contribute $100,000 more toward the expansion, and support job creation with a grant equal to $1,000 per job for positions in manufacturing paying more than $40,000 annually, up to $100,000. “Central Hudson has a tradition of supporting companies that are looking to invest and bring well-paying jobs to the Mid-Hudson Valley through our economic development programs,” said Anthony Campagiorni, vice president of customer services and gas operations at Central Hudson. “The Covid-19 pandemic made it clear that a renewed focus on domestic manufacturing is critical and so we wish eMagin great success as they continue to expand their operations in East Fishkill.” eMagin plans to create at least 18 jobs in its facility, 13 of which will be manufacturing, three of which will be in research and development and two of which will not be related to manufacturing.

HUDSON VALLEY Dissolution of the village of South Nyack continues BY KATHY ROBERTS

he village of South Nyack and Nyack College, both serenely sitting on the shores of the Hudson River, had coexisted peacefully for more than a century; the serenity ended last summer, when residents learned the campus had been sold to Yeshiva Viznitz of Monsey for $45 million. That sale sparked a wave of uncertainty over the fate of the property and the future of the village itself. Shortly after the college was transferred to Yeshiva Viznitz — which had also announced it would seek to add multifamily housing to the property — the village of South Nyack sued the new owner for occupying the campus without proper permitting or legitimate certificates of occupancy and for failing to remediate several outstanding safety and code violations. A visit to the campus in early 2020 confirmed that it was, in fact, the home to members of the Satmar Hasidim. The lawsuit is ongoing, with Yeshiva Viznitz claiming that religious discrimination is prompting the village to take them to court. Residents were concerned that its secular board of trustees could be usurped by the powerful religious group, a phenomenon that has occurred in several villages in Rockland County. To that end, village of South Nyack residents successfully petitioned to hold a referendum to dissolve the village and to become part of the town of Orangetown, its host municipality. By a vote of 508 to 292, the dissolution was approved on Dec. 17, 2020. Since then, the village and its planning firm, LaBerge Group of Albany, along the town of Orangetown, have been working on

the complicated process of merging the village’s properties and its 140 years of records into the town. LaBerge Group estimates the dissolution will take 24 months to complete, with a target date of December 2022. The dissolution process has obligated South Nyack to take stock of its municipally owned property, its assets and liabilities, as well as dismantling its police department and emergency services. The village of Grandview, which received its police services from the South Nyack Police Department, recently contracted to receive its law enforcement support from the village of Piermont. Orangetown has promised to make its best efforts to merge South Nyack’s police officers and other village personnel into its own municipal ranks wherever possible. South Nyack’s two volunteer firehouses will automictically transfer to the town, since they are already a part of the Joint Fire District. Residents have asked the board of trustees to make South Nyack’s village hall a permanent community center rather than selling it. South Nyack residents will benefit from the dissolution by seeing overall property taxes reduced. Homeowners, however, will see a line item on their tax bill that reflects the legacy costs of retirement and benefits for former employees of the village once it is dissolved. The purchase by Yeshiva Viznitz and the legal action that followed, compounded by the vote to merge into Orangetown, have seen tensions escalate in the village of 3,000. Past Zoom meetings where the dissolution has been discussed have been interrupted by hackers lashing out with a string of filthy language and pornographic images to disrupt the meetings. In one instance, a swastika appeared on screen.

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hings were hopping at Monroe’s Museum Village last weekend as it welcomed a craft beverage festival. More than 1,000 visitors attended the twoday event, sampling chocolate wines, beer and ale from Tin Barn Brewing and potato vodka courtesy of 1857 Spirits, among others. The living history museum has several events on tap now that New York has officially reopened for business. Learn more about its special events and programs at museumvillage.org.

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HUDSON VALLEY Poughkeepsie milk fat aficionado goes to court after Flipz fails taste test BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

Poughkeepsie woman who bought Flipz white fudge covered pretzels found herself infuriated rather than indulged when she realized that the fat content did not meet her expectations. Jessicca Spurck sued Stamford-based DeMet’s Candy Co. on June 23 in U.S. District Court, White Plains, seeking unspecified damages for herself and fudgeaholics throughout New York who want more milk fat from their fudge. DeMet’s representation of its whitefudge-covered pretzels “is false, deceptive and misleading,” the class action complaint states, “because it lacks the type and amounts of ingredients consumers expect in fudge.” DeMet’s, whose Flipz brand is the market leader for covered pretzels, did not respond to an email asking for its side of the story. The fudge that aficionados crave is all about the milk fat, according to the complaint, citing reference books and recipes as far back as 1893. Small droplets of fat dispersed throughout a candy gives it a smooth texture. Too much makes it feel greasy. The fat can come from dairy products and vegetable oils.

Peter Grant Jordan, next Dutchess Community College president

tate University of New York Board of Trustees has named Peter Grant Jordan to become the next president of Dutchess Community College, effective Aug. 2. Jordan replaces Pamela R. Edington, who retired in July 2020. Ellen Gambino, the Poughkeepsie-based college’s provost and vice president of academic affairs and student services, has served as acting president since September 2020. Jordan serves as president of Tarrant County College-South Campus in Texas. He was previously vice president for institutional effectiveness and vice president of enrollment management and student development at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, and ear-

Milk fat melts at mouth temperature and imparts a rich, creamy taste, the lawsuit states. Vegetable oils, such as palm oil, do not melt as readily and leave a waxy feeling in the mouth. The fat in Flipz white fudge covered pretzels is not balanced between vegetable and dairy ingredients, Spurck claims. The primary fats are palm kernel oil and hydrogenated palm oil. “The resulting ‘fudge’ provides less satiety, according to the complaint, “has a waxy and oily mouthfeel, and leaves an aftertaste.” Had Spurck and other buyers known the truth, they would not have bought the candy or would have paid less, the complaint states and if the pretzels are made right, she will buy them again. Spurck accuses DeMet’s of fraud, unjust enrichment, violating the New York consumer protection law, negligent misrepresentation and breaches of express warranty. She is represented by Nassau County attorneys Spencer Sheehan and Abraham Kleinman. Sheehan filed a similar class action complaint a year ago against Froneri US Inc., for allegedly using misleading labeling for Haagen-Dazs Vanilla Milk Chocolate Ice Cream Bars. He voluntarily dismissed the action this past April.

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lier in his career he was interim vice chancellor for student affairs at CUNY; vice president of enrollment and student affairs at Vaughn College (College of Aeronautics); dean of student enrollment, New York Institute of Technology; and dean of university admissions at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Jordan has an Ed.D. in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Operations Management from Tandon School of Engineering/New York University (formerly Polytechnic University) and a B.A. in English and history from Colby College. — Phil Hall WCBJ

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ometimes subordinated in the discussion of elder care is the significance of providing seniors with suitable housing. Without appropriate living conditions, health and safety can’t be assured and quality of life suffers. A new effort by a coalition of organizations and businesses to address what is described as “the housing crisis in Westchester” was launched June 24 with a news conference in front of the Regent Street Senior Apartments at 37 S. Regent St. in Port Chester. The campaign is known as “Welcome Home Westchester.” The Regent Street project was selected as an example of what can be accomplished to improve living conditions for the elderly with enough citizen, business and political support. It’s a 34-unit building with six of the apartments specifically designed for the frail elderly with special needs. Rose Noonan, executive director of the

Housing Action Council, which partnered in developing the Regent Street building, said the site had been a parking lot. “This is one of the newer affordable developments in Westchester,” Noonan said. “We’ve had quite a bit of experience in accepting applications and reviewing applications and whenever there’s a senior development, an affordable development in Westchester, we have at least 30 applicants for every one unit. There are constant waiting lists on all the senior affordable housing developments as any of the affordable housing developments in this county.” The Building and Realty Institute (BRI) is a prime organizer of the campaign. The Westchester County Association, Nonprofit Westchester, Community Housing Innovations, Westhab and Lifting Up Westchester are among other organizations involved in the Welcome Home Westchester effort along with businesses such as Murphy Brothers Contracting and Wilder Balter Partners. While there have been successes in

providing workforce, low-income and senior housing projects, only a small dent has been made in creating the 11,703 housing units that the 2019 Westchester County Housing Needs Assessment prepared by the county said are needed. Tim Foley, CEO and executive vice president of the BRI, said, “We need senior development units like this all across Westchester to deal with our aging population and we have plenty of communities that would be very welcoming to them. But, too often, they get bound up in a process that’s unpredictable; that adds on costs and makes an affordable housing unit like this out of reach for the builder who’s trying to create it. If the economics dictate that the only thing that you can afford to build is market-rate housing, that’s all you’re going to build and that’s going to be a loss.” Foley said that housing is the connective tissue that binds all of its members together. He expressed the opinion that an inefficient meeting of a land use board or detail in the zoning code that was made so FCBJ

long ago that no one can remember what it’s trying to achieve or the loudest voices though not necessarily the most representative voices can contribute toward inaction. Foley said that not addressing all of the different needs for affordable housing, senior housing, housing for millennials who want to move back into the region, workforce housing, housing for those with disabilities and market-rate housing makes the housing debate more contentious. “Having our towns and villages default to single-family housing for most of their land use, the least energy efficient, the least climate friendly source of housing, makes it that much harder to deal with the buildings that make up almost 40% of our carbon emissions,” Foley said. “Similarly, the local processes, land use boards and decision-making in some communities, reflect assumptions that haven’t been reexamined for decades. Sometimes they’re simply out-of-date. Other times, they’re continuing to do exactly what 22

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Norwalk Hospital president details largest expansion in facility’s 128-year history BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

orwalk Hospital’s multiyear plan to modernize its campus through a combination of renovations and new construction — the largest expansion in its 128-year history — may have been announced on June 23, but it actually dates back several years. “I’ve been here for about 2½ years now, and this project predates me,” hospital President Peter Cordeau told the Business Journal. “I saw the original plans the day I walked in. Since that time there’s been a lot of fine-tuning.” Although the hospital, part of the Nuvance Health system, did not initially specify the project’s cost, Cordeau estimat-

ed it will be about $224 million, of which “well over $100 million” is expected to come from philanthropists. “Our aim is to rely on that and our annual discretionary capital,” he said. “Between now and completion, our goal is not to borrow a single nickel.” Had the hospital decided to only renovate the existing buildings, he added, the cost would “probably have been in excess of $100 million.” The work, which Cordeau said will start no earlier than a year from now as the fine details continue to be considered, will include replacing Norwalk’s Community Pavilion, built in 1953, and its Tracey Pavilion, which was completed in 1918 during the Woodrow Wilson administration.

In their place will be a 7-story, 180,000-square-foot pavilion on the southeast corner of the hospital’s campus, with a modern design relying on natural light and other measures to provide what Cordeau said will be a more comfortable and soothing environment for patients and staff alike. The new pavilion will also be attached to Norwalk’s Main and McGraw Pavilions. Significant additions include a new intensive care unit and step-down unit, as well as a new labor and delivery unit and a mother and infant unit, upgrades that Cordeau said the hospital’s OB team has been seeking for years. The mother and infant unit will include 17 private rooms, a six-bassinet Well Baby Nursery and a neonatal (NICU) intensive care unit for premature and critically ill

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babies. The NICU will feature six hightouch, high-tech infant rooms. “Fairfield County and Norwalk are both experiencing a population growth due to Covid,” Cordeau explained. “We see an average of 1,200-plus deliveries a year right now, and our OBs expect that to continue to increase.” Other improvements include three floors in the new pavilion being set aside for patients requiring hospitalizations for illness and injury, as well as for those having surgery. The medical/surgical unit will feature 90 private, contemporary patient rooms with designated space for medical equipment and for visiting loved ones. In addition, the intensive care and progressive care units will be fully renovated and modernized, as will the Main Pavilion, where most patients and visitors are welcomed. The improvements are expected to be completed sometime in the winter of 202526, Cordeau said. As for Covid-19 — Norwalk’s new cases have been one or less per day for the past several weeks — Cordeau said that Nuvance is still working on the implementation of the Connecticut Hospital Association’s June 24 announcement endorsing a vaccine mandate for all hospital workers. “Most of us have all long since been vaccinated from a patient-facing standpoint,” he said. “But we don’t have a formal policy or even a start date (from the CHA about when the mandate would go into effect) for it yet. What does it mean for nonpatient-facing areas like the board room or finance? If everyone is vaccinated, can you take masks off?” Cordeau allowed that some employees could ultimately face termination if they refuse to get vaccinated. In any event, he said, Nuvance hospitals will be “in lockstep” with the state’s other institutions once clarity is achieved. He further said he anticipates another uptick in people getting vaccinated when school starts in the fall. While some universities around the country are requiring proof of Covid inoculations by all matriculating students, as has the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system, whose member schools include Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Norwalk Community College, and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. Fairfield and Sacred Heart universities, both in Fairfield, “strongly recommend” students get the vaccine. Cordeau also said he anticipates a rise in nonstudents getting Covid vaccinations — or possibly booster shots — once flu season arrives in October. “That’s when we will have advice from the CDC and others on what procedures we should all be following,” he said.

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Old-world elegance with modern convenience. Outstanding for the region, The Club also represents trends in senior living, where communities increasingly aim to mirror the style and culture of their neighborhoods. Older adults moving to a community make few – if any – sacrifices in lifestyle, finding that the community aligns with their expectations for how they wish to continue to live. The community also integrates a continuum of health services. Where independent living welcomes older adults into maintenance-free living, with a host of amenities to make daily living as unencumbered and delightful as possible, assisted living and memory care services provide vital care for residents with particular needs.

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The Club follows CDC guidelines for masks, handwashing and social distancing and requires the following: • Everyone entering the community wears a face mask and is screened according to CDC guidelines • Staff are screened at the beginning, middle and end of their shifts • Every assisted living and memory care resident is monitored for temperature, oxygen saturation level and condition changes • The community works with national-level laboratories for staff and resident testing • Staff welcome PCPs (primary care physicians) and medical specialists, as residents require, and arrange resident transportation to medical appointments Residents need to connect with other residents and create bonds of friendship. At The Club, every effort is made to maximize those possibilities by enabling small group events, hallway and doorway happenings, and remote activities via web-based or phone options. The community also provides easier access to exercise equipment and walking paths and helps residents remain fit and engaged. The Club at Briarcliff Manor is a Senior Lifestyle community. To find out more about Senior Lifestyle, visit SeniorLifestyle.com. For information about The Club, contact the marketing office at 914-922-0671 or visit THECLUBBCM.COM.

