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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 VOL. 56, No. 37

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Ross Lodato, co-owner of Stamford’s United House Wrecking, shows off the eclectic inventory of the soon-to-close store. Photo by Phil Hall.

End of an era

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UNITED HOUSE WRECKING TO CLOSE AFTER 66 YEARS IN STAMFORD

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hen United House Wrecking announced on its website earlier this month that it was permanently closing after 66 years in business, many people assumed the iconic Stamford furniture and

antiques store was the latest casualty of the economic trauma created by the Covid-19 pandemic.

But co-owner Ross Lodato acknowledged the demise of his family-run business was many years in the making.

“Since 2007, after the crash, it’s been very challenging,” Lodato said.

“The environment has

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changed, the customer base has changed — every year we were retooling our business trying to readapt. Everything is going toward the internet and people are not shopping on the weekends.

Young people not buying quality furniture anymore.”

The strain of trying » HOUSE

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ichael Oates, president and CEO of the nonprofit Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp., is optimistic about the region’s economic recovery from the Covid shutdown, especially in the areas of real estate and development.

“We’re seeing some very strong activity within the real estate community,” Oates told the Business Journal, explaining that he’s gotten feedback that real estate offices have been receiving a lot of inquiries on commercial properties as well

as residential.

“Rand Commercial is one of our board members and they’re telling us that they’re extremely busy. They have a lot of listings and a lot of people reaching out to see properties and try to make things happen.”

Oates said that major developments in the region such as Legoland in Goshen, the Amazon warehouse being built in Montgomery that could bring 800 jobs to the region and the $500 million Bellefield at Historic Hyde Park development across from the Culinary Institute of America on Route 9 hold promise to help in the regional » ECONOMY

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‘I don’t think he knows what he’s talking about’ LATIMER REACTS TO TRUMP USING WESTCHESTER AS EXAMPLE OF SUBURBAN DESTRUCTION

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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n a Labor Day interview with the Business Journal, Westchester County Executive George Latimer dismissed President Donald Trump’s claims that Westchester is an example of a suburban area being destroyed by crime and sinking real estate values because of housing that’s variously described as low-income, workforce or affordable.

Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham asked Trump during an interview on her Fox News cable show, “Do you think that suburbs are in danger if (Democratic presidential nominee Joe) Biden is elected. We know the cities are in danger.

But are the suburbs in danger because they say that’s fear-mongering.”

“I know the suburbs. Look.

Westchester was ground zero, okay, for what they were trying to do,” Trump said. “They were trying to destroy the suburban, beautiful, but the American dream, really. They want low-income housing and with that comes a lot of other problems, including crime. It may not be nice to say but I’ll say it.”

Ingraham interrupted, “You’re not saying all poor people are criminals, though.”

Trump responded, “No, I’m not saying that at all, but there is a level of violence that you don’t see. So you have this beautiful community in the suburbs, including women, right, women, they want security.”

The White House Press Office did not respond to several requests from the Business Journal for statistics or other information to support Trump’s claim of Westchester being ground zero for crime and efforts to destroy suburbia related to housing or any other factors.

As recent polls showed support for his reelection was weakening in the suburbs, especially among white women, Trump aimed some of his rhetoric toward suburbanites, saying of Democrats, “They want to abolish the suburbs by empowering far-left bureaucrats to eliminate

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single-family zoning.”

Recently, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) at Trump’s behest effectively repealed the Obama administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which had forced an examination of local zoning to see if it was discriminatory.

In a Tweet, Trump said, “I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low-income housing built in your neighborhood.

Your housing prices will go up and crime will go down.”

“I don’t think he knows what he’s talking about,” Latimer said.

Westchester County did reach an accommodation with HUD several years ago to add 750 units of affordable housing in communities that had none or did not already have a reasonable number.

“If anything, they’re fairly small 10-unit, 40-unit projects or set-asides in market-rate projects. It’s not plugging into your neighborhoods 11,000 units. It’s a made-up storyline,” Latimer said.

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Latimer said affordable housing is essential to the suburbs because without it teachers, firefighters, police, health care workers and others whose salaries do not reach the heights of Wall Street executives could not afford to live and work there.

“Affordable housing is part of economic development. You cannot retain the major corporations in this area, cannot attract the major corporations to this area, if you have a housing shortage of affordable housing,” Latimer said.

“If people whose compensation does not reach the CEO level cannot afford to live in your area, the corporation doesn’t stay or doesn’t move in. This is also about essential services, emergency services. This is not about social engineering. This is about the most practical economic development.”

Latimer said that his administration counts about 1,400 units of affordable housing in the pipeline right now, including standalone projects and units that developers have agreed to include in their market-rate projects, often 10% to 20% of the total unit count.

“From our standpoint in Westchester, we incentivize and work with developers who do want to add affordable housing to the mix,” Latimer said.

“They’re not big chunks,” Latimer said. “We’re going to see 24 units in Port Chester opening in November, 75 units in Greenburgh opening in either November or December and then there are going to be setasides in other settings. That’s not destroying the suburbs.

That’s saving the suburbs.”

Latimer recounted that during his career in the private sector he lived in: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia; Fairfax County, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.; and a suburban portion of Summit County in Ohio, a suburb of Akron and Cleveland.

“I have some experience living in suburbs of major cities,” Latimer said. “The story is the same in those three suburbs as it is in Westchester. You’re trying to deal with suburban needs and affordable housing helps meet some of those suburban needs.”

Latimer said Trump may think he knows a lot about Westchester because he owns property in the county or because he familiarized himself with the dispute between the federal government and the county over zoning and housing that was essentially settled while Latimer’s predecessor, Republican Robert P. Astorino was in office.

“I can’t say what Trump’s motivation is to say what he did.

But, I can say it’s not true. It’s absolutely not true,” Latimer said.

“I can take you in the car right now and show you affordable projects, 45 units in the village of Larchmont, which is one of the wealthiest communities in Westchester County. I can show you an affordable housing building in Rye city, 41 units. I can show you some affordable townhouses in Rye city, another 10 or 12 units, all affordable housing. You tell me if you see any destruction of the municipality. At best it’s a mistake in fact. At worst it’s purposeful to try to scare people.”

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Suite Talk Robin Mangieri, CEO of Reproductive Medicine Associates of Connecticut

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emotional needs of your patients?

“We really try to keep in mind that the people we are helping are our friends and neighbors.

These are people that we care about — we are invested in our community and they’re not just patients to us.

“The emotional need we’ve worked hard to achieve over the years is about being open-minded and trying to give patients a lot of options that might help them emotionally. We have support groups that we used to have in-person that we’ve transitioned to online. There’s one called ‘Ladies Night In,’ which is a support group that’s peerled. And we have online yoga that also used to be in-person.

In November, we did this really great event where we worked with a company called The Art of Infertility, and we purchased art kits. Each individual had a canvas and all different paints and supplies, and they we were able to use that to express the joy or pain or frustration or anger that they were going through.

“We also have a health coach that might help with food planning and diet and we have three acupuncturists, a nutritionist and two social workers. There are many programs available to help meet some of those emotional needs.”

eproductive Medicine Associates of Connecticut is the state’s largest fertility center with locations in Norwalk, Danbury, Stamford and Trumbull. It also operates a Hudson Valley office in Poughkeepsie and is planning to open its first Westchester office in the near future.

In this edition of Suite Talk, Business Journal Senior Enterprise Editor Phil Hall speaks with Robin Mangieri, CEO of this nonprofit, to discuss its distinctive mission and how it achieves it goals.

For the benefit of those who are not familiar with your organization, can you please detail your services?

“We are a fertility practice located throughout Fairfield County that provides individuals and couples with assisted reproductive technologies to help them achieve pregnancy and grow their families. We see between 1,500 to 1,600 new patients a year, and those patients can either just need a consultation or they can go all the way to the most advanced stages where they need embryo screening for genetic diseases, in vitro fertilization or genetic testing.”

How did your organization function during the height of the pandemic? And what are you doing now to encourage the health and safety of your patients while the pandemic continues?

“We did have to close for a period of time because we have to adhere to all of the state and federal guidelines. We did a lot of Zoom follow-up to just make sure patients knew what to expect. And we opened when it was declared safe by both the state and the federal government, we changed a lot of things within the practice.

“Now, any new patient appointment or follow-up or any kind of discussion with our care team is all done remote via Zoom or Teams. The in-person appointments, which tend to

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be ultrasounds or uterine evaluations or semen analysis, are all done in a very different way, which allows us to space out the patients appropriately to allow for social distancing. Masks are required, temperatures are checked, we have a questionnaire everybody has to fill out and we removed lots and lots of furniture.

“We also have a system in place where the patient arrives, they text us that they’re here.

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ing part for a lot of businesses is that every week the governor puts out a list of the states that are impacted in some of our patients’ travel, and that’s impacted some of the care we can provide. It’s limited staff vacation because we know our staff wants to be here for the patient. I would say we have adjusted and that we’re working really hard to still be able to offer the personal touch points remotely that we were able to do in-house. And nobody’s giving us a hard time about sitting in their car waiting for the appointment or having to wear a mask.”

How do you approach the

According to your website, one of the services that you provide is LGBT family building. Can you detail what that involves?

“One of our physician partners is an openly gay male and he built his family through surrogacy and egg donation. This helped to magnify for us that there were things that we needed to change in the practice to be much more inclusive.

“There have been lots of subtleties that we have changed over the years to create a very inclusive practice both for gay men and gay women and gay couples. We have a lot of transgender patients who freeze their gametes either before they start hormones or before they go

through surgery. And we’ve done open-door training through the Family Quality Council. We try to make sure that the practice is open and inclusive to all the patients who need our services.”

How expensive are your services and can people pay for this through most health care programs?

“Luckily, Connecticut has a state mandate, so there are a lot of patients that have infertility benefits if their employers are not self-funded. And for those gaps — for either somebody who used up their mandate coverage or who worked for a self-funded company — we’ve created bundled pricing that is discounted for our self-pay patients and we’ve worked with pharmacies to try to see if we can bundle medications.

