JULY 29, 2019 VOL. 55, No. 30
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y message to Mr. Trump and the IRS is simple: we look forward to seeing you in court,” New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on July 17 concerning a new lawsuit filed by New York, Connecticut and New Jersey against the Internal Revenue Service. The lawsuit seeks to over-
turn an IRS rule preventing people from claiming contributions made to local governments as charitable contributions. The notion of making charitable contributions instead of tax payments to local governments was put forward as a way to skirt the new limit of $10,000 in deductions on federal income tax returns for payment of state and local taxes. The limit, known as SALT, was put into effect in
the 2017 tax bill passed when Republicans had control of both the House and Senate and was seen by critics as retribution against states controlled by Democrats which have high local and state taxes. In addition to the IRS, the suit names Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as a defendant. Mnuchin had said that the cap on SALT deductions was intended to “send a message.” » SALT
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RAND REALTY: HIGH-END MARKET SPOOKED BY SALT CAP THE BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS RAND REALTY second-quarter market report for the lower Hudson Valley shows the condominium and co-op market segments soaring while the cap on federal income tax deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT) continues to undercut the upper end of the market, especially luxury single-family homes. Joe Rand, chief creative officer for the organization, described the luxury mar-
ket as being “spooked” by SALT and told the Business Journal, “I think the market is fundamentally strong. We’ve got pretty robust demand at most price points. You’ve got a strong economy. You’ve got low interest rates.” In Westchester, the report showed closed sales of co-ops at 489 in the second quarter of 2019, up from the 455 sold in the second quarter of 2018. Condo sales were also up, with 346 sold compared with 324 in the » REAL ESTATE
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Cumulus selling Bronxville radio station, keeping WFAS for now BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com
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umulus Media, the Atlanta-based broadcasting giant, plans to sell its FM radio station licensed to Bronxville as it exits the New York City radio market while, for the time being, maintaining ownership of AM station WFAS licensed to White Plains, the Business Journal has learned. As of July 11, Cumulus owned and operated 428 radio stations in 87 markets. The Bronxville station, heard at 103.9 on the FM dial, formerly was known as WFASFM and had White Plains as its city of license. WFAS-AM and WFAS-FM were acquired by Cumulus when it purchased Aurora Communications LLC, which owned 18 radio stations in New York and Connecticut. The purchase was completed on March 28, 2002, and was valued at $229.9 million, $93 million of which was in cash and the rest in stock and warrants to purchase stock. Several years after acquiring the stations, Cumulus received Federal Communications Commission approval to change the FM station’s city of license to Bronxville. That allowed Cumulus to move the WFAS-FM transmitter to the Bronx where it would be closer to Manhattan while putting a signal of the
strength required by FCC rules over the new city of license and also protecting other stations from interference by the signal. In 2014, it changed the call letters to WNBM and changed the format to urban adult contemporary music. Broadcasters generally consider a station serving the heart of a major city such as New York to be more valuable than a station, which only can be heard in the suburbs. Both WFAS-AM at 1230 on the dial and its FM sister station had been transmitting from a 7-acre site at 365 Secor Road in Hartsdale since 1947. FCC records show the AM station was first licensed on Aug. 19, 1926. Its initial broadcast from White Plains is believed to have taken place in August 1932 from the Roger Smith Hotel. WFAS refers to Frank A. Seitz, father of station founder Frank A. Seitz Jr. Transmitting from Hartsdale, the stations could be heard in Westchester, the Bronx, parts of Manhattan, the north shore of Long Island, parts of New Jersey and Rockland. Under previous owners, they were operated as full-service community stations, broadcasting a schedule of popular music, local and national news, and sports. The stations moved their studios from downtown White Plains to Secor Road in the early 1950s. At one time, in addition to presenting a roster of disc jockeys and broadcast personalities, WFAS was an important source of local news with a staff of nine reporters
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and anchors. The FM station operated for a few years with an easy-listening music format using the call letters WWYD. After moving the FM station’s license to Bronxville and changing its format, Cumulus arranged for use of a low-powered FM frequency, called a translator, at 94.3 on the FM dial to carry local programming while reviving the station identification WFAS-FM. Within a year, the local programming was dropped and the new WFAS-FM carried programs mostly from the Cumulus-owned Westwood One radio network. Recently, WFAS-FM at 94.3 was shut down and another operator began broad-
casting on the translator. WFAS-AM currently carries CBS Sports talk radio. The studios for WNBM were established at 2 Penn Plaza in Manhattan, where Cumulus station WABC has its studios. On June 27, Cumulus announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell WABC to Red Apple Media Inc. for $12 million. At one time, WABC at 770 on the AM dial was one of the nation’s top music stations, boasting a roster of personalities such as Dan Ingram, Herb Oscar Anderson, Harry Harrison and “Cousin Brucie” Morrow. The Business Journal learned that Mary G. Berner, president and CEO of Cumulus, sent a memo to staff members notifying them of the WABC sale and advising that it was in keeping with a plan to exit the New York City radio market, which she said was a difficult market for the company. Selling WNBM would be in keeping with that plan. A possible asking price for the station was not released. Cumulus recently emerged from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in which it shed approximately $1 billion of its approximately $2.3 billion in debt. On Dec. 28, 2018, Cumulus Broadcasting LLC mortgaged the WFAS Secor Road property with Wilmington Trust, National Association, for $2,337,500, according to documents filed with the Westchester County Clerk.
Tarrytown Y lists building for sale at $6.5M, plans to relocate BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com
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he Family YMCA at Tarrytown has listed for sale the building it has occupied for 107 years at 62 Main St. in Tarrytown and plans to move its programs to another location. The nonprofit has retained the commercial real estate services firm RM Friedland to market the property and also represent it in the search for a new location. The 1.22-acre site is on the south side of Main St., about 2 1/2 blocks west of Route 9, also known as Broadway. The property has been listed for sale at $6,495,000. The building has approximately 41,537 square feet of space. Height varies from one to four stories. There is some on-site parking. The property has about 100 feet of frontage on Main Street. Gerry Riera, CEO of The Family YMCA at Tarrytown, told the Business Journal, “When a lot of people think of the Y the first picture that pops into their mind is an old building and that has really overshadowed all the good work that we do within the facility and all of the staff. I’ve been here for 16 years and about 30 of us have been here for over 15 years, so
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a lot of professionals have dedicated a good chunk of their lives to servicing this area.” The organization’s board of directors decided that doing all the renovations the building needs in order for the Y to stay there for the long term is not financially feasible and the best thing to do was explore options to take advantage of the asset’s value and find a new location. In an announcement on its website, the board noted that the process “is part of a multiyear strategic plan and is likely to take several years to complete. During this time, we will maintain our programming at our current location.”
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Among the programs at the Y are aquatics, day care, after-school care, theater, dance, exercise and fitness. The board said it will go ahead with some repairs and upgrades, which have been planned. The intent is to offer the same services that are currently offered when the Y moves to a new space. Riera said if a developer came up with a plan in which the Y could own or lease back a piece of a new development at the site they’d consider it. “We’re keeping an open mind to not only what our possibilities are but what could possibly be developed here,” he said. The Y also says it hopes to either develop a new affordable housing project for people living at its 62 Main St. building or relocate the residents to existing affordable housing. Riera said the 48 rooms usually are fully occupied. The Y has been in contact with local and county officials about its housing program and is collaborating with the New York City-based NHP Foundation, a nonprofit real estate organization, which works on preserving and creating affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families and seniors. Riera told the Business Journal that one of the problems they’ve faced is not having a complete story to tell Y members and the gen-
eral public. “Friedland is representing us on the sale and also on the relocation and they really can’t relocate us until there’s a sale pending. If we listed the property and didn’t express to the community what our desire was, the rumor would be that we are closing. So, we felt it was really important to let people know even though we didn’t have a complete story.” Riera noted that developers often do not close on a property until they have received approvals and permits from local governments and that could take a year or two from the time a buyer is found. In the meantime, it’s business as usual at 62 Main St. “Over the summer we’re making repairs to the studios on the lower level that were damaged in the spring by a pipe bursting so that dance and other classes can be held there,” Riera said. He also said they’ll be closing the pool in August to make capital repairs to that facility. Riera said response from members to the sale and relocation plan has been mainly positive. “It’s a very bold step, but it’s very exciting to move forward and to essentially relocate to a new facility where the focus can be on what we do,” he said.
Stamford-based Indeed acquires pair of U.K. tech firms “Syft’s vision to build the future of work aligns with Indeed’s core mission,” Syft co-founder and CEO Jack Beaman said. “We set out to create a win-win platform to better serve job seekers and employers, underpinned by values of fairness and transparency. Demand for flexible work continues to surge as both job seekers and employers look for greater control and choice.” Syft’s employees, including its founders, will continue to operate from their headquarters in London and regional office locations. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
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ob site Indeed of Stamford has agreed to acquire a pair of U.K.-based jobs-related technology firms. Founded in 2017, automated job advertising technology platform ClickIQ is touted as “Europe’s leading AI-powered programmatic recruitment technology platform.” Its proprietary technology manages, tracks and optimizes the performance of enterprise clients’ recruitment advertising in real time, with the aim of focusing job advertising spend where it is needed to reach the best candidates in the most cost-effective way. “In partnership, we will strengthen our ability to deliver qualified applications — and ultimately hires — to employers quickly and cost-effectively,” said Maggie Hulce,
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Cushman & Wakefield: Office buildings along major transport routes ‘will continue to drive demand’
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eal estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield says there were modest year-over-year increases in office leasing in both Westchester and Fairfield counties during the second quarter of 2019. While there was softness in Westchester during the first quarter of the year, Cushman’s report shows that what happened in the second quarter pushed the result for the first six months of the year to a 37% increase over the comparable period during 2018. Cushman said rental pricing in Westchester went up 74 cents per square foot on average over the last 12 months to $28.59. It said Class A space in downtown White Plains was down a bit, dropping 86 cents per square foot to an average asking rent of $37.21. Class B office space fell $1.03 per square foot to $23.55. The vacancy rate in Westchester at the end of the second quarter was 23.5% while in the White Plains commercial business district it was 17.6%. Jim Fagan, managing principal for Connecticut and Westchester Market Leader of Cushman & Wakefield, said, “Office buildings
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along major transport nodes will continue to drive demand going forward as tenants look to minimize commute times and have better access to labor and is expected to exceed last year’s levels, albeit by an insubstantial amount.” As far as Fairfield County is concerned, Fagan said, “Demand is anticipated to stay relatively modest over the next six months … with a possibility of several large and notable transactions occurring later this year.” He did not give details of what those might be. “Vacancy is expected to fall across the county as large corporate tenants begin to migrate into their newly leased office space, with the largest declines in vacancy occurring in the Stamford submarket,” Fagan said. The Cushman report says the average asking price for space in Fairfield declined 88 cents per square foot during the 12 months ending June 30 to $31.59. In the Danbury submarket, rents were down $5.55 per square foot to $19.20 on average. That contrasts sharply with Greenwich, where rents on average went up 87 cents per square foot to $52.58. Stamford accounted for 58.1% of the demand for space in Fairfield during the second quarter of 2019.
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onnecticut Attorney General William Tong and his New York counterpart Letitia James are part of a coalition of 38 state attorneys general calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to increase federal cooperation with the states in addressing potentially false marketing claims on products containing cannabis or cannabis-derived compounds, including cannabidiol (CBD). The attorneys general noted the 2018 Farm Bill removed cannabis products containing less than 0.3% of THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis, from the Schedule I list of drugs prohibited under the Controlled Substances Act. Since then, companies have manufactured and marketed products featuring varieties of cannabis commonly classified as hemp, which contain large amounts of CBD. “Currently, companies are creating a myriad of cannabinoid products largely unburdened by any oversight or testing requirements,” said the attorneys general in a letter to FDA Commissioner Norman E. Sharpless. “The inherent complexity of cannabinoids, combined with the danger of hazardous additives, raises seri-
ous public health concerns that absent some rules or regulations, unscrupulous companies will be able to distribute products that include illegal cannabinoid combinations or have dangerous additives. Beyond these dangers, there is also the potential for products to be incorrectly or misleadingly labeled and packaged in ways that take advantage of consumers and puts them at risk.” The attorneys general warned that more research is needed to determine the risks and potential benefits of cannabinoid products, and they called on the FDA to work with state consumer protection authorities to create testing and manufacturing guidelines for this fast-growing market. “Ultimately, the responsibility for protecting consumers that use cannabinoids and CBD products cannot solely be left to the companies supplying products — that responsibility must include the FDA with meaningful partnerships with the states and state attorneys general,” the letter stated. “We applaud the FDA’s recent steps, including the formation of the CBD working group focused on exploring pathways for dietary supplements and food regulation, seeking to clarify code citations, regulating cosmetics, and researching existing science and developments.”
States announce settlement figures from Equifax data breach BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com
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onnecticut Attorney General William Tong announced that the state will receive $4.78 million as part of a multistate settlement with Equifax stemming from the 2017 data breach that impacted the company, while New York Attorney General Letitia James announced her state will receive $9.18 million. The total settlement requires Equifax to pay up to $425 million to a consumer restitution fund
and $175 million to the settlement coalition of 48 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Equifax will also pay $100 million to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The settlement requires court approval before funds are disbursed. The data breach occurred on Sept. 7, 2017, and impacted more than 147 million consumers, or 56 percent of American adults. The breached information included Social Security numbers, names, dates of birth, addresses, credit card numbers and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers.
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Holiday Inn Bridgeport fills a hospitality void BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com
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wo of the most intriguing and ambitious commercial real estate projects proposed for Bridgeport involve hotels: the 300-room lodging component of the MGM Resorts Bridgeport at Steelepointe Harbor and the renovation of the long-defunct, 109-room Savoy Hotel as part of the Majestic-Poli mixed-use project in the north end section. To date, however, both projects appear to be on indefinite hold, with MGM Resorts International stalled by state law from opening a casino with its hotel and Exact Capital, the New York City-based developer on the Savoy project, still scrambling to secure financing for this endeavor. Thus, Connecticut’s most populous city is home to a single hotel: the 184-room Holiday Inn Bridgeport, located on Main Street in the heart of the business district. But for Deborah Salsman, director of sales and marketing at the hotel, the absence of lodging establishments is a traditional anomaly of the city. “We didn’t have hotels back in the day, even with all of the industrial projects that were here,” she said, adding that a Holiday Inn once stood where Bob’s Discount Furniture is now based. Bridgeport’s only other current lodging establishment is the Sunnyside Inn, a small motel in a residential area that gained notoriety as the site of a February 2018 homicide case that was not solved for more than a year. Salsman noted the Holiday Inn Bridgeport began life in the early 1980s as a Hilton-branded establishment, but ran into immediate difficulties and was sold in 1988 for $10 million to Trefz Corp., which switched the brand to International Hotel Group’s (IHG) Holiday Inn banner. Within a year under its new management, the hotel experienced a new jolt of activity, with occupancy jumping from 25% to 40%. Downtown Bridgeport’s deficit of hospitality outlets has played to the hotel’s advantage. For example, Salsman noted the hotel’s dining room attracts many people from the courthouse across the street and from offices in the surrounding neighborhood. “Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of restaurants in the area, so we benefit from that,” she said. Salsman pointed out that the hotel is proactive in its efforts to attract business opportunities. With 10,000 square feet of meeting space and a 6,000-square-foot ballroom that divides into thirds, Salsman aggressively promotes the facilities to multiple audiences. “We are very competitive with weddings and gatherings for funerals,” she said. “We get graduations, mitzvahs, family reunions. We have a great reputation in the communi-
Holiday Inn at night. Photo courtesy of the Holiday Inn Bridgeport.
ty and the lower Fairfield County area.” The regional corporate, educational and nonprofit communities are also vital to the hotel’s conference business, she continued,
noting the local universities and hospitals regularly hold training sessions there. Bridgeport Hospital’s Center for Sleep Medicine takes up an entire floor at the hotel. On July 24, the hotel will host the National League of Cities’ three-day annual summer conference for Hispanic elected local officials. “The hotel chain IHG promotes us, so we can get leads,” Salsman said. “Networking is always the No. 1 means of promotion. The best form of advertising is word of mouth.” As part of the IHG, the hotel has to follow corporate directions regarding its interior design. “Last year we renovated the entire lobby,” Salsman said. “Working through renovation is always a challenge. We lost rooms that we used for storage.” Salsman also acknowledged that
Bridgeport’s longstanding stigma as being a city with a reputation for criminal activity has weighed on her work. “I won’t lie. It makes my job harder,” she admitted, adding that the hotel maintains a 24/7 security detail. “But once I bring people in here and they see this facility, their concerns are alleviated.” As for the high-profile hotel projects that are still in limbo, Salsman predicted the Holiday Inn Bridgeport would face a very different playing field if either or both of those efforts were completed. “It will hurt us at first, yes,” she said. “But they’re different markets, and it will also help us in the long run because of the different type of business we can get. Eventually, their rates are going to become so expensive … that it is going to benefit us.”
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Stamford’s Taylor Design: Local focus and an international reach BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com
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ike many companies these days, Stamford’s Taylor Design is dealing with cybersecurity threats. Not necessarily at the graphic design firm itself, but for its clients. “Website security has become a huge thing for companies all around the country — big ones and small ones alike,” said founder, president, creative director and namesake Dan Taylor. “Some of our clients have been hacked and we take steps to address that and to prevent it from happening in the future,” he said. “But I always feel like we’re one step behind the hackers — as soon as you get a solution in place they start trying to find ways around it.” Taylor Design is not a cybersecurity firm, but as its offerings include website design, it has tried to implement recommendations from the General Data Protection Regulation, a guideline in European Union law on data protection and privacy for all individual citizens of the EU and the European Economic Area. The firm expends most of its efforts on building brand identities based on such factors as real-time analytics, one-to-one customer connections and sales and marketing goals — always with plenty of input from clients. “We don’t use templates for our work,” Taylor said. “We work closely with our clients, which tends to be time-consuming as we go back and forth.” Such creativity can take from four to six weeks for logo projects and up to six months for websites, depending on the project, he said. “We do everything from
scratch,” he said. “We’re a very custom shop. Everything we do is from the ground up, which means our prices can be a little higher than some of our competitors.” The firm has mined success for a variety of clients, ranging from Purchasebased air cargo company Atlas Air to pharmaceutical companies Boehringer Ingelheim in Ridgefield and Alexion in New Haven to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. It also regularly produces annual reports, videos, learning modules and publications for such organizations as Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University and Hartford Art School. “That’s typically a very defined cycle of marketing,” he said. “They have open houses in the fall and spring, so most of our work tends to be pinned to that. “Most of our efforts are in the New York metro area, but we also have clients in St. Louis, Miami, Freepoint Commodities, which is in Stamford, but has an office in Houston, and Northwestern Hospital in Chicago. Atlas Air is in Singapore and Hong Kong, so sometimes we have to translate our work into several languages. It seems like everyone’s all over the place.” The health care and pharma sectors have been particularly good to the company of late, he said. “Once you do a project for one company, another one (in the same field) will get in contact,” he said. “There’s a lot of word of mouth and referrals that we rely upon.” A new niche market is fish farms, “if you can believe it,” he laughed. Taylor Design has done branding and websites for Waterbury’s Ideal Fish, which specializes in branzino, and Hudson Valley
Fisheries in Hudson, New York, whose wares are mostly freshwater species like New York steelhead trout. “They both sell to restaurants in Boston and New York and to places like Whole Foods,” he said. Taylor himself worked at a number of New York graphic design firms for about 10 years, “until I decided I was bumping my head on the ceiling, if you will.” After buying a house in Stamford, “I started commuting and decided I didn’t like that very much, so I went out on my own.” Established in 1992, Taylor Design — located at 247 Main St. — employs about a dozen people. “The people we hire are the top people in their class,” he declared. “We’re fortunate that the people we interview have portfolios, but we also talk with faculty about who the top people coming out of school really are.” The firm typically draws its talent from the University of Hartford, Syracuse University and Taylor’s alma mater, the Rochester Institute of Technology, among others. Taylor said he usually attends initial meetings with new clients, after which “it becomes a team effort. I serve as the creative director and there’s a senior designer and a designer and programmer — usually a team of three or four.” Social media and email campaigns continue to grow for Taylor Design, he said. “We help create thought leadership, all in a very integrated way, to help generate leads for those companies,” he said. The trick, he added, is not to be too overt with the messaging. “Instead of just plastering a company’s name out there, you have to be creative to get your message across, especially with younger people,” he noted.
Leasing begins at renovated 86 Main St. in Yonkers BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com
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easing of space in the newly renovated office building at 86 Main St. in Yonkers is underway. The building is owned by AMS Acquisitions, a New York City-based real estate investment firm. The Class A 6-story office building is across the street from the Metro-North Railroad station. The building contains more than 70,000 square feet and features a brick exterior with large windows. The owner says the available spaces have high ceilings and open floor plans with floor-toceiling windows that overlook the Hudson River and Jersey Palisades. There are 3,000 square feet of retail space available on the first floor. Citibank occupies one of the retail spaces on the ground level. The second floor is fully vacant with 11,139 square feet
available. On the third floor, Magnificat Publishing is in 6,000 square feet and Care Design has 3,000 square feet, leaving 2,580 square feet available. Floors 4, 5 and 6 are fully vacant, with 12,273 square feet each. The structure was originally built for Homes for America in 2005, and was bought by AMS Acquisitions for $9.5 million in January 2018 from Madison Realty Capital. After receiving city approvals, AMS did significant renovations to the building, including adding the floor-toceiling windows on the top three floors. The building’s amenities include a roof deck with views of the Hudson River and George Washington Bridge and a gym. AMS also owns 92 Main St., which it purchased in 2017. Norman Bobrow, David Badner and Jonathan Kershner of Norman Bobrow and Company are handling the leasing.
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The new IRS rule requires anyone making charitable contributions to remove from their federal charitable contribution deduction any state and local tax credits they may receive. New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of New York, said, “The IRS’ move to end tax benefits for charitable giving is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to unfairly target hardworking taxpayers of states like New York.” The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. It describes what the IRS did as a “radical break” from historic precedent and says the rule is not within the statutory authority of the IRS, is a violation of the federal Administrative Procedures Act and is “arbitrary.” James said, “We will not stand idly by as this administration throws out decades of historic precedent putting our local economies, education systems and other critical programs at risk. My office stands firm against this unlawful attack and will do everything in our power to ensure that
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same period a year ago. The average selling price for condos soared 14.8% to $481,557 with the median price up 8.1% at an even $400,000. Co-ops gained 6.4% in the average sale price to $217,489 with the median price in the second quarter of 2019 up 5.9% to $180,000 when compared with the second quarter of last year. Single-family sales stood at 1,496 for the second quarter, down from the 1,551 sold in the second quarter of 2018. The average selling price also declined, down 4% to $885,701. The median selling price dropped 1.1% from 2018’s second quarter, coming in at $705,000. In Orange County, condo sales were up 2.7% at 114 units with the average selling price up 19.6% at $214,606 and the median sale price up 16.1%
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The Trump administration’s SALT policy is an economic civil war that helps red states at the expense of blue states. — Andrew Cuomo
state taxpayers are protected.” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said, “Our Legislature sought to ease the financial burden this cap has on residents by passing a law to protect our taxpayers. The IRS final rule not only undermines those legislative efforts but it eliminates the state’s ability to mitigate the harmful effects of this law. Our office stands ready to protect Connecticut taxpayers.” Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said, “The federal tax reforms approved by Congress were promoted as a tax cut, but in reality they’ve resulted in a tax hike for millions of citizens, including thousands here
at $195,000. Single-family sales, however, dropped 10.9% to 851 units with the average selling price up 2.8% at $282,301 and the median price up 5.6% at $265,000. In Dutchess County, the condo market was on the plus side with closed sales up 6.4% at 149, the average sales price up 2.9% at $209,415 and the median selling price up 3.7% at $184,000. There was a 10.4% drop in sales of single-family homes to 500 with a 4.8% drop in the average selling price to $324,752 and a 2.7% gain in the median sale price to $288,500. In Putnam County, the average selling price of single-family homes remained essentially flat at $396,425 with 7% more sold in the second quarter of 2019 than in the same period of 2018. The median sales price moved up 3.5% to $366,250, accord-
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in Connecticut. This was a purely partisan bill and — let’s be frank — aimed directly at blue states like Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. It’s unfair, discriminatory and unconstitutional.” Cuomo noted that a separate lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the SALT policy is ongoing. “The Trump administration’s SALT policy is an economic civil war that helps red states at the expense of blue states,” he said. Cuomo said the new IRS rule contradicts existing federal tax law that says state choices to provide tax incentives for charitable donations do not affect the federal deductibility of those gifts. “The IRS regulations lack any basis in the law, upend decades of precedent without authorization from Congress, and target programs established by New York and other states to incentivize charitable contributions,” Cuomo said. “New York already sends $36 billion more to Washington than we get back every year. And thanks to the Republicans’ SALT cap, New Yorkers are being used as ATMs, footing an additional $15 billion each year that will be redistributed to red states and corporations.”