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they were designed to do; limit the amount of available housing in Westchester and make it harder for future neighbors, particularly people of color, to move in.” The campaign plans to raise awareness of the housing situation in the county while taking action such as working to reform the way volunteer land use boards work and putting a spotlight on zoning practices that contribute to the housing shortages. In answer to a question from the Business Journal, Foley said that the group would be urging municipalities to allow higher density development where appropriate in order to reduce the per-unit housing cost. “There are plenty of places where there’s nothing in particular there right now,” Foley said. “An office park that hasn’t been used in 10 years is literally not in anybody’s backyard. But, it has existing infrastructure. It has sewer lines, it has electricity. There’s somewhere where you could scale up relatively quickly.” Jan Fisher, executive director of Nonprofit Westchester, said the affordable housing crisis deeply impacts the nonprofit workforce. “While 40% of Westchester residents are housing-burdened, 60% of the nonprofit workforce is housing-burdened and that percentage rises to 70% for the directcare staff. The nonprofit workforce cannot live where they work,” Fisher said. “We can do better.” Michael Romita, president and CEO of the Westchester County Association, said that businesses are impacted not only when the housing stock is inadequate, but especially when housing costs are too high, “starving local businesses of workers or forcing those businesses to pay higher salaries to subsidize commuting costs.” Romita said businesses suffer if workers are forced to look elsewhere for housing and employment. “We can’t maintain a healthy economy if our teachers, our first responders, nurses, accountants, engineers and other working-class folks can’t afford to live in your community. You can’t cultivate a real community if young professionals, the elderly and those with special needs go under-served. For a vibrant business environment, we need to welcome our middle-class home to Westchester.” Ron Abad of Community Housing Innovations said his organization was instrumental in bringing a 10% affordable apartment requirement to a corporate park redevelopment project in Harrison. “We have no choice but to do better for our neighbors, particularly on the affordable housing front,” Abad said, calling for the removal of land use zoning barriers along with providing increased housing access and support for upward economic mobility.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD FOR ABILITIES FIRST When Newburgh resident Michael Pine, owner of thinkWealth, attended his first Abilities First Golf Classic, he was inspired by its mission and the adults and children it supports in the Hudson Valley region. In 2019, he joined the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Abilities First New York. His commitment and outreach included a $10,000 Community Service Award to Abilities First from the Mass Mutual Foundation. “The Boards of Abilities First and the Foundation for Abilities First are most grateful for the MassMutual Foundation’s recognition of the commitment and leadership Michael contributes to Abilities First and to ensuring the future of its mission.” said Melissa McCoy, chief advancement officer for Abilities First and the Foundation for Abilities First NY. “In 2019, participating financial professionals in our CSA program donated nearly 12,500 hours of service to nonprofit organizations across the country,” said Dennis Duquette, president of the MassMutual Foundation. “We are proud to recognize these individuals who are making a difference in their communities….” Founded in 1962, Abilities First is a not-for-profit organization serving those with developmental disabilities from pre-school through adulthood. It presently serves more than 1,400 children and adults throughout the Hudson Valley region.

B&G CLUB OF MOUNT VERNON The Mount Kisco Country Club in Mount Kisco recently hosted the Boys & Girls Club of Mount Vernon’s annual Corporate Golf Outing fundraiser, which honored its longest-serving board member Joe Solimine Sr. and New York state’s first African American professional sports team owners Corey and Tamara Galloway. This sold-out event featured guest speakers, including state Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson and city of Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard, who spoke about the importance of supporting youth in the Mount Vernon community. The Boys & Girls Club of Mount Vernon offers after-school programs to help young people learn and grow in a safe, fun, educational environment.

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Westchester ‘happy art’ artist Marla Beth Enowitz with her new interactive “Climb Every Mountain” mural at Westchester Children’s Museum.

On Saturday, June 26, Westchester Children’s Museum reopened its doors to the public for the first time since the start of the pandemic, marking the occasion with a special members’ opening event featuring ‘happy art’ artist Marla Beth Enowitz, founder of Marla Beth Designs and her new interactive mural “Climb Every Mountain.” Guests had the opportunity to become part of Enowitz’s latest public art

display by leaving their handprints in a rainbow of colors. Designed for children pre-k through middle school and located in the historic landmark Bathhouses on the Boardwalk at Rye Playland, Westchester Children’s Museum is filled with interactive exhibits not found anywhere else in this region. “Everyone who donated to add their handprint to the bright uplifting mural by

Marla Beth Enowitz, is actually lending a hand in reopening the Westchester Children’s Museum and supporting our program,” said Leta Wong, museum acting director. Westchester Children’s Museum has resumed regular operating hours Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m. For more information, visit discoverwcm.org.

MERIDEN RESIDENT EARNS CAREGIVER AWARD Caregiver Linda Papaspliliotopulus of Meriden was selected as the Assisted Living Services Inc. (ALS) Platinum Caregiver Award winner for the month of February. She received a check for $5,000. “I can’t take it, I love you guys,” said Papaspliliotopulus as she was overcome with emotion and hugged Mario D’Aquila, ALS chief operating officer. Lynne Schmidt, ALS director of marketing and hourly services, explained Papaspliliotopulus actually earned accolades from two different clients, including top-notch reviews for her work ethic. Homecare Pulse, a third-party survey company that measures customer satisfaction, contacts ALS clients at random to rate the services and quality of care that is being provided. The caregiver with the highest-quality score earns the recognition for outstanding work. Since 1996, award-winning home care agency ALS in Cheshire, Clinton and Fairfield has provided quality care to residents across Connecticut. It was ranked on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies and recognized by Home Care Pulse® as a “Best of Home Care Leader In Excellence.” FCBJ

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RM Friedland, a large commercial real estate brokerage in Westchester County, is capitalizing on the emerging trend of adaptive reuse concepts transforming commercial properties into expanding health care campuses, experiential activity centers and new residential hubs by adding veteran real estate executive Charles Dewey to the firm’s investment sales division. He will provide strategic marketplace analysis of clients’ properties assessing the highest and best use of their assets. He will also serve as a development consultant for RM Friedland’s broader portfolio of clients. “Charlie’s exceptional knowledge and keen understanding of the commercial real estate industry fused with his strong track record of success and specific expertise in development and finance will markedly enhance the services we provide to our clients,” said RM Friedland President Sarah Jones-Maturo. Dewey began his career at Pappas Enterprises a Boston-based developer and held top-level positions with Mutual of New York and Advantage Real Estate Services. Most recently he served as president and managing member of DDDG LLC, which specializes in real estate development. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

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The Construction Institute of Hartford’s 2021 Champions of Change awardees will be recognized at the final event of the 2021 Pathway to the Women Who Build, the summer networking reception July 15 at Wickham Park in Manchester, Connecticut. This year’s awardees are Anthony Gaglio Sr., founder and president of Viking Construction Inc., and Rachel Palisin, director and owner of Hoffmann Architects Inc. Gaglio followed in his grandfather’s footsteps learning craftmanship and values that led to the creation of Viking Construction. He has always looked to hire women in leadership roles and encourages them to join the construction industry. Palisin, a role model for women in the design professions, is only the second woman in Hoffmann Architects’ 44-year history to head an office. The Construction Institute is a nonprofit organization of diverse professionals dedicated to creating a learning and dynamic industry landscape.

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With program popularity and increased interest in physical and mental wellbeing Yoga In Our City, presented by ConnectiCare, has added two new cities and more classes to its 2021 program, which brings free yoga classes taught by local teachers to parks across the state. In addition to free classes in Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury it is now offering eight new classes at parks in New London and Willimantic. Connecticut residents will have nearly 600 free yoga classes available to them over the summer months. Bilingual classes are offered in Spanish at parks in Hartford, New Haven and Willimantic six times per week. “We’re thrilled to be able to expand Yoga In Our City this year to reach more people across the state, especially in eastern Connecticut and bilingual communities,” said Thomas Clynch, executive director and founder of Civic Mind, a social impact agency that manages the program. The 2021 Yoga In Our City program runs through October 10. Classes are free and open to residents of all ages. Participants should consult with their physician before attending any classes to determine if it is right for them. ConnectiCare and its sponsors are not liable for any injuries or risks, which might be incurred as a result of participating in these classes. For more information, schedule and sites visit, yogainourcity.com.

JUNIOR LEAGUE AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS

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CLUSTER NAMES NEW TRUSTEE From left, Mya Zylberberg, Trish Chelsen, Deborah Francis and Julia Cestari.

The Junior League of Orange County (JLOC) has announced the recipients of the $500 2021 President’s Scholarship. They are high school seniors Julia Cestari and Mya Zylberberg. “These two high school students exemplify the Junior League of Orange

County’s mission of volunteerism and leadership. Our committee was extremely impressed with their creativity and contribution to the community during the pandemic….” said Trish Chelsen, 2021 JLOC President’s Scholarship chair.

The Junior League of Orange County is part of an international organization of women, The Association of Junior Leagues International Inc., with more than 125,000 members in 295 communities in the US, the UK, Canada and Mexico.

LM LIONS REESTABLISH SHELDRAKE GARDENS

Adam C. Weiss has been appointed as a trustee to the CLUSTER Board of Directors, a community service organization serving Westchester and Rockland County residents. An attorney at Lever & Ecker PLLC, a boutique personal injury law firm based in White Plains, Weiss has dedicated his career to representing injured plaintiffs and working diligently to bring his clients the justice they deserve. “The work that CLUSTER has done throughout Westchester and Rockland, providing services supporting mental health, eviction prevention, dispute resolution and enriching the lives of our youth is incredibly impressive and motivational,” said Weiss. “Adam is a wonderful addition to the CLUSTER Board and we are thankful to have him partner with us,’” said Kristina Yamin, Cluster executive director.

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Established in the 80s, Sheldrake Nature Center in Larchmont, where residents planted and maintained community gardens and harvested produce for community meals in the area and the Larchmont-Mamaroneck (LM) Food Pantry fell into disuse about 10 years ago. LM Lions Vice President Jim Killoran and Lion board member Carolyn Gallaher have taken the lead to re-establish the community garden, which

will provide fresh vegetables for the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force, among other recipients. As the gardens are returned to productivity, the intent is to involve the community in the maintaining of the gardens with the help of the Fuller Center for Housing, an organization of thousands of volunteers who seek to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness throughout Westchester County.

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Good Things GOLFERS HELP HOSPITAL’S FUNDRAISER Phelps Hospital, Northwell Health recently welcomed golfers from across the region for the 17th Phelps Golf Classic at Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Sleepy Hollow. The sold-out event raised more than $175,000 becoming the most successful golf outing in the hospital’s history. Founded in 2003, by former Phelps board member and 2021 posthumous honoree Bill Melvin, the golf classic has raised more than $2 million for the hospital since its inception. A portion of this year’s proceeds will support Phelps’ Department of Hyperbaric

Medicine, which specializes in hyperbaric oxygen therapy — a unique and effective solution for hard-to-treat health problems. Accommodating up to 12 adults at a time, the state-of-theart hyperbaric chamber at Phelps is the largest model in the Northeast championed and funded by Melvin and his wife, Ellen, following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Phelps Executive Director Eileen Egan said, “What made the day even more meaningful was that we were able to celebrate the life of a great philanthropist and tireless supporter….”

NONPROFITS IN WESTCHESTER, PUTNAM RECEIVE PANDEMIC RESPONSE FUNDS

BANK APPOINTS SVP Michelle A. Nicholas has joined PCSB Bank as senior vice president, chief diversity officer and director of community development. In this newly created position, she will be responsible for shaping the bank’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy, as well as building relationships with key leaders, communities and organizations throughout the lower Hudson Valley. Her commitment to DEI initiatives is a hallmark of her nonprofit leadership, which spans Westchester County to her native Guyana. Joseph D. Roberto, bank chairman, president, said “…Her unparalleled dedication to community outreach will enable us to build on our core mission of offering the highest level of service to our customers as caring neighbors and business partners.”

Nicholas will collaborate with the PCSB Foundation Board to help establish a strategic approach to further the bank foundation’s goals, community collaboration and partnerships Previously, Nicholas served as executive director of Girls Inc. of Westchester County and held leadership positions at Family Services of Westchester, Healthcare Chaplaincy Network, Samuel Waxman Cancer Research, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and JPMorgan Chase Bank. She holds degrees in economics and social work from the University of Guyana as well as certifications in project management and diplomatic practices. PCSB Bank a New York-chartered stock commercial bank, has served the banking needs of its customers in the lower Hudson Valley of New York state since 1871.

MHACY PARTNERSHIP WITH GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY The Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers (MHACY) has announced a partnership with Groundwork Hudson Valley and leading urban design firm, Mark K. Morrison Landscape Architecture, to provide green infrastructure and planning services at four MHACY housing sites. Ross F. Calcagno Homes, Joseph F. Loehr Court, Kris Kristensen Homes and Msgr. Cajetan J. Troy Manor, all in Yonkers, will undergo environmentally friendly native planting. Wilson Kimball, president and CEO of MHACY, said “…Making this even more

special is that Yonkers youth who are part of the Green Team will learn about the environment as well as engage our residents in the planning of these projects.’’ Brigitte Griswold, Groundwork’s executive director, said “We applaud the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers for investing in the environmental health of their properties….” The landscaping project will put the finishing touches on more than $800 million, which have been invested over the past five years to modernize more than 1,700 units of housing run by the MHACY.

United Way of Westchester and Putnam (UWWP) awarded $130,000 to local nonprofits helping disadvantaged individuals and families recover from the crises brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. “…The nonprofit community has been working tirelessly to respond to community needs and our United Way is committed to supporting their efforts,” said

United Way of Westchester and Putnam CEO Tom Gabriel. The grants were made through the United Way of Westchester and Putnam Community Disaster Recovery Fund, a collection of different funds to provide direct disaster recovery assistance to local nonprofits affected by colossal natural and human-made disasters.

Since the start of the pandemic public health emergency, UWWP has administered more than $1.8 million in funds to nonprofits in Westchester and Putnam. Kathy Pandekakes, CEO of Human Development Services of Westchester, said. “United Way has been an incredible partner throughout the pandemic. We appreciation this grant and all you do and continue to do for our clients.”