“I sit on the board of a charity called Nest Egg Foundation that offers financial grants to couples or individuals suffering from primary infertility, which means they don’t have children yet. We give grants that are up to $10,000 that they can use towards IVF treatment if they don’t have insurance. We try to participate with all the insurance companies we can in this region.”

In terms of donor options, do you accept donations of both sperm and eggs for your patients?

“We don’t have a sperm bank, but we work with certain FDAapproved sperm banks where patients can order sperm that is shipped to us. We have our own egg donation program and we use banks as well. We also have a donor embryo program.”

I’ve heard that you will be opening your first Westchester location soon. Can you offer a preview of where and when this will take place?

“We didn’t sign the lease yet — that’s my next call after this interview. We are planning to open before the end of the year and it’s probably going to be located in Harrison.”

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to keep the business afloat has taken its toll on Lodato, who noted that he “sometimes works hundred-hour weeks. Now I’m not even sleeping — I fell asleep last night at eight o’clock and I woke up at 12. And I’ve done that for maybe four weeks now and it’s not healthy.”

Adding to the strain are the difficulties being experienced by Lodato’s brother and the business’ co-owner, Mario Lodato.

“My brother lost his wife four years ago from early Alzheimer’s and his life is changing, too,” he continued.

“He’s 66 years old and the business is very hands-on.”

United House Wrecking came about during the creation of Interstate 95 through lower Fairfield County, with scores of homes condemned via eminent domain in order to accommodate the highway.

One of the properties tagged for demolition was the mansion that once belonged to Schuyler Merritt, the former Connecticut congressman and namesake of the Merritt Parkway. Lodato’s father was part of the wrecking crew on that luxurious residence.

Lodato’s father quickly recognized that many of the houses destined for destruction had ornate fixtures and abandoned furnishings that could be resold. He joined forces with two of his brothers and a brother-in-law to open the business in 1954 with items salvaged from the I-95 project.

United House Wrecking enjoyed its first 33 years in a store at the corner of Selleck Street and Harvard Avenue.

From its beginning, the store attracted a high level of consumer interest.

“We had five acres and two police officers for the parking traffic,” Lodato recalled. “And if you didn’t get down there by 12 or one o’clock, you didn’t get a spot.”

The company’s second 33 years have been in a sprawling 40,000-square-foot store on a 2.5-acre property at 535 Hope St. Over the years, the business evolved to include merchandise directly acquired from Europe and Asia along with items rescued from unlikely local sources, including old-

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Ross Lodato, co-owner of Stamford’s United House Wrecking. Photo by Phil Hall.

The people who invested in true period antiques might never see that money again – they invested in stuff that is one-third of the price now.

Something that I was once selling for $1,500 is probably worth $500 if you could find a buyer now.

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school commuter hand-straps from the New York City subways, wooden chairs from the original Yankee Stadium and various bric-a-brac abandoned with the end of the Danbury State Fair.

Today, a casual stroll through United House Wrecking will uncover an astonishing mix of items, from delicate tea sets to brilliantly garish wooden carousel horses to the colorful hues of massive stained-glass windows to the metallic jollity of lifesize Buddhas. But over the past decade, Lodato recognized that consumer shopping trends were not moving in his favor.

“A lot of my friends in the business were warning me that this was coming,” he said, glumly pointing out the evaporating return on investment within the sector. “The people who invested in true period antiques might never see that money again — they invested in stuff that is one-third of the price now. Something that I

was once selling for $1,500 is probably worth $500 if you could find a buyer now.”

The strain was eventually felt within the company’s operations — a peak 24-person workforce was gradually whittled down to today’s 13 fulland part-time employees. The beginning of the end of United House Wrecking was sparked by an unsolicited inquiry regarding its location.

“I was sitting here in November, and I normally don’t take cold calls,” Lodato said. “I took a call from somebody from Florida who said, ‘We’re looking through GPS and we’re very interested in your property. Is it for sale?’ I said, ‘Well, it’s never been on the market and we own this. If the money is right, I’d consider it.’”

The Florida buyer, whom Lodato declined to identify, immediately flew north and inspected the grounds.

“He made us an offer that was very fair and I accepted it.”

Lodato stressed that the

company is not being dissolved as a result of financial fraying, insisting that “we pay all our bills, we’re fine.” But how long he could stay financially afloat was uncertain.

“Our taxes doubled $10,000 a month,” he complained. “The business model doesn’t work anymore for a store of this size.

To have 40,000 square feet is very difficult and it won’t happen very much anymore.

Even the big chains don’t have 40,000-square-foot stores anymore. It’s really hard to maintain this.”

Within the antiques world, United House Wrecking has enjoyed a national reputation — although Lodato observed local appreciation

by Stamford’s city government was another matter.

“About two years ago, we were one of the first attractions in Stamford selected to be a tourist attraction by the state of Connecticut,” he said.

“We were going to get a billboard on 95 as an attraction to get people off into Stamford.

But the town didn’t want to put up signs to get people from the thruway to here, for some reason.”

While Lodato has yet to hear from anyone in Stamford’s municipal government about the closing of the business, many longtime fans of the business have responded to the news with shock and sorrow.

Lodato is now running a going-out-of-business sale with prices slashed up to 65% off, and the store is experiencing a spike in foot traffic due to this promotion. The final day of business is scheduled for Nov. 30, the Monday after the Black Friday shopping event.

Lodato, who is 59, does not have any plans for his career after the company closes. For now, he is less focused on his future and more concerned that the last few weeks of United Home Wrecking are conducted with focus and profit.

“The most important thing I’m doing in the next three months is to wind this down properly,” he said. “That’s why I’m not sleeping, and my wife’s all concerned I’m going to die for this. But I got to do this right. I’ve got to make enough out of the sale so that I can take care of my employees as well.”

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Going (almost) all-virtual is a reality for Stamford Innovation Week

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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urning this year’s Stamford Innovation Week into a nearly all-virtual event was, if not exactly a piece of cake, practically mandatory.

The move for one of the state’s prime new technology showcases “really resonated with our audience,” said Jon Winkel, the founder and executive director of Stamford Innovation Week (SiW), which runs Sept. 21-27.

“You can’t just curl up and wait it out.”

While pushing the event to 2021 had been discussed, Winkel said that feedback from attendees of SiW’s weekly virtual L(a) unch webinars — featuring interviews and insights from various thought leaders each Thursday at noon — convinced them to move ahead.

“Given the huge challenges that everyone’s facing, there’s

probably an even greater need for information and networking opportunities,” he said. “We thought it would be crazy, if not a little irresponsible, to not have it take place this year.”

The decision received unanimous approval from SiW’s board, Winkel continued. “It’s a safety thing, a readiness thing.

Having it in person and trying to max it out would really be tone deaf. Our brand is energy and enthusiasm and the idea of having events limited to 100 people who are 6 feet apart, wearing masks, just didn’t have the feel-

ing of a sizzling event.”

Winkel said that registration to date has been in line with last year’s numbers — about 3,000 attended the 2019 edition — and that, if anything, sponsors and presenters are even more available than they have been in years past.

Thanks to Zoom and similar technologies — and, especially in the Covid era, nearly everyone’s familiarity with videoconferencing — “The lineup is even better this year,” Winkel said. “Instead of traveling from California or Canada, getting a place to stay,

and going through all of that, they can just show up with a mic. There’s much less of a time commitment involved.”

Sixty speakers have been lined up so far, among them Adam Roseman, co-founder and CEO of web and mobile app Steady; Jimmy Tang, head of strategic planning at Twitch; Abhijit Shome, vice president, global digital marketing at Mastercard; John Emra, president, New England at AT&T; and representatives from the UConn School of Business, Columbia Business School, MIT Sloan, Morgan Stanley, Stamford Hospital, and U.S. Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut.

While three of SiW’s keystone events — the advisory “Startup Weekend,” the entrepreneur-focused Werth Institute Series, and the all-encompassing Innovation & Tech Conference — will be virtual, the fourth — the Art & Music Festival — will still take place in Stamford Town Center’s parking garage.

But, as one can probably guess, with a difference.

“We wanted to do at least one thing in person that was safe and compliant with regulations about social distancing and all that,” Winkel said.

Thus will this year’s edition consist not only of the usual orb lights and glow sticks, but also of automobiles, whose owners will drive through a host of exhibits.

Cars will be staggered to allow for distancing and participants will not be allowed to exit their vehicles — although they can enjoy a socially distant reception afterward.

Asked to identify some of the hot topics at this year’s SiW, Winkel cited Emra’s presentation on the short-term and long-term future of 5D technology; what’s new in the AI and AR spaces; autonomous vehicles; and medical procurement automation.

“There’s also going to be a lot about pivoting and planning — which is what it’s all about today,” he said.

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Norwalk’s Scrum50 emphasizes agility, psychology in marketing endeavors

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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orwalk-based marketing agency Scrum50 was recently awarded the No. 1,530 ranking of Inc. magazine’s list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the nation. This marked the first time that Scrum50 received recognition on this list — and, according to Michael LeBeau, managing partner and co-founder, this was also the first time that the agency sought this accolade.

“It’s a pretty straightforward process,” LeBeau said. “They put out an entry kit and you supply all sorts of good information. Then, they crunch it and keep it a big surprise until the last second and in the big reveal.”

LeBeau and Chris Parker co-founded Scrum50 in 2014 in response to their mutual dissatisfaction with how marketing agencies functioned.

“We would get together occasionally and talk about the trials and tribulations of the agencies that we were working at,” he recalled. “Most notably, how long it took to get stuff out the door and how much money we were charging clients to get work out the door. As we were literally talking over beers, we were thinking: Is there a different model? Is there a better way of doing this?”

LeBeau added that he was also “doing a lot of reading on lean manufacturing, agile marketing practices, agile software development — and there were some nuggets in there that made a lot of sense for agencies to adopt. Namely, instead of building everything from start to finish and taking months to do so and then releasing it and hoping it works, let’s do little pieces at a time and expose those little pieces to consumers and customers along the way and get validation that our messaging is right, our campaigns are right, and they resonate and they connect.”