LETTER TO THE EDITOR July 13 blackout may offer a look at New York’s future t lasted only a few hours, but the July 13 blackout in New York City was a harbinger of worse things to come. On the 42nd anniversary of the enormous 1977 blackout and 16 years after the 2003 blackout, the energy infrastructure of America’s largest city remains vulnerable. This time, power was restored within hours and catastrophe was averted. We can anticipate, however, that our aging transmission grid will combine dangerously with dwindling resources and rising demand to make blackouts more frequent. New technologies make our lives better — but they eat up a lot of electricity. Yet while New York should be expeditiously adding new sources of generation, we’re actually losing them and not replacing them fast enough. When
Indian Point shuts down in 2021, 2,000 megawatts of reliable 24/7 power will be gone. The immediate replacement for Indian Point is natural gas — but with Albany doing everything it can to slow or stop new plants and pipelines coming online, we’ll likely be looking outside our state for a substantial portion of our electricity. That, in turn, means our old, fragile and insufficiently updated transmission grid will be even more stressed than it is now. Mechanical failures like the one we saw this month are com-
mon. Our government must prioritize investment in renewing and upgrading power lines and control systems throughout the state — a huge undertaking, most of which has been too-long delayed. Today’s circumstances tell us New York can count on more outages — but we can’t count on them being as localized as the last one. What we should be able to count on is an energy infrastructure prepared for the 21st century— and 19 years into that century, it’s past time for Albany to act. Arthur “Jerry” Kremer served in the New York State Assembly from 1966 to 1988, eventually becoming chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, a position he held for 10 years. He now serves as chairman of the New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance (New York AREA), a coalition of business, labor and community leaders and organizations.
$450,000. Condos saw average selling prices jump 16.4% to $297,223 while the median selling price went up 16.1% to $252,000. “We have right now a classic sellers’ market in the condo and co-op markets,” Rand said. “We have extremely low inventory, historically low rates, high
levels for demand, a strong economy and that is driving really strong sales and price appreciation in the condo and co-op markets.” Rand suggested the single-family market also would be soaring were it not for the SALT deduction cap. That provision in the tax reforms passed in 2017 when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress limits deductibility of state and local taxes to $10,000 on federal income tax returns. “I think a lot of buyers in the higher end are spooked by the SALT cap. They’re at income levels that make it much more likely they’ll itemize their taxes. The average homebuyer buying a $300,000 home is probably making $100,000, maybe a little bit more. That person probably takes the standard deduction. So, you go to Orange County, you
go to Dutchess County, you go farther upstate, the SALT cap doesn’t really affect most homebuyers because they’re not really itemizing their deductions anyway. But, in Westchester, where the average sale price is $800,000, almost everybody in the higher single-family market itemizes their taxes and they’re spooked by the SALT cap,” he said. Rand said while the higher end of the market may be comparatively slow, it’s not terrible and the lower end of the market is very strong. “You’re seeing a lot of activity at the open houses, a lot of activity on the phones,” he said. “Everywhere, except the very high end of the market, you’ve got a pretty strong sellers’ market. It’s just that it’s being masked by the weakness at the high end.” — Peter Katz
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ing to the report. Rockland County experienced declines in the number of sales in both the single-family and condo segments, down 1.9% and 5.4% with 459 and 123 closed sales, respectively. The average price for a single-family home was down 3.7% at $491,513 and the median price was down 4% at
HERS SnapDragon design firm rises from the ashes of HMS in Fairfield BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com
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new direction and new ownership have resulted in a new name for a global brand design firm in Fairfield. “Snapdragons are the truth tellers of flowers,” said Elle Morris, newly minted owner, president and CEO of SnapDragon Brand Design Consultancy at 10 Sasco Hill Road, referring to the Victorian era, when flowers were often imbued with symbolic meaning. “They survive in rough terrain, and are also a British colloquialism for ‘assertive women.’ ” Morris, who has spent her entire 20-plus-year career in creative and marketing ser-
vices, joined what was then HMSDesign in March 2017 as CEO, a title specifically created for her by then-owner Hugh Montgomery, with the responsibility of modernizing the company. “HMS was a traditional packaging design firm when I joined,” she said. “Hugh and I agreed that I would evolve the business model and eventually buy the company from him.” SnapDragon now offers digital and retail design for clients that require a more holistic view of their brand, in addition to brand strategy, package design and identity development, Morris said. “The industry has changed,” she said. “I believed that we would be more viable if we became a strategy-led
agency instead of being solely focused on packaging.” Morris came to HMS following an 18-month stint as president of the Americas for New York-based Elmwood Design, an international design consultancy company, where she won such clients as Lidl, SC Johnson and Russell Hobbs. Before that she was vice president and managing director of key global accounts at independent brand design agency LPK, where she helped build, expand and revitalize brands around the globe like Herbal Essences, Gillette, Olay, Pantene and Head & Shoulders. That international experience is being fully deployed at SnapDragon, she said, which maintains a network
of roughly 50 freelancers worldwide in addition to the nine employees in Fairfield. “We’re very careful about vetting who we put on our bench,” Morris said. “Generally we prefer working with people with whom one of us has a personal relationship, or with whom we’ve worked previously.” SnapDragon’s senior staff includes: Vice President, Client Services Kelly Glotzer; Vice President of Strategy Jennifer Murtell; and Client Strategy Director Tina Kunkel, all of whom have 15 to 20 years of corporate experience. The female-centric approach is no accident. “This is an industry that has traditionally been driven by men,” she said, “but women
are the drivers of the majority of purchases in households when it comes to consumer packaged goods. And that’s one thing that differentiates us from our competitors.” However, SnapDragon is not a women-only business. “We have a couple of wonderful gentlemen here,” including Creative Director Joe DiMeo and Associate Creative Director Ben Jura, she said. Carrying over from HMS are such clients as HP Hood, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze, Sargento, Henkel, Hain Celestial, ColgatePalmolive, good2grow Kids Beverages, Reily Foods and Strength of Nature Haircare. “We’re a boutique firm that’s competing with mid-tier agencies,” Morris said.
“But while those firms may have 150 to 200 people in their offices globally, we don’t have their overhead, so we can give clients a similar experience without the cost. “Our mission is to have our clients succeed, so while they may fall in love with a plan, we can say whether it’s viable and can suggest other ways to achieve their goals.” One other difference is SnapDragon’s lack of a strict hierarchy, Morris added. “It sounds corny, but we really are a family here,” she said. “We all really enjoy working together, and we hang out at each other’s family barbecues every other weekend. We’re all friends. We don’t have the politics that exist at other organizations.”
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IN BRIEF | Fairfield County Connecticut leaders urge AG Tong to challenge ruling on Tweed Airport runway expansion
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The Democrat and Republican leaders of the Connecticut Senate have teamed up to urge state Attorney General William Tong to challenge a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that would allow Tweed New Haven Airport to expand the length of its main runway to accommodate new commercial air routes. The court issued a 23-page decision that voided a 2009 state statute limiting the airport’s runway to 5,600 feet. The decision, which overturned a lower court ruling against the airport, acknowledged that Tweed’s runway is “one of the shortest commercial airport runways in the country” and determined that the final determination on its runway length lies with the Federal Aviation Administration and not the state. A bill that would have allowed for the runway expansion failed to make headway in the just-concluded legislative session. Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) and Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano (R-North Haven) sent a letter to Tong urging him to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court — the next step in the judicial appeal process — by arguing that they had “serious concerns with the conclusion that a state statute regulating the length of runways is always superseded by the Federal Aviation
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Administration Act.” They also accused supporters of the runway expansion of engaging in “blatant disregard and multiple attempts to circumvent the state law passed in 2009 and the contract signed by all parties.” Gov. Ned Lamont cited upgrading Tweed as part of his proposals to strengthen the state’s transportation infrastructure, but he made no public comment on either the court ruling or the senators’ request for legal intervention. Tong did not comment on the senators’ request, but the legislators suggested that the attorney general would be displaying weakness in leadership if he failed to heed them.
LAMONT: SEBAC PACT WILL PUT CONNECTICUT ON ‘FIRMER FINANCIAL GROUND’
A new agreement with the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) will provide Connecticut with hundreds of millions of dollars in budgetary relief over the next decade, according to Gov. Ned Lamont. The agreement means the administration has achieved the pension savings reflected in the fiscal year 2020-21 biennial budget that Lamont signed into law last month. According to the governor, it will result in a budgetary savings in the general fund for each fiscal year through 2032 of between $115 million and
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$121 million. It will also create a savings in the special transportation fund of $15.7 million in fiscal year 2020 and $19.7 million in fiscal year 2021. Additionally, current law requires that once the budget reserve fund equals 15% of the general fund budget, which is anticipated by the end of fiscal year 2021, any additional surplus funds would be directed to paying down the unfunded liability of the State Employees Retirement Fund or the Teachers’ Retirement Fund — in addition to required contributions — or to pay down outstanding debt. “The pension liability we face is decades in the making and will take decades to resolve,” Lamont said. “This executed agreement honors the spirit of the original agreement transitioning to a level-dollar amortization while flattening the trajectory of the state’s annual employer share of our pension costs without affecting benefits for any current or future employees,” Office of Policy and Management Secretary Melissa McCaw said. “This will allow the state significantly more sustainability in budgeting, honoring our commitment while in alignment with revenue growth, which is helpful in the near term and for the decades ahead. “Connecticut has faced pension problems for generations,” McCaw continued, “and the agreement announced today is in furtherance of the state’s commitment to a sustainable financial path while working towards a healthier and well-funded retirement system for our employees.” Under the agreement, the transition to a “level dollar” actuarially determined employer contribution (ADEC) is maintained and the entire pension liability is fully funded by 2047, consistent with the original agreement. The only change is that the pension liability attributable to those pensions earned as of 1984 will be fully funded by 2047 instead of by 2032 under the current plan. That provides the state
with a flat ADEC for the majority of the years leading up to 2047, which the governor’s administration said was critically important in maintaining the state’s commitment to funding such pension liability and balancing fiscal resources. The administration will submit the agreement to the General Assembly for its approval, as state statutes contemplate such a submission if an amendment to a prior agreement has additional costs, even though in this case the near-term cost impact is to achieve savings. However, the governor’s office said, there is an opportunity cost to the lower annual ADEC. “I refuse to take a passive approach and sit on the sidelines when faced with the need to make reasonable adjustments to address the state’s structural deficits,” Lamont said. In another remark, presumably aimed at Republican Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano — who had derided the $43.4 billion budget as out of balance, partly as it counted on labor concessions “yet to be agreed upon in concept, let alone achieved” — Lamont said, “Some may have doubted our ability to achieve the budgeted pension savings, but here we are, and I am sure even they will enthusiastically agree that today’s news positions our state on firmer financial ground well into the next decade.”
SURVEY: NEARLY HALF OF CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS ARE ‘LIKELY’ TO LEAVE WITHIN FIVE YEARS
An increasing number of Connecticut residents are looking elsewhere with the possibility of pointing their moving vans beyond the state line. According to the latest InformCT Consumer Confidence Survey conducted by the Connecticut Economic Research Center covering the second quarter of this year, 47% of respondents said it was likely they would be moving out of the state within the next five years. This ties the fourth quarter 2018 level as the high-
est in the survey’s history. When asked if they agreed with the statement, “Connecticut is a good place to live and raise a family,” only 44% of respondents offered an affirmative response, down from 47% in the previous quarter. However, 73% of respondents believed Connecticut’s business conditions are better or the same compared to six months ago, slightly up from the previous quarter, while the 16% share who felt jobs are very hard to get in Connecticut was the lowest percentage since the quarterly survey began in 2015. When asked if their financial well-being was better today than six months ago, 35% of respondents said yes and 23% said no — an improvement from the first-quarter results when 33% said they were worse off and 26% said they were better off. As for the next six months, 43% said they expected to be better off while 16% expected they will be worse off financially. In the first quarter, that comparison was 37% to 18%. “Connecticut residents can best be described as uneasy,” said Alissa DeJonge, vice president of research at the Connecticut Economic Research Center. “They’re feeling better in some ways, but not in others. They have a definite preference of how the state should help fill jobs that may be coming, and their own personal financial situation is looking up. But they’re less sure of the state’s economic prospects and whether they’ll stick around, even as they say the job picture has brightened.” The online survey was conducted in late June and consisted of input from 505 state residents and has a margin of error of 4%.
VINEYARD VINES’ STAMFORD HQ BUILDING SOLD FOR $33.5 MILLION
Real estate investment firm Rubenstein Partners, in partnership with George Comfort & Sons, have sold 181 Harbor Drive in Stamford for $33.5
million to a pair of New York real estate investment firms. The 91,040-square-foot building, which will continue to serve as the headquarters of clothing company Vineyard Vines, was bought by Melohn Group and Drake Street Partners. Jeffrey Dunne, Steven Bardsley and Travis Langer of CBRE’s Institutional Properties Group represented the sellers and procured the buyer. Rubenstein and George Comfort & Sons will maintain ownership of the other five buildings in the Shippan Landing complex, which are undergoing a $40 million renovation. Rubenstein, based in Philadelphia, bought the 12-story, approximately 450,000-square-foot office building at 600 Washington Blvd. for $163 million in June.
KOHL’S BUILDING IN FAIRFIELD PART OF 3-PARCEL, $12.5 MILLION SALE
The Kohl’s building at 290 Tunxis Hill Road in Fairfield was part of a $12.5 million, three-parcel, off-market sale to Tunxis Hill LLC, according to Westport-based commercial real estate broker Vidal/ Wettenstein. Kohl’s has been at the 101,402-square-foot property since Caldor exited about 20 years ago. Also part of the transaction was Russell Speeder Car Wash at 620 Villa Ave., which has been there since 1964. “It is especially gratifying for me to complete this transaction, because I worked at the Villa Avenue Car Wash in 1969,” Vidal/Wettenstein partner Bruce Wettenstein said. The deal also included a 1.07-acre parking lot on Greenfield Street. Attorney Marshall Goldberg of Stamford-based Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky represented the seller, while Dana Friedman of Milford law firm Harlow, Adams & Friedman represented the buyer. — Kevin Zimmerman and Phil Hall
White Plains-based Combe sued for $5M for alleged defects in Just For Men hair coloring BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com
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hree men who used Just For Men hair coloring say there are many more like them who may have been injured by the product made by Combe Inc. of White Plains. Ray Du Boc Ali, Izell McCloud and Clemon Williams filed a class-action lawsuit against Combe on July 2 in federal court in White Plains, alleging defective product design and seeking more than $5 million from the consumer products company. “The Just For Men ( JFM) hair dyes are more dangerous than an ordinary consumer would expect,” the complaint states, due to “potential for serious allergic response and the risk of scarring, vitiligo and other significant permanent injury.” Anthony M. Santini, senior vice president and general counsel of Combe, said in an email, “We believe the plaintiffs’ claims have no merit and we will vigorously defend this lawsuit.” Santini said JFM products have been on the market since 1987, with millions of satisfied consumers, and they fully comply with all regulatory and legal requirements. “The safety and efficacy of our products and the satisfaction of our customers, is paramount to our company,” he said. The lawsuit alleges that JFM instructions are false and misleading, the products are marketed more as a medicine than a cosmetic, and consumers are being exposed to “human experimentation for no
confirmed benefit.” The men claim they were injured in 2015. After applying JFM black dye to his beard, Ali, of Bossier City, Louisiana, claims his face began itching, he noticed skin flakes in his beard and his face began to sting, burn and swell. Over the following days, his skin allegedly became hard and scabbed, and he was left with permanent discoloration. He contacted Combe, the complaint states, and a representative took pictures of him and said he would be provided with a dermatologist. He claims he never got the promised medical care. McCloud, of Palatka, Florida, applied JFM to his goatee. After a few minutes his face itched and burned, he claims, and he immediately washed his goatee. But his face allegedly continued to itch, burn, crack and peel. His chin and lower lip were discolored from dark brown to white, from loss of pigmentation in a condition called vitiligo. He claims Combe referred him to a dermatologist who discouraged him from attributing the injury to JFM. Williams, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, said he tested the dye on his arms, as recommended in the instructions, waited 48 hours, saw no reaction and used it on his beard. A few days later, his face allegedly became itchy and swollen, his skin oozed and he experienced severe pain. He was admitted to a hospital for four days. Now he has permanent scarring and skin discoloration, according to the complaint. The suspected substance in JFM is p-phenylenedi-
amine (PPD). Even when used as directed, the complaint states, PPD can cause mild to serious injuries, ranging from rashes to life-threatening anaphylactic shock. The chemical is allegedly like coal tar dye that requires a warning label. The JFM label cautions users to do a 48-hour skin allergy patch test before using the product. By requiring a patch test — to diagnose, mitigate or prevent a disease — Combe is promoting JFM as a drug, the complaint states. The test described in the instructions is not actually a patch test, according to the complaint, the testing procedure is undefined, and customers have no training in interpreting the results. Users are also unlikely to do the test, because they have to leave the site uncovered and unwashed for two days, and must test themselves before every use. The test itself, the complaint states, can expose the customer to 35 times more PPD than a standard patch test. The complaint asks whether Combe has failed to comply with the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, whether the instructions are adequate, and whether the risks of using JFM outweigh the benefits. The law firm that represents the men — Berg Simpson Eldlredge Hersh & Jardine of Denver — said it already represents 140 people who qualify as members of a class-action lawsuit. It is asking the court to certify the class, and it is demanding damages for their injuries, emotional distress and loss of enjoyment of life.
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ASK ANDI Interviewing done right WE DON’T HAVE AN INTERVIEW PROCESS. WE’RE HAPHAZARD AND I THINK THAT LEADS TO SOME OF THE HIRING PROBLEMS WE’VE HAD. WOULD LIKE TO GET A LOT BETTER AT INTERVIEWING AND HIRING THE RIGHT PEOPLE FOR MY COMPANY. CAN YOU HELP? THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Lay out a process that you can use every time. Consider testing to gain some insight. Decide who should be involved in the interviews, and in what order. Keep evaluating your process to compare results and see how to improve. Think through the steps your company goes through to hire a candidate once you have applicants to look at. Make sure you can get multiple looks at the candidate to see if they’re consistent across all meetings and conversations. If you’re in a low-unemployment economy, plan to work quickly to move through interviews, check references, refine the job offer and negotiate salary. Don’t get into job specifics at first. Rather, spend time finding out the candidates’ backgrounds. Compare that background to the ideal job description to see if there’s a fit, without giving away too much detail to the candidate, to limit how much they craft their descriptions to meet your needs. Be clear up-front about the range of job compensation and say that compensation is based on how well the candidates’ experiences match the job you’re looking to fill. Be careful about asking for historical salary from candidates as that’s now an illegal question in some states. Think about using tests to gain insight and create questions you can put to the candidates. You can baseline your company by asking current employees to go through the tests, then compare how can-
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didates answer questions to your current base of employees. That can be a mixed bag, as you want diversity in your workforce but you also want a cohesive culture. As owner and head of the firm, you probably don’t want to be doing the first interview, even if it’s a top-tier candidate. Ask someone else in the company to meet with candidates first and get a feel for them. Develop scripts to use for each of three interviews. Have someone in each interview who takes notes, or consider taping interviews. Just get the candidate’s permission to use the recording device. Use a lot of repeat questions to see if candidates remain consistent throughout the interview process. As you go through interviews, take time to debrief how the interviews are going. Check on candidates post-hire — the ones you hired and the ones you let go if you can keep track of them. Look for the most successful candidates, pull out the interview notes to
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Joining Westchester County Executive George Latimer will be Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone. New York Times Reporter Lisa Foderero will be the moderator of the program.
On September 13, the BCW’s Political Leadership Series will present the first‑ever “3 County Summit” featuring the county executives of Westchester, Suffolk and Nassau counties. The program will be held at the Crowne Plaza in White Plains from 8:00 – 9:30 am.
“The Business Council of Westchester is very excited to be presenting this important and highly informative program where the region’s three leading county executives will discuss the challenges facing today’s county governments. Among the topics to be discussed will
be transportation, economic development, taxes and finding new sources of revenue,” said BCW President and CEO Marsha Gordon. “The three counties share a great deal in common in the critical issues they are facing in this new era of change. We are looking forward to a lively and timely discussion,” Gordon added. The “3 County Summit” is being sponsored by Empire City Casino, Thalle Industries, Levitt-Fuirst Insurance and Verizon. For more information about this Political Leadership Series program, visit thebcw.org
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About The Business Council of Westchester
George Latimer Westchester County Executive
Laura Curran Nassau County Executive
Steven Bellone Suffolk County Executive
George Latimer became the ninth Westchester County Executive in 2018. His many years of public service include serving as City Councilman, County Legislator, Assemblyman, State Senator and now County Executive.
Laura Curran, who became Nassau County Executive in 2018, is the ninth County Executive in Nassau County history and the first woman elected to the office. Previously, she served as a member of Nassau County Legislature.
Steven Bellone, who has served as Suffolk County Executive since 2012, is the eighth County Executive in Suffolk County history. He previously served as Babylon Town Supervisor for 10 years.
The Business Council of Westchester is the county’s only business membership organization focusing on economic development and advocacy. It is the county’s largest and most prestigious business membership organization representing more than 1,000 members, including multinational corporations, hospitals, universities, biotech pioneers, not‑for‑profits, entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes. As the most influential economic development and advocacy organization in Westchester, The Business Council of Westchester’s members enjoy unparalleled access to today’s top thought leaders, diverse business development opportunities and lawmakers at all levels of government. The BCW Data Exchange provides the latest demographic research to help guide smart business decisions. The LEAP program, a one-of-a-kind initiative, gives members direct access to lobbying efforts at the county, state and national levels on issues that directly affect their businesses. Build, Connect and Win with The Business Council of Westchester. Visit thebcw.org to connect today. Visit thebcw.org to connect today.
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AKRF Inc.
34 S. Broadway, Suite 401, White Plains 10601 949-7336 • akrf.com
Arcadis
44 S. Broadway, ninth floor, White Plains 10601 694-2100 • arcadis-us.com
Barile Gallagher & Associates
39 Marble Ave., Pleasantville 10570 328-6060, ext. 2010 • bga-eng.com/contact-us/
Bohler Engineering PC
2929 Expressway Drive North, Suite 120, Hauppauge 11749 631-738-1200 • bohlerengineering.com
C&F Consulting Engineering PC 420 N. Broadway, White Plains 10603 683-7355 • cf-eng.com
Current Solutions PC
Mark B. Cavallaro principa and founder 1998
636 N. Broadway, White Plains 10603 347-8480 • currentsolutionspc.com
Divney Tung Schwalbe LLP
1 N. Broadway, Suite 1407, White Plains 10601 428-0010 • divneytungschwalbe.com
Empire Layout LLC
7 Evergreen Way, Pawling 12564 845-493-0015 • empirelayout.com
GEA Engineering PC
100 Airport Executive Park, Nanuet 10954 845-371-5522 • geaengineering.com
Grigg & Davis Engineers PC
21 Crossway, Scarsdale 10583 725-5095 • gdengineers.net
H2M
2700 Westchester Ave., Suite 415, Purchase 10577 631-756-8000 • h2m.com
Hillman & Miley Consulting Engineers PLLC
235 Mamaroneck Ave., Suite 302, White Plains 10605 428-0909 • hillmanmiley.com
Insite Engineering, Surveying and Landscape Architecture PC
3 Garrett Place, Carmel 10512 845-225-9690 • insite-eng.com
JMC Planning Engineering Landscape Architecture & Land Surveying PLLC
120 Bedford Road, Armonk 10504 273-5225 • jmcpllc.com
Andrew V. Tung, partner Gerhard M. Schwalbe, partner info@divneytungschwalbe.com 1972
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Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants PC 1279 Route 30, Newburgh 12550 845-563-9081 • tectonicengineering.com
VHB Engineering, Surveying and Landscape Architecture PC 50 Main St., Suite 360, White Plains 10606 467-6600 • vhb.com
Rich Humann, president and CEO compliance@h2m.com
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Affiliate corporation is GEA Environmental Consultants Inc., an environmental-consulting firm; services include water and environmental services
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Engineering work for commercial buildings, residential, public and parking facilities and health care and educational facilities, as well as retaining walls, structural repairs and other specialty structures
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Services include architecture, engineering, environmental, planning, wastewater and water
Kevin Miley, president info@hillmanmiley.com 1984
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Services range from retaining wall design to residential timber home designs and commercial steel design
Jeffrey J. Contelmo, senior principal engineer 1989
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Land development and consulting services for Westchester and Putnam counties, for industries, including hospitality, retail, corporate and residential
James A. Ryan, principal jryan@jmcpllc.com 1980
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Patrick F. Lynch, president plynch@olace.com 1974
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Site planning, landscape architecture, surveying, ✔ environmental studies, entitlements, construction services, laser scanning and 3D visualization services
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Services for numerous areas including transportation, energy, health care, environment, geology, waterfront ✔ and marine, demolition, education and government from a staff of more than 1,000 in 30 locations
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Engineering design and commissioning services in the areas of HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, electrical, energy and commissioning
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Engineering, analysis, procurement and management for field services, including structural, mechanical and HVAC, as well as program management
Don Benvie, president and CEO info@tectonicengineering.com 1986
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Multidisciplinary firm consisting of civil, structural, environmental and geotechnical engineers, geologists, scientists, surveyors and construction managers
Michael J. Carragher, president mcarragher@vhb.com 1999
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Transportation planning and engineering, land development, planning and design and environmental services
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Creative, comprehensive and sustainable engineering ✔ solutions, groundwater and environmental engineering services
This list is a sample of engineering firms that serve the region. If you would like to include your firm in our next list, please contact Peter Katz at pkatz@westfairinc.com. Note: Information compiled from company responses to our questionnaire, materials published by the company and other sources.