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LECHASE HIRES PROJECT EXECUTIVE Timothy Grom has been hired by LeChase Construction Services LLC as project executive in its Armonk office. Grom will manage large or multiple projects for core clients and will also oversee the mentoring and recruitment of project team members. Previously, Grom was director of construction at Nuvance Health, a hospital system in New York’s

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Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley in Valhalla recently hosted a 10-year anniversary ribbon-cutting celebration for its newly remodeled family spaces made possible by the donations of One Room Wonders, Bjorn Bjornsson Designs and Smart D2 Playrooms. One Room Won-

ders, a nonprofit in Rye, recruited more than 15 local businesses for donations to transform the kitchen. Bjorn Bjornsson completely redesigned the living room and Smart D2 Playrooms turned the existing playroom into a vibrant playhouse. “After 10 years it’s always time to

refresh any home and our home here at Ronald McDonald House is no exception…,” said Richard Landau, chairman of the board. Families that stay at the house are provided meals that are donated by local restaurants or prepared by thousands of volunteers.

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COLLEGE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR APPOINTED Drew Brown, has been appointed athletic director at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, according to Elaine O’Grady, vice president for students. He brings more than 25 years of athletic administration experience including his most recent position at Pace University. Previously he served as an executive at the Eastern College Athletic Conference, Mercy College, Fairleigh Dickinson, Fairfield University and Saint Peter’s University. Brown graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Peter’s University, earned a Master of Science degree from Mercy College and is currently a candidate for a Ph.D. in sports administration leadership.

PARISHIONERS PLEA FOR PRIEST OUSTED BY ARCHDIOCESE On Tuesday, June 29, a group of parishioners from Our Lady of Sorrows Church in White Plains held a press conference questioning the intentions of the New York Archdiocese after their beloved priest and administrator Tim Wiggins was transferred to another parish. “After a difficult year for our community and the entire globe in getting through the pandemic, we are now faced with another obstacle that is frankly unnecessary,” said parishioner Joseph Amato. “Our Lady of Sorrows community questions the intentions of the Archdiocese after the transfer was made without input from the parishioners themselves….As an African American priest in a predominantly white parish, the synergy that he has created with the community is a model example of unity and understanding and transcends any racial or ethnic boundaries,” he said.

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WESTCHESTER MEDICAL GROUP® is an award-winning multispecialty medical practice, staffed by a team of 500 physicians and advanced care providers and 1,500 clinical employees, throughout 13 office locations in Westchester and Fairfield counties. Nationally recognized for its integrated approach to health care, Westmed provides its 350,000 patients with access to more than 60 medical specialties and sub-specialties. Two doctors promoted within the team are Dr. Patricia Calayag as chief medical officer responsible for overseeing all clinical programs, and Dr.

Sandra Kesh to vice president and chief of population health. Since appointed deputy medical director in 2018, Calayag managed the implementation of Westmed’s patient experience initiative. She attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, earned her medical degree from SUNY- Stony Brook School of Medicine in New York and completed her residency training at Harvard University School of Medicine’s Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Kesh played an instrumental role in the development of Westmed’s policies and protocols throughout the

coronavirus pandemic and will be taking on more special projects. She received her medical degree from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center followed by a year of research in the infectious diseases division at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a fellowship in infectious diseases and international medicine at the New YorkPresbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

LITIGATOR JOINS LITIGATION PRACTICE David M. Rubinstein, a seasoned commercial litigator, has joined the litigation practice of Denlea & Carton LLP in White Plains. He is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University Law School, after which he began his career in Manhattan with several large firms. “We are delighted to have David join our team,” said Jeff Carton, one of the co-founders and managing partners of the firm. “David has the requisite fire in his belly and will be a fierce advocate for clients of the firm.”

NONPROFIT HONORS ENTERGY FOR ITS SUPPORT More than 100 business and community leaders participated in the Hospice of Westchester (HOW) 19th annual Golf Invitational held recently at Westchester Hills Golf Club in White Plains in honor of Entergy. Proceeds will support HOW’s commitment to providing compassionate end-of-life care. “The Golf Invitational always provides a wonderful opportunity to raise much-need-

ed funding for our important programs and services and we were humbled to honor Entergy for its unwavering support for 19 years,” said Mary K. Spengler, How CEO. “This was our most successful golf invitational to date.…” Co-chairmen included Michael K. Ciaramella, Larry Dix, William F. Flooks, Jr., Jack Geoghegan, Joseph Kahl, Jim

O’Connor, James P. O’Toole, Joe Pepe, Christa Puccio-Gallo, Kenneth Theobalds, Larry Weiss and John Zanzarella. Hospice of Westchester is a private, not-for-profit health care agency in White Plains that provides skilled, compassionate and comprehensive end-of-life home care to patients diagnosed with any serious or life-limiting illness.

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DANBURY HOSPITAL CARDIAC SURGERY CHIEF JOINS HEART INSTITUTE Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Richard Kaplon has joined the Nuvance Health Heart and Vascular Institute in his role as chief of cardiac surgery at Danbury Hospital. “Dr. Kaplon is an accomplished surgical leader who will join our team to help grow, guide and enhance our cardiac surgical program into the future,” said Dr. Mark Warshofsky, senior vice president and chair of the institute.

Kaplon has been in practice for more than 25 years, most recently at Dignity Health’s Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, California. Prior to his leadership roles at both Mercy General Hospital and Dignity Health’s Mercy San Juan Medical Center, Kaplon served at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. He received his cardiothoracic sur-

gical training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation after completing his general surgery residency at New York University Medical Center. Kaplon graduated from Columbia College, completed medical school at New York University School of Medicine and holds a master’s degree in health care management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

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Facts & Figures U.S. DISTRICT COURT, White Plains Local business cases, June 23 - 29 Trustees of International Union of Painters and Allied Trades funds, White Plains vs. M.H. Builders Inc., Queens Village, 21-cv-5492-PMH: Civil enforcement of employee benefits. Attorney: Dana L. Henke. The National Retirement Fund, White Plains vs. Cami Hotel Investments, Edmonds, Washington, et al, 21-cv-5495-NSR: Civil enforcement of employee benefits. Attorneys: Andrew Lowy, Ronald E. Richman. Jessicca Spurck, Poughkeepsie vs. DeMet’s Candy Company, Stamford, 21-cv-5506-NSR: Fraud. Attorneys: Abraham Kleinman, Spencer Sheehan. Daphne Adams vs. Yorktown Child Care Center, Cortlandt Manor, et al, 21-cv-5531-VB: Americans with Disabilities Act. Attorneys: Morgan L. Mickelsen, Brittany A. Stevens. Lippa Teitelbaum, Orange County vs. Hudson Valley Credit Union, Poughkeepsie, 21-cv-5542-NSR: Fair Credit Reporting Act. Attorney: Edward Y. Kroub. Dana Stephenson, Weehawken, New Jersey vs. Oster & Associates, Chester, et al, 21-cv5552-CS: Fair Debt Collection Act, Attorney: Brian L. Bromberg. Malka Raul, Hewlett vs. Sterling Bancorp, Pearl River, et al, 21-cv-5560-VB: Securities Exchange Act. Attorney: Joshua M. Lifshitz.

Martin Bauer Inc., Secaucus, New Jersey vs. Brands Within Reach, Mamaroneck, et al, 21-cv-5576-VB: Breach of contract. Attorney: Jonathan Temchin. Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Yorktown Heights vs. Kiira Wolfe, Durham, North Carolina, 21-cv-5580-KMK: Breach of contract. Attorney: Robert L. Byrne. Joyce & John Plock, Poughkeepsie vs. Family Practice Center of Hyde Park, et al, 21-cv-5602: Medical malpractice by government personnel. Attorney: Mark J. Metzger. Luis Flores, Westchester County vs. Meadowbrook Builders Inc., Elmsford, et al, 21-cv-5630: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Robert P. Valletti.

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Above $1 million 58 Horseman LLC, Sleepy Hollow. Seller: LL Parcel E LLC, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Property: 324 Horseman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed June 23. Adelsberg, Mallory and Josh Adelsberg, New York City. Seller: Cornerstone Properties 2016 LLC, Hawthorne. Property: Rose Hill Road, Mount Pleasant. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed June 22. Agree Eastern LLC, Bloomfield Hills, Minnesota. Seller: Joyce Road LLC, Columbia, South Carolina. Property: 8 Joyce Road, New Rochelle. Amount: $39.8 million Filed June 21. Andreasian, Theodore, Hastings-on-Hudson. Seller: Riverton Lofts LLC, New York City. Property: 45 Main St., Greenburgh. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed June 22. Bearsdley, Christopher and Allison A. Young, Rye. Seller: 21 Oakwood LLC, Rye. Property: 21 Oakwood Ave., Rye. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed June 25.

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Bernstein, Simon J. and Jordana K. Bernstein, New York City. Seller: Mad Real Properties LLC, Yonkers. Property: 1 Lovell Road, New Rochelle. Amount: $1 million. Filed June 23. Bogart, Michael and Meredith Bogart, Chappaqua. Seller: Chappaqua Property Corp., LaGrangeville. Property: 27 Overlook Drive, New Castle. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed June 22. Cain, James and Rita Cain, Larchmont. Seller: WN Weaver Street LLC, Stamford, Connecticut. Property: 1 Shinnecock Way, New Rochelle. Amount: $2.4 million. Filed June 24. Calefate, Brett R. and Janine M. Calefate, Yonkers. Seller: 1229 Leland Realty LLC, Yonkers. Property: 180 N. Colonial Parkway, Yonkers. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed June 22. D’Andrea, Rosir, New Rochelle. Seller: SC Rye Brook Partners LP, Pawling. Property: 21 Lavender Lane, Rye. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed June 23. Filby, Linda, Mamaroneck. Seller: Philips Harbor Development LLC, Yorktown Heights. Property: 105 Delancey Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed June 23. Finn, James J. and Jennifer K. Finn, Somers. Seller: Panthers Partners LLC, Pleasantville. Property: 425 Heritage Hills, Somers. Amount: $559,900. Filed June 22. Frieman, Eric and Lindsay Frieman, Harrison. Seller: Mad Real Properties LLC, Yonkers. Property: 301 Oxford Road, New Rochelle. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed June 21. Gila Development Realty Corp., Pelham. Seller: Robert Ruocco, Pelham Manor. Property: 1007 Esplanade, Pelham. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed June 21. Hofherr, Ross and Jaqueline Hofherr, Rye Brook. Seller: Conte Homes Inc., Croton-on-Hudson. Property: 20 Old Lyme Road, New Castle. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed June 22.

Leineweber, Thomas and Meagan Fitzsimmons, Brooklyn. Seller: 19 Rockledge LLC, Rye. Property: 19 Rockledge Road, Harrison. Amount: $2.8 million. Filed June 25. LT Devine LLC, White Plains. Seller: Eric Nussbaum and Fredda Cohen, White Plains. Property: 56 Gedney Park Drive, White Plains. Amount: $1 million. Filed June 22. Madry, Russell A. and Amy M. Madry, Brooklyn. Seller: SC Rye Brook Partners LP, Pawling. Property: 7 Honeysuckle Ave., Rye. Amount: $2 million. Filed June 22. Ortenzio, Francesca and Jakub Tatka, Mamaroneck. Seller: Casa Hestia Marse LLC, New York City. Property: 1019 Greacen Point Road, Mamaroneck. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed June 22. Salama Holding LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Shiwen Jiang and Stella Hang, Scarsdale. Property: 16 Windmill Lane, Scarsdale. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed June 25. Wilkes, Thomas J. and Kimberly W. Wilkes, Rye. Seller: 61 Grandview Development LLC, Purchase. Property: 121 Forest Ave., Rye. Amount: $5.3 million. Filed June 21. White Plains Urban Renewal Agency, White Plains. Seller: 26-28 East Post LLC, New York City. Property: 26-28 E. Post Road, White Plains. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed June 25.

Below $1 million 171 Remsen LLC, White Plains. Seller: Nydia D. Perez, Yonkers. Property: 171 Remsen Road, Yonkers. Amount: $325,000. Filed June 25. 238 Center LLC, Bronx. Seller: Vitelli & Paldino LLC, Mamaroneck. Property: 238 Centre Drive, Mamaroneck. Amount: $900,000. Filed June 21. AlphaWorks Development LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Crest Water LLC, Yorktown Heights. Property: 14 Water St., Ossining. Amount: $142,500. Filed June 21.

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Bera, Sabina and Drew Tschetter, White Plains. Seller: 9 Cornell Place LLC, Rye. Property: 9 Cornell Place, Rye. Amount: $800,000. Filed June 24. Bien LLC, Rye Brook. Seller: Lee Erhman and Esther P. Erhman, Rye Brook. Property: 2 Jennifer Lane, Rye. Amount: $519.000. Filed June 23. Brescia, Michael and Erica Cheung, Weehawken, New Jersey. Seller: Gilla Development Realty Corp., Pelham. Property: 612 Timpson St., Pelham. Amount: $905,000. Filed June 25. Bugsy Realty LLC, White Plains. Seller: Aurora Spinelli, Armonk. Property: 135 Old Mount Kisco Road, North Castle. Amount: $461,000. Filed June 22. Calle, Manuel A. and Lourdes Cardenas Cordero, Peekskill. Seller: 592 John RE LLC, Peekskill. Property: 592 John St., Peekskill. Amount: $230,000. Filed June 21. Cartus Financing Corp., Danbury, Connecticut. Seller: Josette Mancini, Port Chester. Property: 31 Barrett Lane, Rye. Amount: $610,000. Filed June 25. El Estero I LLC, New York City. Seller: Alou Corp., Brewster. Property: 44 Deepwood Road, Bedford. Amount: $515,000. Filed June 24. Fasny Holdings LLC, Ardsley. Seller: Joseph Ruggiero, Chappaqua. Property: 38 Brandon Road, Yonkers. Amount: $596,000. Filed June 21. JAF Builders Corp., Scarsdale. Seller: Ellen J. Keating, Scarsdale and Kathleen J. Weiner, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Property: 231 Madison Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $720,000. Filed June 21. Justus Property Development LLC, Mamaroneck. Seller: Jean Gasparini and Patsy Vallarelli, Harrison. Property: Franklin Ave., Harrison. Amount: $570,000. Filed June 23. Lici LLC, Dobbs Ferry. Seller: Stephen C. Denny, Hendersonville, North Carolina. Property: 4 Cortlandt Place, Ossining. Amount: $260,000. Filed June 21.