LeBeau also brought another aspect to his work: He graduated from college with twin bachelor degrees in marketing/ advertising and psychology. He believed the psychology studies gave him an advantage in his career path.

“If you think about psychology, as it relates to marketing, they really go hand in hand,” he said. “The more we can understand what motivates people, what makes them tick, how they process information and what their needs are, the better we can deliver solutions that meet those needs. I initially was going to be a psych major, but then I got turned on to marketing and advertising. And I’m like, ‘You know what? I’m already way down the road on this psych thing. Let me pivot and also do this.’”

LeBeau is also an advocate of priori-

tizing customer service, and the Scrum50 website quotes a Forbes study that found 89% of companies believed they deliver exceptional customer experiences but only 8% of their customers felt they were receiving a high quality of service. LeBeau theorized that too many customers are disconnected from recognizing what their customers want from them.

“I think at a fundamental level they are not talking to customers enough,” he said.

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process, making sure that they really hear and empathize with what they’re doing.

And then they create programs and solutions accordingly.

“It always surprises me,” he said. “How many really smart companies don’t talk to their customers very often and don’t give them a chance to voice their likes and dislikes, and then take that learning and improve whatever they’re doing with that information?”

Six years into business, Scrum50’s client list includes Benjamin Moore, Mondelēz International, Subway and Newman’s Own. LeBeau is a strong believer in making a lasting good impression and he credited 95% of his new business coming from

chief executives and chief marketing officers who are familiar with his work. He acknowledged this is helpful because the other 5% of his new business comes from “the old school, knocking on doors and trying to get exposure — but I’m finding that that’s becoming harder and harder if you don’t have a network that you can rely on and who likes you.”

And what are Scrum50’s plans for an encore after its Inc. recognition?

“I think an encore is just continued growth with great brains that like and trust what we’re doing and give us more responsibility to do more interesting things,” LeBeau said. “Instead of an encore, I think of it rather as just a continual evolution.”

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Strategy for Brick & Mortar Business Survival COVID-19 and governmentmandated shutdowns effectively stopped brick-andmortar businesses in their tracks, particularly retailers and hospitality establishments, such as bars, restaurants, hotels, and theaters.

By Jeffrey Citron & Robert L. Rattet

PODIATRIST SUES DOC FOR $550,000 FOR FAILING TO FOOT HIS BILL

Now, half-a-year later, companies across Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Fairfield and the surrounding counties are forced to operate within strict limitations. While restaurants have reopened for indoor dining, capacity is limited at 50%, the same for retailers.

For businesses surviving on thin margins, these capacity limits – combined with other mandated restrictions, such as social distancing– can make it nearly impossible to break even.

A survey by Main Street America, a nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing commercial districts, found that 7.5 million small businesses – nearly one-third of the total – are at risk of closing their doors permanently.

Fortunately, several recent court decisions, in New York and in other states, offer potential relief to business owners struggling to pay their bills and keep the lights on.

These decisions have found that COVID-19 and the resulting lockdowns on business activity have created a situation where commercial tenants impacted by the pandemic are eligible for relief, in the form of deferred or reduced rent payments.

Quite simply, rents for commercial property are based on the amount of revenue a business could reasonably expect to achieve in that space. New pandemic related regulations preventing retail stores and hospitality companies from serving the usual number of customers have effectively “frustrated their reasonable expectations of revenue,” providing a legal basis for judges to modify leases as a result.

In many instances, landlords have agreed to negotiate commercial lease modifications with their business tenants, allowing them to avoid the courtroom entirety.

As businesses navigate an unprecedented pandemic and economic recession, skilled attorneys with decades of experience in real estate, commercial litigation, and hospitality law can provide a financial and legal lifeline to business owners, allowing them to focus on recovery and rebuilding from the present crisis.

Jeffrey Citron is co-managing partner of Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP. He has extensive experience assisting companies to secure financing, grants and other benefits for capital projects and serves as general counsel for prominent businesses. Reach him at CIT@DHCLegal.com Robert L. Rattet, a Partner at Davidoff Hutcher Citron LLP, chairs the firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditors Rights practice group. He also represents a wide variety of hospitality businesses throughout New York State, and across the region. Reach him at RLR@DHCLegal.com

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A podiatrist claims that his employer, Dr. Bruce Pinker — he of television commercial prominence for promotions of laser treatment for toenail fungus — stiffed him for $550,000 when he walked away from the job.

Dr. Kaylan Danneeru of Texas accused Pinker’s Progressive Foot Care of breach of contract on Sept. 1 in Westchester Supreme Court.

Pinker did not respond to an email request for his side of the story.

Danneeru worked in Progressive’s White Plains and Nanuet offices from June 2017 to this past January.

Progressive agreed to pay Danneeru 40% of all fees collected for his services every week, according to the complaint, but he received nothing for more than 4,000 patient treatments.

Based on an average payment of $313.50 per patient interaction, the complaint states, he should have received $125.40 for each service, or at least $501,600.

In addition, Progressive allegedly failed to pay Danneeru any patient copays, bringing the total amount owed to more than $550,000.

Danneeru is represented by Brooklyn attorney Justin T. Kelton.

FORMER WORKER SUES IBM ALLEGING AGE DISCRIMINATION

A former IBM employee has filed a lawsuit accusing the company of age discrimination following the elimination of her position when she was 63 years old.

In a complaint filed on in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, Brenda VanDeWeghe stated she began working for IBM’s Global Business Services unit as a recruiter in February 2010 in the capacity of an independent contractor, joining the Armonk-based company as a “long-term supplemental employee” in March 2011 and a full-time employee in May 2014. In June 2015, she was promoted to North American Executive Referral Program manager.

VanDeWeghe’s lawsuit noted that IBM began making a companywide emphasis on the value of workforce millennials in a 2014 conference titled “Reinvention in the Age of the Millennial,” which resulted in an “early professional” hiring program targeted solely at young professionals.

The lawsuit also pointed out comments made in August 2016 by IBM Marketing Manager Erika Riehle on how employees in the baby boomer demographic were contributing to workplace “dysfunctions.”

VanDeWeghe’s position came to an end in March 2018 as part of a “resource action” — a company euphemism for workforce reduction — and she said she was

not offered any other positions within the company. The company also recorded the end of her employment as a voluntary retirement rather than an involuntarily terminated, the lawsuit added.

At the same time, VanDeWeghe stated she became aware of an investigation

by ProPublica of alleged age discrimination practices within IBM. The ProPublica report estimated that “IBM has eliminated more than 20,000 American employees ages 40 and over, about 60 percent of its estimated total U.S. job cuts” between 2013 and 2018.

VanDeWeghe’s lawsuit accused the company of violating the U.S. Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act. In her lawsuit, VanDeWeghe requested compensatory damages, including “loss of enjoyment of life, emotional pain and suffering, back pay, bonuses and the value of all other employment benefits,” along with ADEA liquidated damages, punitive damages and attorneys’ fees and costs.

IBM did not respond to requests for comment.

NY, CT AMONG TOP STATES WITH RESIDENTS MOVING OUT

New York and Connecticut are among the top five states to witness a significant outbound migration during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of data from United Van Lines.

Between March 1 and Aug. 19, 67% of United Van Lines’ New York business involved an exodus from the state, giving the Empire State a second-place ranking for outbound migration; only New Jersey, with a 69% out-of-state relocation share, ranked higher.

New York tied with Illinois for the second-place berth, with Connecticut ranking fourth with a 64% out-of-state relocation share.

At the other end of the spectrum, Vermont led the nation with a 75% inbound migration rate; it was also the only Northeastern state to absorb more incoming residents. Idaho (with a 67% inbound migration), Oregon (63%) and South Carolina (63%) were among the other states with more people moving in versus moving out.

The new data analysis affirms a July 6 survey by Pew Research Center that found roughly one in five people either relocated during the pandemic or know someone who moved. United Van Lines noted that two-thirds of its outbound relocation moves during the pandemic involved residents in New Jersey and New York.

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Stamford nonprofit SilverSource aims high with new board chairman

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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erendipity is the byword at SilverSource, the Stamford nonprofit that for the last 100-plus years has served the needs of area senior citizens. Not only was it in search of a new board chair, but its selection, Thomas Getreuer, had recently retired from his career as a dentist.

“Retirement was in the works for me for the last five years,” Getreuer told the Business Journal. “It was a complete coincidence that the board approached me with the idea and that it just fit into my plans.”

While Getreuer has served on the SilverSource board since 2013, and also chairs the Stamford Health Commission, he said he had “not at all” been aware of the nonprofit when a fellow dentist introduced him to it several years ago.

“It’s very much a situation where, if you like what they’re doing, you can’t help but get sucked into it,” he chuckled.

SilverSource was founded in 1908 as the Stamford Home for the Aged.

Located in a residential home known as Denehurst, the organization originally provided housing for eight people.

As the nonprofit grew, it changed its name to better reflect its mission: First as Senior Services of Stamford and, in 2015, as SilverSource. The latest moniker, adopted to better represent of the group’s expanded services, which today includes: • Financial assistance, counseling and advocacy designed to keep older adults in their homes, including eviction prevention and help with utility payments, medical devices and alerts; it says it helps some 500 seniors a year with that service; • Financial support for prescriptions — over 1,500 filled per year ¬— hearing aids, homecare and medical safety equipment; • Home delivery of over 2,000 meals in 2019; and • A number of community outreach programs to facilitate socialization and visits to homebound and hospitalized older neighbors.

“When the organization started, it was to serve the elderly, who were the most neglected group in Stamford,” Getreuer said. “And to some degree that’s still true today. But over the last 10 to 15 years, SilverSource has really taken off and now does a lot more for seniors than ever before.”

He gave much of the credit for that to the organization’s CEO Kathleen

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Jerry Berkman, a former SilverSource chairman and longtime real estate attorney for Day Pitney, expressed confidence that Getreuer would be a success in his new role, and noted that, like his successor, he was originally unfamiliar with the group.

“Like many others, I had been involved in various charities and community and arts organizations over the years,” Berkman said. “But I had never really focused on the problems of our seniors. I guess as I have

become more of a senior myself,” he added waggishly, “I’ve thought more and more about it.