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LKolba@jmcpllc.com
Life-cycle engineering consulting, specialized global construction, base operations, security management, systems integration and intelligence solutions
Rongachan Nivas Srinivasaraghavan president info@savinengineers.com 1988
Gregory A. Kelly, president and CEO
KFisher@insite-eng.com
Markets serviced include education, energy, government, health care, industrial, leisure and amusement entertainment, maritime, public infrastructure and transportation
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WSP
4 Westchester Park Drive #175, White Plains 10604 694-5711 • wsp.com 555 Pleasantville Road, South Bldg., Briarcliff Manor 10510 747-1120 • wsp.com
Building inspection, consulting and environmental engineering firm serving the real estate industry
Planning, engineering, landscape architecture, environmental approvals and project management
Louise Grigg, president info@GDEngineers.net 1996
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3 Campus Drive, Pleasantville 10570 769-3200 • savinengineers.com
Land surveying, program management, landscape architecture, sustainable design, development services, facilities engineering, transportation services and NYC permit expediting Mechanical, electrical, telecommunications, plumbing and fire protection engineering design services
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Brian A. Lutes, president and CEO 1940
Savin Engineers
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50 Broadway, second floor, Hawthorne 10532 747-2800 • olace.com
Consulting engineering services for HVAC, plumbing, ✔ fire protection and electrical systems on institutional, commercial, municipal and multifamily projects
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Malcolm G. McLaren president and CEO 1977
OLA Consulting Engineering
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Electrical engineering support services for facility power distribution systems; services include power✔ system analysis and studies, electrical-power systems design and development, project and construction management and electrical-system training
McLaren Engineering Group
11 Martine Ave., Suite 675, White Plains 10606 539-4800 • mbakerintl.com
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Robert A. Nardone, surveyor RobertANardone@empirelayout.com 2011 Steven Gamelsky, president 1988
Acoustics, noise and vibration; air quality and climate change; cultural and natural resources; geotechnical and marine engineering; public outreach; traffic and transportation Architecture, master planning and sustainable urban development, contract solutions, cost management, regulatory compliance and environmental, transportation and water solutions
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Michael Baker International
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Langan
100 Snake Hill Road, West Nyack 10994 845-353-6400 • mgmclaren.com
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David T. Gockel president and CEO 1970
707 Westchester Ave., Suite 304, White Plains 10604 323-7400 • langan.com
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Michael J. Connors, principal 2004 James E. Carnicelli, president carnellclientrep@aol.com 1969
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Laurence J. Barile, president icyril@bga-eng.com 1972
Carnell Engineering
7-11 Legion Drive, Suite G3, Valhalla 10595 946-4300 • carnellengineering.com
mechanical
Mile Lee, president Karen Franz, CEO info@akrf.com 1981 Joachim Ebert CEO and COO ausinternet@arcadis.com 1888
Ludwig Bohler Founder and advisor lbohlery@bohlereng.com 1981
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Firm specialty geotechnical
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ENGINEERING FIRMS
aguadron@olace.com
Sales rise, prices drop in second-quarter Fairfield County housing market BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com
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he number of second-quarter sales in Fairfield County’s housing market increased year over year after five straight quarters of declines while listing inventory fell year over year for the first time in three quarters, according to data released by Douglas Elliman Real Estate. Year-over-year sales prices dropped during the second quarter. The average sale price in Fairfield County for all residential properties during the second quarter was $639,033, up from the first-quarter price of $545,179, but down from the $675,269 in the second quarter of 2018. The median sale price of $420,000 was 16.8% higher than the previ-
ous quarter’s $359,450, but was 1.2% below the median price set one year earlier. The number of closed sales for all residential properties during the second quarter was 3,099, a 57.5% increase from the first-quarter total of 1,968 and a 0.4% rise from the 3,087 closed sales in the second quarter of 2018. The average number of days on market totaled 121 in the second quarter, down from the 137 days in the first quarter and close to the 119 days from one year earlier.
SINGLE-FAMILY PROPERTIES
The average sale price for a single-family Fairfield County home in the second quarter was $733,321, an 18.6% increase from the first quarter’s $618,118, but a 4.2% decline from the $765,537 price set in the second quarter of 2018. The median single-family sale
quarter’s 3,860 and slightly lower than the 4,864 listings in 2018’s second quarter.
CONDOMINIUMS
A house for sale in the town of Fairfield. Photo by Phil Hall.
price of $485,128 was a 15.5% uptick from the first quarter’s $420,000, but a 2.1% slide from the $495,650 price set one year earlier. A total of 2,383 single-family homes were sold in the first quarter, a 64.8% spike from the 1,446 transactions in the first quarter and only five fewer than the 2,388 sales in the previous year. There was also more inventory to work with. The second quarter’s 4,840 active listings were 25.4% higher than the first
In Fairfield County’s condominium market, prices were on the decline. The average sale price for condos in Fairfield County during the second quarter was $325,221, down 5.2% from the first quarter’s $343,127 and down 11.4% from the $366,883 in the second quarter of 2018. The median sale price of $263,200 for this sector was slightly lower than the previous quarter’s $265,000 but was substantially lower than the $280,000 price from one year earlier. There were 716 condos sold in the second quarter, more than the previous quarter’s 522 sales and more than the previous year’s 699 transactions. This sector’s
active inventory of 966 outpaced the first quarter’s 832 but was lower than the previous year’s 989.
LUXURY MARKET
In Fairfield County’s luxury market — which combines both single-family properties and condos for its total data — the second quarter’s average sale price of $2.36 million was an 18.6% increase from the first quarter’s $1.99 million, but it was lower than the $2.56 million from the second quarter of 2018. The median sale price of $1.94 million was a 23.1% spike from the previous quarter’s $1.58 million, but a 2.4% drop from the $1.99 million price of one year earlier. Sales activity in the luxury market totaled 310, up from the previous quarter’s 197 and only three less than the previous year’s total of
313 properties. The second quarter’s active listing inventory of 1,453 properties was lower than the first quarter’s 1,607 and almost equal to the 1,454 properties in 2018’s second quarter. Among the Fairfield County submarkets, Greenwich recorded the highest average sales prices for a single-family home at $2.5 million and for a condo at $976,320. “It’s encouraging to see Fairfield County sales up this quarter as well as the decrease in inventory,” said Scott Elwell, Douglas Elliman’s senior executive regional manager of Westchester and New England. “Market conditions are favorable, which is why we’re seeing more activity, and it makes sense to speculate that we’re now past the roughest part of the market adjustment to the new tax law.”
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FAIRFIELD COUNTY ENGINEERING FIRMS
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
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Artel Engineering Group LLC
Dainius L. Virbickas, owner artel@artelengineering.com 2001
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Site evaluation and feasibility, consulting, site planning and design and landscape development
Civil 1 Inc.
Curtis Jones, president info@civil1.com 1993
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Feasibility studies, master planning, site design, erosion control, stormwater management and septic system design
CME Associates
P. Bradford Cheney, president bradcheney@cmeengineering.com 1973 Bruce D. Tourigny president and CEO btourigny@cdallc.com 1989 Nic Cuoco, principal info@csellc.com 2002
304 Federal Road, Suite 308, Brookfield 06804 740-2033 • artelengineering.com 43 Sherman Hill Road, Suite D-101, Woodbury 06798 266-0778 • civil1.com 33 Wilbur Cross Way, Suite 105, Mansfield 06268 860-885-1055 • cmeengineering.com
Collective Design Associates 46 Riverside Ave., Westport 06880 299-0250 • cdallc.com
Cuoco Structural Engineers LLC
60 Katonah Drive, Suite 12, Fairfield 06824 362-1902 • csellc.com
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Accelerated bridge construction, construction services, ✔ highway and traffic engineering, structural engineering, land and surveying imaging Specializes in mechanical, including HVAC, plumbing and fire protection and electrical, power, lighting and communications
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Edward J. Frattaroli Inc.
Richard E. Frattaroli, principal info@frattaroli.com 1946
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Surveying and land planning
Fairfield County Engineering LLC
Wayne D'Avanzo, owner wayne@fairfieldce.com 2009
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Site plan development of single-family residences, residential subdivisions, commercial buildings, schools, hospitals and shopping centers
Fletcher Thompson Inc.
Michael S. Marcinek, Ray Savigny and John C. Oliveto, principals 1907 Kevin Grigg, president and CEO kgrigg@fando.com 1924 Ken Wagner and Jim DeLancey, vice presidents sales@hoffmanEngineering.com 1955
62 Mill River St., Stamford 06902 359-2235 • frattaroli.com 60 Winfield St., Norwalk 06855 831-8005 • fairfieldce.com
200 Main St., Ansonia 06401 751-9522 • fletcherthompson.com
Fuss & O'Neill
56 Quarry Road, Trumbull 06611 374-3748 • fando.com
Hoffman Engineering
8 Riverbend Drive, Stamford 06907 425-8900 • hoffmanengineering.com
Kohler Ronan Consulting Engineers LLC
Architecture and planning, interior design, engineering and ✔ consulting for market-focused sectors including education, college and university, corporate, government and health care ✔
Erik Bodelsen, principal ebodelsen@kohlerronan.com 1998
93 Lake Ave., Danbury 06810 778-1017 • kohlerronan.com
Practice areas include community, construction, energy, environment, facility, infrastructure and manufacturing
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LANDTECH
Peter T. Romano, principal hello@landtechconsult.com 1979
Peterson Engineering Group
Donald C. Peterson, owner info@peg-eng.com 2008
Redniss & Mead Inc.
Richard W. Redness principal planner 1957
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Land surveying, civil engineering, planning and zoning and permitting
David Bjorklund, president 1977
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Land-development services and civil engineering services
S.E. Minor & Co. Inc
Peter Weiland, president info@seminor.com 1887
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Shevlin Land Surveying LLC
Michael Shevlin Jr., principal info@shevlinls.com 2012
518 Riverside Ave., Westport 06880 454-2110 • landtechconsult.com 25 Van Zant St., Norwalk 06855 810-4191 • peg-eng.com 22 First St., Stamford 06905 327-0500 • rednissmead.com
The SB Group
593 Main St., Monroe 06468 800-246-7113 • thesbgroup.com 81 Holly Hill Lane, P.O. Box 92, Greenwich 06830 869-0136 • seminor.com 165 Oyster Road, Fairfield 06824 218-5840 • shevlinls.com
Sound View Engineers & Land Surveyors LLC
239 Glenville Road, Suite 300, Greenwich 06831 532-1300 • soundviewengineers.com
Robert Torress, crew chief roberto@soundviewengineers.com 1972
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30 Oak St., Suite 400, Stamford 06905 352-1717 • edzuck.com
STV Incorporated
185 Plains Road, Suite 208E, Milford 06461 375-0521 • stvinc.com
Tighe & Bond
1000 Bridgeport Ave., Third floor, Shelton 06468 712-1100 • tighebond.com
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David E. Pinsky, president and CEO info@tighebond.com 1911
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Zieman Engineering LLC
Tom Zieman, principal info@ziemanengineering.com 1992
Services include land surveying, civil engineering, environmental science and planning and zoning
Water, bridges and community facilities
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Gregory A. Kelly, president and CEO
Full engineering services in mechanical HVAC, plumbing systems design, fire protection systems design and electrical systems and mission critical systems design
Engineering services include civil, structural and site development, as well as land-surveying services
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Milo E. Riverso, president and CEO 1912
4 Research Drive, Suite 204, Shelton 06484 944-5000 • wsp.com
350 Bedford St., Suite 408, Stamford 06901 356-9200 • ziemanengineering.com
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Environmental science, site planning, land surveying, ✔ permit coordination and management, coastal structures and construction management and financing
Surveying, including boundary services, improvement location ✔ surveys, data-accumulation surveys, property line and construction staking and hydrographic mapping
Peter Howe, vice president, regional leader, New England peter.howe@stantec.com 1929
Stantec
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This list is a sample of engineering firms that serve the region. If you would like to include your firm in our next list, please contact Peter Katz at pkatz@westfairinc.com. Note: Information compiled from company responses to our questionnaire, materials published by the company and other sources.
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Feds charge Newburgh nail polish maker with firing disabled workers
he Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Inc., a Newburgh nail polish manufacturer, fired two disabled workers who were capable of doing their jobs “with reasonable accommodations.” The lawsuit was filed July 17 in federal court in White Plains, one week after the Worker Justice Center of New York filed a similar complaint in Supreme Court in Orange County for one of the workers. Both lawsuits also name the parent company, Kirker Enterprises Inc. of Paterson, New Jersey. Kirker officials did not respond to email and phone messages requesting the company’s side of the story. Kirker is a subsidiary of RPM International Inc., an $8.15 billion specialty coatings and sealants manufacturer that is not named in the lawsuits. The EEOC complaint was filed on behalf of Javier Amigon and Concepcion Hernandez, “toppers” who placed caps on bottles of nail polish on the filling line. On busy days, according to the Worker Justice complaint, the production line processes more than 40,000 bottles of nail polish, or more than one bottle per second. Amigon’s left leg had been
amputated below the knee and his right foot was partially amputated following a 1985 assault. He worked from a stool and from time to time he prepared boxes and did other tasks while standing, “to keep the line running smoothly.” Kirker bought the factory from Concept Packaging Inc. in 2015. In January 2016, company managers allegedly forced all production line workers to stand while doing their jobs. Amigon’s stool was thrown out. After standing at work for a week, his wounds were bleeding and he was unable to continue. He was put on medical leave. He produced several doctors’ notes stating that he could work effectively while seated. The company allegedly told him that its rules prohibited use of a seat and he could not be given special treatment because that would create jealousy and unrest among his co-workers. On July 11, 2016, he was fired. In Hernandez’s case, her left foot had developed growths that limited her ability to stand or walk. The company approved a leave of three to four weeks for surgery, but when she asked for an additional week for
recovery, the EEOC complaint states, she was fired. A complaint filed with the EEOC in 2017 accused KTF of discrimination under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. The agency determined that KTF and Kirker were controlled by the same people: CEO Jeffrey Hersh and Controller Sharon Muzeni. In March, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe that the companies had violated the disabilities law. It asked them to discuss conciliation but was unable to reach an acceptable agreement, according to the complaint. The EEOC claims that Kirker and KTF fired Amigon and Hernandez because of their disabilities. It is demanding that they compensate their former employees with back pay and other losses, make reasonable accommodations so they can work and stop engaging in any practices that discriminate on the basis of disability. The Worker Justice complaint makes similar demands for Amigon, under the New York State Human Rights Law. Kirsten Peters of Manhattan is the trial attorney for the EEOC. John A. Marsella of Rochester is the Worker Justice attorney.
Westchester lawmakers approve $55.5M family court lease in New Rochelle
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estchester County legislators have approved a 30-year, $55.5 million lease for a courthouse in a structure yet to be built on a former industrial site in New Rochelle that might be contaminated. Westchester Family Court is housed at 420 North Ave., but it has to move before July 2021 when its lease expires. The deal approved by the county board of legislators on July 15 is for two floors and 35,000 square feet, or three times more than the current location, in a building proposed for 26 Garden St. The site encompasses five parcels in a triangular section between Garden Street, Cottage Place and the New England Thruway. Several parcels were bought by Mark 95 LLC, managed by Bronx-based developer Mark Stagg, who grew up in White Plains and lives in Harrison. The project is also being developed by Joseph Simone of Simone Development Cos. of the Bronx. Stagg is known primarily for residential projects and Simone for commercial work. The developers have proposed a residential and
office project, according to a New Rochelle permit application. Besides offices, the project includes a 24-story, 391-unit apartment building and parking for 489 cars. Fifty to 60 parking spaces would be allocated to the court. The courthouse lease calls for $40.4 million in rent over 30 years, plus $15.1 million in “additional rent,” for a total of $55.5 million. The additional rent covers $7 million to build the court facilities, common area charges, management fees and other costs. The rent schedule begins at $40.39 per square foot and culminates in year 30 at $70.25 per square foot. The property is classified as a brownfield site that is potentially contaminated with hazardous substances. The deal requires the developers to clean up any residual contamination before beginning construction. If the developers are unable to deliver the office space before July 2021, Westchester will be entitled to damages of $4,000 a day. If the deadline is missed by 90 days, the county may terminate the lease. Twenty-five sites were considered for the court-
house. The court is one of three family courts in Westchester, with Yonkers and White Plains, that handle adoptions, child custody, child support, domestic violence, guardianships and paternity issues. Divorces, annulments and separations are brought before Supreme Court. Last year, Westchester announced plans to relocate family court to a vacant building at 366 Pelham Road in New Rochelle, but Mayor Noam Bramson and others objected to the location as inconvenient and inaccessible. The Garden Street lots had been considered, but County Executive George Latimer noted last year, according to The Journal News, that developing an empty parcel is not as time effective or cost effective as moving into an existing building. Latimer issued a press release on July 15 noting that 26 Garden St. is close to the New Rochelle transit center and presents the ability to create a state-ofthe-art facility. “This is the best option,” he said, “for the taxpayers, the courts and the community.”
Chem Rx Pharmacy Services sues four Hudson Valley nursing homes for $1.5M
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hem Rx Pharmacy Services claims that four Hudson Valley nursing homes have refused to pay $1.5 million for goods and services. Chem Rx of Louisville, Kentucky, sued Middletown Park, Salem Hills, Sky View and Waterview Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Centers on July 1 in federal
court in White Plains. Lizer Jozefovic, an owner of the nursing homes and CEO of Epic Health Care ManagementLLC, an affiliate, did not respond to an email requesting comment. The nursing homes agreed to buy pharmacy-related goods and services for their residents, the complaint
states, exclusively from Chem Rx, from April 2013 to March 2020. In June 2018, the complaint states, Middletown, Salem Hills and Waterview stopped placing orders. In September 2018, Sky View did the same. The nursing homes had not objected to invoices
before payments were due, Chem Rx claims, and then allegedly refused repeated demands for payments. Chem Rx also claims the nursing homes have been, or will be, reimbursed by Medicare for a significant portion of the goods and services provided. The pharmacy company
accuses the nursing homes of unjust enrichment and breaches of contract for failure to pay bills and improper termination of the contracts. Middletown Park is in Middletown. Salem Hills and Waterview are in Purdys. Sky View is in Croton-on-Hudson. All four are owned by limited liability companies
controlled by Jozefovic and Mark Neuman. Also holding interests in one or more of the nursing homes, according to the complaint, are Samuel Brach, Robert Fagenson, Gerald Neuman, Baruch Singer and Michael Stynes. Chem Rx is represented by Louisville law firm Fultz Maddox Dickens.
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Will Facebook’s Libra tip the cryptocurrency scales? BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com
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n January 2018, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his blog to ponder the concept of cryptocurrency and its socioeconomic implications. “There are important counter-trends to this — like encryption and cryptocurrency — that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands,” he wrote. “But they come with the risk of being harder to control. I'm interested to go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects of these technologies and how best to use them in our services.” Last month, Zuckerberg’s pondering became a reality when Facebook formally announced Libra, which it dubbed a “new decentralized blockchain, a low-volatility cryptocurrency, and a smart contract platform that togeth-
er aim to create a new opportunity for responsible financial services innovation.” Almost immediately, the news of Libra’s creation generated a firestorm of angry comment out of Washington, D.C., led by President Donald Trump tweeting that Libra “will have little standing or dependability. If Facebook and other companies want to become a bank, they must seek a new Banking Charter and become subject to all Banking Regulations, just like other Banks.” Some of the president’s staunchest political rivals echoed his skeptical sentiments. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, accused Facebook of creating a project that “raises serious privacy, trading, national security, and monetary policy concerns for consumers, investors, the U.S. economy and the global economy.” And Sen. Sherrod
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Brown (D-OH), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, declared, “Facebook's motto is move fast and break things. They've moved fast and are helping to undermine our democracy. Now they're expecting us to trust them with our paychecks.” Perhaps a clarification is needed. Libra is not a Facebook subsidiary. Instead, it is being administered by the Libra Association, a Switzerland-
based entity consisting of 28 founding members, including Facebook, Mastercard, Visa, eBay, Lyft, Spotify, Uber Technologies, Vodafone Group, Coinbase Inc. and the nonprofit Women’s World Banking. Facebook will not run Libra, but will have a single vote in its governance along with the other founding members. Facebook said it hoped to expand the founding membership base to 100 before Libra’s planned official launch in 2020. Ben Ho, an economics professor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, observed that the governance of Libra stands in contrast to other entities in the sector. “Libra isn't quite the same as most cryptocurrencies on the market since control is centralized,” he said. “This actually makes sense to me. The decentralized nature of most crypto makes it incredibly costly and slow. More
centralization does mean we need more trust, but that's not a big deal. We trust institutions like banks all the time.” The core of this initiative is a currency unit called the libra. The association’s website stated its aim is to make the libra “as widely accepted and as easy to use as possible to create a currency that people can use with confidence and convenience in their everyday lives.” But Neil Howe, head of the demography sector at Hedgeye Risk Management in Stamford, was confused when the Libra project was first unveiled. “I didn’t know what to think of it,” mused Howe. “I didn’t know if it was a cryptocurrency or a Venmo-like thing as a means of funds transfer.” Most cryptocurrencies are produced through a process called “mining,” which uses special software to solve computationally challenging
puzzles. Units are mined in blocks and anyone can participate in building the block chain. Libra, however, is designed to have the backing of what it dubbed a “basket of currencies and assets,” including U.S. securities, which is meant to provide a degree of financial stability that is often absent in the volatile cryptocurrency space. The Facebook subsidiary Calibra is building a wallet application to enable Libra users to send funds to others or make purchases on Facebook and Instagram via Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger. Calibra will also function as a stand-alone app. “It could make it easier to buy stuff advertised on the Facebook site,” Howe added. At the moment, there are no plans to expand Libra into traditional retail, e-commerce or banking channels. And speaking of banks, there are none among the founding
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Libra Association entities. The Libra Association stressed the strength of its blockchain technology, citing its use of the Move programming language that puts a heavy emphasis on ensuring the security of the financial transactions. The organization’s website claimed that Move is designed to prevent assets from being cloned and can facilitate automatic proofs that transactions satisfy certain properties. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, Libra will not be introduced as a permissionless blockchain, where access can be granted to anyone to run a validator node. Instead, it will go live as a permissioned blockchain, which means anyone who meets the technical requirements can run a vali-
dator node — in this case, the association’s founders. Daniel Farkas, chairman of the Information Systems Department at Pace University in Pleasantville, believed this approach could mitigate the concerns that many people have about this technology and the financial vehicles it supports. “It is probably good in the long run for the blockchain and cryptocurrency world,” he said. “This will make more people aware of what the technology is.” “The attention that Facebook can bring to this industry is potentially unparalleled to any other company,” said Mark DiMichael, partner in the forensic, litigation and valuation services department at Citrin Cooperman, with offices in White Plains and Norwalk. “Virtually every-
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body has a Facebook account, so this can bring cryptocurrency to the masses.” But are the masses ready for this type of cryptocurrency, especially in this country? “It is probably something that I will never use,” said Scott Acheychek, president of Rex Shares LLC in Fairfield, who noted that Libra could find more popularity in the developing world. “There should be some kind of global currency that addresses unbanked people. The World Bank estimated that there are 1.7 billion adults who are unbanked in the world, but two-thirds of them own a mobile phone.” Hedgeye’s Howe theorized that Libra could be a significant player in the funds remittance market. “International transfers are now stupidly expensive,” he
complained. “Big banks charge absurd amounts to immigrants and expatriates. There is no reason why that is so costly, and this could be an interesting way to get around it.” But will it be able to circumvent existing systems and the regulations that shape their operations? “We still have governments and governments are not willing to let their currencies go,” warned Nicholas Coriano, partner at Bridgeport-based Cervitude Inc. “There is going to be a lot of negotiation before it is commercially available.” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is pushing back. “Libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability,” he told Congress earlier this month.