Marinaccio, Christopher J. and Jo-ann Marinaccio, Armonk. Seller: Toll Land VI Limited Partnership, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Property: 13 Bonham Lane, Cortlandt. Amount: $854,009. Filed June 21. McPhee-Djan, Kwabena and Dorothy McPhee-Djan, Pound Ridge. Seller: Elevation Supply Corp., Bedford. Property: 55 Doe View Lane, Pound Ridge. Amount: $875,000. Filed June 22. Montesano, Jose E., Yonkers. Seller: Hedgerow Properties LLC, Weston. Property: 3771 Briarhill St., Yorktown. Amount: 425,000. Filed June 23. Panbar Realty LLC, Mahopac. Seller: Allyn Mazzela, Brewster. Property: 2060 Allan Ave., Yorktown. Amount: $100,000. Filed June 21. Reality and Joint LLC, Cedar Grove, New Jersey. Seller: Williard Building Company LLC, Peekskill. Property: 1224 Crompound Road, Peekskill. Amount: $550,000. Filed June 21. Reiner, Robert, White Plains. Seller: Northeast Properties Owner LLC, New York City. Property: 10 Byron Place, Mamaroneck. Amount: $928,700. Filed June 21. Rodrigues, John P. and Julie A. Rodrigues, Rye. Seller: Scorzello RE LLC, White Plains. Property: 20 Chestnut St., Rye. Amount: $400,000. Filed June 22. Touch International Corp., Minato-Ku, Tokyo. Seller: Taichu Sho, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Property: 154 Oakland Ave., Eastchester. Amount: $915,000. Filed June 22. Tschetter, Drew and Sabina Bera, White Plains. Seller: 9 Cornell Place LLC, Rye. Property: 9 Cornell Place, Rye. Amount: $800,000. Filed June 24. Ventura, Gustavo, Yonkers. Seller: 145-171 Frederic Street Corp., Yonkers. Property: 165 Frederic St., Yonkers. Amount: $925,000. Filed June 22. Zeolla Realty Corp., Bronx. Seller: Veena Khanna and Sanjay Khanna, Somers. Property: 82A Heritage Hills, Somers. Amount: $360,000. Filed June 25.

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Adelhardt, David, Lloyd Harbor. $108,422.91 in favor of NGM Insurance Co., Jacksonville, Florida. Filed June 24. Agnifilo, Claudia, Yonkers. $18,766.49 in favor of American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Filed June 23. Braga, Jose, Bronxville. $10,517.11 in favor of American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Filed June 25. Cepeda, Sonia L, Yonkers. $1,985.53 in favor of PCA Acquisitions V LLC, Farmingdale. Filed June 24. Chemturf Inc., Mount Vernon. $32,840.65 in favor of Promotions LLC, New Haven, Connecticut. Filed June 24. Collichio, Tisha, Verplanck. $1,346.17 in favor of LVNV Funding LLC, Las Vegas Nevada. Filed June 22. Damiano, Richard, Pleasantville. $5,641.64 in favor of Citibank National Association, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Filed June 24. Dangelo, Joseph, Harstdale. $1,366.52 in favor of LVNV Funding LLC, Las Vegas Nevada. Filed June 22. DeCastro, Julyce, Bronxville. $1,644.99 in favor of LVNV Funding LLC, Las Vegas Nevada. Filed June 22. DMT Express Inc., West Babylon. $15,446.78 in favor of Geico, Woodbury. Filed June 24. Elevate Events Inc., Yorktown Heights. $13,949.04 in favor of Laurie Cohen, Wildwood. Filed June 24. Fitness Is a Lifestyle LLC DBA, Bedford Hills. $66,055.13 in favor of Robertson Contracting Corp., Bedford Hills. Filed June 24. Granata, Faye, Ossining. $2,376.63 in favor of LVNV Funding LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada. Filed June 23.

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Green Conversion Systems Inc., Rye. $201,726.03 in favor of Loesche Energy Systems LTD, Horsham, United Kingdom. Filed June 24. Lebron, Lourdes, Briarcliff. $22,841.33 in favor of American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Filed June 23. Lopez, Elder, Port Chester. $7,835.87 in favor of American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Filed June 25. Lorenzo-Hernandez, Edwin, Stamford, Connecticut. $28,535.29 in favor of LM General Insurance Co., Islandia. Filed June 24. Martin, Elizabeth, Yonkers. $105,546.48 in favor of Geico General Insurance Co., Woodbury. Filed June 24. McLauern, Keecia, White Plains. $13,611.16 in favor of American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Filed June 23. Mercedes, Manuel, Bronxville. $2,448.73 in favor of LVNV Funding LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada. Filed June 22. NMR Realty Abstract Services LTD, Mahopac. $138,709 in favor of WFG National Title Insurance Co., La Mirada, California. Filed June 24. Ritch, Mary, Dobbs Ferry. $12,081.89 in favor of American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah. Filed June 25. Russell, Tanya, Yonkers. $4,038.69 in favor of Bank of America National Association, Charlotte, North Carolina. Filed June 24. Somma, David, Cortlandt Manor. $10,824.57 in favor of America National Association, Charlotte, North Carolina. Filed June 23. Stewart, Davo, Mount Vernon. $2,886.55 in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Valhalla. Filed June 25. Taylor, Robert, Pelham. $3,017.85 in favor of LVNV Funding LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada. Filed June 22.

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Uljaj, Nkol, Katonah. $10,519.22 in favor of TD Bank National Association, Jacksonville, Florida. Field June 24. Valdri, Christie, Port Chester. $1,439.33 in favor of LVNV Funding LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada. Filed June 22. Wirr, Raed A., Bronxville. $6,715.94 in favor of Crown Asset Management LLC, Duluth, Georgia. Filed June 23.

LIS PENDENS The following filings indicate a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed. Alvarado, Ariana, Diana Alvarado and Jorge Alvarado. Filed by The Bank of New York Melon. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $200,000 affecting property located at 146 Fisher Ave., White Plains 10606. Filed June 23. American Express Centurion Bank. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $700,000 affecting property located at 80 Stonewall Circle, West Harrison 10605. Filed June 25. Bajraktarevic, Sado. Filed by Deutshe Bank National Trust Co. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $212,000 affecting property located at 22 N. Lakeshore Drive and 23 Juniper Drive, Mahopac 10541. Filed June 25. Barasch, Mark and Ellen Barasch. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $520,000 affecting property located at 39 Major Lockwood Spur, Pound Ridge 10576. Filed June 25. Brett, Slavin and Fatima Slavin. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $430,000 affecting property located at 88 N. Ridge St., Rye Brook 10573. Filed June 21.

Cicullo, Maria. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $320,000 affecting property located at 455 Bellevue Ave., Yonkers 10703. Filed June 21. Colon, Ana and Michael Colon. Filed by Prospect Lending LLC, Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $213,750 affecting property located at 1877 Baldwin Road, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed June 21. Diaz, Rosaida, Francisca Diaz, Wendy Lozano and Ellas Oil Co. Inc. Filed by Mill City Mortgage Loan Trust. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $446,600 affecting property located at 298 Hawthorne Ave. Yonkers 10705. Filed June 21. Palma, Maria Isabel. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: Foreclosure of a mortgage in the principal amount of $877,500 affecting property located at 31 Old Lake St., West Harrison 10604. Filed June 21.

MECHANIC’S LIENS

CV 163 Wolfs Lane LLC, Pelham. $29,154.91 in favor of Gallin Beeler Design Studio Architects, Pleasantville. Property: 163 Wolf’s Lane, Pelham. Filed June 21. Evens, Aubrey, Mamaroneck. $147,962.72 in favor of Environmental Appraisers and Builders, Harrison. Property: 19 Country Club Drive, Larchmont. Filed June 23. LMV II MMP Holdings LP, White Plains. $13,324.95 in favor of Doka USA LTD, Little Ferry. Filed June 25. LMV II MMP Holdings LP, White Plains. $20,138.24 in favor of Royal Flush Inc., Southport. Filed June 24. Parkview Equities LLC, Yonkers. $56,504.30 in favor of Advanced Construction Equities, Mount Vernon. Property: 1 Garrett Place, Yonkers. Filed June 23.

Ron-Rob Realty Corp., Yonkers. $66,211.95 in favor of DI Trucking LLC, Kenilworth, New Jersey. Property: 57 Alexander St., Yonkers. Filed June 22. Wright, Candelaria, Mount Vernon. $11,365.02 in favor of Branch Services Inc., Ronkonkoma. Property: 525 E. Fifth St., Mount Vernon. Filed June 21.

NEW BUSINESSES

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

PARTNERSHIPS DWV, 330 S. Broadway, Tarrytown 10591, c/o Johnny Andre, Volmy Metellus and Jean Wendel Jean. Filed June 25. Ta-Nia, 132 Park Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Talia Oliveras and Nia Farrell. Filed June 23.

SOLE PROPRIETORSHIPS

BCNF, 7 Plateau Lane, Bedford 10506, c/o Christine Parrott. Filed June 25. Blessednow, 766 Tuckahoe Road, Unit 1C, Yonkers 10710, c/o Stela Esele. Filed June 23. CParrott Coaching, 7 Plateau Lane, Bedford 10506, c/o Charistine Parrott. Filed June 25. Euro Design Hard Wood Flooring, 64 Haseco Ave., Port Chester 10573, c/o Viktor Keppler. Filed June 22. Glam Spirit, 379 S. Riverside Ave., Croton-on-Hudson 10520, c/o Gabrielle Diaz. Filed June 25. Intellectus Prep, 11 W. Prospect Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Kenyah Miller. Filed June 22. J Orozco Painting, 49 Fifth St., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Limo Cifuentes Orozco. Filed June 21.

Level Up Property Consultants, 24 Carhart Ave., Unit 316, White Plains 10605, c/o Zachary Cohen. Filed June 25. Melanin Babe, 15 Bronxville Road, Unit H, Yonkers 10708, c/o Shenelle Biggs. Filed June 23. Montoya Painting, 6 Sickles Place, New Rochelle 10801, c/o Ruben D. Montoya. Filed June 21. Mountain Bound K9, 200 Beacon Hill Drive, Apt. 4, Dobbs Ferry 10522, c/o Raquel Leeann Stone. Filed June 23. Pose N’ Shoot, 118 Hadden St., Peekskill 10566, c/o Nasier Bush. Filed June 22. Rivertowns Renovations, 29 Livingston Ave., Dobbs Ferry 10522, c/o Lawrence Michaelessi. Filed June 21. Sarangos Restaurant, 185 Valley St., Sleepy Hollow 10591, c/o Edgar Roman Morocho Chimbo. Filed June 21. Seekers of The Sick & Needy Ministry, 20 Bruce Ave., Apt. 3, Yonkers 10705, c/o Marlene Rowe-Bogle. Filed June 25. Solatium, 2005 Palmer Ave., No.166, Larchmont 10538, c/o Leslie Lange. Filed June 22. Stephanntasm, 53 Sherwood Ave., Ossining 10562, c/o Stephannie Kaufman. Filed June 23. Unassuming Enterprises, 30 E. Fourth St., Apt. 3, Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Chelsea Amanda Hamlett. Filed June 24. YCG Paralegal, 100 Herriot St., Yonkers 10701, c/o Yohanny Gaton. Filed June 25. Patents Automated managing of a data center installation. Patent no. 11,049,052 issued to Dustin Demetriou, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Concept identification in a question answering system. Patent no. 11,048,737 issued to Aditya Kalyanpur, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Facts & Figures Flux-biasing superconducting quantum processors. Patent no. 11,050,010 issued to Oblesh Jinka, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists and uses thereof. Patent no. 11,045,522 issued to Yang Wei, et al. Assigned to Regeneron, Tarrytown. Insertable stubless interconnect. Patent no. 11,050,172 issued to Matteo Cocchini, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Method and system for state-associated device identification for digital payments using blockchain technology. Patent no. 11,044,074 issued to Ilgin Safak, et al. Assigned to Mastercard, Purchase. Methods for annealing qubits with an antenna chip. Patent no. 11,050,009 issued to Rasit Topaloglu, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Methods for de novo protein sequencing. Patent no. 11,047,863 issued to Yuan Mao. Assigned to Regeneron, Tarrytown. Methods for treating or preventing asthma by administering an IL-4R antagonist. Patent no. 11,034,768 issued to Nikhil Amin, et al. Assigned to Regeneron, Tarrytown. Resource lifecycle optimization in disaggregated data centers. Patent no. 11,050,637 issued to Ruchi Mahindru, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Semiconductor microcooler. Patent no. 11,049,789 issued to Donald Canaperi, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Semiconductor wafer having trenches with varied dimensions for multichip modules. Patent no. 11,049,844 issued to Ravi Bonam, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Silicon interposer sandwich structure for ESD, EMC, and EMC shielding and protection. Patent no. 11,049,841 issued to William Bernier, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Use of mobile network operator data and/or scores in decision-making on requests for payment credential provisioning for mobile devices. Patent no. 11,049,093 issued to Kimberly Peyton, et al. Assigned to Mastercard, Purchase.

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD JUDGMENTS

New Generation Mamaroneck Inc., Mamaroneck. Amount: $30,000. Nordic Scarsdale LLC, Scarsdale. Amount: $4,500. Places Prepared LLC, Peekskill. Amount: $24,500. Pro Printing NY.com Inc., Bronxville. Amount: $26,500.

Failure to carry insurance or for work-related injuries and illnesses, June 24 to June 30, 2021.

Rhon Inc., New Rochelle. Amount: $30,000.

Argueta Muti Services Inc., Yonkers. Amount: $5,500.

Square Maintenance Inc., Mount Vernon. Amount: $25,500.

Box Score Brands Inc., Pound Ridge. Amount: $43,500.

Sunsave LLC, Pound Ridge. Amount: $24,500.

Cold Color Films LLC, Sleepy Hollow. Amount: $25,500.

Tetteh, Solomon N., Mount Vernon. Amount: $30,000.

Engagement Enterprises LLC, Tarrytown and Elmsford. Amount: $8,500.

Tsinger Inc., Scarsdale. Amount: $25,500.