“We have such an obligation to help them,” he continued. “They are so important to our community and we need to assist them in every way we can after all they’ve done over the years.”

Getreuer said that the city of Stamford — whose concern for the elderly was not much in evidence when the nonprofit started — today is a strong partner of SilverSource.

“Our challenge today is to find different ways to deal with new and emergent needs for this population,” he said.

“It may not be why I retired from my day job, but it’s obvious that this is what we need to do moving forward.”

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“This summer was not the time to open up a venue like Legoland, so the company is adjusting to the realities of what Covid brought to the market, but they still are moving forward,” Oates said. “Simone Development, for instance, which now has property up at Stewart Airport, has been very active and I think that level of expertise that Joe Simone and his team bring to the market will allow Stewart Airport to come into its own and kind of be the international airport that the region needs it to be.”

Oates noted that infrastructure work is underway at the Bellefield site, where plans call for construction of a culinary, tourism, manufacturing, research and development and hospitality center on part of the 340-acre property.

“I just met with Tom Mulroy, the owner of the property, and he’s very excited about the development of a hotel on the site and starting to kick off the residential component,” Oates said. “I think they’ve successfully come through the challenges that hit the market in the last six months or so.”

Oates said that residential real estate has seen increased activity as people from New York City look for less-dense surroundings.

“The residential side is on fire and that is a direct result of the exodus of folks out of New York City, whether it’s a desire to look for a better school system or have more property and deal with the effects that living in New York had as it relates to Covid,” Oates said. “We’re going to see more and more businesses that will follow suit. I think one of the things that the Hudson Valley is very strong on is encouraging entrepreneurship and as we start to get more and more folks moving out of the city we’re going to see some business come with them.”

Oates expressed a belief that the economy will continue to move forward as society gets a better handle on Covid.

“It’s just going to take some time. We’re going to have to navigate, for instance, what the school openings are going to look like,” Oates said. “Will there be outbreaks that will happen? Can we contain and control? We’re doing a lot of work at HVEDC with our hospital providers who are trying to help the business community provide a safe environment for customers and workers. Our strong workforce hasn’t gone away. Our assets remain strong. We’re well-positioned to deal with the post-Covid world and we just have to be smart.”

The Business Journal’s interview with Oates came shortly after New York state’s Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council (MHREDC) held a meeting on Aug. 21. The 49 members, substitutes and state and local government figures who participated reviewed

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what the pandemic had been doing to the economy of the region.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul thanked the regional council members for their leadership during the pandemic and noted that as of the date of the meeting New York had experienced 13 consecutive days with a Covid infection rate of under 1%.

Commissioner Roberta Reardon of the state Department of Labor said that the pandemic has had a tsunami effect on the unemployment insurance infrastructure.

Donald P. Christian, regional chair of the MHREDC, reported that the state has asked all 10 of its regional economic development councils to develop a regional economic recovery strategy by Sept. 25, which subsequently will be published online. The purpose of the documents is to rethink what each region can do to build on its previous strategic plans. He reported that the Mid-Hudson council will review the existing strategic plan and recalibrate to reflect the new environment, identify the sectors of the economy that have proven to be resilient, and highlight what is working and what needs to be retooled.

Johny Nelson, labor market analyst for the Department of Labor and Jonathan Drapkin, president and CEO of the organization Pattern for Progress, provided a dose of the current reality.

Nelson reported that in July, private sector employment in the Hudson Valley declined by 13.9% percent or 114,500 jobs, which brought private sector job count to its lowest July level since 1998. Job losses were recorded across all industry sectors, but the top four sectors were: • Leisure and hospitality, down 45,900, the largest number of job losses WCBJ

over the period; • Trade, transportation and utilities down 18,200 jobs, with most losses centered in the retail trade component; • Professional and business services down 15,500 jobs over the period; and • Educational and health services, the region’s largest employment sector, down 10,600 jobs between July 2019 and July 2020. Job losses were centered in the health care and social assistance component.

Year-over-year in July 2020, the two industry sectors least impacted by the

Covid-19 pandemic in terms of job losses were financial activities and information, which lost about 2,600 jobs. In information, a positive note was that Charter Communications is looking to hire 1,500 employees in the state by the end of the year, with 200 in its call center in the town of Wallkill.

Drapkin said that many Mid-Hudson region residents remain focused on keeping their homes, having access to health care, food security and maintaining income from either a job or some form of subsidy.

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Two community colleges offer fast-track health care training program for unemployed

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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ousatonic and Norwalk Community Colleges are launching a no-cost, fast-track health care training pilot program for displaced workers.

The goal of the public-private partnership is to quickly retrain unemployed workers, particularly from the hospitality field, and arrange employment within hospitals for in-demand health care jobs. Upon training completion and passing licensure exams, students will be prepared to immediately begin new jobs.

Partnerships for clinical and hiring arrangements are with Stamford, Norwalk, Greenwich, Bridgeport, Norwalk/Nuvance Health and Yale New Haven Hospitals.

The program is underwritten by the colleges’ foundations, Bank of America and Social Venture Partners.

Sterile Processing Technician students learn hands-on skills at HCC’s state-of-the-art sterilization simulation lab.

Bridgeport’s Housatonic Community College is offering an accelerated, reformatted Sterile Processing Technician program.

Learning will take place online and hands-on skills training will occur in the school’s state-of-theart sterilization simulation lab on its campus.

At Norwalk Community College, the Certified Nurse Aide program condensed didactic

learning and skills training from a 14-week traditional schedule to a four-week accelerated plan with clinical rotation in partner hospitals. Instructive learning takes place online, interspersed with hands-on skills lab practice in the school’s nursing skills lab as well as clinical rotations at hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.

“It’s a lot to learn in a little

time, but the teachers are great,” said Pamela Aquino, a student in Norwalk’s pilot program and a former owner of a housekeeping business in Bridgeport.

“Because of Covid, everything went downhill, a lot of clients just stopped. This program came at the right time.”

Fifteen students graduated from Norwalk’s Certified Nurse Aide program recently after

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completing their coursework and clinical rotations.

“The program has an impressive 83% graduation rate, higher than previous nonaccelerated classes,” said Kristina Testa-Buzzee, chief regional workforce development officer for Connecticut Community Colleges Shoreline West Region.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job outlook for both nursing assistants and sterile processing technicians is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations.

Hospitality industry workers were targeted for the pilot program because of the soft skills they already possess, such as attention to detail, teamwork and customer service. Thirty students were selected for the program by Career Resources Inc., a workforce development nonprofit in Bridgeport, with qualifying candidates matched to their area of health care interest.

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White Plains dermatologist sues Scarsdale competitor to stop using physician assistant

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hite Plains dermatologist Philip Fried claims that a Scarsdale skin doctor is competing unfairly by employing one of his former physician assistants.

Fried sued the assistant, Jessy W. Ayala of Yonkers, and Dr. Joon Lee for $500,000 in Westchester Supreme Court.

“Their brazen and duplicitous conduct,” he charges, diverts patients from his medical practice.

Fried owns five West Derm Center offices in White Plains, New Rochelle, Yonkers and two locations in the Bronx.

He employed Ayala for three years, until December 2019, according to the lawsuit.

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Ayala worked as a physician assistant (PA) for 20 hours a week and also handled administrative duties, such as coordinating a drug study and managing social media accounts. He was paid $110 an hour for the PA duties and $30,000 a year for the administrative work, for potential annual income of $140,000.

The competition for dermatology patients is intense, according to Fried, so he includes restrictions in employment contracts.

Ayala agreed not to work for two years within eight miles of West Derm’s Westchester offices once his job ended or to solicit West Derm patients or divulge confidential information, according to the lawsuit.

In July, six months after Ayala lost his job, Lee allegedly called Fried and said she was considering hiring Ayala at Scarsdale Integrative Family Medicine.

Fried said he would take legal action to enforce the employment restrictions, and his lawyer sent Lee a letter repeating his position.

Then Fried discovered that Lee’s See Beyond — Scarsdale Aesthetic Medicine website featured Ayala’s biography and a link for prospective patients to book consultations with him.

See Beyond’s Instagram page posted a message welcoming Ayala to the cosmetic team, a notice of a Zoom lecture he would participate in and a video of him treating a patient.

See Beyond’s office is on Central Park Avenue in the Edgemont section of Greenburgh, five miles from West Derm’s White Plains office, six miles from the Yonkers office and 7½ miles from the New Rochelle office.

Ayala has the right to continue practicing his profession, the complaint states, but not within eight miles of West Derm offices.

Fried’s attorney demanded that Lee fire Ayala by July 28, according to the complaint, and demanded that Ayala confirm that he no longer works for Lee by July 29.

Ayala allegedly continues to work for Lee within the restricted area.

Lee “is equally complicit in defendant Ayala’s wrongdoing,” the lawsuit states.

Fried accuses Ayala of breach of contract and Lee of tortious interference with a contract.

He is demanding $500,000 and a court order restraining Ayala from practicing dermatology within eight miles of West Derm locations, soliciting patients or disclosing confidential information for two years.

Lee and Ayala did not respond to an email sent to See Beyond, asking for their side of the story.

Fried is represented by Long Island attorneys Andrew L. Zwerling and Nicholas M. Summo.

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FDIC: Majority of Fairfield County-based banks eke out Q2 capital increases

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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n what has been an unstable economic environment to say the least, most of Connecticut’s banks showed a year-over-year increase in assets in the second quarter — something that arguably bodes well as the state continues to show encouraging signs of overcoming the initial wave of Covid-19.

According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), for the 5,066 commercial banks and savings institutions that it insures across the U.S., aggregate net income totaled $18.8 billion in the second quarter 2020, down $43.7 billion — a full 70% — from a year ago.

“Lower levels of business activity and consumer spending — combined with uncertainty about the path of the economy and the low-interest-rate environ-

ment — contributed to higher provisions for loan and lease losses, as well as a decrease in net interest margins,” FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams said in a statement.

“Notwithstanding these disruptions, however, the banking industry maintained strong capital and liquidity levels at the end of the second quarter, which will protect against potential losses in the future.”