Powell is not completely dismissive, admitting Libra “does have potentially systemic scale. It needs a careful look, so I strongly believe we all need to be taking our time with this.” Citrin Cooperman’s DiMichael was pleasantly surprised by Powell’s attention regarding the subject. “I’m not sure that the Fed previously talked about cryptocurrency at all,” he said. “I was happy to hear Chairman Powell say in his testimony to Congress that the Fed will hold Libra to ‘the highest standard,’ ” added Gordon Boronow, assistant professor of business at Nyack College. “I am not sure what that means, but I like the fact that they are watching developments closely.” Yet there is still the Facebook connection, and
the company’s recent scandals involving data sharing, discriminatory practices in its housing advertisements and Russian interference in the 2016 election have not been forgotten, let alone forgiven, by many in Washington. Jaime Urteaga, founder and CEO at Digital Chair Inc. in White Plains, believed this will prevent Libra from being perceived as a stand-alone entity rather than a Facebook tool. “Everything points to Facebook,” he said. “It is going to be seen as their project.” Hedgeye’s Howe predicted the Facebook connection could hobble Libra in gaining federal regulatory approval. “Facebook is beginning to be the company everybody hates,” he quipped. “Democrats hate it because it is big. Republicans hate it because it is California crazy.”
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From left: CareMount Medical Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Special Projects Donna Montalto and CareMount Medical Director of Marketing and Communications Gina D’Angelo-Mullen.
CAREMOUNT’S DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS, PR AWARDS FINALIST Gina D’Angelo-Mullen, CareMount Medical’s director of marketing and communications, has been selected as a 2019 Top Women in Healthcare Awards finalist in the Director category by PR News and Access Intelligence LLC. The annual awards recognize the contributions and leadership of female health care executives who are advancing in their profession in meaningful and moving ways, with an impact on patients, customers and culture at large. D’Angelo-Mullen was recognized at the Top Women in Healthcare Awards Luncheon, held July 16 in New York City. In May 2019, CareMount Medical’s marketing department was awarded a Bulldog PR Award for its 2018 New Doctors campaign.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND ARTSWESTCHESTER ANNOUNCE $883,000 IN ARTS GRANTS Westchester County Executive George Latimer and the Westchester County Board of Legislators joined with artsWestchester to announce a list of 66 Westchester arts organizations and six artists who are the recipients of arts grants for 2019-2020. The county-supported grants, administered by artsWestchester, were presented on July 9. More than $883,000 was awarded to 72 grantees to support a diverse menu of arts programs and services throughout the towns, villages and cities of Westchester County.
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For many college students, time off is a chance to put down the books and take a vacation. But for those who are service-minded, who embody Iona College’s mission to “Move the World,” a break from school provides an opportunity for life-changing lessons as they venture to remote villages and impoverished communities around the globe in need of help. The Iona in Mission program each year offers dozens of students, faculty and alumni opportunities to embark on community service projects in places as far away as Zambia, India, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Ireland, and as close as Mississippi; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Camden, New Jersey; and Bridgeport, Connecticut. The goal is to provide hands-on experience in helping people in poor and marginalized communities. The work can consist of building homes, rebuilding areas devastated by natural disasters or taking care of the sick, undernourished, people with disabilities, immigrants and those in hospice care.
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NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR FOR PEEKSKILL CITY SCHOOLS Austin Goldberg has been appointed director of physical education, health and athletics for the Peekskill City School District. He will begin his new role Aug 14. With more than 15 years of experience in education and athletics, Goldberg spent 10 of those years in the East Ramapo Central School District where he was a teacher, basketball and volleyball coach as well as football, soccer, baseball and girls’ basketball coach. He was most recently with the Tuckahoe Union Free School District where he was its director of health, physical education and athletics.
Iona students (student trip leader Emma Moloney, center) this year visited Mazabuka, Zambia, where they worked with the Christian Brothers’ Changa Changa community school, the City of Joy home for at-risk girls, and accompanied home caregiver teams on visits to the elderly and people living with HIV/AIDS.
THE ARC WESTCHESTER HOSTS 70TH ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING The Arc Westchester, the county’s largest agency supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including those on the autism spectrum, and their families, recently hosted its 70th annual membership meeting at The Gleeson-Israel Gateway Center. More than 70 chapter members, invited guests, advocates, staff and board members were in attendance. The annual meeting acknowledged changes to the organization’s board of directors. John Barrett, managing director of the investment sales division of RM Friedland, was named the newest board member. In addition, The Richard P. Swierat Self-Advocate of the Year Award, named after The Arc Westchester former executive director, was presented to Suzette Burgher, who attends day services at the organization’s Sheib Center in Yonkers.
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Suzette Burgher accepts the Self-Advocate of The Year Award.
NEUROSURGEON JOINS HEALTH QUEST MEDICAL PRACTICE Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Cho has joined the Health Quest Medical Practice Division of Neurosurgery and is accepting new patients. He will treat patients at the city of Poughkeepsie office at 21 Reade Place, Suite 3100. Board certified in neurosurgery, Cho has practiced medicine for 20 years, 13 of which have been in the Poughkeepsie area. He most recently served as associate director of neurosurgery at MidHudson Regional Hospital, part of Westchester Medical Center, in Poughkeepsie. He received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, part of NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, and went on to complete his general surgical internship and neurosurgical residency at New York University School of Medicine. Cho lives in Hopewell Junction with two children and his wife, who is also a physician.
HOULIHAN LAWRENCE AGENTS HONORED AMONG AMERICA’S BEST
A. G. WILLIAMS AWARDED FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS
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STROKE DIRECTOR NAMED AT NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN LAWRENCE HOSPITAL Dr. Ugo Paolucci has been named stroke director of New York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville. A vascular neurologist, Paolucci will also serve as an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Paolucci joins NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital from Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey, where he served as a cerebrovascular disease specialist. Previously he held positions at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine.
From left: George P. Williams, CEO, A. G. Williams Painting Company; Brian Nolan, managing partner, Nolan Consulting Group; and George A. Williams, director of business administration, A. G. Williams Painting Company.
Its support of charities, religious institutions, nonprofit organizations and youth sports teams has brought honor to A. G. Williams Painting Company of Pelham. Recently, the company received a Summit Community Engagement Certified award from Nolan Consulting Group (NCG). Summit, the flagship program of
NCG, based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, is a national peer group of top painting and building trades companies. The criteria for the Summit Community Engagement certification include donating time, money and effort, giving back to community partners. Founded in 1906, A. G. Williams is a
full-service professional painting contractor with a long history of helping others. In 2018, A. G. Williams donated more than $100,000 in painting services to charitable endeavors and another $43,000 to support local nonprofit organizations. That puts the total amount of donations since 2006 at $1.2 million.
ROBERT MARTIN HOSTS BROKER EVENTS HONOR RENOVATES ITS FOOD PANTRY HONOR, the temporary housing shelter located at 38 Seward Ave. in Middletown, recently renovated its food pantry. The update was created in order to give guests of the food pantry more freedom of choice and create a more traditional shopping experience. HONOR provides hope through hospitality in the form of temporary housing to the Hudson Valley’s most vulnerable individuals. The entire staff at HONOR is dedicated to treating each and every client they serve with compassion, respect and dignity. HONOR provides hope through hospitality via its food pantry. Not only does the staff prepare 150,000 meals annually for shelter guests, but they also offer food pantry locations in the city of Middletown. The updated food pantry is open to the public weekdays from 2 to 3 p.m. Guests are invited to come in and shop for a three-day supply of food. Emergency service is also available.
Houlihan Lawrence, headquartered in Rye Brook, is a real estate brokerage serving New York City’s northern suburbs. More than 60 of its agents have been ranked as part of REAL Trends America’s Best Real Estate Agents, placing them among the most successful sales associates in the industry. The nationwide list ranks more than 14,000 real estate sales associates state by state. To be included, agents must have closed at least 50 transactions or $20 million in closed sales volume in 2018. Teams must have closed 75 transaction sides or $30 million in closed sales volume in 2018. All production numbers are independently verified by a third party to ensure accuracy and report integrity. The following are the agents in Westchester who were recognized. Armonk: Amy Singer and Julie Schneider. Bedford: David Turner and Angela Kessel. Briarcliff Manor: Suzan Zeolla and Susan Code. Bronxville: Sheila Stoltz, Susan Kelty Law and Rita Steinkamp; Team: Valmarie Zorila and Diane Hackett. Croton-on-Hudson: Nancy Kennedy. Irvington: James Mulvey Jr.; Team: Aurora Tishelman and Carolyn Joy. Larchmont: Pollena Forsman, Mary Gail Barry, Linda Filby, Edith Roth and Kaitlan Cantwell. New Rochelle: Marina Kolmer and Jocelyn Burton. Pelham: Arthur Scinta. Rye: Christine Hazelton, Lisa Murphy, April Saxe, Michael McCooey, Susan Handelman, Donna McElwee, Marianna Glennon; Team: Joan O’Meara and team. Scarsdale: Laura Miller, Joan Frederick, Susan Greenberg, Elise Flagg and Cindy Schwall. White Plains: Tony Murphy, Lauren Zaccaria; Team: The Gino Bello Homes sales team. Yorktown: John Kincart.
From left: Kevin Langtry, Newmark Knight Frank; Howard Greenberg, Howard Properties; Adam Garber, Princeton Realty; and Tim Jones, Robert Martin Company.
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Robert Martin Company LLC (RMC) recently held a pair of broker events in Westchester and Fairfield counties, sharing information about the firm’s recently acquired 3.1 million-square-foot industrial/flex portfolio. In March, the company completed its acquisition of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation’s 56-building industrial/flex portfolio for $487.5 million.
The Westchester Parks Foundation unveiled new informational trail kiosks at the Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary in Rye and Croton Point Park, made possible by a $20,000 grant from Con Edison toward Westchester Parks Foundation’s Trail Promotion and Environmental Awareness Program.
During the Westchester broker event held at Fortina restaurant at the Boyce Thompson Center in Yonkers, RMC partners Greg Berger and Tim Jones spoke with brokers about the company’s portfolio, which includes Cross Westchester Executive Park in Elmsford, Mid-Westchester Executive Park in Hawthorne, South Westchester Executive Park in Yonkers, Stam-
ford Executive Park in Fairfield County and a restaurant building in Tarrytown. The Yonkers event followed a similar broker reception held for the Fairfield market at RPM Raceway in Stamford. Representatives of RM Friedland, the brokerage company handling leasing at the properties, were also on hand at the broker events.
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GOOD THINGS Fairfield County NEW PARADIGM THEATRE PRESENTS ‘BYE BYE BIRDIE’
FIVE BUSINESSES SHOW HANDS-ON CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP
The New Paradigm Theatre (NPT) is presenting “Bye, Bye Birdie” Aug 16. (Friday) at 7 p.m., and Aug 17 (Saturday) at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Black Rock Church/ Theatre in Fairfield. The Saturday matinee will have ASL (sign language) interpreters thanks to a grant from The Connecticut Office of the Arts. The women behind “Bye Bye Birdie” include Director Courtney Self, leading lady Jamie Karen, lighting designer Elizabeth Stewart, stage manager Peggy Samuels, assistant stage manager Sage Fresilli-Murphy and costume designer Elizabeth Saylor. For tickets, visit nptheatre.org.
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Spectrum volunteers at their recent project.
SAVE THE DATE Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center invites you to save the date for The Fall Party to be held Saturday evening, Sept. 14, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The yearly gala to benefit educational programs at the center will sponsor spirited dance music by New York City-based Bellatonic, hors d’oeuvres and dinner by Ridgefield’s Sarah Bouissou Catering, cocktails, mocktails, wine, beer, a silent and live auction, lawn games and a few surprises. Visit http://www.keelertavernmuseum. org/events/122/the-fall-party/ and The Fall Party Facebook page @keelertavernmuseum for information. Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center is located at 152 Main St. in Ridgefield.
The commitment to strengthening community is clear among five local businesses that have shared their employee time with HomeFront’s 32nd annual campaign to revitalize 70 veteran homes in need. More than 200
corporate volunteers participated from The Home Depot, Charter Communications, FactSet Research Systems, Hologic and GE Commercial Aviation Services. HomeFront is a community-based
program dedicated to providing quality-of-life improvements to families with financial hardships. Since 1988, HomeFront volunteers have repaired 3,100 homes, injecting $54 million of assistance where it is needed most.
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LOCAL ENTREPRENEUR AWARDED “Minority Business Entrepreneur” magazine recently honored Simone Morris and nine other women business leaders with the 2019 WBEs (Woman Business Entrepreneurs) Who Rock award. The award recognizes women business owners who have excelled in their industry and are also active in their communities. Morris received the award at the National Women Business Enterprise National Conference on June 25 in Baltimore. Morris is the founder and CEO of Simone Morris Enterprises LLC, a professional services firm specializing in inclusive leadership and career development. The firm is based in Norwalk and was founded in 2015.
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The Fairfield Chamber of Commerce recently announced its new Chairman of the Board of Directors Kevin P. Brady for the July 2019 to June 2020 term. Brady has been a member of the chamber’s board for four years and received a unanimous vote to become chairman of the board for the next fiscal year. He lives in Fairfield and is a wealth advisor with MJP Wealth Advisors.
From left: James Paul Dixon, Jennifer Lipset and Humza Afzal.
Silver / Petrucelli + Associates (S/P+A) of Hamden has announced that three new designers have recently joined the firm. They include James Paul Dixon, as senior architect, Jennifer Lipset, as interior designer, and Humza Afzal as design professional.
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Dixon brings nearly 15 years of design experience throughout southeastern Connecticut and will manage the firm’s New London office. Lipset began her 20-year career as a graphic designer and transitioned her eye for visual presentation to interior design
with corporate and residential design firms in Fairfield County. Afzal brings design experience at architecture and mechanical, engineering and plumbing firms giving him the flexibility to work on the full breadth of S/P+A projects.
Houlihan Lawrence, headquartered in Rye Brook, New York, is a real estate brokerage serving New York City’s northern suburbs. More than 60 of its agents have been ranked as part of REAL Trends America’s Best Real Estate Agents, placing them among the most successful sales associates in the industry. The nationwide list ranks more than 14,000 real estate sales associates state by state. To be included, agents must have closed at least 50 transactions or $20 million in closed sales volume in 2018. Teams must have closed 75 transaction sides or $30 million in closed sales volume in 2018. All production numbers are independently verified by a third party to ensure accuracy and report integrity. The following are the agents in Fairfield County who were recognized: Darien: Janine Tienken, Julie T. Peters and Keiley Fuller; Teams: Douglas Milne and Sheree Frank, Liz Beinfeld and Peter Stuart. Greenwich: Ellen Mosher, BK Bates, Joanne Mancuso, Julie Church, Amanda Miller, Kristy De La Sierra, Barbara Wells, Gila Lewis, Sally Maloney, Lindsay Sheehy, Gideon Fountain, John Bates and Michele Tesei. Riverside: Russell Pruner.
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TFI ENVISION PRESIDENT JOINS IMPACT FAIRFIELD COUNTY
Bryan Decker
APPOINTMENT AT CPA SOCIETY The Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants (CTCPA) has appointed Bryan Decker, CPA, of Fairfield to serve on its advisory council for the organization’s 2019-2020 activity year as the chair of the CTCPA accounting, auditing and financial reporting committee. The advisory council contemplates the future of the Connecticut Society of CPAs and the accounting profession, and in doing so serves as a sounding board and source of information for the CTCPA board of directors. Decker is a senior manager, assurance services, in the Stamford office of PKF O’Connor Davies LLP. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Binghamton University.
Elizabeth P. Ball, president and creative director of TFI Envision Inc. in Norwalk, has joined Impact Fairfield County as marketing and communications co-chair. A collective giving circle that engages women of Fairfield County in local philanthropy on a deeper level, Impact Fairfield County unites women by providing large, transformational grants to local nonprofits and strives to reach the underserved and improve the lives of those in the Fairfield County community. Members determine the grant recipients through a vote of the membership after a rigorous grants review process by volunteer committee members. Programs that receive the top Impact grants must be new, sustainable and “transformational” for those served by the nonprofits. Impact FC members look at the projects as a whole, including the goals, the leadership and the predicted outcomes.
Maplewood Senior Living, a provider of luxury senior living residences, celebrated the opening of its newest location, Maplewood at Southport, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and cocktail reception. The senior community, located at 917 Mill Hill Terrace in Southport, features a full suite of amenities, open-air courtyards and beautifully designed private apartments equipped with the latest technology in a full-service, resort-style residence. City officials and other principals in the project attended the event. Michael Tetreau, first selectman of Fairfield, cut the ribbon and officially welcomed the new residence to the community. Guests had a first glimpse of the 100,000-square-foot residence, which includes 98 private apartments, a wrap-around porch, multiple dining rooms, outside courtyards, indoor and outdoor fireplaces, an enclosed patio and water features. The residence sits on 27 acres, 13 of which are dedicated wetlands and overlooks the scenic Sherwood Mill Pond. For leasing information, call 203-4182075 or visit maplewoodseniorliving.com.
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STAR RECEIVES $5,000 GRANT FROM BANK FOUNDATION
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER LEGAL DIRECTOR JOINS FAIRFIELD BAR BOARD
BANK AND HCC FOUNDATIONS PARTNER TO ADVANCE WOMEN IN TECH CAREERS While women make up more than half of the U.S. workforce, they hold less than 20% of U.S. tech jobs. In an effort to help address this, Bridgeport-based Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the Housatonic Community College Foundation (HCCF) have teamed up to support women interested in entering tech careers. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation recently awarded a $20,000 grant to HCCF to support women who are interested in pursuing a career in the manufacturing industry. With this funding, Housatonic Community College (HCC) will market its Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center program to women. This one-year educational program boasts hands-on experience and a 100% job placement rate.
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The First County Bank Foundation recently granted $5,000 to STAR’s state-recognized Birth to Three Program. Since the bank established its foundation in 2001, it has awarded more than $9 million in grants to assist with a range of causes – from education and elder care to hunger and affordable housing. STAR is recognized statewide for
achieving positive results for children and for supporting their families. A nonprofit organization, it has grown to include a full array of services for more than 600 individuals with disabilities, from birth to their senior years and their families. First County Bank staff members Steven Ferguson, assistant vice presi-
dent of business development officer, and Wendy Macedo, assistant vice president and branch manager of First County Bank Norwalk, visited STAR Inc., Lighting the Way to award the agency a $5,000 grant to provide assistive technology resources for its early intervention and birth to three programs for young children with developmental delays and autism.
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Pamela Davis, The Domestic Violence Crisis Center’s legal director, has been appointed to the Fairfield County Bar Association (FCBA) Board of Directors effective May 2019. Part of the 25-member board’s mission is to encourage cordial relations among members of the bar as well as cooperation with state and national agencies and organizations. The Domestic Violence Crisis Center (DVCC) is a member of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CCADV) and provides services for the seven communities of Stamford, Norwalk, Darien, New Canaan, Wilton, Westport and Weston. DVCC is the only agency present at domestic violence arraignments in the Stamford and Norwalk courthouses representing the victim with confidential legal advocacy. In her position with DVCC, Davis supervises and directs attorney advocates and family violence advocates within the legal department. Domestic violence is the No. 1 emergency call to law enforcement in the towns of New Canaan, Darien, Westport, Weston and Wilton.
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Alison Lou LLC filed by Carlos Vila. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Richard Liebowitz. Filed July 16. Case number: 1:19-cv06634-KPF.
Target Corporation filed by Winda Vazquez. Action: Personal injury. Attorney: Alice Spitz. Filed July 18. Case number: 1:19-cv-06721-ALC.
Alta Cucina LLC New York. Chapter 11, Voluntary. Attorney: Gus Michael Farinella, Floral Park. Filed July 17. Case number: 1912310-jlg.
Apple Corp. filed by Dora I. Brown. Action: Federal question. Attorney: Dora I. Brown. Filed July 16. Case number: 1:19-cv-06648-UA.
The Prudential Insurance Co. of America Inc. filed by Norman Rivera. Action: Seeking $300,000 for employee retirement. Attorney: Stewart Lee Karlin. Filed July 16. Case number: 1:19-cv-06593-PGG.
Relgold LLC New York. Chapter 11, Voluntary. Attorney: Dawn Kirby, Scarsdale. Filed July 18. Case number: 19-12318-shl.
Brasero Restaurant Inc. filed by Claudio Darezzo. Action: Americans With Disabilities Act - civil enforcement actions. Attorney: Donald Jeffrey Weiss. Filed July 16. Case number: 1:19-cv-06614-KPF.
BANKRUPTCIES Manhattan
Liddle & Robinson LLP New York. Chapter 11, Voluntary. Attorney: William F. Gray, New York. Filed July 22. Case number: 1912346-shl.
White Plains J&G Diner Corp. Queens. Chapter 11, Voluntary. Attorney: Lawrence Morrison, New York. Filed July 16. Case number: 19-23321-rdd.
Poughkeepsie The Rocker II Drywall Services LLC Walden. Chapter 7, Voluntary. Attorney: Warren Greher. Filed July 19. Case number: 1936177-cgm.
COURT CASES Manhattan ABC Corp. filed by Carlos Luis Roman. Action: Denial of overtime compensation. Attorney: Michael Antonio Faillace. Filed July 16. Case number: 1:19-cv-06628-JGK. Aerohive Networks Inc. filed by Donald Shirley. Action: Securities Exchange Act. Attorney: Juan Eneas Monteverde. Filed July 19. Case number: 1:19-cv-06742-VSB.
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Brown Paper Tickets LLC filed by Valentin Reid. Action: The Americans with Disabilites Act of 1990. Attorney: David Paul Force. Filed July 15. Case number: 1:19-cv06540-JGK. Chequit LLC filed by Kareem Nisbett. Action: Federal question – other civil rights. Attorney: Christopher Howare Lowe. Filed July 18. Case number: 1:19-cv-06691-DAB. Frame LA Brands LLC filed by Christopher Peterson. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Richard Liebowitz. Filed July 15. Case number: 1:19-cv-06583-LTS. Fratelli Italiani LLC filed by Jose Restrepo. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Daniel Maimom Kirschenbaum. Filed July 16. Case number: 1:19-cv-06606PAE-JLC.
Zimmer Inc. filed by Reynold Hulse. Action: Diversity-product liability. Attorney: Joseph A. Osborne. Filed July 17. Case number: 1:19-cv06664-PAC.
White Plains Ace Scrap Recycling LLC filed by Riverkeeper Inc. Action: Clean Water Act – Citizen Suits re Environmental Matters. Attorney: Michael Digiulio. Filed July 18. Case number: 7:19-cv-06699-VB. Cavalry Portfolio Services LLC filed by David Neumann. Action: Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney: Thomas Robert Dominczyk. Filed July 19. Case number: 7:19-cv06750-NSR. Crestview Manor LLC filed by Health & Welfare Fund of the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 2013, AFL-CIO. Action: Seeking $175,000 for employee retirement. Attorney: James Michael Steinberg. Filed July 22. Case number: 7:19-cv-06796.
IHeartMedia Inc. filed by David Allen. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Richard Liebowitz. Filed July 23. Case number: 1:19-cv06818.
Equifax Information Services LLC filed by Zalmen Lebron. Action: Fair Credit Reporting Act. Attorney: David Paul Force. Filed July 18. Case number: 7:19-cv-06706KMK.
Newsela Inc. filed by Lori Ostenfeld. Action: Family and Medical Leave Act (findings and purposes). Attorney: Steven Siegler. Filed July 17. Case number: 1:19-cv-06653-LTS.
Gasway Enterprises Inc. filed by Jose Bran Marroquin. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Sam Brooks Smith. Filed July 16. Case number: 7:19-cv-06588-CS.
Salon JYB Inc filed by Veronica Vera. Action: Federal question – other. Attorney: Ben-Zion Bradley Weitz. Filed July 17. Case number: 1:19-cv-06641-VEC.
Penachio Malara LLP filed by Michele Pizzuti. Action: Notice of removal. Attorney: Anne Julia Penachio. Filed July 19. Case number: 7:19-cv-06768-KMK.
Spearfish Canyon Resorts LLC filed by Natalia Juscinska. Action: Federal question – other civil rights. Attorney: Hector V. Ramirez. Filed July 19. Case number: 1:19-cv06755-LGS.