Factory Plus Collision Inc., New Rochelle and Bronx. Amount: $31,000. FLPW LLC, Port Chester. Amount: $1,000. HFA Construction Inc., Port Chester. Amount: $9,500. JaneTech Inc., Mount Kisco. Amount: $1,500. Just Hoops LLC, Scarsdale. Amount: $25,500. Kids Allowed Corp., Yonkers. Amount: $6,750. Little Mumbai Market Inc. d.b.a. Little Crepe Street Express, Mount Kisco. Amount: $13,500. Memorable Moments 3D/4D Ultrasound Inc., Yonkers. Amount: $2,500. NCP Healthcare Management Company, Briarcliff Manor. Amount: $28,000.

HUDSON VALLEY

BUILDING LOANS

Above $1 million

2 4 Park LLC, as owner. Lender: Northeast Community Bank. Property: 2 and 4 Park St., Spring Valley. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed June 21. Adjor Realty LLC, as owner. Lender: Bank of America. Property: 148 Bracken Road, Montgomery. Amount: $2.4 million. Filed June 22. Parkview Realty WR LLC, as owner. Lender: Northeast Community Bank. Property: 7 Cedar Lane, Monsey. Amount: $3.6 million. Filed June 21.

Below $1 million Ada, Danielle and Mehmet Ada, Carmel. Seller: Springside Commons LLC, Mahopac. Property: 304 Alexandra Court, Carmel. Amount: $250,000. Filed June 22. Ascent11 LLC, as owner. Lender: EH Capital LLC. Property: Route 211 West, Middletown. Amount: $330,000. Filed June 23. Carl Baker CPA PLLC, as owner. Lender: Lendinghome Funding Corp. Property: in Middletown. Amount: $105,000. Filed June 24. Dave and Tree Service of Ulster County Inc., as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank. Property: in Rhinebeck. Amount: $584,000. Filed June 25. Englert, Megan C. and Bradley J. Englert, as owners. Lender: Homestead Funding Corp. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $277,550. Filed June 22. Five Minutes Construction Corp., as owner. Lender: Rock East Funding LLC. Property: in North East. Amount: $110,500. Filed June 22. Mazel Homes LLC, as owner. Lender: Northeast Community Bank. Property: 46 Slavita Road, New Square. Amount: 658,980. Filed June 21. Valetine Home Builders LLC, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $275,000. Filed June 21.

DEEDS

Above $1 million

People of the state of New York Commissioner of Environmental Conservation, Albany. Seller: Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc., New York City. Property: 3250 Route 9D, Philipstown. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed June 2. Wexford Industries LTD, Orangetown. Seller: Timothy O’Donnell and Roseann O’Donnell, New York City. Property: 1 Washington Ave., Orangetown. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed June 21.

Below $1 million

2 4 Park LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: Joseph Spira, Brooklyn. Property: 4 Park St., Ramapo. Amount: $680,000. Filed June 23. 32 Walnut Street LLC, New Windsor. Seller: Poorpeddler Inc., Monroe. Property: in New Windsor. Amount: $250,000. Filed June 21. Buchinger, Sarah and Joel Goldman, Spring Valley. Seller: LC Acreage LLC, Spring Valley. Property: 6 Ewing Ave., Unit 6-102, Spring Valley. Amount: $615,000. Filed June 25. Condor Ridge Holding Company LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: Shahn B. Rosler, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Property: 32 and 38 Old West Point Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Amount: $200,000. Filed June 21. Defrancesco, Elizabeth and John Defrancesco, Newburgh. Seller:351 Pressler LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 351 Pressler Road, Newburgh. Amount: $465,000. Filed June 21. Ess Gourmet LLC, Monsey. Seller: 35 N. Cole Avenue LLC, Spring Valley. Property: 50 N. Main St., Spring Valley. Amount: $700,000. Filed June 22. Fernandez, Xavier and Julio Veras, Suffern. Seller: Joejam Properties LLC, Bardonia. Property: 5 Highland Ave., Haverstraw. Amount: $349.000. Filed June 23. Friedman, Cheskel and Rebecca Libby Friedman, Monsey. Seller: Viola Gardens LLC, Monsey. Property: 29 Garden Terrace, Ramapo. Amount: $830,000. Filed June 25. Guzman, Anthony, Newburgh. Seller: One Forty-Five Chambers Street LLC, New York City. Property: 145 Chambers St., Newburgh. Amount: $212,000. Filed June 21. Honigsberg Realty 120 Commerce Drive LLC, Wappinger Falls. Seller: PMT Realty Holdings Inc., Rock Tavern. Property: 120 Commerce Drive, Patterson. Amount: $650,000. Filed June 24.

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Kamani, Chirag, New Haven, Connecticut. Seller: ADC Middletown LLC, Middletown. Property: 69 Magnolia Park Road, Middletown. Amount: $330,575. Filed June 21. Maguire, Charles T. and Leah Maguire, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: Condor Ridge Holding Company LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Property: 38 Old West Point Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Amount: $100,000. Filed June 21. Mehring, Zvi, Brooklyn. Seller: Viola Gardens LLC, Monsey. Property: 1 Garden Terrace, Ramapo. Amount: $849,490. Filed June 25. Milliaresses, Christopher, Suffer. Seller: 52 54 Hillside Avenue LLC, Haverstraw. Property: 52 Hillside Ave., Haverstraw. Amount: $300,000. Filed June 21. Gold, Eluzer, Spring Valley. Seller: 6 Marman LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: 6 Marman Place, Spring Valley. Amount: $875,000. Filed June 24. Goldberger, Joseph and Chaim Deutch, Brooklyn. Seller: Viola Gardens LLC, Monsey. Property: 3 Garden Terrace, Ramapo. Amount: $845,000. Filed June 24. Graus, Asher, Spring Valley. Seller: 17 Valley View LLC, Monsey. Property: 3 Stetner St., Unit 202, Spring Valley. Amount: $999,000. Filed June 24. Lulic, Rosa, Orangeburg. Seller: Comito Homes LLC, Nyack. Property: 257 Sickletown Road, Orangetown. O’Brien, Andrene, Nanuet. Seller: R & L Property Development Corp., Stony Point. Property: 27 Cooper Drive, Clarkstown. Amount: $555,000. Filed June 23. Rhiman, Shakira, Port Jervis. Seller: AST Construction Co., Matamoras, Pennsylvania. Property: 15 Neversink Ave., Port Jervis. Amount: $124,750. Filed June 21. Rosenberg, David, Monsey. Seller: Moshe Streicher LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 38 Jill Lane, Spring Valley. Amount: $850,000. Filed June 23.

JULY 5, 2021

Facts & Figures Sara Ackerman 2021 LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: Prag Realty of New York Inc., Monroe. Property: 175 Decatur Ave., Unit 102, Ramapo. Amount: $775,000. Filed June 23. Salinad, Tomas and Rosa Valverde, Danbury, Connecticut. Seller: Putnam Premier Properties LLC, Brewster. Property: 1825 Route 6, Carmel. Amount: $530,000. Filed June 22. Sekula, Shulem P., Brooklyn. Seller: 90 Union Avenue LLC, Spring Valley. Property: 90 Union Road, Unit 212, Spring Valley. Amount: $913,000. Filed June 24. Silber, Jacob and Kaila Silber, Spring Valley. Seller: Gran York LLC, Tallman. Property: 8 Wavey Willow Lane, Haverstraw. Amount: $649,000. Filed June 24. Summit Equity LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: Issac Rosenberger, Monsey. Property: 46 Summit Ave., Spring Valley. Amount: $600,000. Filed June 22. Trillium Properties LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: 203 Liberty LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 203 Liberty St., Newburgh. Amount: $420,000. Filed June 21. Wachsman, Efraim S. and Surie Wachsman, Monsey. Seller: 20 Old Nyack Turnpike LLC, Spring Valley. Property: 27 Old Nyack Turnpike, No. 201, Monsey. Amount: $999,999. Filed June 25. Weiss, Abraham, Spring Valley. Seller: 39 North Cole LLC, Monroe. Property: 39 N. Cole Ave., Unit 211, Spring Valley. Amount: $735,000. Filed June 24. Weisbers, Shia and Goldy Weisberg, Brooklyn. Seller: LB Acreage LLC, Spring Valley. Property: 11 Homer Lee Ave., Unit 11-301, Ramapo. Filed June 24.

JUDGMENTS

Aguado Landscape, Wappinger Falls. $1,250 in favor of Jason Savoy, Poughkeepsie. Filed June 23.

JULY 5, 2021

Anacy, Roselin, Poughkeepsie. $2,930.11 in favor of Mobile Life Support Services Inc., New Windsor. Filed June 23. Barksdale, Shakemma, Poughkeepsie. $1,525.56 in favor of Mobile Life Support Services Inc., New Windsor. Filed June 23. Connors, Mary, Carmel. $1,674.82 in favor of Midland Credit Management Inc., San Diego, California. Filed June 21. Cruz, Michelle, Mahopac. $5,781.65 in favor of Capital One Bank National Association, Richmond, Virginia. Filed June 22. Fregosi Landscaping Inc., Mahopac. $26,739.53 in favor of Selective Insurance Company of New York, Branchville, New Jersey. Filed June 23. Manilla, Fernando E., Carmel. $4,635.91 in favor of Midland Credit Management Inc., San Diego, California. Filed June 21. Maloney, Joseph, Mahopac. $54,182.76 in favor of Waterview Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Mahopac. Filed June 22. Pucillo, Jude, Lake Peekskill. $1,683.71 in favor of Midland Credit Management Inc., San Diego, California. Filed June 22. Sacaza, Ashley, Carmel. $5,387.72 in favor of Capital One Bank National Association, Richmond, Virginia. Filed June 21. Sanchez, Stacy, Carmel. $1,518.79 in favor of Midland Credit Management Inc., San Diego, California. Filed June 22. Spells, Tracy, Pomona. $1,907 in favor of Haverstraw Ambulance Corps Inc., Haverstraw. Filed June 21. Tiano, Julianne M., Mahopac. $21,338.66 in favor of Ford Motor Credit Co., Dearborn, Massachusetts. Filed June 23.

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Traina, Paul, Mahopac. $16,057.55 in favor of Bank of America National Association, Charlotte, North Carolina. Filed June 22.

MECHANIC’S LIENS

Kempter, Christine and James Kempter, as owners. $174,000 in favor of Central Plumbing & Drains Inc. Property: 27 Peters Road, Hopewell Junction. Filed June 21. Vassar Brothers Hospital, as owner. $2,087,827.44 in favor of Mohawk Construction and Supply Company Inc. Property: 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie. Filed June 23.

NEW BUSINESSES

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

PARTNERSHIPS AECHV Inc., 63 Washington St., Poughkeepsie 12602, c/o Daniel C. Stafford and McCabe & Mack LLP. Filed June 23. Alonso Brothers Lawn Care, 224 Old Nyack Turnpike, Apt. 8B, Spring Valley 10977, c/o Barrera Alonso and Isai Leonel. Filed June 21. CEPAB Putnam Inc., 35 Hudson View Drive, Putnam Valley 10579, c/o Scott Rhodes, Ronald Reid and Jenie P. Fu. Filed June 24.

SOLE PROPRIETORSHIPS

A&J Fix Squad Inc., 87-35 77th St., Suite 1, Woodhaven 11421, c/o Fernando Hernandez. Filed June 23. CBI Home Inspections Inc., 243 Austin Road, Mahopac 10541, c/o Corey Biddle. Filed June 25. Clary’s Fashion Line, 294 Piermont Ave., Apt. 3D, Nyack 10960, c/o Clara L. Sanchez. Filed June 21.

Chan’s Art Emporium Inc., 816 Route 82, Hopewell Junction 12533, c/o Frank Lin. Filed June 22. Design By Malka, 5 Ossman Drive, Pomona 10970, c/o Malka Fried. Filed June 25. Dimoran Pizza & Deli Corp., 51 Burnett Blvd., Poughkeepsie 12603, c/o Kristie L. Delong. Filed June 25. Elizabeth Lauri, 278 Hubert Humphrey Drive, Chestnut Ridge 10977, Ann Elizabeth Lauri. Filed June 21. E.V. Rocks Inc., 18 Robin Lane, Wappinger Falls 12590, c/o Angelina Bueti, Valerie Galanopoulos and Marina Halpern. Filed June 25. Ever Clean, 57 Forest Lane, Johnson 10933, c/o Marion Distefano. Filed June 23. Ezra Katz Productions, 276 Quaker Road, Pomona 10970, c/o Ezra Katz. Filed June 24. Five Star Construction Corp., 16 Exeter Road, Poughkeepsie 12603, c/o Janina Ariza. Filed June 22. Gareth Tree Service Inc., 160 Holes Apple Road, Lot 62, Dover Plains 12522, c/o Jose M. Baich. Filed June 23. Glens Homes, 116 N. Middletown Road, Nanuet 10954, c/o Malique Shawn Lewis. Filed June 22. GT Auto, 34 Roe St., Newburgh 12550, c/oGloria D. Adams. Filed June 21. JBK Kreations, 288 Lake Osiris Road, Walden 12586, c/o Kassandra L. Irwin. Filed June 21. JD Trucking Co., 5 Pleasant View Road, Monroe 10950, c/o Johnathan E. DeMarino. Filed June 24. Jean Dany Vilbrun, 51 Edison Court, Apt. C, Monsey 10952, c/o Jean Dany Vilbrun. Filed June 23.

Keith Dougherty Designs, 128 Dolson Ave., Middletown 10940, c/o Keith R. Dougherty. Filed June 24. Kevin McGarry Inc., 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1, No. 086, Buffalo 14221, c/o Lovette Dobson. Filed June 21. Lazz Plumbing & Septic Corp., 11 Brandy Lane, Wappinger Falls 12590, c/o Thomas Drummond. Filed June 22. LDF Communications, 38 Carlton Road, Orangeburg 10962, c/o Lorraine D. Fisher. Filed June 23. Ledesman Car Service, 4 Howell Road, New City 10956, c/o Eledesman Gerardo Lopez De Leon. Filed June 24. Lemus Taxi, 33 Marion Place, Pearl River 10965, Daniel Lemus Carrillos. Filed June 22. Leonor’s Car Service, 6 Maxine Court, Spring Valley 10977, c/o Digna Leonor Pinguil Zhau. Filed June 23. Marine Vet Contracting Corp., 566 Route 6, Suite 1W, Mahopac 10541, c/o Kristie L. Delong. Filed June 25. Mega Cleaning Services, 382 Old Route 32, Highland Mills 10930, c/o Mayra S. Guillen. Filed June 24. New Greenscapes Corp., 45 Lincoln Drive, Carmel 10512, c/o Jose Chulo. Filed June 24. Nutshell, 13 Vanburren Drive, Unit 403, Monroe 10950, c/o Joel Zwiebel. Filed June 21. Ochio Rios Jerk & Catering, 790 Kirbytown Road, Middletown 10940, c/o Cert Amended. Filed June 25. Pristine Linens, 61 S. Madison Ave., Spring Valley 10977, C/O Cristina R. Zagal. Filed June 23.