Q2 total equity capital numbers were up — albeit slightly — at nearly all Fairfield Countybased banks. People’s United in Bridgeport — by far the county’s largest, with 55 offices — rose from about $6.95 million in Q2 2019 to over $7.8 million for the quarter ended June 30.

Union Savings Bank in Danbury realized $296,525 in total equity capital, compared with $271,095 for Q2 2019.

Ridgefield’s Fairfield County Bank was up from $212,059 to $224,394; Stamford’s First

County Bank rose from $150,746 to $159,479; Savings Bank of Danbury increased from $131,081 to $141,233; Newtown Savings Bank realized $112,132, up from the previous second quarter’s $105,775; and Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust in Greenwich rose from $107,530 to $111,885.

In addition, Westport’s Connecticut Community Bank edged up from $46,960 to $50,952, while First Bank of Greenwich was up from $37,475 to $38,880.

Bankwell Bank, based in New Canaan, dropped from $196,090 last year to $188,555 this quarter; Patriot Bank, based in Stamford, declined from $96,295 to $92,749.

Nationwide, FDIC-insured community banks recorded a 3.2% increase in second quarter net income year-over-year; the 4,624 community banks reported annual net income growth of $202.5 million.

That the majority of banks were able to earn at least some

capital increases was impressive, given the number of businesses affected and the total of individuals filing for unemployment remains worrying.

As of July — the last month that figures have been made available — both the state’s and the nation’s unemployment rate stood at 10.2%.

According to the state Department of Labor, Connecticut in July gained 26,500 net jobs (a 1.8% increase over the previous month). However, on a yearto-date basis, nonagricultural employment in the state fell by 146,300, or 8.7%.

Adding to the pressure on banks is the interest-rate cut in March to zero — where it is likely to remain for at least a few years, according to reports — as well as the ongoing uncertainty over when (or whether) the economy will get back on track and/ or an effective Covid-19 vaccine is found.

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Some economic glimmers of hope are beginning to emerge — though, again, it seems that a lot is riding on the pandemic. New projections are forecasting the nation’s GDP to grow by around 20% on an annualized basis in the third quarter, as business activity resumes.

The International Monetary Fund recently projected an 8% decline in U.S. GDP this year, while it predicts the worldwide global economic output to drop by 4.9%.

For 2021, however, it is forecasting a 4.5% increase in U.S. GDP and a 5.4% rise worldwide, easily outperforming 2019’s respective figures. However, that this would leave 2021 GDP some 6.5% lower than in the pre-Covid-19 projections of January 2020.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis is scheduled to announce U.S.’s third-quarter GDP figures on Oct. 29 — five days before the presidential election.

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Fed Reserve report finds mixed bag for CT, NY economies

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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he Federal Reserve paints a mixed picture of Connecticut’s and New York’s economies in its latest report.

The Fed’s “Beige Book,” which reviews current economic conditions across the 12 Federal Reserve Districts, said that while economic activity increased among most districts, gains were generally modest and activity remained well below levels prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Continued uncertainty and volatility related to the pandemic and its negative effect on consumer and business activity, was

a theme echoed across the country,” the Federal Reserve wrote.

Connecticut, part of the Fed’s First District, based in Boston, recorded strong automobile sales through June, July and the start of August, it said, with the exception of the week that much of the state suffered power outages caused by Tropical Storm Isaias.

The Beige Book cited an anonymous furniture retailer that reported its average weekly sales were up 30% compared with last summer, with weekly online sales up more than 300% compared with the same time period a year ago and in-store sales roughly a third of pre-pandemic levels.

Although information about Connecticut’s residential real estate market was unavailable, data from the district’s other New England states — Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island — were relatively strong.

Economic growth in the Second District, which includes New York, stalled in the latest reporting period, “even as the spread of the virus has remained subdued and more businesses have gradually reopened,” the report said.

While an unspecified “major upstate New York employment agency and a payroll processing firm both reported that hiring activity has picked up somewhat

since midyear,” it continued, “a major New York City agency specializing in office jobs indicated that hiring has remained sluggish, as fewer people are leaving jobs and companies have been reluctant to on-board new workers remotely.”

According to car dealers in upstate New York, new vehicle sales softened after a fairly strong rebound in May and June.

Tourism has remained depressed, with Manhattan hotels still running at well under half capacity, though weekend occupancies have increased.

New York City’s sales and rental markets also weakened further, with vacancy rates

reaching multiyear highs in Manhattan and rents down roughly 10% from a year ago with increased landlord concessions. Otherwise, the single-family rental market has been relatively strong across much of the district, the report said.

Sales of condos and co-ops in New York City have rebounded modestly from depressed spring levels, while prices have fallen as the number of listings has swelled.

In addition, office availability rates continued to rise, while rents were flat or declining. Retail rents have also been flat to lower, as vacancy rates have risen to multiyear highs, according to the Fed.

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NEW MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY RULES MAKE ASSET PROTECTION PLANNING AN URGENT NEED!

By Anthony J. Enea, Esq. For the longest time New Yorkers were eligible for Medicaid home care services without worrying about the five (5) year look back period for non-exempt asset transfers which is imposed for Medicaid nursing home eligibility.

Commencing on January 1, 2021, and as part of the New York State Budget enacted on April 3, 2020, there will be a thirty (30) month look back period applied to eligibility for home care services for transfers effectuated on or after October 1, 2020. This lookback period is to be calculated the same way the penalty period is calculated for skilled nursing home level Medicaid (using the regional rate as the divisor). The Regional rate for the Northern Metropolitan area for the year 2020 is $12,805.00 per month.

Thus, for all home care applications filed on or after January 1, 2021, any transfer of assets on or after October 1, 2020 (gifts/non-exempt transfers) will create a thirty (30) month lookback period.

The new lookback period will not “lookback” prior to October 1, 2020. The lookback will be phased in, meaning effective January 1, 2021, the lookback will be three months to October 1, 2020 and effective February 1, 2020, the lookback will be 4 months. This phase in will continue until thirty (30) months have lapsed, on April 1, 2023.

The new thirty (30) month lookback period will also not apply to the following programs: Nursing Home Transition and Diversion Waiver (NHTDW), Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) Waiver, Mainstream Managed Care, Traumatic Brain Injury Waiver and Acute, primary care in a hospital.

This is a devastating turn of events for Medicaid home care applicants who do not have a spouse, minor child or disabled child to whom they can make an exempt transfer of their nonIRA assets, or a spouse, minor child, disabled child, caretaker child or a sibling with an equity interest to whom they can make an exempt transfer of their home. Additionally, the applicant can still argue that the non-exempt transfer of assets was made for purposes other than to qualify for Medicaid.

Anyone who anticipates needing home care services in the next two or three years it is now imperative that they make an uncompensated transfer of assets to a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust and/or an outright transfer of assets to others before October 1, 2020, should said transfers be exempt from the lookback period and in order to protect their assets.

Fortunately, the new rules left spousal refusal untouched. Thus, a married person can still transfer assets to their spouse and if the spouse has assets and/or income above the permitted amounts, the spouse can execute a spousal refusal, allowing the ill spouse to be eligible for Medicaid. While this is advantageous if a married person needs Medicaid home care and/or Medicaid nursing home coverage, executing a spousal refusal gives the Department of Health (DOH) the right to sue the refusing spouse for the value of the services provided by Medicaid.

In recent years Medicaid has been much more aggressive in pursuing spousal refusal cases.

Irrespective of one’s marital status the changes in the rules illustrate the need for se-

niors to be proactive in making asset transfers, and starting both the thirty (30) month lookback for Medicaid home care and the sixty (60) month lookback period for Medicaid nursing home before October 1, 2020. Without nonexempt transfers being made the clock never begins to run and the ability to shelter one’s assets from the cost of long-term care becomes significantly more difficult, exposing a greater percentage of one’s life savings to the cost of care.

Medicaid applications must be decided within forty-five (45) days (90 days if a determination of disability is needed for use of a pooled trust). An “immediate need” Medicaid application must be decided in twelve (12) days. There are numerous concerns of delays due to the thirty (30) month lookback for immediate need applications. We are awaiting guidance from the Department of Health whether applicants

can attest to transfers made within the lookback as to not delay the processing time.

Additionally, as part of the new law, for one to be eligible for the Consumer Directed Home Care Program (CDPAP) (where one can hire a family member (non-spouse) and / or friend) to provide home care and Personal Care Services (PCS), Medicaid has tightened the eligibility requirements. For example, after October 1, 2020, new applicants for CDPAP program must need physical maneuvering with more than two activities of daily living (ADLs). Additionally, a person with a dementia or Alzheimer’s diagnosis is required to need “at least supervision with more than one ADL.” These requirements only apply to individuals applying for these two programs on or after October 1, 2020. At the time of this writing and pursuant to the New York State Budget enacted on April 3, 2020, prior applicants are grandfathered.

One other significant change enacted by the New York State Budget enacted on April 3, 2020 is that the treating physician prescribing the personal care and CDPAP services must be a qualified independent physician selected or approved by the Department of Health (DOH).

One’s own treating physician cannot be utilized.

The DOH will also have the ability to conduct an “extra review” of individuals whose

need for home care services exceeds a specified level to be determined by the DOH (probably those receiving 12 hours or more per day) and whether they can safely remain in the community if they need such a high level of care.

Although we are hopeful that there may still be other options available for a single applicant once these new provisions are fully digested, it appears that the need to utilize the Medicaid Asset Protection Trust before October 1, 2020 or soon thereafter, has reached critical mass for a single person needing or anticipating the need for Medicaid home care and/or nursing home care in the near future.

Anthony J. Enea is a member of Enea, Scanlan and Sirignano, LLP of White Plains, New York. He focuses his practice on Wills, Trusts and Estates and Elder Law. Mr. Enea is the Past Chair of Elder Law and Special Needs Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA).

He is the current Chair of the Senior Lawyer Section of the NYSBA. Mr. Enea is the Past President and Founding member of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). Mr. Enea is the President of the Westchester County Bar Foundation and a Past President of the Westchester County Bar Association. Mr. Enea can be reached at (914) 948-1500 or at a.enea@esslawfirm.com.