Hopewell Precision Inc. filed by United States of America. Action: Real property tort to land – liability. Attorney: Rachael Lightfood Doud. Filed July 19. Case number: 7:19-cv06749-CS.
Summit Apparel Inc. filed by Leshawn Dawson. Action: Federal question. Attorney: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed July 16. Case number: 1:19-cv-06613-KPF.
Shire PLC. filed by MaryAnn DeRico. Action: Federal question – Family and Medical Leave Act. Attorney: Christopher Howard Lowe. Filed July 19. Case number: 7:19-cv06764-VB.
Sunspel Mercer Street LLC filed by Prentice Cox. Action: Federal question – other. Attorney: Ismail Sinan Sekendiz. Filed July 16. Case number: 1:19-cv-06586-GHW.
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SodaStream USA Inc. filed by The Display Advantage Group LLC. Action: Breach of contract. Attorney: Richard Zachary Lehv. Filed July 18. Case number: 7:19-cv-06713KMK.
DEEDS Above $1 million
123 Woodlawn Realty LLC, Bronx. Seller: Efstratia Macris, New Rochelle. Property: 123 Woodlawn Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $590,000. Filed July 19. 2551 Route 44 Realty LLC, New City. Seller: Albany Post Property Associates Inc., Putnam Valley. Property: 5735 Albany Post Road, Cortlandt. Amount: $800,000. Filed July 18.
278 River Road Realty LLC, New York City. Seller: Stanley Dwyer Paddock, et al, Scarborough. Property: 278 River Road, Ossining. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed July 19.
436 East Main Street Property Holdings LLC, Jefferson Valley. Seller: Aaron Turner, Stormville. Property: 436 E. Main St., Yorktown. Amount: $75,000. Filed July 18.
331-347 Central Park Realty LLC, Bronx. Seller: 331-347 Associates LLC, Hartsdale. Property: 331347 Central Park Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $11 million. Filed July 19.
54 Beshert LLC, Bronx. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 74 Delaware Road, Yonkers. Amount: $247,500. Filed July 19.
35 Orchard Lane LLC, Rye. Seller: Christopher Dunlop, et al, Rye. Property: 35 Orchard Lane, Rye. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed July 15. 42 S Kensico Ave LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: South Kensico Apartment Associates Inc., White Plains. Property: 42 S. Kensico Ave., White Plains. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed July 19. King Leon LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: 210 West First Street Corp., Mount Vernon. Property: 200 First Street West, Mount Vernon. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed July 15. LSF9 Master Participation Trust, New York City. Seller: Lifschultz Estate Management LLC, Larchmont. Property: 220 Hommocks Road, Mamaroneck. Amount: $11.8 million. Filed July 18. Med Realty of Pelham LLC, Pelham. Seller: Robert A. Fesjian, et al, Pelham. Property: 660 Colonial Ave., Pelham. Amount: $2 million. Filed July 18. TB White Plains Apartments LLC, Horsham, Pennsylvania. Seller: Saber Chauncey WP LLC, Armonk. Property: 106 Westchester Ave., White Plains. Amount: $32.7 million. Filed July 17. TB White Plains Apartments LLC, Horsham, Pennsylvania. Seller: City of White Plains. Property: 50-62 Franklin Ave., White Plains. Amount: $5.4 million. Filed July 18.
Below $1 million 11 EPR LLC, Great Neck. Seller: John D. Volpe, et al, White Plains. Property: 212 Maple Ave., White Plains. Amount: $575,000. Filed July 19.
627 Route 22 LLC, Croton Falls. Seller: Patrick De Leon, Croton Falls. Property: 627 Route 22, North Salem. Amount: $240,000. Filed July 19. The Bank of New York Mellon. Seller: Michele L. Bermel, Chappaqua. Property: 35-36 Strang Blvd., Yorktown. Amount: $450,000. Filed July 16. Bedco LLC, New York City. Seller: James Phillips Williams, et al, New York City. Property: 321 Pound Ridge Road, Bedford. Amount: $270,000. Filed July 16. Certified Homes Inc., Chestnut Ridge. Seller: Robert D. Ryan, Cross River. Property: 2701 Deer St., Yorktown. Amount: $473,000. Filed July 16. Church of the Angels Inc., Bronx. Seller: Dellante Holdings LLC, Katonah. Property: 337 Chestnut Ridge Road, Bedford. Amount: $890,000. Filed July 16. Eguia Camacho Family LP, Harlington, Texas. Seller: Sung Chan Hong, et al, Ossining. Property: 500 Central Park Ave., 214, Greenburgh. Amount: $428,000. Filed July 18. Fasny Holdings LLC, Ardsley. Seller: Kina Development LLC, Monmouth Beach, New Jersey. Property: 136 Fox Lane, Bedford. Amount: $645,000. Filed July 16. Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Barry Salman, New Rochelle. Property: 913 Paulding St., Peekskill. Amount: $390,000. Filed July 17. Kathisma LLC, Yonkers. Seller: C2GRE LLC, et al, Ardsley. Property: 154 Lasalle Drive, Yonkers. Amount: $733,170. Filed July 16.
Mount Vernon Ventures II LLC, Great Neck Plaza. Seller: Michelson Properties LLC, Mount Vernon. Property: 457 Fifth Avenue South, Mount Vernon. Amount: $220,000. Filed July 19. MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Albert Buonamici, White Plains. Property: 167 Union Ave., Peekskill. Amount: $398,098. Filed July 18. Pintura Ltd., New York City. Seller: Lawrence Lavine, et al, Sarasota, Florida. Property: 6 Stoneleigh Manor Lane, Harrison. Amount: $3.5 million. Filed July 19. Shangod 2 Nu Realty LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Bernadette A. Pesco, Scarsdale. Property: 29 Tewkesbury Road, New Rochelle. Amount: $350,000. Filed July 17. Shylas Weight Watchers Delight Inc., New Rochelle. Seller: Min Kai Guo, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 39-41 Division Street South, New Rochelle. Amount: $860,000. Filed July 17. T and T Post Realty LLC, Somers. Seller: Pamlar Corp., Montrose. Property: 2144 Albany Post Road, Cortlandt. Amount: $750,000. Filed July 19. TLC Contractors Corp., Rockville Centre. Seller: Nancy Jo Madden, Staten Island. Property: 10 Stevens Avenue West, Mount Pleasant. Amount: $322,000. Filed July 19. U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Julie A. Cherico, White Plains. Property: 2 Shinnecock Court, Cortlandt. Amount: $463,522. Filed July 17. U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Pat Longobucco, White Plains. Property: 150 Locust Ave., Cortlandt. Amount: $621,769. Filed July 15. WTDM Investors LLC, Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Jack S. Rucci, Yonkers. Property: 44 Woodbine St., Yonkers. Amount: $260,000. Filed July 19. WTDM Investors LLC, Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Jack S. Rucci, Yonkers. Property: 42 Woodbine St., Yonkers. Amount: $5,000. Filed July 19.
FORECLOSURES CORTLANDT MANOR, 12 Damian Way. Single-family residence; lot size: .76 acres. Plaintiff: Citimortgage Inc. Plaintiff’s attorney: Knuckles, Komosinski & Elliot, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 509, Elmsford. Defendant: Alexander More. Referee: Carla Glassman. Sale: July 31, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $819,760.
Facts & Figures OSSINING, 1340 Kitchawan Road. Single-family residence; lot size: 4.2. acres. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy, 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville. Defendant: John Swift. Referee: Gary Rikoon. Sale: July 30, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,765,340. PORT CHESTER, 151 Terrace Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .09 acres. Plaintiff: Federal National Mortgage Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin LLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury. Defendant: Cesar Marin. Referee: Linda Markowitz. Sale: July 31, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. POUND RIDGE, 84 Old Mill River Road. Single-family residence; lot size: 5.19 acres. Plaintiff: ETrade Bank. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Rochester. Defendant: Mitchell Hecht. Referee: Carla Glassman. Sale: July 30, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $948,774. PURCHASE, 34 Pinehurst Drive. Single-family residence; lot size: .5 acres. Plaintiff: Capital One NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Rochester. Defendant: Anthony Mangone. Referee: Anthony Tirone. Sale: July 31, 9:45 a.m. Approximate lien: $894,029. MOUNT VERNON, 459 S. First Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .12 acres. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin LLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury. Defendant: Prince Albert Case. Referee: Jo-Ann Cambareri. Sale: Aug. 1, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. WHITE PLAINS, 70-72 Robertson Ave. Apartment; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel Lambert Weiss, 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore. Defendant: Willie Benbow. Referee: Jo-Ann Cambareri. Sale: Aug. 6, 9:15 a.m. Approximate lien: $519,768. YONKERS, 166 Concord Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .16 acres. Plaintiff: US Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Fein Such & Crane LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Westbury. Defendant: Chiara Fariello. Referee: Michael Khader. Sale: Aug. 6, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $614,165. YONKERS, 115 Palisade Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .05 acres. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Rafael Clark. Referee: Anthony Tirone. Sale: July 31, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $677,343.
JUDGMENTS American Massage Therapy Associates, Honeoye Fa. $492 in favor of the town of Greenburgh. Filed July 19. Asar Roofing Restoration, White Plains. $5,274 in favor of Kunaveer Properties LLC, Cortlandt. Filed July 15. FKM Construction Inc., Harrison. $17,420 in favor of Power Pak Civil and Safety LLC, Congers. Filed July 18. Jam Services Inc., Ossining. $30,670 in favor of Anthony Coscia and Sons LLC, Bronx. Filed July 16. Klaffs Inc., Scarsdale. $546,551 in favor of 331-347 Associates LLC, Hartsdale. Filed July 15. Patisserie Salzberg, Scarsdale. $2,772 in favor of Tee-Jay Apico Distribution Inc., Astoria. Filed July 15. Westchester Building Company LLC, New York City. $296,050 in favor of Rocco J. Russo Ltd., Port Chester. Filed July 15.
LIS PENDENS The following filings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed. Adovasio, Andrea C., et al. Filed by Avail 1 LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $450,000 affecting property located at 24 Elena Drive, Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed Jan. 10. Corey, Richard, et al. Filed by Pennymac Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $636,150 affecting property located at 61 Bacon Hill Road, Pleasantville 10570. Filed Jan. 11. Gizzo, Silvio, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $325,000 affecting property located at 8 Oak St., West Harrison 10604. Filed Jan. 11. Lakow, Scott B., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $588,000 affecting property located at 79 Edgewood Ave., Larchmont 10538. Filed Jan. 11. Lilian, Jonathan, et al. Filed by Specialized Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $370,000 affecting property located at 50 Quarry Lane, Bedford 10506. Filed Jan. 10.
McDermott, Richard B., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1 million affecting property located at 41 Old Aspetong Road, Katonah 10536. Filed Jan. 11. Sanchez, Carmen I., as administratrix of the estate of Henry Sanchez, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $310,000 affecting property located at 21 White Plains Ave., West Harrison 10604. Filed Jan. 11. Selig, Ian, et al. Filed by Sterling National Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $620,000 affecting property located at 31 Whittier Hills Road, North Salem 10523. Filed Jan. 11. Siciliano, Barbara, et al. Filed by Nationstar HECM Acquisition Trust 2017-2. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $938,250 affecting property located at 194 Oakland Ave., Eastchester 10709. Filed Jan. 11. Vanderpuije, Matilda, individually and as surviving spouse of Isaac Vanderpuije, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $195,400 affecting property located at 9 Louis Court, Peekskill 10566. Filed Jan. 11.
Mechanic’s Liens Ronnermann, Tracy A., as owner. $3,940 as claimed by Empire State Builders and Contractors, Nanuet. Filed July 17. SG Chappaqua B LLC, as owner. $29,682 as claimed by Kuritzky Glass Company Inc., Mount Kisco. Property: in Bedford. Filed July 19.
Sole Proprietorships And3rs, 85 N. Greeley Ave., Chappaqua 10514, c/o Lay New. Filed Nov. 7. Andino Grocery, 466 S. Broadway, Yonkers 10705, c/o Cesario Andino. Filed Nov. 8. Clean Sweep Cleaning, 110 Nelson Ave., Apt. 2B, Peekskill 10566, c/o Pedro Otero. Filed Nov. 9. Danasia Soul Food, 70 W. Third St., Apt. 5K, Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Danasic Stevenson. Filed Nov. 8. Dream Builder Construction, 44 Richbell Road, White Plains 10605, c/o Jose Rodriguez. Filed Nov. 7. Horsemen Construction, 42 College Ave., Sleepy Hollow 10591, c/o Oscar Fabian Segarra. Filed Nov 8. L M House Cleaning, 66 State St., Ossining 10562, c/o Luis Morales. Filed Nov. 9. LRB Advocacy, 56 Sheridan Ave., 3G, Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Lisa Rene Best. Filed Nov. 7. Luis MC Landscaping, 41 Rome Ave., Apt. 10B, Bedford Hills 10507, c/o Luis A. Martinez Cruz. Filed Nov. 7. Newhouse Insurance Brokers, 800 Westchester Ave., Suite N409, Rye Brook 10573, c/o James Newhouse. Filed Nov. 8. Oscar Rios Landscaping, 57 Crane Ave., White Plains 10603, c/o Oscar Rios. Filed Nov. 9.
NEW BUSINESSES
Piano Time Now, 152 Club Court, Ossining 10562, c/o Mi-Won Kim Goldsmith. Filed Nov. 7.
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Sestra Capital, 15 Bank St., White Plains 10606, c/o Nicole Stephenson. Filed Nov. 8.
Partnerships
SNP Construction, 476 Hawthorne Ave., Yonkers 10705, c/o Sixto N.P. Filed Nov. 8.
Chefs M and J Home Cooking, 500 Riverdale Ave., Apt. 5M, Yonkers 10705, c/o Marcelina Mojica and Johnathon Mojica. Filed Nov. 7. T.H.B. and Bola Designs, 1W. Prospect Ave., No. 236, Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Todd Brown and Bolaji Akinbami. Filed Nov. 7.
Tatiana M Designs, 91 Chestnut Hill Lane, Briarcliff Manor 10510, c/o Tatiana Mischenko. Filed Nov. 8. The Water Shop, 26 Garrigan Ave., Pleasantville 10570, c/o Roberto Lopez. Filed Nov. 7.
PATENTS Application transfer using time delay and proximity detection. Patent no. 10,362,108 issued to Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, Michigan; Andrew R. Jones, Round Rock, Texas; C. Steven Lingafelt, Durham, North Carolina; Kevin C. McConnell, Austin, Texas; John E. Moore Jr., Brownsburg, Indiana. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Co-fabrication of magnetic device structures with electrical interconnects having reduced resistance through increased conductor grain size. Patent no. 10,361,364 issued to Larence A. Clevenger, LaGrangeville, New York; Liying Jiang, Albany; Sebastian Naczas, Albany; Michael Rizzolo, Albany; Chih-Chao Yang, Glenmont. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Configurable door panels. Patent no. 10,362,716 issued to Paula Besterman, Cary, North Carolina; Aaron R. Cox, Tucson, Arizona; Camillo Sassano, Durham, North Carolina; Kevin L. Schultz, Raleight, North Carolina. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Curtailing search engines from obtaining and controlling information. Patent no. 10,362,060 issued to Sara H. Basson, White Plains; Robert George Farrell, Cornwall; Dimitri Kanevsky, Ossining; Sophia Krasikov, Katonah. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.. Dynamically transitioning the file system role of compute nodes for provisioning a starlet. Patent no. 10,362,143 issued to Duane M. Baldwin, Mantorville, Minnesota; Sasikanth Eda, Andhra Pradesh, India; John T. Olsen, Tuscon, Arizona; Sandeep R. Patil, Pune, India. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Forecasting computer resources demand. Patent no. 10,361,924 issued to Aaron K. Baughman, Silver Spring, Maryland; Richard J. Bogdany, Voorheesvile, New York; Richard A. Locke, Cary, North Carolina; Brian M. O’Connell, Cary, North Carolina. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Generating a virtual database to test data security of a real database. Patent no. 10,362,052 issued to Shuo Li, Beijing, China; Xin Peng Liu, Beijing, China; Sheng Yan Sun, Beijing, China; Hua Wang, Litteton, Massachusetts. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Identifying command and control endpoint used by domain generation algorithm (DGA) malware. Patent no. 10,362,044 issued to Xin Hu, White Plains; Jiyong Jang, White Plains; Douglas Lee Schales, Ardsley; Marc Philippe Stoecklin, White Plains; Ting Wang, White Plains. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.
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Identifying the purpose and context of a line of people. Patent no. 10,362,459 issued to Andrew R. Jones, Round Rock, Texas; Christian B. Compton, Austin, Texas; Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, Michigan; Jeremy R. Fox, Georgetown, Texas; John E. Moore Jr., Pflugerville, Texas. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Lossy text source coding by word length. Patent no. 10,361,980 issued to Hamish C. Hunt, Ashford, England; Nicholas K. Lincoln, Middle Wallop, England; Christopher J. Poole, Romsey, England; Mark A. Woolley, Winchester, England. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Management of clustered and replicated systems in dynamic computing environments. Patent no. 10,361,995 issued to Vita Bortnikov, Haifa, Israel; Guy Laden, Jaffa, Israel; Bruno Wassermann, Haifa, Israel; Idan Zach, Givat Ela, Israel. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Multitiered user-authentication methods. Patent no. 10,362,481 issued to Sophie D. Green, Chelmsford, England; Joe Pavitt, Hampshire, England; Stephen D. Pipes, Winchester, England. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Path selection using TCP handshake in a multipath environment. Patent no. 10,362,148 issued to Kanak B. Agarwal, Austin, Texas. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Replacing a virtual network function in a network service. Patent no. 10,362,122 issued to Canio Cillis, Berlin, Germany; Jochen Kappel, Berlin, Germany; Martin McDonald, Berlin, Germany; Christian van Maastricht, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Resistive memory crossbar array with top electrode inner spacers. Patent no. 10,361,367 issued to Takashi Ando, Tuckahoe; Hiroyuki Miyazoe, White Plains; Iqbal R. Saraf, Cobleskill; Shyng-Tsong Chen, Rensselaer, New York. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Selecting a data storage resource of a dispersed storage network. Patent no. 10,362,111 issued to Jason K. Resch, Chicago, Ilinois; Wesley Leggette, Chicago, Ilinois; Greg Dhuse, Chicago, Ilinois. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. System and method for managing service level of real-time communication. Patent no. 10,362,071 issued to Jonathan Dunne, Waterford, Ireland; Liam Harpur, Skerries, Ireland; Shao Hua, Beijing, China; Wang Yong, Beijing, China. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.
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Facts & Figures System and method of locating wireless connection among a plurality of wireless connections. Patent no. 10,362,533 issued to Christopher J. Dawson, Arlington, Virginia; Peter G. Finn, Ontario, Canada; Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Virginia; Jenny S. Li, Cary, North Carolina. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. System, method and computer program product for network function optimization based on locality and function type. Patent no. 10,361,915 issued to Seraphin Calo, Yorktown Heights; Douglas Freimuth, Yorktown Heights; Thai V. Le, Yorktown Heights; Christian Makaya, Yorktown Heights; Eric Nahum, Yorktown Heights; Dinesh Verma; Yorktown Heights.
Quick Builder LLC, Brooklyn, as owner. Lender: Ice Lender Holdings LLC, New York City. Property: 347 Museum Village Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $102,000. Filed July 18. Simone, Geraldine, et al, Highland, as owner. Lender: National Bank of Coxsackie, Coxsackie. Property: in Lloyd. Amount: $124,000. Filed July 15. Valentine Home Builders LLC, Goshen, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: 55 Sanfordville Road, Warwick 10990. Amount: $321,000. Filed July 19.
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HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million 11 Balmville Road LLC, Highland, as owner. Lender: M&T Bank, Buffalo. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed July 17. 5 Krolla LLC, et al, Monroe, as owner. Lender: Northeast Community Bank, White Plains. Property: in Kiryas Joel. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed July 17.
Below $1 million Double MM Properties LLC, Brooklyn, as owner. Lender: RCN Capital LLC, South Windsor, Connecticut. Property: 12 Valley Ave., Woodbury 10917. Amount: $41,200. Filed July 16. Flippin Amadans Inc., as owner. Lender: Lendinghome Funding Corp. Property: in East Fishkill. Amount: $218,200. Filed July 16. Frymire, Sydney, Kingston, as owner. Lender: Rondout Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 23 Fitch St., Kingston 12401. Amount: $475,000. Filed July 18. Jackson, Abdullah S., et al, Olivebridge, as owner. Lender: Primelending. Property: in Olive. Amount: $384,750. Filed July 16. Palm Estates Inc, Monroe, as owner. Lender: Ice Lender Holdings LLC, New York City. Property: 64 Hasbrouck St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $24,600. Filed July 19.
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Above $1 million August Associates Inc., Wappingers Falls. Seller: B. and E. Mobile Home Rentals Inc., Millerton. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $4.3 million. Filed July 12. Lafya Realty LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Woodbury Complex B LLC, Spring Valley. Property: 4-11 Wikes Way, Woodbury. Amount: $3.4 million. Filed July 15. Stewart’s Shop Corp., Ballston Spa. Seller: Shahid Masood, Downers Grove, Illinois. Property: in New Paltz. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed July 15.
Below $1 million 10 Courtney Newburgh LLC, New York City. Seller: Double Brick Holding Company Inc., Fishkill. Property: 10 Courtney Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $375,000. Filed July 16.
362 Liberty Newburgh LLC, New York City. Seller: John Boubaris, et al, New Windsor. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $325,000. Filed July 17. 55 Dubois Apartments LLC, Syosset. Seller: Chieh Huang Hsieh, Newburgh. Property: 55 Dubois St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $145,000. Filed July 17. Autumn Ridge Corp., Highland Mills. Seller: Iama LLC, Brooklyn. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $110,000. Filed July 15. Barracouta Acquisitions LLC, Highland. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: 19 Tano Drive, Lloyd. Amount: $4,000. Filed July 17. Brookview Holdings LLC, Pomona. Seller: Ralph L. Puglielle Jr., New Windsor. Property: 5 Pond Hill Lane, Walden 12586. Amount: $131,251. Filed July 16.
Fathry Partners LLC, Goshen. Seller: Glenn J. Bellamy, et al. Property: in Goshen. Amount: $210,000. Filed July 15. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Claudia T. Petrone, et al, Philipstown. Property: 17 Arden Drive, Garrison 10524. Amount: $308,209. Filed July 15. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Harry Feliciano, Mahopac. Property: 22 Morrissey Drive, Lake Peekskill 10537. Amount: $294,422. Filed July 12. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Juliana LoBiondo, Newburgh. Property: 24 Duncan Ave., Cornwall-on-Hudson 12520. Amount: $139,300. Filed July 15.
CB Rising Phoenix LLC, Wappingers Falls. Seller: Barbara A. Doetsch, et al, Pine Bush. Property: in Wappinger. Amount: $80,000. Filed July 16.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Robert C. Hertman, Middletown. Property: 27 Marc Terrace, Monroe 10950. Amount: $370,943. Filed July 15.
Coleman AMS LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Margaret Anderson, et al, Lafayette, New Jersey. Property: 25 Coleman St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $60,500. Filed July 15.
Flippin Amadans Inc., Somers. Seller: Harry Jarosak, Stormville. Property: in East Fishkill. Amount: $185,000. Filed July 16.
Diddell Development Corp., Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Lawrence Pariseau, Wappingers Falls. Property: 146 Diddell Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $275,000. Filed July 17.
11 Glasco TPK LLC, Glasco. Seller: Maria A. O’Brien, Kingston. Property: in Saugerties. Amount: $140,000. Filed July 15. 12 Courtney Newburgh LLC, New York City. Seller: Double Brick Holding Company Inc., Fishkill. Property: 12 Courtney Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $375,000. Filed July 16.
Double MM Properties LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Kevin Abrams, et al, Central Valley. Property: 12 Valley Ave., Central Valley. Amount: $85,000. Filed July 16.
180 Developers LLC, Ellenville. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: 48 Bell Lane, Olive. Amount: $19,000. Filed July 15.
East Main and Broad Street LLC, Middletown. Seller: Teri Mohr, Newburgh. Property: 149 Concord Lane, Unit 149, Middletown 10940. Amount $55,000. Filed July 18.
180 Developers LLC, Ellenville. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: 97 Irish Cape Road, Wawarsing. Amount: $16,000. Filed July 15.
Equity Trust Co. Seller: Stephen P. Gold, White Plains. Property: 1208 Eagles Ridge Road, Brewster 10509. Amount: $189,901. Filed July 18.