Pro Worx Sharpening, 97 Vails Gate Height Drive, New Windsor 12553, c/o Najee K. Jackson. Filed June 22. Raze Real Estate Corp., 11 Market St., Suite 211, Poughkeepsie 12601, c/o Raji Zeidan. Filed June 21. Rockonmusic Inc., 50 E. Forest Trail, Holmes 12531, c/o David Meyers. Filed June 21. Residential Specifications Inc., 88 Bryant Trail, Carmel 10512, c/o Lawrence A. Kirsch. Filed June 24. Sculpt N’ Beauties By Ashanti, 34 Roe St., Newburgh 12550, c/o Ashanti Atkins. Filed June 21. Seafire Jewels, 51 Galloway Road, Warwick 10990, c/o Colleen Mary Tyler. Filed June 24. Siino Windows and Doors Inc., 718 Hill Drive, Mahopac 10541, c/o Lawrence A. Kirsch. Filed June 25. Starsnmars, 51 Leroy Place, Apt. 22, Newburgh, c/o Jason L. Walters. Filed June 24. Steven Glassman, 70 N. Broadway, Nyack 10960, Steven Glassman. Filed June 22. Styles By Jazz, 91 West St., Spring Valley 10977, c/o Tiffany Joseph. Filed June 25. TJS Independent Consulting, 91 West St., Spring Valley 10977, c/o Tiffany Joseph. Filed June 25. Tonic Inc., 7 Byron Lane, Bethpage 11714, c/o Anthony F. Falcone. Filed June 21. UAP Produciton, 453 State Route 17K, Rock Tavern 12575, c/o Tazanayah Ayala Pitterson. Filed June 22. Vrocios Cleaning, 58 Prospect Ave., Goshen10924, c/o Maria Delrocio Vidal Nigo. Filed June 21. Walter Remodeling, 24 Still Road, Monroe, c/o Jackie Isabel Sanchez Vasquez. Filed June 24.

Facts & Figures BUILDING PERMITS Commercial Orwal Carpentry & Services LLC, Stamford, contractor for Tzi Properties LLC. Resurface building and garage at 726 Pacific St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed May 21. Pavarini North East Construction Company LLC, Stamford, contractor for Stamford Washington Office LLC. Perform replacement alterations at 677 Washington Blvd., Unit B1, Stamford. Estimated cost: $15,400,000. Filed May 6. Pavarini North East Construction Company LLC, Stamford, contractor for Two Harbor Point Square LLC. Perform replacement alterations at 100 Washington Blvd., Unit S2, Stamford. Estimated cost: $25,000. Filed May 6. Pavarini North East Construction Company LLC, Stamford, contractor for Stamford Media Village LLC. Perform replacement alterations at 4 Star Point, Stamford. Estimated cost: $2,000,000. Filed May 20. Pavarini North East Construction Company LLC, Stamford, contractor for East Metro Center LLC. Repair and upgrade existing garden, including waterproof repair, sod replacement and landscaping modifications at 429 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $391,830. Filed May 24. Petretti & Associates LLC, New York, New York, contractor for 600 Washington Acquisitions LLC. Renovate existing lobby at 600 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed May 19.

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Pimpinella Construction Company Inc., Stamford, contractor for If-Off Company LLC. Add to and alter existing Mazda dealership at 75 Myrtle Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $1,200,000. Filed May 20. Sullivan, Daniel E., Trumbull, contractor for Stillwater Development Partners LLC. Install a new elevator for Wellbuilt Co. at 57 Stillwater Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $132,500. Filed May 26.

ON THE RECORD

King Post Construction Inc., Mahopac, New York, contractor for Anthony J. Aiello and Camille V. Aiello. Renovate kitchen, add a nine-foot extension, new rear deck and stairs to existing deck at Long Ridge Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed May 21. Lamoureux, Paul, Shelton, contractor for Joseph Pellicci. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 296 Glenbrook Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed May 5.

Sullivan, Daniel, Trumbull, contractor for Temple Bethel Inc. Install a new elevator for La Rosa Construction at 352 Roxbury Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $102,500. Filed May 28.

Lamoureux, Paul, Shelton, contractor for Nicholas Stamatelos. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 523 Newfield Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed May 21.

Wood, Richard, Stamford, contractor for Strand/BRC Group LLC C/O BLT Management LLC. Install a community pool on fifth floor at 880 Pacific St., Unit P, Stamford. Estimated cost: $540,000. Filed May 28.

Landserv Inc., Stamford, contractor for Jeffrey Price. Install a prefabricated shed at 24 Coventry Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $25,000. Filed May 5.

Residential J Guza Construction LLC, Stamford, contractor for Francis N. and Kristen E. Tornese. Build an above-ground swimming pool at 87 Barmore Drive East, Stamford. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed May 27. JFC Real Estate Development LLC, Stamford, contractor for Andrea and David Cohen. Install a new generator at 1499 Newfield Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed May 4. JRK Carpentry LLC, Stamford, contractor for Thomas Schmitt and Katharine Pereklis-Schmitt. Renovate kitchen cabinets, replace window, install one new window and sliding door, relocate powder room and move washer and dryer to second-floor closet at 345 Den Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $60,000. Filed May 4. Kastelein, Kevin M., Southbury, contractor for Myra L. and John Graubard. Install a Generac generator and propane tank at 1034 Westover Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $9,500. Filed May 7. Kastelein, Kevin, Southbury, contractor for A. William Mottolese and Lynn S. Mottolese. Install a Generac generator powered by natural gas at 95 Intervale Road, Unit 23, Stamford. Estimated cost: $9,500. Filed May 19.

Lecla Home Improvements and Roofing Inc., Danbury, contractor for John and Sylvia N. Lavalle. Remove existing roof and re-roof installing ice and water shields, underlayment and tape on all seams at 706 Newfield Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $16,850. Filed May 28. Lecla Home Improvements and Roofing Inc., Danbury, contractor for Qin Guan and Rushui Guan. Remove existing roof and re-roof, install ice and water underlayment and tape on all seams at 585 Hope St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $9,000. Filed May 6. Lecla Home Improvements and Roofing Inc., Danbury, contractor for Kenneth N. and Sabrina Baviello. Remove existing roof and re-roof using new plywood, ice and water underlayment and tape on all seams at 20 Pellom Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $13,800. Filed May 14. Ligouri, Wayne, Bethlehem, contractor for the city of Stamford Cove Island Marina. Seek out and mitigate ammonia leak at 1125 Cove Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $243,500. Filed May 11. LP Service Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Jose and Antonio DeAndrade. Reconstruct a portion of the building damaged as a result of a vehicular accident at 92 Forest St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed May 14. Manongsong Contracting LLC, Greenwich, contractor for Ivy Berja and Ruby Berja. Add a bathroom at 8 Sutton Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed May 4.

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Marquee Pools and Service Inc., Fairfield, contractor for Brian P. Hagerty. Install a new swimming pool at 67 Woodmere Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed May 25.

Panteleimon Hatzivasiliadis LLC, Stamford, contractor for Kostas and H. Mazarakos. Remove existing roof and re-roof 81 Rippowam Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed May 24.

Marullo Brothers LLC, Stamford, contractor for Christopher Marullo. Renovate kitchen, including removal of one wall at Summer Street, Unit N1023a, Stamford. Estimated cost: $2,500. Filed May 27.

Pavarini North East Construction Company LLC, Stamford, contractor for the city of Stamford. Erect a new 15,000-square-foot, two-story building and finish all sides at 200 Southfield Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $5,500,000. Filed May 18.

Masterworks Builders Inc., New Rochelle, New York, contractor for Edward T. and Stacey L Kreinik. Remodel kitchen, bathroom and mudroom and add a full bath and new windows at 328 Ocean Drive East, Stamford. Estimated cost: $150,000. Filed May 11. McCauley, Sean, Stamford, contractor for Robert T. Gaynor. Renovate kitchen and two bathrooms at 99 Old Barn Road West, Stamford. Estimated cost: $65,000. Filed May 12. Miranda, Lisa, Stamford, contractor for Ceken Yilmaz and Ceken Sebnem. Renovate groundfloor level at 1611 Washington Blvd., Unit 29, Stamford. Estimated cost: $12,000. Filed May 25. Namco Pools LLC, Rocky Hill, contractor for Michael A. and Elizabeth L. Maida Fusaro. Renovate above-ground pool at 29 Stanton Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $6,000. Filed May 20. New England Oil Company, Greenwich, contractor for Peter Denkus and Catherine Denkus. Install a Generac generator with propane tanks at 138 Russet Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $6,970. Filed May 25. New England Skyline Builders Inc., Stamford, contractor for Francis Cerasoli. Remove old deck and add a larger deck in same area at 25 Todd Lane, Stamford. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed May 27. Northeast Specialty Corp, Springfield, Massachusetts, contractor for Sharon Fearon and Gerda Durant. Remove existing roof and install stone-coated steel-roofing system at 39 Dann Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $55,800. Filed May 17. Panteleimon Hatzivasiliadis LLC., Stamford, contractor for Michael W. and Holly A. Mickelson. Remove existing roof and re-roof 1052 Shippan Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $9,800. Filed May 20.

Pellini, Gary, Stamford, contractor for Al-Iriani Hatem Ibraheem Yehya. Build a bathroom in basement, run plumbing and build a wall and subfloor at 30 Birchwood Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $12,000. Filed May 14. Petretti & Associates LLC, New York, New York, contractor for the city of Stamford Mill River Park. Install a 40’ x 60’ tent for a graduation party at 30 W. Broad St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed May 25. Pimpinella Construction Company Inc., Stamford, contractor for the town of Stamford Hubbard Heights Golf Club. Install a tent over existing patio sides at 451 Stillwater Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed May 11. Plantino, Walter, Stamford, contractor for Beverly and Thomas Maybo. Remodel kitchen, remove existing closet and install new cabinets at 16 Malvern Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed May 7. Posigen Connecticut LLC, Bridgeport, contractor for Joseph Mazzuca. Install roof-mounted solar array at 59 Berrian Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $22,120. Filed May 12. Power Home Remodeling Group LLC, Chester, Pennsylvania, contractor for Samuel O. Gray. Remove and replace eight windows with tempered glass at 13 Swampscott Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $8,493. Filed May 3. Power Home Remodeling Group LLC, Chester, Pennsylvania, contractor for Michael E. and Debra C. Berg. Remove existing roofing and replace with new roof at 26 Crane Road North, Stamford. Estimated cost: $17,110. Filed May 4.

COURT CASES Bridgeport Superior Court AGM Masonry LLC, et al, Bridgeport. Filed by Dorca Hernandez, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bradley Denkovich & Karayiannis PC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBTCV-21-6106735-S. Filed May 26. City of Bridgeport. Filed by LT Bridgeport LLC, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jonathan J Klein, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff was the owner of a real property. The plaintiff claims relief because of a wrongful assessment of the property for taxation by the defendant. The plaintiff appealed stating the valuation of the property was not the percentage of its true and actual value, but was grossly excessive, disproportionate and unlawful. The plaintiff seeks a new evaluation of the property and monetary damages exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-216106870-S. Filed June 1 Davila-Cosme, Jorge, et al, Fairfield. Filed by Tara O’Grady, Summerland Key, Florida. Plaintiff’s attorney: Cooper Sevillano LLC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendants and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-21-6106882-S. Filed June 1. Olshevsky, Vadim, Millbury, Massachusetts. Filed by Clephane Williams, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Law, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-21-6106472-S. Filed May 20.

Power Home Remodeling Group LLC, Chester, Pennsylvania, contractor for Christina R. Atwood and Michael S. Vunk. Remove and replace 13 windows and one door at 485 High Ridge Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $18,778. Filed May 17.

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Facts & Figures Reasoner, Jane, Bridgeport. Filed by Warren O’Shane, Fairfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Moore O’Brien & Foti, Middlebury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBTCV-21-6106458-S. Filed May 19. Rodriguez, Marthina, Norwalk. Filed by Max Marin, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bruce J. Corrigan Jr. Law Office, Westport. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBTCV-21-6105511-S. Filed April 19.

Danbury Superior Court Altermatt, Mark T., New Milford. Filed by Union Savings Bank, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Richard D. Arconti, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff is the current owner of the note and the defendant is the owner of the real property on which the unpaid property taxes were assessed. As a result, the plaintiff was assigned the owner and holder of lien. The plaintiff claims foreclosure of the mortgage and monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-21-6039077-S. Filed April 20. Gallagher, Paige M., et al, Brookfield. Filed by Victor Morocho-Morocho, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Law, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-21-6039071-S. Filed April 19. Loya, Michael, Bethel. Filed by Martin Boland, North Haven. Plaintiff’s attorney: Goff Law Group LLC, West Hartford. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBDCV-21-6039349-S. Filed May 11.

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Metropolitan Life and Home Insurance Co., Hartford. Filed by Nancy Rodriguez, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Law, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by another driver and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The driver did not have sufficient automobile insurance to fairly compensate the plaintiff who then posted a claim for underinsured motorist coverage benefits against the defendant. The defendant was notified and has failed to compensate the plaintiff fairly. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-216039081-S. Filed April 20. Monaco, Joseph, et al, Danbury. Filed by Geraldo Pereira, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Flood Law Firm LLC, Middletown. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBDCV-21-6039437-S. Filed May 19.

Stamford Superior Court Ramos, Hilda, Stamford. Filed by Asfar Mohammad, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Pickel Law Firm LLC, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FSTCV-21-6051672-S. Filed May 10. Rogers, Holly Ann, Westport. Filed by Michael E. Trimbach, Plaintiff’s attorney: Wool Leydon LLC, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FSTCV-21-6051377-S. Filed April 21. Sartor, Thomas D., Norwalk. Filed by Anthony McCray, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Berkowitz and Hanna LLC, Shelton. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FSTCV-21-6051747-S. Filed May 14.