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HIS HEART ON HIS WELL–TURNED SLEEVE

BY JEREMY WAYNE THERE’S A WONDERFUL SCENE in André Leon Talley’s unputdownable new “The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir” (Ballantine Books, 304 pages) when Talley, having just been summarily axed from conducting his traditional red-carpet interviews at the 2018 Met Costume Institute Gala, has a lightbulb moment. All but canceled by Condé Nast and abandoned by Anna Wintour, Vogue’s editrix in chief and Condé Nast artistic director, but nevertheless seated at a not-exactly-B-list table with John Galliano, Vera Wang and Rhianna, Talley finds a fake smile stretching across his lips, and his hands clenching in silent disgust. Suddenly, though, he feels resolute. Before the evening has scarcely begun, he stands up, and with a twirl of his Tom Ford black double-face faille cape, sweeps out of The Met, down to his waiting car and home to the sanctuary of his house in White Plains.

A great exit, as all dramatic persons know, is as effective as a great entrance and Talley has seen a few of each in his time. He is, of course, the former creative director of Vogue, one of the most influential fashion writers and observers of the age, and his new memoir, “The Chiffon Trenches” (Random House Publishing Group, May) is a candid look at those who have inspired and created fashion, and those who have worn it, over the last 50 years. His time at the top has been well-recorded, but now Talley is turning his fall from grace — a sad tale, and one that says as much about the capriciousness of the fashion world as it does about the author — into something of a cottage industry.

The fall — or “Condé Nast’s special ability to spit out,” as Talley puts it — is hard. Not that losing your job, any job, especially in these straitened times, is easy.

But there’s a special indignity, a nuanced ignominy, about being slowly squeezed out of an organization like Condé Nast, the global publishing and now mass media company, headquartered at 1 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Talley’s world at the top of Condé Nast — Condé Nasty to its detractors, of which I am not one — was habitually one of first-class transatlantic air tickets, weeklong stays at the Ritz in Paris and waiting town cars — always the waiting town cars. (Condé Nast editors don’t — or didn’t — do Ubers.)

It is something of an irony, too, that while Condé culture dictated that hand-written thank you notes on heavy, engraved stationery were the default response

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André Leon Talley at Michael Kors Fall Collection, New York, February 2006. Photograph by Everett Collection for Shutterstock.

for some trifling service rendered, after decades-long service, instead of a golden handshake — some magnificent jewel in a small box, perhaps, or (as André himself only half-jokingly suggests,) a Bentley, there was only…silence.

None of which is to say that “The Chiffon Trenches” is simply one big moan or foray into the realms of self-entitlement. It isn’t.

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cocktail — one-third fashion lexicon, onethird social diary, and one-third kiss and tell, even though there is only one rather chaste kiss for Talley in the entire book.

So, not too much titillation but an awful lot of telling — of Wintour’s singular habits; of Karl Lagerfeld’s extraordinary munificence, coupled with his peculiar practice of dumping close friends of several decades standing, as punishment for a misplaced

remark or other minor solecism; of spilling red wine over Diana, Princess of Wales, and flying to Lagos, Nigeria, with bestie Naomi Campbell for Arise Fashion Week (“better than any trip I had ever taken.”)

Of course, much of the tale has been told before. The daily routine of Andy Warhol’s Factory, for instance, or hijinks in Studio 54, has been chronicled almost ad nauseam. Books a-plenty have been written about these, documentaries and movies shot. (“The Gospel According to André,” a 2017 film about Talley’s life, which shares a good deal of the content of “The Chiffon Trenches,” is a case in point.) New York City in the late 1970s and early ’80s is the sociologist’s dream, as well as a media industry of its own, the public’s interest in which shows no signs of abating.

The spectacles, though, can be rosetinted. New York may have been the place to be at the start of the 1980s if you knew the bouncer at “Studio,” or had easy access to a white charger (pace Bianca Jagger,) or at any rate possessed the sort of pocketbook to buffer you from the prevailing winds. But, for most New Yorkers, it was a fairly desolate time, what with the crumbling infrastructure, sky-high taxes and soaring crime. (The Guardian Angels, New York’s very own vigilante force, had been created in 1979.) Hard to believe now, but when I first set foot on Manhattan island in October, 1977, coming from still-sleepy England, I felt I was taking my life in my hands walking the two blocks from Kips Bay to the nearest Gristedes.

And as for the subway — not that the denizens of André Leon Talley’s world likely traveled underground — despite Mayor Ed Koch’s best endeavors, it spelled certain death if you accidentally looked a stranger in the eye.

But “The Chiffon Trenches” is a love story, too, and an especially poignant one at that. In the modern idiom, Talley has been a man who has loved too much, a vulnerable man, and he lays it bare rather touchingly in the book. Love, of course, takes many forms, but they are all covered here. First and foremost, his love for his grandmother who, “as was typical in Southern black households,” he lived with and whom he called Mama. Mama’s influence is felt throughout the memoir, her propriety and work ethic always an inspiration and a guide.

Next, his love for Diana Vreeland, the legendary Vogue editor who gave Talley his first break, working as a volunteer at

Beyond Biz The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute in 1974, his first year in New York.

(One failing of the book: His relationship with Vreeland, clearly seminal, is never developed or explored.) The church, too, has been a great love of his life, so much so that “The Chiffon Trenches” is dedicated to Talley’s Baptist minister in New York, Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, senior pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church; and the elegant, cultured Lee Radziwill, “magnificent in (her) simplicity,” to whose loving memory the book is co-dedicated.

With Wintour, things are a little more complicated. The love, or at least an approximation of it, at first so freely given, is ultimately unrequited, or at any rate withdrawn, and Talley’s sense of loss cycles through querulousness to pain to calculated indifference. The most important woman in his universe for years, Wintour, he concludes, is “not capable” of “simple, human kindness.”

Starting out, of course, the world, at least the fashion world, had loved him back. “I was tall, thin and adored by all who met me — Hubert de Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, and most of all, Karl Lagerfeld,” he writes, about his early days in Paris and his first “big” Paris show (Yves Saint Laurent, where he was seated “front-row and center,”) for Women’s Wear Daily. “My great friends were the important people of the Paris fashion world.”

Fast forward decades and the break with Lagerfeld (“he was like a brother to me for 40 years”) was perhaps the most painful of all. It was illogical, not understood — and, it must be said, borne with an almost stiffupper-lip stoicism in the circumstances —

by Talley, a man who is not afraid to wear his heart on his sleeve.

If “I always wanted love,” is his affecting conclusion, he has at least been blessed with many great friendships along the way — friends no longer here, like Loulou de la Falaise (Saint Laurent’s muse) and Oscar de la Renta; and many still going strong, Campbell, Ralph Lauren, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs and Beyoncé among them.

While it’s all too easy to read this silkily penned, extremely colorful memoir as a study in psychology — and you’ll note I haven’t even touched on Talley’s eating or his weight, and frankly there is quite a lot of comment on both in the book — “The Chiffon Trenches” should be read and enjoyed for what it is. That’s to say, a right old romp through the literally revealing, often shocking and always entertaining world of fashion and the people who create it. Take it that way, and you will have an effervescent, optimistic late-summer read.

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TOUGH ENOUGH

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA WHEN SUSAN RICE addresses the Westchester Women’s Summit, a virtual event taking place Sept. 9 and 10, attendees The candor Susan Rice may well be looking at the next displays in her autobiography U.S. secretary of state.

“Tough Love: My Story of the Rice’s distinguished career in Things Worth Fighting For” extends to herself. public service has mainly tapped into her expertise in foreign policy. Under President Barack Obama, she served as the 24th U.S. National Security adviser (2013-17) and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (2009-13), having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent.

During Bill Clinton’s second term (1996-2000), Rice was on the staff of the National Security Council and assistant secretary of state for African Affairs.

But her time in the spotlight has not been without controversy.

Frank about others and herself to the point of bluntness — a quality she has shared with many of her predecessors as National Security adviser and/or U.N. ambassador, like John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Henry Kissinger, Jeanne Kirkpatrick and mentor Madeleine Albright — Rice was accused of misleading the American public about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and former Navy SEALS Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods. (On TV interviews following the attack, Rice used talking points from a CIA memo, the CIA being responsible for security at U.S. embassies. Ten investigations led by congressional Republicans over two years concluded that she had not intentionally misled the public about Benghazi.)

Nonetheless, Republican opposition was enough to cause Rice to withdraw her name from consideration for secretary of state when Hillary Clinton resigned from the post in 2012.

“Before the days of (President Donald J.) Trump, (Secretary of Education) Betsy DeVos (Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Brett Kavanaugh, and our collective acquiescence to the narrowest of confirmation margins, I believed that the secretary of state (and other senior-most positions) should not be chosen along party lines,” she writes in “Tough Love: My Story of Things Worth Fighting For” (Simon & Schuster, 2019). “It is a role too important to our national security and international leadership to be used as a political football. That is still my view, though now it may seem quaint and antiquated.”

Perhaps not so ironically, Rice’s foreign policy expertise and Benghazi were the reasons some experts predicted she would not get the nod as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate — which may perfectly position her for State. The question then becomes in a Joe Biden administration, Will this time be different?

‘CIVIL WAR’ VETERAN Negotiating and navigating the rough waters have been Rice specialties from an early age. She is a product of two sides of the black experience. Her maternal grandparents, Mary and David Dickson, were Jamaican émigrés — to Portland, Maine, in 1912 — whose children would distinguish themselves in World War II, academia

and medicine. Rice’s mother, education policy expert Lois Dickson Rice, was known as the mother of the federal Pell Grant subsidy system. Her father, Emmett J. Rice, was the grandson of a South Carolina slave who would found a school in New Jersey. A member of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, Emmett Rice would become a Cornell University economics professor and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve System.