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Eureka3 Home Buyers LLC. Seller: Becky M. Vanderloop, Cape Coral, Florida. Property: 17 Rustic Ridge, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Amount: $191,424. Filed July 17.
Callanan Industries Inc., Albany. Seller: Thomas J. O’Bryan, et al, Saugerties. Property: in Ulster. Amount: $30,000. Filed July 15.
Diddell Development Corp., Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Lawrence Pariseau, Wappingers Falls. Property: 144 Diddell Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $250,000. Filed July 17.
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Equity Trust Co., Pine Bush. Seller: Istvan Fodor, Pine Bush. Property: 12 Claire Drive, Pine Bush 12566. Amount: $190,500. Filed July 16.
Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables, Florida. Seller: Maureen Fleming, Kent Lake. Property: 60 Panorama Drive, Patterson 12563. Amount: $290,484. Filed July 16. Lavish Lifestyle LLC, et al, Beacon. Seller: Donna J. Brennan-Barnett, et al, Wappingers Falls. Property: 26 Relyea Terrace, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $110,000. Filed July 16. Mahopac Bank. Seller: Thomas F. Diviny. Property: 2180 Route 22, Patterson 12563. Amount: $475,000. Filed July 15. Metro Builders Corp., Clinton Corners. Seller: Kristi Thaqi, et al, Poughquag. Property: Emma Way, Poughquag. Amount: $68,000. Filed July 12. Moor Smith Property LLC, Newburgh. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: 422 Freetown Highway, Plattekill. Amount: $15,050. Filed July 15. New Wave Pool and Spa LLC, Newburgh. Seller: State of New York Mortgage Agency, New York City. Property: 11 Crittenden St., Wallkill 12589. Amount: $55,200. Filed July 12. Northeast Propiedades LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Knapps Next Generation Ltd., et al, Staatsburg. Property: 195 Kittredge Placer, Poughkeepsie. Amount: $190,000. Filed July 15.
Freedom Mortgage Corp., Fishers, Indiana. Seller: Johnley Gue, Newburgh. Property: 29-31 Anthony St., Middletown 10940. Amount: $161,288. Filed July 15.
Northern Enterprise NY LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: Jessica M. Mahoney, Middletown. Property: 8 Old S. Plank Road, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $72,500. Filed July 16.
GOFY 44 LLC, Floral Park. Seller: C and V Properties LLC, Holmes. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $158,000. Filed July 17.
Old Lucas Turnpike LLC, Kingston. Seller: Judith Davis, Kingston. Property: in Marbletown. Amount: $435,500. Filed July 16.
Golden Towers Holdings LLC, Monroe. Seller: Charles Lesnick, White Plains. Property: 104 Coldenham Road, Walden 12586. Amount: $107,338. Filed July 18.
PCSB Bank. Seller: Ronald Zezima, New Rochelle. Property: 728 Route 6, Mahopac 10541. Amount: $768,359. Filed July 18.
Jefvin LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Denise Bertomeu, Property: 12 Farm Lane, Hyde Park. Amount: $18,000. Filed July 15.
Pelham Bay Ventures LLC, Dover Plains. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 15 Hemlock Lane, Wingdale 12594. Amount: $177,000. Filed July 17.
JRKB Properties LLC, Pine Bush. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: 924 Upper Mountain Road, Shawangunk. Amount: $50,000. Filed July 15.
Quick Builder LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Marianne Christy, Mount Vernon. Property: 347 Museum Village Road, Blooming Grove. Amount: $220,000. Filed July 18.
Krasniqi Management LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Charles Tran Property LLC, Middletown. Property: 221-223 E. Main St., Middletown. Amount: $119,500. Filed July 15.
Relax 845 LLC, Kingston. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: Wood Road, Ulster. Amount: $72,000. Filed July 15.
Revival Holdings Inc., Middletown. Seller: Larry Waterman Jr., et al, Middletown. Property: in Wallkill. Amount: $115,500. Filed July 18. RMW Designs LLC, Monsey. Seller: Claudette Squire, Port Ewen. Property: 57 Lander St., Newburgh. Amount: $63,999. Filed July 18. Route 17M Lexington Corp., Monroe. Seller: 2724 Albemarle Road LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 187 Route 17M, Harriman 10926. Amount: $150,000. Filed July 18. Samsonville LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Anne Haas, Olivebridge. Property: in Olive. Amount: $286,000. Filed July 18. Taconic Innovations Inc., Wappingers Falls. Seller: Peter McSharry, Mountainside, New Jersey. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $320,000. Filed July 16. TDM Realty Group LLC, Warwick. Seller: Richard S. Stanford, Gilbert, Arizona. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $480,000. Filed July 19. Terra Group LLC, Saugerties. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: Bellevue Road, Lloyd. Amount: $10,000. Filed July 17. Terra Group LLC, Saugerties. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: Duck Pond Road, Marbletown. Amount: $3,700. Filed July 17. Terra Group LLC, Saugerties. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: Route 9W, Marlborough. Amount: $22,218. Filed July 17. The Bank of New York Mellon. Seller: Carla Wise, Goshen. Property: 334 Robinson Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $294,053. Filed July 15. Town of Lloyd, Highland. Seller: Alisabeth Loewenthal, et al, Highland. Property: 17 Tillson Ave., Lloyd. Amount: $3,000. Filed July 12. Town of Lloyd, Highland. Seller: Juan Jimenez, et al, Highland. Property: 22 Tillson Ave., Lloyd. Amount: $1,500. Filed July 12. Town of Lloyd, Highland. Seller: Julian Hogan, Highland. Property: 1 Tillson Ave., Lloyd. Amount: $12,200. Filed July 12. Turnover Inc., New Windsor. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: 30 Amanda Circle, Lloyd. Amount: $26,000. Filed July 17.
Facts & Figures Twenty Investors LLC, Yorktown. Seller: Bank of America N.A. Property: 74 Longfellow Drive, Carmel 10512. Amount: $98,698. Filed July 12.
American Concrete Cutting LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. $4,902 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12.
Gavilan Restaurant Inc., Newburgh. $1,130 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12.
U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: David S. Cooke, Chappaqua. Property: 2597 Route 301, Carmel 10512. Amount: $354,698. Filed July 16.
American Electric Solutions Ltd., Greenfield Park. $1,682 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed July 12.
Gemini Tech Holdings Inc., Port Jervis. $1,019 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12.
Battery Giant LLC, Monroe. $2,088 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5.
Hulkanati Trucking Company Corp., Middletown. $1,187 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12.
U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Emily A. Barile, Mahopac. Property: 626 Sprout Brook Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $620,450. Filed July 16. Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc., Morris Plains, New Jersey. Seller: Oren Sher, et al, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $405,000. Filed July 12. WF Reverse REO HECM 2015-1 LLC, New York City. Seller: Judith L. Lubinsky, Goshen. Property: 395 Mullock Road, Middletown 10940. Amount: $313,380. Filed July 15. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Donald Cappilino, Pawling. Property: 29 Bungalow Lane, Red Hook 12571. Amount: $148,000. Filed July 12. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: George F. Kenny III, Goshen. Property: 13 Wah Ta Wah Drive, Greenwood Lake 10925. Amount: $391,294. Filed July 16. Woodside Country LLC, et al, Airmont. Seller: County of Ulster, Kingston. Property: Upper Frog Hollow Road, Wawarsing. Amount: $20,000. Filed July 15.
JUDGMENTS 107 Main Street Restaurant Corp., New Paltz. $845 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed July 12. 1247 Deli Inc., Newburgh. $953 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. A.J.M. Trucking Inc., Monroe. $5,689 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Alhageilah Inc., Monroe. $1,586 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Alpha Real Estate Associates LLC, Montgomery. $1,473 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5.
Books N Rooks, Newburgh. $3,212 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Butler Homes Inc., Sparrow Bush. $625 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. Cousins Concessions, Highland Falls. $575 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. D and D Empire Market Inc., Newburgh. $937 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. D’Agostino Hair LLC, Central Valley. $1,006 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. DMS First Class Auto Sales Inc., Montgomery. $667 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Elant at Fishkill Inc., Goshen. $477 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed March 8. European Cycle Services Corp., Middletown. $926 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12. Explicit Exteriors Inc., Middletown. $760 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12. Five Angels Minie Market, Newburgh. $2,176 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. Flick Lites, Harriman. $519 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12. G.S.D. Corp., Campbell Hall. $10,865 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5.
Jayg Management Inc., Monroe. $1,807 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. K and N Masonry Inc., Kingston. $3,588 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed July 12. Kaltec Food Packaging Inc., Port Jervis. $14,226 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed March 8. Lebaron Enterprises LLC, Goshen. $1,066 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Moscow 57 Entertaining LLC, Godeffroy. $1,006 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. New 4 Less, Port Jervis. $2,264 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. Northeast Wholesale Turf, New Hampton. $4,561 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. NY HVAC Champ Inc., Wallkill. $1,218 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. PNT Builders Inc., Port Jervis. $9,660 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Professional Comfort Services Inc., Goshen. $3,274 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12. Rapid Rim Repair LLC, New Windsor. $43,642 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28.
Rider Painting, Highland. $2,049 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed July 12. RJ Auto Repair Inc., Middletown. $965 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12. Sackaris CPA PLLC, Westtown. $3,663 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Schwartzy’s Auto Glass Inc., Chester. $4,028 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Solid Sales Inc., Monroe. $1,066 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Stand Coffee LLC, Kingston. $36,634 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed July 12. Steel Rein Property and Equine Management, Kerhonkson. $573 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed July 12. Sunset Vista Mobile Village LLC, Campbell Hall. $299 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. T T Noxon Realty LLC, Ulster Park. $3,440 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed July 12. Tayyib Bosque Corp., Marlboro. $7,744 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed July 12. The Broccoli Patch Inc., New Windsor. $530 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12. The Montgomery Book Exchange, Montgomery. $2,166 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12. Townsend Lawn Works LLC, Newburgh. $2,217 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. TSI Interior Corp., Monroe. $1,636 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12.
V8 Computing Inc., Cornwall-on-Hudson. $576 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Vine Van Gogh LLC, Newburgh. $1,142 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 12. Walentin Chiropractic PC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. $371 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28. Woodbury Auto Inc., Central Valley. $10,604 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed March 5. Woody’s Farm to Table LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. $1,832 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 28.
LIS PENDENS The following filings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed. Adams, Kenneth John, et al. Filed by Silvergate Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $121,500 affecting property located at 10 Gardner St., Newburgh 12550. Filed June 11. Ahmed, Malik, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $159,000 affecting property located at 14 MidOaks Drive, Monroe 10950. Filed June 14. Ballesteros, Robert, et al. Filed by RBS Citizens N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $213,500 affecting property located at 9 Mountain Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed July 12. Buckner, Tami, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $104,000 affecting property located at 6 Canaan Road, New Paltz 12561. Filed July 16. Cairns, Roy A. Jr., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $369,866 affecting property located at 12 Millers Lane, Wingdale 12594. Filed July 11. Cappabianca, Joseph, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $125,000 affecting property located at 3 Seward Drive, Warwick 10990. Filed June 7.
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Cheyne, Mary, et al. Filed by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $313,173 affecting property located at 3 Stone Ledge Lane, New Windsor 12553. Filed June 11. Cox, Douglas, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $125,000 affecting property located at 6 Putnam St., Newburgh 12550. Filed June 7. Cruz, David, et al. Filed by Citimortgage. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $129,500 affecting property located at 38 Manhattan Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed June 13. Cullum III, John W., et al. Filed by New Penn Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $266,850 affecting property located at 30 Alfred Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed July 11. Cunningham, Kevin V., et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $189,905 affecting property located at 43 Old Mill Road, Wallkill 12589. Filed June 12. D’Ancona, Catherine, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $397,500 affecting property located at 203 Ridgetop Lane, Unit 203, Brewster 10509. Filed July 15. De Daj, Marika, et al. Filed by NJCC-NYS CRF REO Subsidiary LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $313,905 affecting property located at 56 Quaker Hill Road, Monroe 10950. Filed June 4. Demers, Raymond C. Jr., et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $273,000 affecting property located at 111 Shirley Ave., Fishkill 12524. Filed July 15. Dunn, Bruce C. Sr., et al. Filed by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 127 Old Cahoonzie Road, Sparrowbush 12780. Filed June 7. Gatt, Daniel, et al. Filed by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $65,000 affecting property located at 102 O’Neil St., Kingston 12401. Filed July 12. Grohl, Peter F., et al. Filed by Newrez LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $340,000 affecting property located at 23 Forest Hill Road, New Windsor 12553. Filed June 7.
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Facts & Figures Gulnick, Burton Jr., as administrator of the estate of Ronald Cole, et al. Filed by Reverse Mortgage Solutions Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $112,500 affecting property located at 72 Summer St., Kingston 12401. Filed July 16. Heirs and distributees of the estate of Richard A. Millson, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 6 Topaz Run, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed July 17. Hess, Paul R., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $40,000 affecting property located at 10 Pellwood Lake Road, Highlands 10928. Filed June 14. Hosey, James P., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $184,600 affecting property located at 29 Ridgeview Road, Brewster 10509. Filed July 18. Johnson, Andrea, et al. Filed by Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $214,934 affecting property located at 181 Martins Road, Huguenot 12746. Filed June 6. Johnson, Michael, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 210 Concord Lane, Middletown 10940. Filed June 10. Klonowski, Thomas A., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $75,000 affecting property located at 60 First Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed July 18. Lewis, William T., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $276,000 affecting property located at 26 Sunrise Heights, Goshen 10924. Filed June 10. Long, Richard V., et al. Filed by Specialized Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $398,127 affecting property located at 24 Northgate, Goshen 10924. Filed June 12. Lucky, Kenneth, et al. Filed by Newrez LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 1202 Hawthorne Way, New Windsor 12553. Filed June 3.
MacIsaac, Barbara T., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $78,750 affecting property located at 22 Hillside Village Road, Pine Plains 12567. Filed July 10. Marcojohn, Michael, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,000 affecting property located at 8 W. Dogwood Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed July 15.
Orji, Juanita, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $309,280 affecting property located at 26 Hillview Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed July 11.
Martin, Douglas M., et al. Filed by Rhinebeck Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $225,000 affecting property located at 45, 47 and 53 Arnett Road, Rhinebeck 12572. Filed July 9.
Otis, Richard, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $148,046 affecting property located at 230 Hoyt St., Port Ewen 12466. Filed July 18.
Mathieu, Marjorie, et al. Filed by Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $399,000 affecting property located at 33 Clinton Drive, Blooming Grove 10914. Filed June 6.
Perez, Laura M., et al. Filed by Carisbrook Asset Holding Trust. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $293,371 affecting property located at 2 Cornwall Lane, Middletown 10940. Filed June 4.
McCray, John F., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $108,000 affecting property located at 6 Whitegate Drive, Apt. H, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed July 12.
Richards, Ann, et al. Filed by Plaza Home Mortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $176,739 affecting property located at 17 Walnut St., New Windsor 12553. Filed June 6.
McGuiness, Mary, et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $157,710 affecting property located at 9 Leonard Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed June 5. Meyer, George F., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $375,000 affecting property located at 1485 Route 1, Westtown 10998. Filed June 4. Mitaynes, Donna Marie, et al. Filed by Eastern Savings Bank FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $279,000 affecting property located at 2 Summit Ridge Road, Newburgh 12550. Filed June 14. Morgano, Peter, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $192,358 affecting property located at 139 Grand St., Goshen 10924. Filed June 11. Nenni Construction Company Inc., et al. Filed by Leonard Gerber and Christopher Bromley. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $575,000 affecting property located in Fishkill. Filed July 16.
Lynch, Kenneth, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 436 Hillside Road, Monroe 10950. Filed June 10.
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Nickelson, Terrence V., et al. Filed by Affinity Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $440,000 affecting property located at 140 Brooks Ave., Monroe 10950. Filed June 11.
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Rinaldi, Mark, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $284,905 affecting property located at 19 Putters Way, Unit 9, Wallkill 10940. Filed June 4. Schrank, David J., et al. Filed by Midfirst Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $449,296 affecting property located at 5 Preakness Court, Goshen 10924. Filed June 5. Short, Christopher, as heir to the estate of Thomas P. Short. et al. Filed by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $180,000 affecting property located at 284 Pine Ridge Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed July 11. Stevenson, Angela, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $186,303 affecting property located at 120 Route 209, Port Jervis 12771. Filed June 10. Taylor, Jeffrey, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $188,000 affecting property located at 152 Cooper Road, North East 12546. Filed July 12. Teruel, Angela, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $130,000 affecting property located at 5314 Route 44, Amenia 12501. Filed July 9.
Mechanic’s Liens 392 North Montgomery LLC, Highland Mills, as owner. $29,420 as claimed by Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP, Westminster, Massachusetts. Property: 392 N. Montgomery St., Newburgh. Filed July 18. Brucato, Frank, as owner. $350 as claimed by Stephen DiBella, LaGrangeville. Property: 54 Ritter Road, East Fishkill. Filed July 17. Hendrick Properties LLC, as owner. $5,575 as claimed by SRI Fire Sprinkler LLC, Albany. Property: 41 Main St., Millerton. Filed July 15. Millerton Super Inc., as owner. $10,581 as claimed by AAA Refrigeration Service Inc., Bronx. Property: 122 Route 44, North East. Filed July 18. Poughkeepsie City Industrial Development Agency, as owner. $88,072 as claimed by Schindler Elevator Corp., Morristown, New Jersey. Property: 168 Academy St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed July 15. Selensky, Barbara A., as owner. $2,770 as claimed by MAK III Plumbing and Heating LLC, Slate Hill. Property: 7 Murray Drive, Chester 10918. Filed July 16.
NEW BUSINESSES This paper is not responsible for typographical errors contained in the original filings.
Doing Business As Banaho Corp., d.b.a. Farview Healthy Vending, 606 Thayer Road, West Point 10996. Filed June 12. Community Septic Management Group Ltd., d.b.a. M and S Septic of the Hudson Valley, 734 Highway 1, Warwick 10990. Filed June 12. EL Marketing NY Corp., d.b.a. We Share Your Care, 12 Lemberg Court, Unit 215, Monroe 10950. Filed June 12. Hess Building Enterprises Inc., d.b.a. SNL Construction, 1746 Route 9W, West Park 12493. Filed June 12. Shiv Shakti Foods Inc., d.b.a. Maisie’s Deli, 331 N. Plank Road, Newburgh 12550. Filed June 12.
Siddhant Food Inc., d.b.a. Bentleys Deli, 233 Route 17, Tuxedo Park 10987. Filed June 12.
Emma Baldwin Hair, P.O. Box 49, Willow 12495, c/o Emma R. Baldwin. Filed July 17.
Sulmedtran Inc., d.b.a. Port Jervis Taxi, 171 Jersey Ave., Port Jervis 12771. Filed June 12.
Fitlifecycle, 530 Midland Lakes Road, Middletown 10941, c/o Larry D. Rivera. Filed June 10.
TruGreen Energy Inc., d.b.a. Driveway and Parking Lot Systems, 136 Dubois St., Pine Bush 12566. Filed June 12.
Foolish Wisdom Productions, 27 Oakledge Park, Saugerties 12477, c/o Adrian OBrien Hirsch-Pollitt. Filed July 12.
Wingspan Diversified Inc., d.b.a. Wingstop, 400 Route 211 East and Carpenter Avenue, Middletown 10940. Filed June 12.
Hot Dog Cart, P.O. Box 465, Wallkill 12589, c/o Elana R. De Groat. Filed July 15.
Partnerships Slow Made, 153A Elmendorf St., Kingston 12401, c/o Korina Shannon Brewer and Natalie O’Brien Nicholson. Filed July 12.
Sole Proprietorships C. Donaldson Property Maintenance, 6 Elizabeth St., Kingston 12401, c/o Cullen York Donaldson. Filed July 18. Christines Child Care, 153 Bellvale Lakes Road, Warwick 10990, c/o Christine M. Joyce. Filed June 6. CMS Excavating and Contracting, 1298 Union Ave., Newburgh 12550, c/o Clayton M. Serviss. Filed June 7. Credle’s Cuts and Styles, 102 S. Lander St., Newburgh 12550, c/o Eric Credle. Filed June 10. Crosseyeddsusie, 493 Ridgebury Road, Slate Hill 10973, c/o Kathleen Anne Stubaus. Filed June 11. Denora Tiles, 595 Hurley Ave., Hurley 12443, c/o Giuseppe Denora, Jr. Filed July 12. DePalma Landscaping, 431 Lake Road, New Windsor 12553, c/o Debra Ann DePalma. Filed June 10. Diana’s Universal Boutique, 11 Washington Terrace, Unit 105, Newburgh 12550, c/o Dianna Enamorado. Filed June 6. Eagle Painting, 9 Scanlon Ave., Florida 10921, c/o Louis Charles Freda, II. Filed June 12. EJQ Consulting, 9 Avon St., Saugerties 12477, c/o Ernest James Quick. Filed July 15.
Jojo’s Cleaning Services, 14 Ugo Drive, Newburgh 12550, c/o Jose Raul Rico Flores. Filed June 6. Katelynn’s Keychains, 162 Gibson Hill Road, Chester 10918, c/o Lisa Marie Keglovitz. Filed June 12. Latin Grocery II, 106 Broadway, Newburgh 12550, c/o Guarien J. Gil. Filed June 6. Law Offices of Rhona M. Bork, 51 Winchester Drive, Monroe 10950, c/o Rhona M. Bork. Filed June 6. Lawson Water Systems, 105 Moore Lane, Woodstock 12498, c/o James A. Lawson. Filed July 12. Listening Tree, 124 Main St., Suite 8, New Paltz 12561, c/o Rosalind E. Bank. Filed July 12. M2 Squared, 167 Wood Road, Westtown 10998, c/o Minka Tyminski. Filed June 6. Mara’s Marvelous Gems, 224 Dubois St., Newburgh 12550, c/o Ullanda M. Murphy. Filed June 10. Rooster Egg Creations, 35 Distillery Road, Warwick 10990, c/o Dale Marie Taylor. Filed June 11. Sweet Dreams Bakery, 79 Carle Terrace, Lake Katrine 12449, c/o Miranda Benjamin. Filed July 16. Valley Life Bros., 16 Quarry St., Kingston 12401, c/o Jesse Jacob Grossbohlin. Filed July 15. Wieder Financial Services, 48 Bakertown Road, Monroe, c/o Abraham S. Wieder. Filed June 6.
Facts & Figures BUILDING PERMITS Commercial 153 East Avenue LLC, Norwalk, contractor for 153 East Avenue LLC. Remaining area for demolition at 153 East Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed May 10. AEGIS Electrical Systems LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Ashley E. Buchta. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 14 Norvell Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $23,300. Filed May 8. Alix Field Limited Partnership, Norwalk, contractor for Alix Field LP. Change of ownership for Rainbow Nails at 205 Main St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed May 10. All Quality LLC, Norwalk, contractor for North Avenue Company LLC. Replace front ramp for dentist’s office at 43 North Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $13,000. Filed May 10. Burton Real Estate Group LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Burton Real Estate LLC. Create bathroom and new steps for tenant at 18 Isaacs St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed May 3. Dunlop. John F., Norwalk, contractor for John F. Dunlop. Renovate space for tenant “Joaldi’s Fashion & Alterations” at 70 Van Zant St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed May 8. Eldco Development LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Eldco Development LLC. Replacement alterations for tenant at 149 Water St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed May 7. F&G Construction Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Meeker Court LLC. Build single-family residence with two-car garage, finished basement and full bathroom at 33 Meeker Cottage, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $500,000. Filed April 30.
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GMSG Properties LLC, Norwalk, contractor for GMSG Properties LLC. Alter commercial masonry building at 131 Main St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $16,000. Filed May 7.
3 Bedford LLC, Norwalk, contractor for 3 Bedford LLC. Renovate kitchen, bathroom and add laundry room in Building 14-4, Unit 10 at 3 Bedford Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed May 6.
Craftsman Contracting LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Michael Eisenreich. Install single spiral stairs to lower rear deck at 6 Allen Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $13,850. Filed May 8.
Martin, William Reimer, Norwalk, contractor for William Reimer Martin. Renovate single-family residence at 9 Geneva Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $23,792. Filed May 7.
GMSG Properties LLC, Norwalk, contractor for GMSG Properties LLC. Build single story at 131 Main St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed May 7.
3 Bedford LLC, Norwalk, contractor for 3 Bedford LLC. Renovate kitchen, bathroom and add laundry room in Building 14-2, Unit 8 at 3 Bedford Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed May 6.
C-Tec Solar LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Agatha Tsionis. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 16 Country Club Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $38, 684. Filed May 15.