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Waehler, Christina, et al, Oxford. Filed by Nathan Sumpter, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Wocl Leydon LLC, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe damages and injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FSTCV-21-6051720-S. Filed May 13.

Fraser, Alexander and Laura Bedson, New York, New York. Seller: Altered Properties LLC, Fairfield. Property: 47 Elderberry Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $801,522. Filed May 24.

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Homestead Commercial Properties LLC, Stamford. Seller: JCS Homestead LLC, Stamford. Property: 44 Homestead Ave., Stamford. Amount: $0. Filed May 27.

Commercial 1114 Hope Street LLC, Stamford. Seller: Danielle Rauch and Michael Rauch, Stamford. Property: 1132 Hope St., Stamford. Amount: $525,000. Filed May 27. 21 Park Ave LLC, Old Greenwich. Seller: Patricia F. DeLuca, Old Greenwich. Property: 21 Park Ave., Old Greenwich. Amount: $1,000,000. Filed May 25. 21 Windrose Way LLC, Greenwich. Seller: Meadpoint LLC, New York, New York. Property: 21 Windrose Way, Greenwich. Amount: $1. Filed May 25. 99 IHR LLC, New York, New York. Seller: Luisa M. Salazar-Cobb, Riverside. Property: 99 Indian Head Road, Riverside. Amount: $7,800,000. Filed May 26. ACP Realty LLC, Stamford. Seller: 26 Stuart Avenue LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. Property: 26 Stuart Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $690,000. Filed May 26. Beinfield, Elizabeth, Norwalk. Seller: Captain’s Nest LLC, New Canaan. Property: 20 Drum Road, Norwalk. Amount: $872,625. Filed May 27. Delgatto, Ernest, Greenwich. Seller: MAGS New Realty LLC, Greenwich. Property: 5 Idar Court B, Greenwich. Amount: $1,950,000. Filed May 26. Doyle, Frank A., Boston, Massachusetts. Seller: Horseneck Property LLC, Greenwich. Property: 24 Maher Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $2,575,000. Filed May 28. Francis, Brandon N., Trenton, New Jersey. Seller: Deal House Capital Fund 1 LLC, Mamaroneck, New York. Property: 53 Fort Point St., Norwalk. Amount: $365,000. Filed May 24.

Gramaje, Maria Luisa and Maximo G. Gramaje, Fairfield. Seller: Prime Realty Group LLC, Fairfield. Property: 1052 Black Rock Turnpike, Greenwich. Amount: $459,900. Filed May 27.

Jain, Rakshiet and Tara Sharma, Stamford. Seller: RMS Holdings LLC, Stamford. Property: 1707 Summer St., Unit 4, Stamford. Amount: $532,500. Filed May 26. KLC 1 LLC, Cohoes, New York. Seller: RS 125 Field Point Road LLC, Miami Beach, Florida. Property: 125 Field Point Road, Unit B1, Greenwich. Amount: $3,200,000. Filed May 24.

Beyer, Luke M. and Amanda J. Materasso, Briarcliff Manor, New York. Seller: Richard M. Evanko and Maria DeSantis, Stamford. Property: 24 East Ave., Unit 4, Stamford. Amount: $330,000. Filed May 24. Bonadies, Emily and Joseph Bonadies, Old Greenwich. Seller: James E. Kern and Katherine W. Kern, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Property: 194 Shore Road, Old Greenwich. Amount: $2,500,000. Filed May 24. Bradley, Marc C. and Kelann B. Stirling, Norwalk. Seller: Janet Oak, Norwalk. Property: Pine Point Road, Unit 149, Norwalk. Amount: $110,000. Filed May 27. Campbell, Cynthia C., Norwalk. Seller: Eric Black, Norwalk. Property: Rowayton Woods Garage, Unit 20, Norwalk. Amount: $32,500. Filed May 25. Colletto, Danielle, Stamford. Seller: Christopher R. Sheldon, Brooklyn, New York. Property: 100 Wolfpit Ave., Unit 18, Norwalk. Amount: $240,000. Filed May 27.

Lattuga, Annmarie and Sebastian Lattuga, Sag Harbor, New York. Seller: Maggie Gordon LLC, Marriottsville, Maryland. Property: 80 Perkins Road, Greenwich. Amount: $7,000,000. Filed May 24.

Curcio, Ryan M. and Alexandria D. Curcio, Fairfield. Seller: Joseph W. Martini, Fairfield. Property: 558 Riverside Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $645,000. Filed May 26.

Painter, Kelsey, Stamford. Seller: D&L Industries LLC, Stamford. Property: 72 North Hill St., Stamford. Amount: $462,500. Filed May 28.

Darwish, Hazem, Fairfield. Seller: Alison Nolan Avallone, Fairfield. Property: 240 Sunnyridge Ave., Unit 109, Fairfield. Amount: $239,900. Filed May 28.

Portofino Properties LLC, Greenwich. Seller: E. Davisson Hardma, Greenwich. Property: 46 Carriglea Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $6,000,000. Filed May 26.

DeSimone, Mark Francis and Nicole Pradella, Stamford. Seller: Florinda Funicella, Stamford. Property: 36 Auldwood Road, Stamford. Amount: $650,000. Filed May 24.

Smith, Gregory M. and Amanda Lipitz, New York, New York. Seller: 154 BSRD LLC, Greenwich. Property: 154 Byram Shore Road, Greenwich. Amount: $3,425,000. Filed May 27.

Residential Aguilar, Selena and Elin Horacio Aguilar, Norwalk. Seller: Jose Robalino, Stamford. Property: 4 Powder Horn Road, Norwalk. Amount: $276,000. Filed May 26. Bernstein, Richard M. and Samantha L. Bernstein, Fairfield. Seller: Robert L. Manning and Kerry F. Manning, Fairfield. Property: 24 Puritan Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1,100,000. Filed May 28.

Doyle, Matthew and Lindsay Cowan, Old Greenwich. Seller: Diana P. Ungar-Bianchi, Old Greenwich. Property: 22 Center Road, Old Greenwich. Amount: $1,400,000. Filed May 27. Foschi, Lauren, Riverside. Seller: Priscilla J. Whittington, Old Greenwich. Property: 1465 E. Putnam Ave., Unit 625, Old Greenwich. Amount: $405,000. Filed May 28. Gabbe, Benjamin and Carmen Maria Gabbe, New York, New York. Seller: Vincent M. Socci, Fairfield. Property: 3395 Park Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $640,000. Filed May 25. Gega, Arby and Sandra Lukic, Connecticut. Seller: Augusta Lorenzoni, Greenwich. Property: 25 Bowman Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $1. Filed May 26.

Gemayel, Rita Zreik, Greenwich. Seller: Steven Korian, Greenwich. Property: 2 Nassau Place, Cos Cob. Amount: $10. Filed May 26. Harker, Peter, Fairfield. Seller: Redding Thompson and Mary Jo Sullivan, Fairfield. Property: 305 Westport Turnpike, Fairfield. Amount: $450,000. Filed May 24. Heath, Andrew and Sandra Heath, Greenwich. Seller: Nathan D. Bohn and Lauren M. Bohn, Greenwich. Property: 10 Brookridge Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $4,025,000. Filed May 27. Iyer, Shankar Subramaniam and Nalini Iyer, Stamford. Seller: Krishna Iyer and Janell S. Iyer, Stamford. Property: 31 Sherwood Road, Stamford. Amount: $550,000. Filed May 28. Kailas, George, Stamford. Seller: Jennifer Harkins, Stamford. Property: 36 Cerretta St., Unit 34A, Stamford. Amount: $325,000. Filed May 28. Kast, William J. and Elizabeth Kast, Bronxville, New York. Seller: John M. Stack and Margaret Denise Stack, Stamford. Property: 167 West Trail, Stamford. Amount: $715,000. Filed May 27. Kenny, Michael and Julia Demoranville, Stamford. Seller: Michael P. Schulke, Stamford. Property: 98 Southfield Ave., Unit J-2A, Stamford. Amount: $420,000. Filed May 26. Lesica, Jonathan and Erin Lesica, Norwalk. Seller: Kenneth Farrar and Georgeanne Farrar, Norwalk. Property: 15 Pine Point Road, Unit 225, Norwalk. Amount: $105,000. Filed May 28. Margolis, Lars and Lauren Krevet, Seattle, Washington. Seller: William Bemonte and Janice Bemonte, Stamford. Property: 38 Kenilworth Drive West, Stamford. Amount: $825,000. Filed May 25. Marom, Alon, Greenwich. Seller: Alon Marom, Greenwich. Property: 351 Pemberwick Road, Unit 914, Greenwich. Amount: $10. Filed May 28. Merchan Gonzalez, Sergio and Elisa Arsuaga Santos, Fairfield. Seller: Joseph Carbone and Rosa Paola Favano, Fairfield. Property: 110 Taylor Place, Fairfield. Amount: $860,000. Filed May 24. Mills, Michael and Alison Mills, Stamford. Seller: Ian N. Johnson and Kelly D. Johnson, Greenwich. Property: 36 Francis Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $865,000. Filed May 26.

Facts & Figures Montalto, Michael and Melinda Villarosa, New York, New York. Seller: Adam Michael Schmid and Marina Valeria Carter, Stamford. Property: 29 Woodley Road, Stamford. Amount: $765,000. Filed May 26. Morris, Brent L. and Jessica L. Buckett Norwalk. Seller: Haylee J. Glad and Erica C. Lecount, Norwalk. Property: 115 Fillow St., Unit 72, Norwalk. Amount: $339,000. Filed May 25. Nadler, Benjamin and Emily DeClue, Brookhaven, Georgia. Seller: Andrew J. Kancir and Marie A. Kancir, Stamford. Property: 43 Kensington Road, Stamford. Amount: $720,000. Filed May 27.

Russo, Anthony R. and Erin E. DiPietro, Norwalk. Seller: Cyril L. Joseph, Wilton. Property: 43 Gregory Blvd., Norwalk. Amount: $425,000. Filed May 24. Trdevaj, Alexander Durim and Maria Fernanda Flores, Norwalk. Seller: Nicole M. Mitchell, Norwalk. Property: 208 Flax Hill Road, Unit 35, Norwalk. Amount: $211,000. Filed May 24. Xu, Xiaobin and Chao Qiu, Old Greenwich. Seller: Robert H. Fryer and Connie H. Kostacos, Greenwich. Property: 68 Laddins Rock Road, Old Greenwich. Amount: $10. Filed May 25.

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Napoltano, James and Kathleen Napolitano, Fairfield. Seller: Joshua E. Cohen and Margaret K. Cohen, Fairfield. Property: 110 South St., Fairfield. Amount: $850,000. Filed May 27.

Cheslock, Stanley, et al. US Bank National Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 309 Taconic Road, Greenwich. Mortgage default. Filed June 18.

Nazzaro, Christine, Stamford. Seller: Maria Aristizabal, Norwalk. Property: 11 Windward Road, Norwalk. Amount: $534,000. Filed May 24.

Migliaccio, Frederick, et al. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Anaheim, California. Property: 272 East Ave., Norwalk. Mortgage default. Filed June 14.

Neuberger, Maureen and Santi Neuberger, New Canaan. Seller: Robert K. Oakes and Erin Hazlett-Oakes, Stamford. Property: 81 Lynam Road, Stamford. Amount: $1,075,000. Filed May 25. Nichols, Jeffrey P. and Brynne E. Nichols, Shelton. Seller: Craig D. Michelson and Mary C. Michelson, Fairfield. Property: 301 Canterbury Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $749,000. Filed May 26. Ofer, Jill and Edmund Zybert, Norwalk. Seller: Donna Reeves, Norwalk. Property: 6 Steepletop Road, Norwalk. Amount: $575,000. Filed May 26. O’Neil, John J. and Caroline I. O’Neil, Fairfield. Seller: Grant T. Witte and Annie L. Witte, Fairfield. Property: 243 Hill Brook Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $812,500. Filed May 27. Pressman, Steven D. and Julie W. Pressman, Fairfield. Seller: Gertrude P. MyGodney, Fairfield. Property: 268 Eastlawn St., Fairfield. Amount: $600,000. Filed May 25. Raimo, Dolores, Greenwich. Seller: Olga Bausman, Greenwich. Property: 17 East Lyon Farm Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $10. Filed May 24. Raza, Najaf, Norwalk. Seller: Susan M. Wendell, Wake Forest, North Carolina, Property: 10 Brookhill Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $445,000. Filed May 28.

JUDGMENTS Bernacchia, Gerard, Southport. $31,184, in favor of L. Suzio Asphalt Company Inc., Meriden, by Solomon, Krupnikoff & Wyskiel PC, Meriden. Property: 48 Harbor Road, Southport. Filed June 14. Bernacchia, Gerard, Southport. $13,002, in favor of York Hill Trap Rock Quarry Co., Meriden, by Solomon, Krupnikoff & Wyskiel PC, Meriden. Property: 48 Harbor Road, Southport. Filed June 14. Etemadfar, Akbar, Stamford. $34,200, in favor of the city of Stamford, by assistant corporation counsel, Stamford. Property: 171 Dannell Drive, Stamford. Filed June 3. Micalizzi, Lisa, et al, Wilton. $288,000, in favor of Bayview Loan Servicing LLC, Norwalk, by Cohen and Wolf PC, Bridgeport. Property: 58 Fawn Ridge Lane, Wilton. Filed May 27.

LIENS MECHANIC’S LIENS HHR Design Architectural Services Inc., Norwalk. Filed by American Builders and Contractors Supply Co., Inc. Property: 51 Riverside Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $10,757. Filed June 18.

LMV II 885 Washington Holdings LP, Stamford. Filed by US Electrical Services Inc., by Mick Pintek. Property: 6 Landmark Square, Fourth floor, Stamford. Amount: $1,034,837. Filed June 16. Mahoney, Thomas and Roxanne Mahoney, Norwalk. Filed by M&T Development Group LLC, by Christopher J. Jarbde. Property: 45 Creeping Hemlock Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $35,240. Filed June 1.