Growing up in Washington, D.C., the elder child of rigorous academics — brother Emmett J. “Johnny” Rice Jr. is 20 months younger — the tomboyish Rice was expected to hold her own on current events and dinnertime debates when she wasn’t rooting for her beloved Redskins, as the Washington Football Team was known until recently. (She remains an avid tennis player.) At National Cathedral School, a private girls’ day school, she hit the trifecta as class valedictorian, student council president and athlete. It foreshadowed collegiate success — Phi Beta Kappa and a Truman Scholarship at Stanford University; a Rhodes Scholarship to New College, Oxford University and a master and doctorate of philosophy in international relations, with her dissertation on Zimbabwe and peacekeeping lauded as the United Kingdom’s most distinguished in international relations.

But the family’s academic success belied strife at home, “a civil war battleground” contested, she writes, by her divorcing parents: “Arguably, my parents were never well-suited. My dad was not only brilliant and charming, but quick-tempered, impatient, and at least somewhat chauvinistic. My mom was beautiful, ambitious and smart, but high-strung, domineering, overly powerful but latently insecure. Ultimately, they agreed on little, except politics, some friends and their love for their children.”

Learning to serve and volley against competing parental interests no doubt was useful in charting the partisan landscape of the Obama years, in which she and the administration would be vilified for doing too little (in Syria) or too much (Libya). Even counting on successes with the ebola fight in West Africa, sanctioning Russia over its attempts to control Ukraine and the Iran nuclear deal, Rice writes, “Failure, as I discovered early, is an inevitable result of policy making. We did fail; we will fail. Our aim must be to minimize the frequency and the prices of failure, while learning from our mistakes — and hopefully not the wrong lessons.”

BRIDGING THE DIVIDE Post-Obama, Rice has been a distinguished visiting research fellow at American University’s School of International Service, a member of Netflix’s board of directors and a contributing opinion writer to The New York Times, in whose pages she has advocated for her hometown becoming the 51st state, a reevaluation of our relationship with China and congressional assurances of fair elections this fall.

She is also an advocate of bridging the partisan divide — which for Rice begins at home. She and her husband, former ABC News executive producer Ian O. Cameron, are the parents of son John David Rice-Cameron, former president of the Stanford College Young Republicans, and daughter Maris, as progressive as her brother is conservative.

“I believe, as always, that we must choose each other,” Rice concludes at the end of her book. “Individually and collectively, we can and must bend the arc of the moral universe — toward both justice and unity. We do not live in a zero-sum America. Your failure can never be my success. Our national creeds, of equality and “Out of Many, One” — E Pluribus Unum — must till guide us.”

The Westchester Women’s Summit — which will feature Susan Rice and former Fox News host and #MeToo pioneer Gretchen Carlson, https://www.wagmag.com/beyond-the-cliff/ along with various workshops — takes place 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 9 and 10. Admission is $175 and must be completed by Sept. 6. For more, visit web.cvent.com/event/48697d7f-e2e5-480a-be4e6a47491faa31/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f20 1a0bfc6ce.

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PACE PROFESSOR NAMED AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING FELLOW

Joanne Singleton and Professor Spirit.

Pace University College of Health Professions graduate nursing professor Joanne Singleton, has been named a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing for her contributions to health and health equity. She will be recognized at the academy’s annual Transforming Health, Driving Policy Conference induction ceremony, which will take place virtually Oct. 29-31.

Singleton is one of just 15 fellows chosen from New York state.

The academy comprises more than 2,700 nursing leaders who are experts in policy, research, administration, practice and academia that champion health and wellness, locally and globally.

An accomplished clinician, educator, researcher, author, editor, documentary and simulation filmmaker, Singleton is deeply engaged in studying the human-animal connection. Since 2016, her work has focused on assistance dogs and stress reduction as nonpharmacologic approaches to care for patients and caregivers. She created and leads Canines Assisting in Health (CAsH), a program

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supporting individuals with disabilities teamed with a service dog.

Singleton has a special partner in Professor Spirit, a service dog she is teamed with, who is her teaching, practice and research partner. Spirit is the first canine faculty member at Pace University, with his own position, description and faculty ID. He and Singleton have educated thousands of health care professionals on how to work with a service dog.

Singleton holds a Ph.D. in nursing and post-master’s FNP (family nurse practitioner) degree from Adelphi University.

BANK OF AMERICA PRIVATE BANK EXPANDS IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY

The Bank of America Private Bank team in Fairfield County is experiencing an unprecedented demand for wealth management services because of the pandemic. More people are working from home and large numbers of New York City residents are moving to the suburbs thereby creating a real estate boom in the southern region of Connecticut where lower property FCBJ

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and real estate taxes are appealing.

Bank of America Private Bank aims to meet these growing demands with its new strategic hires.

The recently expanded team is led

by Emily Dreas, market executive, a leader in the field, with a background in financial trust services.

Previously she had private bank experience at Fiduciary Trust Co., Wells Fargo Private Bank, Legg Mason and Citi Bank.

A senior team in complex credit and trust planning from Wells Fargo will join the effort to meet client needs. They include Colin Koester, private client advisor; Allison Thomas, private client manager; Patricia Halpin, senior trust officer; and Lana Fayerberg, private bank associate. Mark Fitzgerald, institutional client adviser, from the Commonfund, a specialist in nonprofits helping to guide clients through this challenging time, joined the team. As did Dave Bennett, private client advisor from the stock exchange; and Chris Griffin, from The Bank of New York Mellon.

Beyond the private bank expansion in southern Connecticut, Bank of America has contributed more than $800,000 to nonprofits and those institutions experiencing immediate financial pressure throughout Fairfield and New Haven counties.

caregivers, including food insecurity; home-based care services; respite and support services; safety and security; social work/case management; and transportation options for older adults, caregivers or home health aides.

The foundation has awarded more than $1 million in grants since 2019, ranging from $2,500 to $75,000. Nonprofits with operating budgets under $1 million are eligible for small grants up to $15,00.

Those with an operating budget over $1 million are eligible for full grants.

To submit an LOI or for more information, visit fieldhallfoundation. org or contact Patti Lavan Horvath, at phorvath@fieldhallfdn.org.

MULTILINGUAL PROGRAM LAUNCHED AT STAR

Barbara Fitzpatrick, director of STAR Rubino Family Center, in Norwalk is leading the STAR Inc., Lighting the Way expanded, multilingual program for children ex-

GRANTS AVAILABLE

Field Hall Foundation in Cortlandt Manor is accepting letters of inquiry (LOI) until Sept. 16 for for its upcoming Winter 20/21 Grant Cycle.

The foundation supports programs and projects that improve the lives of older adults and their caregivers in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties. Priority will be given to those focusing on the most basic needs of low-income and vulnerable seniors and/or their

STAR staffer reaching out.

periencing or at risk of developmental delays. Supported in part

by The Community Fund of Darien and the New Canaan Community Foundation the services treat children from birth through age 5, with options for children up to age 8.

Since 1952, STAR has been serving those in mid-Fairfield County who have intellectual and developmental disabilities and providing support for their families.

Katie J. Banzhaf, STAR executive director said, “It is time for STAR to transition to an enhanced program and focus on this opportunity to be in the forefront of high-quality, early intervention services that meet individual needs of children and families in our community. With input from parents, pediatricians, professionals, preschools and community foundations, STAR is proud to introduce direct therapeutic and educational services for children birth through early childhood to better serve our neighbors.”

PROMOTIONS AT FULLERTON BECK

in their junior and senior years, to complete the concentration.

CELEBRATING SCIENCE AND HISTORY AT LMMM GALA

Victoria Ronemus and Jason Aaron.

Victoria Ronemus and Jason Aaron have been promoted from special litigation counsels to partners at Fullerton Beck PPL. Eileen Fullerton, Fullerton Beck managing partner, said, “Not only have Vicky and Jason been with the firm since we opened our doors 2½ years ago, but I have worked with them at prior firms and have watched them grow and mature into experienced, skilled attorneys. They provide clients with excellent lawyering and service and are collaborative and supportive of their colleagues. My partners, Katrine Beck and Susan Scaria, and I are proud of their accomplishments and are thrilled to recognize their hard work and dedication with this promotion.”

Ronemus received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Binghamton University (2006) and her Juris Doctorate from New York Law School (2011). She practices in the area of medical malpractice and general liability defense and handles construction site accident matters.

Aaron received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Delaware (2010) and his Juris Doctorate from New York Law School

(2013). He practices in the area of general liability, with an emphasis on construction law litigation and claims under New York State Labor Law. Fullerton Beck, is 100% women owned and is a full-service litigation firm with offices in White Plains, New York City and Red Bank, New Jersey.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

The Housing Authority of the town of Greenwich (HATG) has announced its name change to Greenwich Communities, which became effective Sept. 1, along with a new logo and website: greenwichcommunity.org.

“We are excited to change our name to Greenwich Communities.

We have evolved and now provide housing solutions to help address Greenwich’s diverse housing challenges and improve the quality of life for the residents we serve.

Our new name, Greenwich Communities, more accurately reflects the agency we are today and our strategy moving forward,” said Anthony L. Johnson, executive director. “Over the past several years, we have made considerable progress in diversifying and enhancing

our properties, making key investments and improvements for our residents.”

Initially created in 1946 with the mission of providing housing to returning war veterans, Greenwich Communities today owns and manages 13 residential complexes, accommodating senior citizens, families and disabled persons in 857 apartments; and Parsonage Cottage, a 40-bed assisted/independent living facility for seniors.

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum (LMMM) in Norwalk will celebrate science and history at its virtual Starlit Gala, Oct. 17 at 8 p.m., co-chaired by trustees Trudy Dujardin and Mickey Koleszar. The event will honor David Westmoreland, a longstanding and key supporter of LMMM and its preservation and feature a special presentation by award-winning expert on bioethics, Glenn E. McGee. Revolutionary advances in biomedical science promise longer life and its pursuit has become a $1 trillion industry consuming the fortunes of a wide array of Silicon Valley billionaires.

McGee will look at a few examples of biomedical science technology and the ethical, legal and social questions they pose. He is the founder and served for 11 years as editor-in-chief of “The American Journal of Bioethics,” the leading publication in its field. He serves as deputy provost for the University of New Haven and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University and Master of Arts degree and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.

Westmoreland is a registered landscape architect and co-owner, with Mike Mushak, of Tuliptree Site Design Inc. in Norwalk.