Mathews, Walden H. and Susan Mathews, Norwalk, contractor for Walden H. Mathews and Susan Mathews. Renovate single-family residence at 56 Cove Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $4,000. Filed May 7.
GMSG Properties LLC, Norwalk, contractor for GMSG Properties LLC. Alter masonry building at 127 Main St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $5,000 Filed May 7. Main Avenue LLC 458, Norwalk, contractor for Main Avenue LLC 458. Construct alterations for tenant at 456 Main Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed May 7. Melbourne Realty Company LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Melbourne Realty Company LLC. Update tenant space on second floor at 111 East Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed May 8. Norwalk Land Development LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Norwalk Land Development LLC. Build upper-level tenant space at 100-101 N. Water St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $400,000. Filed April 29. Norwalk Roofing, Norwalk, contractor for 104 West Cedar Street LLC. Remove and re-roof at 104 W. Cedar St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $28,000. Filed May 2. Posigen CT LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Thomas M. J. Steel and Catherine Steel. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 10 Loomis St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $21,120. Filed May 10. TR South Water Street LLC, Norwalk, contractor for TR South Water Street LLC. Build foundation, development and retail space at 123 Water St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $2,500,000. Filed May 7. West Avenue LLC, Norwalk, contractor for West Avenue LLC. Construct workrooms for tenant at 606-614 West Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed May 1.
Residential 3 Bedford LLC, Norwalk, contractor for 3 Bedford LLC. Renovate kitchen, bathroom and add laundry room in Building 14-2, Unit 6 at 3 Bedford Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed May 6.
3 Bedford LLC, Norwalk, contractor for 3 Bedford LLC. Renovate kitchen, bathroom and add laundry room in Building 14-3, Unit 12 at 3 Bedford Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed May 6. 3 Bedford LLC, Norwalk, contractor for 3 Bedford LLC. Renovate kitchen, bathroom and add laundry room in Building 16, Unit 1 at 3 Bedford Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed May 6. 3 Bedford LLC, Norwalk, contractor for 3 Bedford LLC. Renovate kitchen, bathroom and add laundry room in Building 18, Unit 8 at 3 Bedford Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed May 6. Advanced Window Systems LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Henry Czelacka. Replace two double-hung egress windows in bedroom at 168 Woodward Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $2,377. Filed May 10. C&D Contractors LLC, Norwalk, contractor for William D. Ireland IV and Maureen G. Ireland. Re-roof 1 Toilsome Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed May 1. C. Gessner Painting LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Shaw L Brown and Deneen L. Brown. Finish basement with half bathroom and laundry room at 45 Dry Hill Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed May 2. Callahan, Denise, Norwalk, contractor for Denise Callahan. Replace and expand rear deck at 11 Locust St., Unit A, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed May 3. Ceja, Jose Luis, Norwalk, contractor for Jose Luis Ceja. Replace sheet rock in kitchen and bathroom on second floor and replace floor at 20 Paradiso St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $45,000. Filed May 8. Conner’s Development LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Ronald F. Carapezzi and Newell H. Carapezzi. Add new ridge beam at 83 Old Saugatuck Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed May 2.
DTR Rosemount LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Mark Sibbald. Renovate and remodel kitchen at 28 Arnold Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed May 10. Erie Construction Mid-West Inc, Norwalk, contractor for Michael P. Wellington and Anna Marie T. Wellington. Strip and re-roof 10 Silk St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $14,142. Filed April 30. Flores, Deirdre E., Norwalk, contractor for Deirdre E. Flores. Construct rear deck at 128 Old Belden Hill Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $6,000. Filed May 10. George, Andrew Frank, Norwalk, contractor for Andrew Frank George. Build a single-family residence at 9 Noah’s Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $320,000. Filed May 2. Gilhooly, Richard, Norwalk, contractor for Richard Gilhooly. Construct rear deck at 28 Amundsen St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed April 30. I M G Contracting LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Stephen Barbo. Renovate garage and add dormers at 56 Rowayton Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $25,000. Filed May 10. Kurtzman, Richard S., Norwalk, contractor for Richard Kurtzman. Replace rotting wood on rear deck at 46 Noah’s Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed May 8. Landmark Exteriors Inc, Norwalk, contractor for Ronald F. Carapezzi and Newell H. Carapezzi. Remove and re-roof 83 Old Saugatuck Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $94, 886. Filed May 1. Leading Edge Exteriors LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Darlons Terrace Condo. Remove and reroof 199 Gregory Blvd., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $159,243. Filed May 7. Mahoney Construction Inc, Norwalk, contractor for Jordan S. Davis. Repair floor trusses and loft area pursuant to engineered plans at 1 Island Drive, Unit 26, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $26,880. Filed May 1.
Mileo Group LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Mileo Group LLC. Renovate single-family residence, expand bathroom, kitchen and remove chimney at 46 Rampart Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed May 6. Olivera, Paul, Norwalk, contractor for Paul Olivera. Install vinyl siding to rear of property at 60 Magnolia Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed May 8. O’Neil, Kathleen L. and Roger J. Lapointe, Norwalk, contractor for Kathleen L. O’Neil and Roger J. Lapointe. Replace rear deck at 6 Senga Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed May 10. Pro Custom Solar LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Camilo Agudelo. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 40 Girard St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $23,792. Filed May 13. Riga LLC, Norwalk, contractor for John E. Karr and Patricia M. Russo. Remove and re-roof 19 Heron Road, Unit 20, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,500. Filed May 1. Rochefort, Morgan L., Norwalk, contractor for Morgan L. Rochefort. Renovate full bathroom, replace tub and shower at 3 France St., Unit B, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed May 7. Santella, Denis J. and Patricia Santella, Norwalk, contractor for Lori S. Dominick and Glen Dominick. Alter interior at 167 Winfield St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed May 10. Trinity Heating & Air Inc, Norwalk, contractor for Carlos Alvarado and Carmen Alvarado. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 51 Midrocks Drive, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $31,000. Filed May 15. Valladares, Candido A., Norwalk, contractor for Catherine Gallagher. Replace chimney at 4 Westview Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed May 7. Webb, Jennifer, Norwalk, contractor for Jennifer Webb. Create half bathroom in unfinished basement at 11 Garfield St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed May 10.
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COURT CASES Bridgeport Superior Court City of Bridgeport. Filed by Ailin Rodrigo-Pena, Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosenberg Miller Hite & Morilla LLC, Stratford. Action: The plaintiff was walking on a sidewalk maintained by the defendant when she was caused to fall due to a crack in the sidewalk, thereby causing her to suffer injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-19-6085102-S. Filed April 16. Morano, Leonard, Bridgeport. Filed by Irineu Portella, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Self-represented, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff suffered vehicle theft after being unable to park in the garage, due to the illegal fence built by the defendant and vehicle was forced to be left vulnerable on the street. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages is less than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-195041216-S. Filed May 30. Pathak, Sanket, et al, Bridgeport. Filed by Lisa Miller, Meriden. Plaintiff’s attorney: Miller Rosnick D’amico August & Butler P, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-196084802-S. Filed April 3. Pollock, Noel, Norwalk. Filed by Damien Rodriguez, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Flood Law Firm LLC, Middletown. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-19-6087040-S. Filed June 13. Solomon, Devon L., et al Stamford. Filed by Betsie Diaz, Derby. Plaintiff’s attorney: Antignani & Maresca, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-19-6086011-S. Filed May 14.
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All-Star Transportation LLC, Waterbury. Filed by Cynthia Exner, Brookfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Moore O’Brien & Foti, Middlebury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196030880-S. Filed April 15.
Kowalsky Construction LLC, Westport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shipman & Goodwin LLP, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff and defendant entered into a contract in which the plaintiff will provide construction services on the defendant’s property. The defendant has failed and refused to pay the plaintiff all amounts due for work on the project. The plaintiff claims foreclosure of the mechanic’s lien, possession of the premises, monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FST-CV19-6041177-S. Filed April 29.
Grober, Alden Danielle, Danbury. Filed by Jose Gregory Charon, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Smart Donohue & Nejame PC, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196031001-S. Filed April 23. Riddle, David E., et al, Brookfield. Filed by Sterling National Bank, Lake Zurich, Illinois. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bendett & Mchugh PC, Farmington. Action: The plaintiff was assigned the defendants’ mortgage, which the defendants defaulted on the terms of the agreement and failed to pay the plaintiff the amount due. The plaintiff claims foreclosure of the mortgage, possession of the mortgage premises, monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-19-6031957-S. Filed June 17. Shannon, Rose A., et al, Danbury. Filed by Diego F. Jimenez, Newtown. Plaintiff’s attorney: Lynch Law Group LLC, Shelton. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision allegedly caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-19-6030715-S. Filed April 8.
Wells Fargo Bank NA, Frederick, Maryland. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff is the owner of the defendant’s mortgage for which the defendant failed to comply with the payments terms and thereby breached the terms of the agreement. The plaintiff seeks foreclosure of the mortgage, monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other relief as this court may deem proper. Case no. FST-CV-196041515-S. Filed May 9. Foxboro Court Condominium Association Inc., Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frankel & Berg, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiff provides assessment of common charges for the condominium. The defendant has failed make payments, therefore the plaintiff claims foreclosure of its lien, possession of the premises, monetary damages and is less than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FST-CV-196042070-S. Filed June 5.
DEEDS Commercial 208 Wilson, LLC, Fairfield. Seller: Mark F. Bentley, Fairfield. Property: 76 Rugby Road, Fairfield. Amount: $435,000. Filed June 4. 299 Strawberry Hill LLC, Sandy Hook. Seller: Jessica Kurose, Norwalk. Property: 299 Strawberry Hill Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $310,000. Filed May 9. Aitoro, Anthony, Norwalk. Seller: HSBC Bank USA NA, West Palm Beach, Florida. Property: 32 Bronson Road, Southport. Amount: $79,110. Filed June 4. Delvalle, Sixto and Steven Delvalle, Fairfield. Seller: 303 Jennings Road LLC. Fairfield. Property: 303 Jennings Road, Fairfield. Amount: $350,000. Filed June 4.
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Deva, Dalim and Banasree Deva, New York, New York, Seller: Connecticut Wilton Avenue LLC, Stamford. Property: 23 Wilton Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $510,000. Filed May 2.
Birkeland, Kristen and Christopher Stenersen, Norwalk. Seller: Mark A. Spielman and Barbara Spielman, Norwalk. Property: 297 Buttery Road, Norwalk. Amount: $655,000. Filed May 2.
Durso, Christopher and Kerri Durso, Greenwich. Seller: Alison B. Setterberg, Greenwich. Property: 17 Candle Light Place, Greenwich. Amount: $0. Filed July 8.
Bogue, Robert P. and Jennifer Bogue, Raleigh, North Carolina. Seller: John R. Colavito and Donna M. Colavito, Fairfield. Property: 247 Puritan Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1,225,000. Filed June 5.
Huang, Zeng Gul and Na Chen, Norwalk. Seller: Amin Construction LLC, Norwalk. Property: 35 Homer St., Norwalk. Amount: $710,000. Filed May 6. LeFloch, Graham, Norwalk. Seller: Anton Bataj, Greenwich. Property: 31 Ettie Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $927,000. Filed July 5. Loizzo, Anthony and Jonathan Smith, Greenwich. Seller: US Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 4 Willow Run Road, Greenwich. Amount: $565,000. Filed July 3. M and G Brunner LLC, Westport. Seller: 33 Miller Street LLC, Miami, Florida. Property: 33 Miller St., Fairfield. Amount: $940,000. Filed June 3.
Breines, Philip and Kate Noe, Norwalk. Seller: Anthony Daniello and Stephanie Daniello, Norwalk. Property: 54 Glenrock, Norwalk. Amount: $325,000. Filed May 8. Carbin, Carol, Fairfield. Seller: Nancy McCullough, Fairfield. Property: 10 Ocean Reef Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $477,500. Filed June 3. Chace, Sophie I. and Hans-Peter Acker, Fairfield. Seller: Ellen S. Duggins, Norwalk. Property: 58 Roton Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $1,217,500. Filed May 8. Cramer, Tracy, Norwalk. Seller: Kathleen C. Fabbri, Norwalk. Property: 38 Rowayton Woods Drive, Unit 38, Norwalk. Amount: $245,000. Filed May 9.
Rivas, Jocelyn, Fairfield. Seller: DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 211 Church Hill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $281,000. Filed June 5.
Dembwoski, Vanessa J., Fairfield. Seller: Vanessa J. Dembwoski, Fairfield. Property: 300 Sturges Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1. Filed June 3.
Stugotz Properties LLC, Greenwich. Seller: Morgan Avenue LLC, Greenwich. Property: Lots 27, 28, 29. Map 828, Morgan Avenue, Greenwich. Amount: $1. Filed July 8.
Diaz Ramos, Rolando, Norwalk. Seller: Calvin Reformed Church, Norwalk. Property: 15 Lexington Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $340,000. Filed May 6.
Valle, Javier, Norwalk. Seller: Sterling National Bank, Jericho, New York. Property: 6 1/2 Overbrook, Norwalk. Amount: $600,000. Filed May 9.
Donahue, Deborah, Norwalk. Seller: Ari Gersen and Sandra Gates, Norwalk. Property: 22 Hollywood Place, Norwalk. Amount: $355,000. Filed May 7.
Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, Wilmington, Delaware. Seller: John H. Ong and Helen L. Ong, Norwalk. Property: Lot 4, Map 9982, Norwalk. Amount: $1. Filed May 2.
Dwyer, James R. and Anne Yang Dwyer, South Norwalk. Seller: James R. Dwyer and Anne Yang Dwyer, South Norwalk. Property: 26 Point Road, South Norwalk. Amount: $10. Filed May 3.
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Ellwood, William J., Bloomfield, Colorado. Seller: Jordan Ranney, Fairfield. Property: 46 Bobbins Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $340,000. Filed June 4.
Baldino, Matthew M. and Eliana Baldino, Stratford. Seller: Marcelo Mora and Catalina Aspiazu, Darien. Property: 54 New England Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $280,500. Filed June 5. Berger, Nicole, Norwalk. Seller: William R. Baird, Norwalk. Property: 97 Richards Ave., Unit A5, Norwalk. Amount: $265,000. Filed May 6.
Gilles, Marc and Sofia Iunani, Fairfield. Seller: Maria Ray, Fairfield. Property: 275 Country Road, Fairfield. Amount: $345,000. Filed May 31. Goncalves, Branden, Seymour. Seller: Irina Lazarev and Michael Lazarev, Fairfield. Property: 392 Castle Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $340,000. Filed June 4.
Hagopian, Erin E., Waterbury. Seller: Robert E. Williams, Norwalk. Property: 80 County St., Unit 2E, Norwalk. Amount: $183,000. Filed May 6.
Ondricek, Nathan Levi and Megan Ondricek, Norwalk. Seller: Steven J. Pennella, Redding. Property: 39 Scribner Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $525,000. Filed May 13.
Hamann, Zoe Friedman and Kellogg C. Hamann, Norwalk. Seller: Kurt J. Nelson and Jennifer L. Nelson, Norwalk. Property: 1 Crest Road, Norwalk. Amount: $805,000. Filed May 7.
Petrone, John and Vutheikanya Huon, Stamford. Seller: Stephen Hilker and Marimer Maldonado-Hilker, Northbrook, Illinois. Property: 110 Warren Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $415,000. Filed June 5.
Hedrick, Jane, Old Greenwich. Seller: Robert K Russell Jr., Norwalk. Property: 6 Alewives Road, Norwalk. Amount: $440,000. Filed May 3.
Pickman, Stephanie and Robert Martineau, Fairfield. Seller: Charles McCullough III, and Julie C. McCollough, Fairfield. Property: Lot 3, Church Hill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $455,000. Filed June 3.
Hill, Wendy C., Norwalk. Seller: James Edkins, Wilton. Property: 90 Gillies Lane, Unit 8-11, Norwalk. Amount: $305,000. Filed May 6. Hopkinson, Brian and Celia Hopkinson, East Norwalk. Seller: Matthew J. Dillon and Delia Dillon, Norwalk. Property: 2 Seaside Place, Norwalk. Amount: $1,262,500. Filed May 9. Krets, David and Carolyn Plotkin Krets, Fairfield. Seller: Ann L. Johnson and William R. Johnson, Fairfield. Property: Unit 66, The Ridge, a Common Interest Community. Fairfield. Amount: $1,350,000. Filed June 3. Liu, Xiuzhen and Lei Liu, Norwalk. Seller: Abner Mortimer, Humble, Texas. Property: Unit B, River Run Condominium. Norwalk. Amount: $196,000. Filed May 2. Lloyd, Gregory and Lauren Martin, Fairfield. Seller: Joseph Pozarlik, Fairfield. Property: 99 Cambridge St., Fairfield. Amount: $900,000. Filed June 4. Mallozzi, Vincent and Brooke Mallozzi, Greenwich. Seller: Ruthann Hallas, Greenwich. Property: Lot 5, Hickory Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $875,000. Filed July 8. McCloat, Meghan and Silvestro Accettullo Jr., Easton. Seller: Charles E. Ferguson, Fairfield. Property: 2815 Redding Road, Fairfield. Amount: $580,000. Filed June 3. Oestreicher, Alisa and Matthew J. Oestreicher, Bronxville, New York. Seller: Joseph H. Maloney, Fairfield. Property: Lot 26 Hullmanor, Downlead Road, Fairfield. Amount: $825,000. Filed May 31. Oliveira, Walace and Renata Sasseron-Oliveira, Greenwich. Seller: Patrick Galvin and Marisa Galvin, Norwalk. Property: 46 Lockwood Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $510,000. Filed May 10.
Piro, Steven Mark and Judy H. Piro, Greenwich. Seller: Sevam Sabapathy and Sabitha Rajan Sabapathy, Greenwich. Property: Lot 48, Sun Dance Road, Greenwich. Amount: $850,000. Filed July 8. Reback, Gina, Katonah, New York. Seller: Sylvia Freifeld, Naugatuck. Property: 133, Sunrise Hill Road, Unit 53. Norwalk. Amount: $339,000. Filed May 3. Resch, Johnathan B., Wilton. Seller: Alberts Ziedins, Westford, Massachusetts. Property: 32 Pine St., Unit 6, Norwalk. Amount: $230,000. Filed May 10. Ripley, Robert M. and Donna M. Reeves, Easton. Seller: Andrew W. Pickering and Jill Allison Pickering, Norwalk. Property: 22 Shorefront Park, Norwalk. Amount: $710,000. Filed May 3. Rumely, Estelle, Fairfield. Seller: Lynn Shaw, Southport. Property: 98 Hulls Highway, Southport. Amount: $335,000. Filed June 3. Shah, Megha and Chirag Shah, Hamden. Seller: Jeffrey T. Simmonds and Ellen F. Simmonds, Southport. Property: 650 Flintlock Road, Southport. Amount: $985,000. Filed June 3. Shutsharawan, Pumiwat and Jillian Shutsharawan, Westport. Seller: Nicholas Priola and Nicholle Priola, Norwalk. Property: 12 Crest Road, Norwalk. Amount: $1,080,000. Filed May 2. Sloate, Pamela Michele, New York, New York. Seller: Donna R. Mones and Marsha K. Mones, Fairfield. Property: Lots 71, 72 and 73, Prince St., Fairfield. Amount: $315,000. Filed June 3. Tavarez, Diurka S. and Meltra S. Tavarez, Stamford. Seller: Javier E. Valle, Norwalk. Property: 34 Paradiso St., Norwalk. Amount: $450,000. Filed May 8.
Facts & Figures Villani, Theresa M., Ridgewood, New Jersey. Seller: Ronald F. Carapezzi and Newell H. Carapezzi, Westport. Property: 83 Old Saugatuck Road, Norwalk. Amount: $2,225,000. Filed May 3.
Danko, David M., Fairfield. $888, in favor of Wilton Anesthesia Associates, Wilton, by Philip H. Monagan, Waterbury. Property: 59 Cedarhurst Lane, Fairfield. Filed July 2.
Wadowloski, Adam, Norwalk. Seller: Philip A. Sweet, Norwalk. Property: 3 Jennifer Road, Norwalk. Amount: $425,000 Filed May 13.
Efkarpidis, Tarra, Norwalk. $1,208, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by Schereiber Law LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 304 W. Cedar St., Norwalk. Filed July 15.
Wilmot, Amelia T. and Nori Grudin, Norwalk. Seller: Sarah Q. French, Norwalk. Property: 3 Kellee Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $430,000. Filed May 10. Zohrabian, Vahe and Rebecca N. Marchetti, Norwalk. Seller: Joel W. Rock and Vanessa M. Rock, Fairfield. Property: 144 Beaumont St., Fairfield. Amount: $535,000. Filed June 4.
FORECLOSURES Berry, Christopher, et al, Creditor: Eastern Savings Bank FSB, Greenwich. Property: Unit 3K, Building 2, Putnam Hill Apartments Inc. Greenwich. Mortgage default. Filed May 17. Desquiron, Nathalie, et al, Creditor: Putnam Hill Association, Inc, Greenwich. Property: 1 Putnam Hill, Apartment 4F, Greenwich. Mortgage default. Filed June 17. Drennan, William Gregory and Jessie Whelan Drennan, Creditor: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Columbus, Ohio. Property: 100 Doubling Road, Greenwich. Mortgage default. Filed June 3. Koch, Victoria, et al, Creditor: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 2 Random Road, Greenwich. Mortgage default. Filed June 10. Oudheusden, Peter S., et al. Creditor: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Columbus, Ohio. Property: 93 Cutler Road, Greenwich. Mortgage default. Filed April 30. Wilson, Gary W. and Celeste J. Wilson. Creditor: US Bank, National Association, St. Paul, Minnesota. Property: 12 Irvine Road, Old Greenwich. Mortgage default. Filed May 1.
Guzman, Angela Y., Norwalk. $7,895, in favor of American Express National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah, by Mark Sank & Associates LLC, Stamford. Property: 38 N. Bridge St., Norwalk. Filed July 2. Keller, Richard, Greenwich. $225,000, in favor of Beth Keller, Greenwich, by Halloran & Sage LLP, Hartford. Property: 15 Echo Lane, Greenwich. Filed July 18. Lapegna, Anthony J., Taylorsville. $12,706, in favor of Ford Motor Credit Company, Livonia, Michigan, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 63 Valley Road, Cos Cob. Filed June 12. Snyder, Gail M. Fairfield. $7,313, in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Schereiber Law LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 5 Greenlawn Drive, Fairfield. Filed July 15. Stiller, David, Norwalk. $9,289, in favor of Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, California, by the Law Offices Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 294 Sunrise Hill Lane, Unit R74, Norwalk. Filed July 11.
LIENS Federal Tax Liens Filed Arias, Edgar A., 24 Brookfield St., Apartment 2, Norwalk. $107,814, civil proceeding tax. Filed May 6. Beehive Heat Treating Inc., 132 Water St., South Norwalk. $14,478, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 16. Bennett, John L., 198 1/2 W. Norwalk Road, Norwalk. $110,651, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 1.
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Bennett, Judith Vershil, 16 Saxon Road, Norwalk. $2,743, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 30.
Ceesay, Amie, Fairfield. $18,192, in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Schereiber Law LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 111 Judd St., Fairfield. Filed July 15.
Bennett, Judith Vershil, 16 Saxon Road, Norwalk. $2,841, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 30.
Betts Landscaping LLC, P.O. Box 110391, Stamford. $15,971, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 1.
Rossi, Gabriel B., 1 Linden St., Unit C3, Norwalk. $1,829, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 30.
Caruso, Anthony D., 25 Perry Ave., Norwalk. $100,275, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 16.
Rossi, Gabriel B., 1 Linden St., Unit C3, Norwalk. $1,846, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 30.
Colistra, Brian and Nancy Marie Colistra 5 Newtown Terrace, Norwalk. $77,324, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 29.
Shaffer, Lawrence B., 1 Wolf pit Ave., No. 8, Norwalk. $2,159, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 30.
Ely, Lucy P., 2 Ox Yoke Lane, Norwalk. $4,500, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 30. Harris, Darrell E. and Katharine Harris, 11 Edlie Ave., Apt. B, Norwalk. $39,190, civil proceeding tax. Filed May 6. Hernandez Cabrera, Sergio, 26 N. Taylor Ave., Norwalk. $10,079, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 29. Hughes, Ranfy, 17 Laurel St., Norwalk. $12,782, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 29. Lardaro, Anthony, 97 Richards Ave., Apt. AA11, Norwalk. $22,027, civil proceeding tax. Filed May 6. Marenyi, Gabor, 341 Strawberry Hill Ave., Norwalk. $28,315, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 1. Molina, Jose T., 18 Berkeley St., Apartment 2, Norwalk. $4,289, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 29. Montanez, Luis A., 14 Ohio Ave., Apt. 1 FL, Norwalk. $3,922, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 29. Montanez, Yolanda and Luis A. Montanez, 14 Ohio Ave., Apt. 1 FL, Norwalk. $13,957, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 29. Morgan, Patrick J., 230 New Canaan Ave., Apartment 14. Norwalk. $3,225, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 5. Mullen, William C. and Jennifer Mullen, 22 Eversley Ave., Norwalk. $12,930, civil proceeding tax. Filed May 6. Palermo, Concetta, 11 Starlight Drive, Norwalk. $3,608, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 30. Palermo, Concetta, 11 Starlight Drive, Norwalk. $3,644, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 30. Prophet, Andrew, 42 Lincoln Ave., Norwalk. $42,034, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 29. Rausch, Devon and Allison Delmolino, 498 Flax Hill Road, Norwalk. $70,269, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 16.