MORTGAGES Bartlett, Michael W. and Danielle E. Bartlett, Fairfield, by David K. Kurata. Lender: William Raveis Mortgage LLC, 7 Trap Falls Road, Shelton. Property: 1305 Mill Hill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $770,000. Filed May 19. Cevallos, Omar and Julie Cevallos, Greenwich, by Howard R. Wolfe. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank NA, 101 N. Phllips Ave., Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Property: 37 Valleywood Road, Cos Cob. Amount: $745,000. Filed May 11. Cuevas, Kevin and Elsa N. Carranza, Norwalk, by Alexander Rudiak. Lender: Arvest Bank, P.O. Box 399, Lowell, Arkansas. Property: 9 Wildwood Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $436,900. Filed May 24. DiPietro, Erin E. and Anthony R. Russo, Norwalk, by N/A. Lender: First World Mortgage Corp., 127 Prospect Ave., West Hartford. Property: 43 Gregory Blvd., Norwalk. Amount: $403,750. Filed May 24. Fils, Eliane, Stamford, by Nicola Corea. Lender: Finance of America Mortgage LLC, 300 Welsh Road, Building 5, Suite A, Horsham, Pennsylvania. Property: 15 Daskam Place, Stamford. Amount: $226,902. Filed May 24. Fuss, Edward J. and Shari L. Fuss, Fairfield, by Thomas J. Heagney. Lender: Home Point Financial Corp., 9 Entin Road, Suite 200, Parsippany, New Jersey. Property: 175 Barlow Road, Fairfield. Amount: $471,306. Filed May 18. Guiffra, Felix J. and Christine Guiffra, Greenwich, by Jeremy E. Kaye. Lender: Prosperity Home Mortgage LLC, 14501 George Carter Way, Suite 300, Chantilly, Virginia. Property: 20 Zygmont Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $1,150,000. Filed May 11. Hentzel, Timothy and Sunia Y Ho, Greenwich, by Jeremy E. Kaye. Lender: People’s United Bank, 850 Main St., Bridgeport. Property: 94 Cognewaugh Road, Greenwich. Amount: $800,000. Filed May 12.

Kane, Angela O., Norwalk, by Arianne O’Donnell. Lender: Guaranteed Rate Inc., 3940 N. Ravenswood, Chicago, Illinois. Property: 11 Lockwood Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $157,000. Filed May 26.

Ravi, Subramanian and Sasikala Ravi, Stamford, by Douglas Seltzer. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 1111 Polaris Pkwy., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 809 Stillwater Road, Stamford. Amount: $317,000. Filed May 25.

Kenny, Michael and Julia Demoranville, Stamford, by Mark A. Sank. Lender: TIAA FSB, 301 W. Bay St., Jacksonville, Florida. Property: 98 Southfield Ave., Unit 2A, Stamford. Amount: $336,000. Filed May 26.

Rawlins, Morgan and Collen Stewart, Norwalk, by Louis J. Colangelo. Lender: Total Mortgage Services LLC, 185 Plains Road, Milford. Property: 38 Walter Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $555,750. Filed May 25.

Mallek, Scott and Jennifer Mallek, Fairfield, by Emmet P. Hibson. Lender: US Bank National Association, 4801 Frederica St., Owensboro, Kentucky. Property: 362 Pine Creek Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $368,000. Filed May 18.

Reilly, Kristin and Carlo Bigi, Greenwich, by Douglas Seltzer. Lender: Bank of America NA, 101 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 34 Hettiefred Road, Greenwich. Amount: $1,153,000. Filed May 10.

Marren, James A. and Joleen J. Marren, Fairfield, by Cynthia M. Salem-Riccio. Lender: Provident Funding Associates LP, 700 Airport Blvd., Suite 430, Burlingame, California. Property: 75 Puritan Road. Fairfield. Amount: $174,000. Filed May 17.

Righini, Nicoletta and Pietro Berardi, Stamford, by Adam R. Kravet. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 1111 Polaris Pkwy., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 48 Gurley Road, Stamford. Amount: $800,000. Filed May 25.

Martino, Edward A. and Margaret Martino, Greenwich, by Karl D. Shehu. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank NA, 101 N. Phllips Ave., Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Property: 3 Carriage Road, Cos Cob. Amount: $601,000. Filed May 12. McDevitt, Steven M. and Amanda L. McDevitt, Fairfield, by Chris Barreto. Lender: KeyBank National Association, 127 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio. Property: 400 Burr St., Fairfield. Amount: $832,000. Filed May 17. Menon, Vivek V. and Anu B. Pillay, Stamford, by Trenautica Smith. Lender: United Wholesale Mortgage LLC, 585 S. Boulevard East, Pontiac, Michigan. Property: 28 Third St., Stamford. Amount: $200,000. Filed May 24. Miller, Jason I. and Jocelyn Cibinskas, Greenwich, by Daniel M. McCabe. Lender: Citibank NA, 1000 Technology Drive, O’Fallon, Missouri. Property: 25 Birchwood Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $1,789,690. Filed May 10. Montalto, Michael and Melinda Villarosa, Stamford, by Mary Wilcox. Lender: United Wholesale Mortgage LLC, 585 S. Boulevard East, Pontiac, Michigan. Property: 29 Woodley Road, Stamford. Amount: $678,500. Filed May 26. Orellana Cabrera, Glenda Y. and Jose Osman Mondragon Duron, Norwalk, by Louis J. Colangelo. Lender: Home Point Financial Corp., 9 Entin Road, Suite 200, Parsippany, New Jersey. Property: 30 Stonecorp Road, Norwalk. Amount: $368,000. Filed May 25.

Stowell, Geoffrey and Jennifer Stowell, Fairfield, by Rosamond Kathel. Lender: Newtown Savings Bank, 39 Main St., Newtown. Property: 401 Buena Vista Road, Fairfield. Amount: $428,000. Filed May 19. Swigart, Paul M. and Patricia Q. Swigart, Greenwich, by Scott Rogalski. Lender: Bank of America NA, 20 Greenwich Plaza, Suite 900, Houston, Texas. Property: 22 Will Merry Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $1,960,000. Filed May 12. Vigo, Elliot N. and Katherine V. Oliveras, Norwalk, by Joseph J. Romanello. Lender: Magnolia Bank Inc, 637 S. Lincoln Boulevard, Hodgenville, Kentucky. Property: 43 Glenrock, Norwalk. Amount: $337,250. Filed May 26.

NEW BUSINESSES A&B Services, 9 Green St., Stamford 06902, c/o Anthony Brown. Filed May 11. Agape Evangelistic Ministry, 22 Glenbrook Road, Stamford 06902, c/o Vanessa Romero. Filed May 17. Angel’s Mobile Phlebotomist, 60 Lawn Ave., Unit 28, Stamford 06902, c/o Sandra I. Angel. Filed May 11. Answersuite, 6 Landmark Square, Fourth floor, Stamford 06902, c/o Syneos Health Research & Insights LLC. Filed May 13.

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KDM Bookkeeping, 43 River Hill Drive, Stamford 06902, c/o Kim Diane Mota. Filed May 12. Lawn Doctor, 76 Viaduct Road, Stamford 06907, c/o The Farrells Inc. Filed May 17. Madabolic Stamford, 850 Canal St., Stamford 06902, c/o Laura Conover. Filed May 11. Napierhill Technologies, 1 Landmark Square, Suite 320, Stamford 06902, c/o Anthony Hill. Filed May 12. Ns Painting, 15 Southwood Drive, Apt. 211, Stamford 06902, c/o Nicola Scocozza Velez. Filed May 17. Valdez, Samara 202 Custer St., Stamford 06902, c/o Jeniel Valdez Diaz. Filed May 17. Wheels #184, 493 Glenbrook Road, Stamford 06906, c/o Global Montello Group Corp. Filed May 13.

PATENTS Acoustic radiation control method and system. Patent no. 11,044,552 issued to Jianwen Zheng. Assigned to Harman International, Stamford. Machine holding fixture for machining composite laminates on a rotor blade. Patent no. 11,046,460 issued to Sven Lofstrom, et al. Assigned to Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford. Product package and associated system for improving user-product engagement. Patent no. 11,049,140 issued to George Gibson. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk. System for preventing paper jams between subsystem transitions. Patent no. 11,046,544 issued to Roberto Irizarry, et al. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk. Toner process employing dual chelating agents. Patent no. 11,048,184 issued to Shivanthi Sriskandha, et al. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk. Wetting agent additive for an in-line quality check of composite-based additive manufacturing (CBAM) substrates. Patent no. 11,046,002 issued to Marc Daniels, et al. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk.

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LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Formation of elevari LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/09/20. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 177A Main Street #145, New Rochelle NY 10805. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62875 Notice of Formation of ANGZEP LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/21/21. 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, 177A Main Street #145, New Rochelle, NY 10805. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62876 Notice of Formation of 320 DM Realty LLC, a domestic, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/19/2021. 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, 19 Primrose Street, Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #62877

Thouria Benferhat LLC. Arts. of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 5/4/21. Princ. off. loc.: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Thouria Benferhat LLC, 47 Mallard Rise, Irvington, NY 10533. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62880 LDash7 LLC Arts. of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 04/21/21. Princ. off. loc.: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o LDash7 LLC, 465 Tuckahoe Road, Suite # 1019, Yonkers, New York 10710. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62882 Notice of Formation of RevoSpinNY LLC filed with SSNY on May 24, 2021. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 9 West Prospect Ave, Suite 208, Mount Vernon, NY, 10550. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #62883

Arcady Advisors, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/27/2021. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Beth N Smayda, 67 Midchester Ave., White Plains, NY 10306. General Purpose #62884

Notice of Formation of That Jazz Show, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/23/21. 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, 2063 Van Cortlandt Ci, Yorktown Hts., NY 10598. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62889

Notice of Formation of Signatory Capital Advisors, LLC, Articles of Organization filed with NY Secy. Of State on May 20, 2021. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Signatory Capital Advisors, LLC, 56 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, NY 10583, principal location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #62886

Notice of Formation of Alex Apartments LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/2021. Office location: Westchester County. Princ. Office of LLC: 6 Oak Hill Circle, Pleasantville, NY 10570. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the address of its principle office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #62891

137 Groton Avenue LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on March 1, 2021. 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, 179 Riverview Ave, Tarrytown, NY 10591. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62887

Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, July 22, 2021 at the NYSDOT, Office of Contract Management, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read. Bids may also be submitted via the internet using www.bidx.com. A certified cashier’s check payable to the NYSDOT for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, form CONR 391, representing 5% of the bid total, must accompany each bid. NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot.ny.gov/doing-business/ opportunities/const-notices. The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot.ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/const-planholder. Amendments may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list. NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification. Contact Robert Kitchen (518)457-2124. Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where subcontracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to D/W/MBEs. The New York State Department of Transportation, in accordance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federally-assisted programs of the Department of Transportation and Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200, Title IV Program and Related Statutes, as amended, issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all who respond to a written Department solicitation, request for proposal or invitation for bid that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability/handicap and income status in consideration for an award. Please call (518)457-2124 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting. Region 08: New York State Department of Transportation 4 Burnett Blvd., Poughkeepsie, NY, 12603 D264541, PIN 881389, FA Proj Z24E-8813-893, Columbia, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, Westchester Cos., BIENNIAL LONGLINE MARKINGS Region wide, R-8, Bid Deposit: 5% of Bid (~ $375,000.00), Goals: DBE: 0.00% D264540, PIN 881391, FA Proj Z24E-8813-913, Columbia, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, Westchester Cos., Apply pavement markings on State Highways to improve traffic safety., Bid Deposit: 5% of Bid (~ $125,000.00), Goals: DBE: 0.00%

Notice of Formation of ACE HOME & BUSINESS, LLC filed with SSNY on 5/26/16. Business Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to ACE HOME & BUSINESS, LLC, 10 Benedict Ave., Tarrytown, New York 10591 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62892 Notice of Formation of NSF Beauty Consulting LLC filed with SSNY on 5/20/21. Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 310 Carroll Close, Tarrytown, NY 10591. (LLC's Prim Bus Loc) Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62893

Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC). The name of the LLC is: TAION LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) office on: March 23, 2021. The County in which the Office is to be located: Westchester County. The SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 2005 Palmer Avenue, Suite 1112, Larchmont, New York 10538. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62894 Resort Little, LLC. Filed 4/23/21 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1112 Wilmot Road, Suite 274H, Scarsdale, NY 10583 Purpose: All lawful #62895 Notice of Formation of Political Video Advertising LLC, a domestic, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/08/2021. 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, 46 Crest Drive, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #62896 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NYFILMMAKER PRODUCTIONS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2-9-21. 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: NYFilmmaker Productions, LLC, 47 Riverdale Avenue, Suite A152, Yonkers, NY 10701, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful business activity. #62897

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VIVA VERDI! LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/17/2021. Off. Loc: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to VIVA VERDI! LLC., 420 South Riverside Avenue, #131, Croton on Hudson, New York, 10520. Purpose: all lawful. #62898 Notice of Formation of Croton Corners LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/10/21. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Hans Tokke, 124 Grand Street, Croton-onHudson, New York 10520. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62899 Bannock Holdings LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/10/2021. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1075 Central Park Ave., Ste. 205, Scarsdale, NY 10583. General Purpose #62900 ESCOS CONSULTING, LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY Sec. of State of (SSNY) on 06/11/21. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to Marvin A. Escobar, 15 Piping Rock Drive, Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #62901

Vesta 260 LLC. Filed 3/19/21 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o NMC Property Management, 629 Fifth Ave, Suite 105, Pelham, NY 10803 Purpose: All lawful #62903 MDA Property LLC. Filed 5/11/21 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 130 Winfred Ave, Yonkers, NY 10704 Purpose: All lawful #62904 Notice of formation of R9G LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the NY State Secretary of State on 04/16/2021. NY office location: Westchester County. The secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process against the LLC to 41 Winthrop Dr, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: Real Estate Rental. #62905 Notice of formation of Essjay Properties LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the NY State Secretary of State on 04/15/2021. NY office location: Westchester County. The secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process against the LLC to 41 Winthrop Dr, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: Real Estate Management and Development. #62906

Green Archers Business Solutions, LLC has filed articles of organization with the secretary of State of NYS on June 1, 2021. The office of the company is located in Westchester County, NY. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of limited Liability company, upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served on him/ her is Green Archers Business Solutions, LLC, 20 Cabot Avenue, Elmsford, NY 10523. The company is organized to conduct any lawful business for which a limited liability company may be organized. #62902

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