Shaffer, Lawrence B., 1 Wolf pit Ave., No. 8, Norwalk. $2,179, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 30. Stroud, Aaron M., 12 Nash Pace, Apt. 2 FL, Norwalk. $20,980, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 29. Tenore, Gabriel, 133 Picketts Ridge Road, West Redding. $22,362, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 16. Weiss, Richard C., 23 Melrose Ave., Norwalk. $15,188, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 22. Williams, Russell J., 2 Truman Cottage, Norwalk. $68,346, civil proceeding tax. Filed April 9.
Mechanic’s Liens Filed Auteri, Janice, Stamford. Filed by Petralar Homes LLC, Stamford, by Giuseppe Laria. Property: 33 Putter Drive, Stamford. Amount: $75,000. Filed Jan. 11. SPUS8 750 Washington Blvd. LP, Los Angeles, California. Filed by Camsan Inc., Stamford, by Thomas Sanseverino. Property: 750 Washington Blvd, Stamford. Amount: $160,590. Filed Jan. 28. Stamford Phase Four JV LLC, Stamford. Filed by Simplex Grinnell Limited Partnership, Westminster, Massachusetts, by Melanie Irish. Property: Unit 4, The Trinity Stamford PSW Condominium, Stamford. Amount: $43,951. Filed Jan. 18. The Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc., Stamford. Filed by Stone Harbor Construction LLC, Stamford, by Gerard J. Kiley Jr. Property: 39 Scofield town Road, Stamford. Amount: $92,256. Filed Feb 8.
LIS PENDENS Brandt, James, et al, Fairfield. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for M&T Bank. Property: 191 Eleven O’clock Road, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed June 26.
Chen Chung Chow, Greenwich. Filed by Patrick R. Gil, Greenwich, for Eugenio Pirri. Property: 52 Oak Ridge St., Greenwich. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed July 10.
Peluso, Diana H., et al, Greenwich. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for MT Bank. Property: 34 Hill Road, Greenwich. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed July 5.
Comers-Rilla, Nora, Fairfield. Filed by Seiger Greller Laurie LLP, West Hartford, for Megan Nabozny and Derek Nabozny. Property: 34 Dalewood Ave., Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed July 19.
Rockwell, John J., et al, Fairfield. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association. Property: 225 Harvester Road Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed July 18.
Gentile, Bonnie, et al, Fairfield. Filed by Glass & Brauss LLC, Fairfield, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Company. Property: 32 Laurel St., Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed July 16.
Taylor, Brian, et al, Fairfield. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for CitiBank NA. Property: 1260 Merwins Lane, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed July 11.
Higgins, Keith and James Higgins, Cos Cob. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Quicken Loans. Property: 29 Cross Lane, Cos Cob. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed June 26. Klein, Samuel, et al, Greenwich. Filed by Locke Lord LLP, Hartford, for Bank of America NA. Property: 131 Pecksland Road, Greenwich. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed July 10. Lavin, Lisa, et al, Fairfield. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank NA. Property: 140 Woods End Road, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed July 3. Lavin, Lisa, et al, Fairfield. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank NA. Property: 140 Woods End Road, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed July 11. Lombardi, Leslie, et al, Greenwich. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for US Bank Trust National Association. Property: 26 Heittiefred Road, Greenwich. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed June 28. Montague, Antoinette, Fairfield. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for M&T Bank. Property: 28 Suzanne Circle, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed June 20. Navarro, Luz, et al, Fairfield. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 23 Eastfield Drive, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed July 11. Nobile, Rita I., et al, Fairfield. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank NA. Property: 687 Streatfield Road, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed July 3.
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LEASES Bull, Milan G. and Cathy O. Bull, by Kathleen M. Van Der Auer. Landlord: Connecticut Audubon Society, Fairfield. Property: 2325 Burr St., Fairfield. Commenced June 18, 2019. Filed July 19. Sacred Heart University Incorporated, by Kenneth Kleban. Landlord: Wells Ventures LLC, Fairfield. Property: 1410-1418 and 14241428 Post Road, Fairfield. Term: 10 years, commenced May 24, 2019. Filed June 12.
MORTGAGES Begley, Robert J. and Barbara S. Begley, Stamford, by Dina Tornheim. Lender: Ridgewood Savings Bank, 1981Marcus Ave., Suite 110, Lake Success, New York. Property: 1042 Cove Road, Stamford. Amount: $270,000. Filed July 2. Bell, Joan and Judson Bell, Stamford, by Richard J. Slagle. Lender: Freedom Mortgage Corp., 907 Pleasant Valley Ave., Suite 3, Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Property: 124 Pine Hill Ave., Stamford. Amount: $540,038. Filed July 2. Bland, Ryan and Chalice Bland, Stamford, by Dennis J. Budju. Lender: Home Point Financial Corp., 9 Entin Road, Suite 200, Parsippany, New Jersey. Property: 171 High Clear Drive Stamford. Amount: $492,000. Filed July 2. Chummar, George B. and Tania Ann Philip, Stamford, by James T. Mayo. Lender: First County Bank, 117 Prospect St., Stamford. Property: 7 Lantern Circle, Stamford. Amount: $522,000. Filed July 2.
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Facts & Figures Garcia-Berg, Leonardo and Veronica Calamare, Stamford, by Christina M. Colbert. Lender: Newtown Savings Bank, 39 Main St., Newtown. Property: 87 Den Road, Stamford. Amount: $804,000. Filed July 2.
Moore, Damon and Kiya Fountain, Stamford, by James T. Mayo. Lender: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., 4201 Marsh Lane, Carrollton, Texas. Property: 65 Glenbrook Road, Unit 1D, Stamford. Amount: $196,270. Filed July 2.
Spaziante, Bethany M. and Richard J. Spaziante, Stamford, by Stephen J. Schelz. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank NA, 101 N. Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Property: 1871 Long Ridge Road, Stamford. Amount: $593,750. Filed July 2.
Hoffman, Ray A., Stamford, by Alan Chars. Lender: Quicken Loans Inc., 1050 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Property: 200 Gary Road Stamford. Amount: $519,000. Filed July 2.
Otavio Jansson, Erik Gunnar and Melisa Stephanie Cardona, Stamford, by Clare Bolduc. Lender: Citizens Bank NA, 1 Citizens Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island. Property: 93 Clover Hill Drive, Stamford. Amount: $300,000. Filed July 2.
Whitaker, Phillip A. and Kaitlyn Marcinek Stamford, by George W. Boath Jr. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank N A., 1111 Polaris Pkwy., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 132 Stamford Ave., Stamford. Amount: $576,922. Filed July 2.
Schramm, Bryan and Kimberly Schramm, Stamford, by Mayra M. Rios. Lender: Cross Country Mortgage Inc., 6850 Miller Road, Brecksville, Ohio. Property: 16 Black Twig Place, Stamford. Amount: $543,200. Filed July 2.
Williams, Cynthia A. and Jordan Brock Williams, Stamford, by Alan Chars. Lender: Quicken Loans Inc., 1050 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Property: 77 Wascussee Lane, Stamford. Amount: $471,356. Filed July 2.
Sharitkin, Dimitry, Stamford, by Nathaniel W. Shipp. Lender: Guaranteed Rate Inc., 3940 N. Ravenswood, Chicago, Illinois. Property: 950 Cove Road, Unit 2B, Stamford. Amount: $200,000. Filed July 2.
Zens, Deborah A., Stamford, by Mario P. Musilli. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank NA, 101 N. Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Property: 2437 Bedford St., Unit 2-2, Stamford. Amount: $150,000. Filed July 2.
Kavanagh, Mark J., Stamford, by Calvin Rodriguez. Lender: Morgan Stanley Private Bank National Association, 4279 Ivy Pointe Blvd., Suite 400, Cincinnati, Ohio. Property: 20 Bend of River Lane, Stamford. Amount: $590,000. Filed July 2.
Sr. Tableau Developer (Bridgeport, CT job location). Dvlp data dashboard & visualization apps for Tableau to query d/bases, datasets, spreadsheets, & generate reports. Analyze user info & reqmts; dvlp d/ base filter applications. Reqs. Bach’s in Comp Sci or Comp Sci & Engg, & 2 yrs of exp. Mail resume to United Rentals Inc., 100 First Stamford Place, Stamford, CT 06902 Attn: L Zattola. Ref to: 0606
Singer, Thomas and Elena Singer, Stamford, by Stephen J. Scholz. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank NA, 101 N. Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Property: 256 Ocean Drive West, Stamford. Amount: $1,170,000. Filed July 2.
Zhang, Xuezhi and You Lu, Stamford, by Robert J. Yamin. Lender: US Bank National Association, 4801 Frederica St., Owensboro, Kentucky. Property: 115 Colonial Road, Stamford. Amount: $464,000. Filed July 2.
NEW BUSINESSES Vice President, Database Administrator (Greenwich, CT): Define the needs, benefits, and technical strategy of the Database Administration team. Work with information technology (IT) operations, database structures, theories, principles, and practices; Microsoft SQL Server; server-client computing and relational database environments; data management and data processing flowcharting techniques; reporting and query tools and practices; performance tuning; and data replication, backups, and recovery. Req’s Bachelor’s degr plus 5 yrs of progressively responsible exp. Mail resume to: AQR Capital Management, LLC, ATTN: S. Rao, 2 Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. Must Ref: M017AQRCT.
George Dickel & Co. 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9. Glen Ord Distillery, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9. Glen Ord, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
Senior Engineer (WorldQuant, LLC / Old Greenwich, CT) - Partcpate in archtctre, dsign & implmntatn of lrge-scale dstributd systm which extracts data. Reqs Bach in Comptr Science, Comptr Engnrng, Infrmtn Tchnlgy or clsely rltd field & 3 yrs exp in job offrd or 3 yrs exp as Sftware Engnr, &/or Web Dvlpr, &/or Web Dvlpr, Sftware Engnr, &/or Data Engnr. Bkgd in educ, traing or exp must incl exp in Unix/Linux envrnmnts; exp in buildng scalable web applcatns in cloud-based envrnmnts; exp in Java, Python, JavaScript/JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS/ LESS; hands-on indstry exp in end-to-end web dvlpmnt; excellnt debugging & prblm-solving skills. Send resumes to Sandra.DiCairano@worldquant.com; ref job title in subjct line.
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Godiva Liqueur Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
R. A. Bailey, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Godiva Liqueur Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
Slate Distilling Co. 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Gordon’s Dry Gin Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
Slate Distilling Company Chicago, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Guinness Brewing Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
Slate Distilling, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Hilhaven Distilling Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
Slate Distilling Company Chicago, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Hilhaven Distilling Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
The Vo Distilling Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Hilhaven Lodge Distilling Co. 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
The Vo Distilling Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Hilhaven Lodge Distilling Company, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
The Vo Distilling Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
I W. Harper Distilling Company, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
The Vo Distilling Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Industrias Pampero CA, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
Vo Distilling Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Jeremiah Weed Distilling Company, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 9.
PATENTS
Orphan Barrel Whiskey Distilling Co, 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14. Paddington Bottling Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14. Quaker City Malting Co., 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14. R&J Emmet & Co. 175 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10007, c/o Diageo America’s Supply Inc. Filed May 14.
Adhesion control system and method. Patent no. 10,358,149 issued to Bret Dwayne Worden, Erie, Pennsylvania; Brian Douglas Lawry, Murrysville, Pennsylvania; Jeremy Thomas McGarry, Erie, Pennsylvania; Jennifer Lynn Coyne, Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania; Matthew John Malone, Erie, Pennsylvania. Assigned to GE Global Sourcing LLC, Norwalk. Controlling perceived ambient sounds based on focus level. Patent no. 10,362,385 issued to Davide DiCenso, Sunnyvale, California; Adam Boulanger, Palo Alto, California; Joseph Verbeke, San Francisco, California; Stefan Marti, Oakland, California. Assigned to Harman, Stamford.
Core-shell metal nanoparticle composite. Patent no. 10,358,563 issued to Valerie M. Farrugia, Oakville, California; Alana Desouza, London, California; Sandra J. Gardner, Oakville, California. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk. Differential fueling between donor and nondonor cylinders in engines. Patent no. 10,359,008 issued to Jennifer Lynn Jackson, Troy, New York; Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Ballston Lake, New York; Thomas Michael Lavertu, Clifton Park, New York. Assigned to GE Global Sourcing LLC, Norwalk. Enterprise classified document service. Patent no. 10,360,535 issued to Eugene S. Evanitsky, Pittsford. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk. Foldable blade sharpener. Patent no. D854,392 issued to Stanley A. Watson, Franklin, Massachusetts; Richard S. Constantine, Monroe. Assigned to ACME United Corp., Fairfield. Ink jet pre-fire waveform control. Patent no. 10,360,483 issued to David L. Knierim, Wilsonville, Oregon. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk. Leading/trailing edge detection system having vacuum belt with perforations. Patent no. 10,358,307 issued to Chu-heng Liu, Penfield; Paul J. McConville, Webster; Jason M. LeFevre, Penfield; Douglas K. Herrmann, Webster; Seemit Praharaj, Webster. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk. Method for controlling production of high-pressure gaseous oxygen in an air-separation unit. Patent no. 10,359,231 issued to Nick J. Degenstein, East Amherst, New York. Assigned to Praxair Technology Inc., Danbury. Pool cleaner body. Patent no. D854,267 issued to Paul Lambourn, Sydenham, South Africa; Michael Richard Tregoning, Edenvale, South Africa; Robin Owen Ellis, Pine Ridge, Florida. Assigned to NC Brands LP, Norwalk. Systems, methods and apparatus for servicing a refrigeration system. Patent no. 10,359,220 issued to Vincent Carruba, Baldwin, New York. Assigned to The Armor All/STP Products Co., Danbury. Toner compositions and surface polymeric additives. Patent no. 10,358,557 issued to Richard P.N. Veregin. Mississauga, Canada; NanXing Hu, Oakville, California; Hajir Mokhtari, North York, Canada; Majid Kamel, Mississauga, Canada; Wafa F. Bashir, Mississauga, Canada; Cuong Vong, Hamilton, Canada. Assigned to Xerox, Norwalk.
LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Publication of AMASIA CREATIVE CONSULTING GROUP, LLC. Filed with the SSNY on 05/09/2019. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o LegalInc Corporate Services Inc., 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1 #086, Buffalo, NY 14221. Purpose: Any lawful activity and purpose #62229 PARTY REQUIRED, LLC, filed with SSNY 2/25/2019. Office located in Westchester Co. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: PARTY REQUIRED, LLC. 941 Mclean Ave, #507, Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: any lawful business activity or purpose. #62230 Dare To Fling LLC. Art. of Org. filed 6/13/19. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for process and shall mail to Reg. Agent: Thomas Law Firm, 175 Varick St, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: Any lawful activity #62231 Notice of Formation of PAPAKOSTAS LAW PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/10/2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O PAPAKOSTAS LAW PLLC, 1 Alexander Street #1102, Yonkers, 10701.Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date. #62233 216 Maple LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/19/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 186 Seton Dr., New Rochelle, NY 10804. General Purpose. #62235 Notice of Formation of MQ TAX AND ACCOUNTING LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/8/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 271 Washington Street, Mamaroneck, NY 10543. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62236
Notice of Qualification of TRAILWAYS TICKETING & MARKETING, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/27/2019. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Virginia on 6/6/2019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 7 Renaissance Square, 5th Floor, White Plains, NY 10601. Arts. of Org. filed with State Corporation Commission, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1300 E. Main St., Richmond, VA 23219. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62239 Notice of Formation of Blue Campfire Experiences LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/9/19. Office Location: Westchester. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: P.O. Box 8313 Sleepy Hollow NY 10591. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62240 Notice of Formation of Fiedler Deutsch, LLP Cert. of Reg. filed with SSNY on 05/14/2019. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cnty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLP, 81 Main Street, Ste. 304, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62241 Carmel Wellness LLC, Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 5/28/19. Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent and will mail any process served c/o the LLC at 400 Cyrus Field Road, Irvington, NY 10522. Purpose : all lawful. #62242 GOUDIE, PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/19/19. Office loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of process to: The PLLC, 119 North Broadway, Irvington, New York 10533, principal business location of the PLLC. Purpose: any lawful. #62244
Notice of Formation of Tressfully Yours, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/02/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 158 Esplanade, Mount Vernon, NY 10553. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62245
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LellaNena LLC. Articles of organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/08/2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: LellaNena LLC, 687 Bronx River Road, 2G, Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: all lawful. #62247
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JíS CLEANING SERVICE LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/29/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 153 Stanley Ave., Yonkers, NY 10705. General Purpose. #62248 Notice of Formation of Brancam Realty Investors LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/12/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 14 Westview Avenue, Suite 208, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62249 NOTICE OF FORMATION of JLS Mechanical, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 28 Edgewold Rd. White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: any lawful act. #62251 Notice of Formation of DUNDU RESOURCES, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/18/2019. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: DUNDU RESOURCES LLC, 135 Underhill Lane, Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #62252
Plaintiff designates WESTCHESTER as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 21 MADISON PLACE WHITE PLAINS, NY 10603 Section: 7.340 Block: 158
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER ___________________________________________ NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER, Plaintiff, vs. MIRIAM DAVIS, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF RODMAN DAVIS; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF RODMAN DAVIS; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; LESLIE DAVIS; CITIBANK, N.A.; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ñ INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; SIB MORTGAGE CORP.; THE PEOPLE OF THE STAET OF NEW YORK; ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. ________________________________________ To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $276,000.00 and interest, recorded on October 25, 2004, at Instrument number Control Number 442381076, of the Public Records of WESTCHESTER County, New York, covering premises known as 21 MADISON PLACE WHITE PLAINS, NY 10603. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. WESTCHESTER County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: MATTHEW ROTHSTEIN, ESQ. #62243
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LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Formation of LLC: Sweetloaf Ventures LLC, filed with SSNY on 6/13/13. 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, 15 Whittier Ave. Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62254 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by AVC Hospitality LLC d/b/a Westchester Burger Co. to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 652 White Plains Road Tarrytown NY 10591. #62255 Notice of Formation of HEXAGON TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a domestic limited liability company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/10/2019. Office location: Westchester County. Principal business location: 177A E. Main St. # 217, New Rochelle, NY 10801. SSNY is designed as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to c/o the LLC, 177A E. Main St. # 217, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: information technology consulting, and any other purpose. #62256 Notice of Formation of Sharon Fenster Consulting, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/19/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1840 Crompond Road, Apt. 1B3, Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62257
Notice of Formation of VAWLT PRO, LLC, a foreign limited liability company (LLC). Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/11/2019. Formed in Delaware on July 8, 2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designed as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to c/o the LLC, 333 Mamaroneck Avenue # 238, White Plains, NY 10605. The address of the principal office of the LLC is 333 Mamaroneck Avenue # 238, White Plains, NY 10605. The address of the office required to be maintained in Delaware is 850 New Burton Road, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19904. The authorized officer in Delaware where a copy of the LLCís Certificate of Formation is filed is: Secretary of State, Division of Corporations, 401 Federal St., Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: development of Webbased software application, and any other purpose. #62258 Notice of Formation of Flying Feet LLC Art. Of. Org. filed with SSNY on 6/7/19. Offc. loc: Westchester County. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 233 Linda Ave, Hawthorne, NY 10532. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62259 Notice of formation of Larios Services, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/21/19. Office in 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, 258 Madison Avenue, Portchester, NY 10573. Purpose: Any lawful purpose #62260 The Westchester Hub, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 07/12/19. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy. of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to:The LLC, 40 Village Green, #667, Bedford, NY 10506 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #62261
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113 SPRING LEAF, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY ( SSNY) on 07/17/2019. Office loc. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served and shall mail copy of any process to LLC, 11 Edwards Court, Bedford Corners, NY, 10549. purpose: all lawful. #62263
Notice of Formation of WONDERTWINS I LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/3/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 175B Heritage Hills, Somers, NY 10589. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62270
Notice of Formation of Light House Edge, LLC. Address of LLC: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, New York 10803. County of business: Westchester County, Article of Organization originally filed with SSNY on 06/03/2019. Agent for Service: Secretary of State. Mail Process to: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #62264
Notice of Formation of WONDERTWINS II LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/3/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 175B Heritage Hills, Somers, NY 10589. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62271
Notice of Formation of Massif Solutions LLC: Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) 7/15/2019. Office Location: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC primary business location at 7 Balint Drive, #222, Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose of doing business: any lawful activity. #62266 Fredy Capital Construction LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/18/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Mr. Fredy Melo, 44 Rodwell Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830. General Purpose. #62267 Notice of Formation of CharMarc Ventures LLC: Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) 7/12/2019. Office Location: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC primary business location at 7 Balint Drive, #222, Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose of doing business: any lawful activity. #62269
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Notice of Formation of Rego Hills LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/5/2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process #62273 Young Ambassadors in Christ, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/17/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent and shall mail any process to the LLC, 898 Washington St., Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62232 Notice of Formation of Patricia Villani Licensed Mental Health Counselor, PLLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/19/2019. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 112 Bedford Rd, Pleasantville, NY 10570. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62237 Alex's Twirl Girls, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/25/2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 350, S 6th avenue, Mount Vernon, New York, 10550. principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: Teaching and engaging youth in baton twirl, dance, and tumble. #62238
Malcolm D. Reid, M.D., M.P.P., PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/20/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Malcolm D. Reid, 91 Cherry Hill Ct., Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510. Purpose: Medicine. #62246
Notice of Formation of Farez Custom Design LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/24/2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 6 John Street, Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62253
Notice of Formation of Pellbrook Engineering, PLLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/19. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC, PO Box 8231. Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: Professional Engineering. #62262
Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER Action to Foreclose a Mortgage INDEX #: 63500/2018 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON MORTGAGE SECURITIES CORP., CSMC MORTGAGEBACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-5 Plaintiff, Vs BARTOLO LEAL IF LIVING, AND IF HE/SHE BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, CLAIMING, OR WHO MAY CLAIM TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN, OR GENERAL OR SPECIFIC LIEN UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THIS ACTION; SUCH UNKNOWN PERSONS BEING HEREIN GENERALLY DESCRIBED AND INTENDED TO BE INCLUDED IN WIFE, WIDOW, HUSBAND, WIDOWER, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF SUCH DECEASED, ANY AND ALL PERSONS DERIVING INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON, OR TITLE TO SAID REAL PROPERTY BY, THROUGH OR UNDER THEM, OR EITHER OF THEM, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE WIVES, WIDOWS, HUSBANDS, WIDOWERS, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNS, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES, EXCEPT AS STATED, ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, VICTORINA MEJIA, AGUSTIN MEJIA, FERNANDO LEAL, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRMONT FUNDING LTD, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., JH PORTFOLIO DEBT EQUITIES, LLC, OLIPHANT FINANCIAL, LLC, MIDLAND FUNDING LLC, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING THROUGH THE IRS JOHN DOE (Those unknown tenants, occupants, persons or corporations or their heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors claiming an interest in the mortgaged premises.) Defendant(s). MORTGAGED PREMISES: 24 PALMER ROAD YONKERS, NY 10701 AKA 28 PALMER ROAD, YONKERS, NY 10701 SBL #: 2. - 2188 ñ 43 To the above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Westchester. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. To Bartolo Leal Defendant in this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Gerald E. Loehr of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the Twenty-Eighth day of June, 2019 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Westchester, in the City of White Plains. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by Bartolo Leal, Victorina Mejia, Agustin Mejia and Fernando Leal dated the March 16, 2006, to secure the sum of $524,000.00 and recorded at Instrument No. 461380983 in the Office of the Westchester County Clerk, on the June 15, 2006; The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed July 25, 2011 and recorded on July 29, 2011, in the Office of the Westchester County Clerk at Instrument Number 512073671. The property in question is described as follows: 24 PALMER ROAD, YONKERS, NY 10701 AKA 28 PALMER ROAD, YONKERS, NY 10701 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: July 18, 2019 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 64716 #62268
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