For more information on the

gala, visit lockwoodmathewsmansion.com. Tickets for the event are $50-$100.

CLEAN WATER SUPPORTERS FOR LONG ISLAND SOUND

Forty-two participants paddled, kayaked, sailed, walked and ran from Aug. 14 through Aug. 31 throughout the Long Island Sound region for the fifth annual Paddle for the Sound fundraiser, a virtual, socially distanced sporting event that brought together athletes, outdoor enthusiasts and activists. More than $12,000 was raised through registration fees, auction bids and crowdfunding to support Save the Sound’s efforts and programs to restore and protect the Long Island Sound region’s environment.

This annual event was created by Nancy Vincent, formerly of SUP (Stand Up Paddle) Westchester. This year, participants covered a collective 675 miles and spent 160 active hours outdoors.

“This was our first virtual fundraiser and we could not be happier with the success,” said Emily Green, director of member engagement at Save the Sound….

“Though we had fewer participants than previous years when we were able to hold the event in person, we were able to include more people throughout the entire Long Island Sound region with our virtual format and new categories for sailing and land-based activity.”

STEPINAC LAUNCHES ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM

Stepinac High School in White Plains has initiated a three-year entrepreneurship program, believed to be unique to high schools in the region.

Open to all students starting in their sophomore year, the program will begin with an in-depth leadership course. Frank Portanova (Class of ’93), vice principal for academics and curriculum, said the course will focus on three key aspects of leadership: personal, organizational and community.

Following the business leadership course, the students enroll in entrepreneurship, marketing and business law courses, respectively,

Photo courtesy of Melissa Schlag.

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HABITAT SELECTED FOR SUPERMARKET COMMUNITY BAG PROGRAM

John Vesey, manager, Stop & Shop Danbury.

Stop & Shop at 44 Lake Avenue Extension, Danbury, has selected Housatonic Habitat for Humanity to receive the proceeds from its Community Bag Program. For each community bag purchased by customers during September, Housatonic Habitat will receive a $1 donation. Customers who purchase Stop & Shop Community Bags at other locations may also direct their donations to Housatonic Habitat by visiting mystopandshopcause.com, completing the form and selecting Housatonic Habitat as their charity of choice.

“We are delighted to partner with Stop & Shop and to help the environment at the same time,” said Fran Normann, executive director of Housatonic Habitat. “The proceeds from this fundraiser will support Housatonic Habitat’s mission of building workforce homes in Greater Danbury.”

NEW NURSING SCHOOL AT MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

Seventy-two Manhattanville College nursing students participated recently in a traditional whitecoat ceremony on the Purchase campus, in which they took an oath to service and received a white coat at the official opening

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of the nursing school.

“This is an exciting day for Manhattanville as we officially open our new School of Nursing and Health Sciences,’’ said Manhattanville President Michael Geisler.

Nursing school Dean Debra Simons, said, “Opening a School of Nursing and Health Sciences during the time of Covid-19 is a testimonial that Manhattanville College has been ready to supply the academic expertise and skilled workforce that is so needed in Westchester County and the tristate area.”

Geisler recognized the assistance of community partners and elected officials who helped make the school’s opening possible.

He also thanked them and other supporters for assistance in helping the school receive a $60,000 grant through the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council to develop a $300,000 state-of-the-art clinical learning laboratory, equipped with human simulators and clinical simulation environments that emulate all levels of care. The school also received a $75,000 award from the George I. Alden Trust and additional funding from other private foundations.

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HVEDC ADDS TWO TO ITS BOARD

The Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. (HVEDC) recently announced the addition of Abigail Lewis and Henry Welt, co-founders of Ossining Innovates!, to its Board of Directors.

Founded by two neighbors living in the village of Ossining, Ossining Innovates! (OI), aims to bring and nurture entrepreneurial mindset and skills to underserved

Abigail Lewis and Henry Welt.

and under-resourced communities in the region by spawning the creation of a regional ecosystem that will be truly inclusive, affording all residents fair, equal and culturally sensitive opportunities to become full participants in the entrepreneurship community that is fast growing in our country and in the world. OI is committed to the principle that entrepreneurial skills and mindset are life skills, which empower and enable those who acquire these skills.

“HVEDC is proud to partner with Abby and Henry and their team at Ossining Innovates! The mentoring and programming they provide is essential to the success of the local economy and diversity in the region. We look forward to working with OI and believe this partnership will bring about tremendous opportunity to previously underserved communities in the Hudson Valley,” said Mike Oates, president and CEO of HVEDC. Welt holds a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College. Twenty years ago, he founded WeltAdvisors, a business strategy advisory firm with offices in New York, Paris and Munich, through which he continues to provide strategy advice.

Co-founder of Ossining Innovates! Lewis is managing director of Bethany Arts Community and is a seasoned strategy and operations executive who spent many years at IBM leading innovative programs.

She hold a Juris Doctorate from Fordham Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University.

Seth H. Hollander

NWH NAMES NEW BOARD MEMBER

Seth H. Hollander has been named to the Board of Directors of the Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH) Foundation in Mount Kisco. Board Chair Angela Kessel said, “Seth Hollander brings the Foundation extensive expertise in investment management and has a long-standing relationship with Northern Westchester Hospital and deep roots in the community.

He has been an enthusiastic supporter of the hospital for more than a decade.”

Keeva Young-Wright, President of Northern Westchester Hospital’s Foundation said, “Seth and his peers on the Foundation Board help us to raise millions of dollars each year, which go directly toward creating patient programs, purchasing lifesaving clinical equipment and making important capital improvements.”

Hollander works for Kohlberg & Company, where he serves as a member of the firm’s investment committee. He joined Kohlberg in 2001 and was named a partner in 2008. Previously he was with Bear, Stearns & Co. He received a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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

HOSPITAL STRUCK GOLD

The Hub is part of PFP’s Farm to School initiative, which includes farm and classroom visits, cafeteria taste tests, agricultural literacy visits, workshops for educators and food service staff.

“While we originally created these resources for students in our programs, we are excited to offer them to parents and teachers everywhere who are incorporating local foods into their remote and in-person schooling. We hope they will be inspired to learn more about their local food systems and farms.” said Poughkeepsie Farm Project Farm to School Manager Kathryn Brignac.

GREENWICH NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED FOR HELPING ITS OLDER RESIDENTS DURING COVID-19

Standing, from left : Tracy Feiertag, Nancy Echausse, Nancy Fox, Dr. Cary Buckner, Andrew Lu, Adele Whyte, Dr. Yafell Serulle, Dr. Danilo Silva, Alex Eusebio and Ben Siniscalchi. Seated, from left: Eileen Egan, Dr. Barry Geller, Elaine Gardner, Nicolas Stasi, Candace Huggins and Carol Daley.

Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, which recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

The hospital earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include evaluation of the proper use of medications and other stroke treatments aligned with the most up-to-date, evidencebased guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. Before discharge, patients should also receive education on managing their health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition interventions.

“Phelps Hospital is dedicated to improving the quality of care for our stroke patients by implementing the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke initiative,” said Akira Todo, M.D.,

the hospital’s director of the stroke program. “The tools and resources provided help us track and measure our success in meeting evidenced-based clinical guidelines developed to improve patient outcomes….”

Additionally, Phelps Hospital received the Association’s Target: StrokeSM Elite Honor Roll award.

To qualify for this recognition, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke.

“We are excited to launch this resource hub in time for back to school. By sharing these resources with educators and families online, it allows us to make them available to the wider Farm to School community,” said Poughkeepsie Farm Project Education Director Jamie Levato.

The town of Greenwich is in the process of receiving designation as an Age-Friendly Community

by AARP and the World Health Organization (WHO) and has officially been named as a Dementia Friendly Community by Dementia Friendly America.

Most recently, Lori Contadino, the director of the Greenwich Commission on Aging, along with a small, dedicated staff, have been working with several community stakeholders to create programs that assess need, connect people to information, nutritional food

and resources and enable remote social, physical and cognitive engagement.

The day after the Senior Center closed its doors March 11, the staff began calling a roster of individuals every day and as time went on, not only did the number of phone calls increase, but also the number of older adults requiring assistance. Issues related to food insecurity quickly became a parallel priority. “The lack of access to groceries became a concern for older adults who previously did their own grocery shopping but were now being told to stay at home,” said Contadino.

The CARES Act funding, that became available through the Southwestern Connecticut Agency on Aging, created a new and valuable opportunity to provide weekly grocery bags to our homebound older adults.

To further connect with older adults, Contadino said, “We also established a program called ‘Hello Neighbor.’ Our goal is to phone every resident age 70 or older.”

“As we progress through this pandemic and the remainder of 2020, challenges and uncertainties remain in a variety of areas for each of us. The staff of the Commission on Aging and Greenwich Senior Center remain available by telephone and email.”

PFP LAUNCHES RESOURCE HUB

Poughkeepsie Farm Project (PFP) is launching its Harvest of the Month Resource Hub, an online platform for its already established Farm to School program, which aims to connect New York state farms and schools to provide seasonal produce in school cafeterias and related educational programming. PFP has created online educational resources to accompany each Harvest of the Month item to use at home or in the classroom.

Lori Contadino, director of the Greenwich Commission on Aging.

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Facts & Figures

westchester county

BAKNRUPTCY Warner Construction Inc., Middletown, 20-35937-CGM: Chapter 11, $115,856 assets, $1,755,399 liabilities. Attorney: Robert S. Lewis.

Intuitive IT Technicians LLC, Yonkers, 20-23012-RDD: Chapter 7, $22,129 assets, $181,730 liabilities.

Attorney: Charles A. Higgs.

COURTS Victor Gibbs, Westchester vs.

Parking Systems Plus Inc., White Plains, et al,20-7190-KMK: Job discrimination. Attorney: Justin M. Ames.

Ramon A. Nunes vs. ITILE Group Inc., White Plains, et al, 20-7202CS: Denial of overtime compensation. Attorney: Peter A. Romero.

John and Claire Aloisio, Katonah vs. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Ridgefield, Connecticut, et al, 20-7241: Product liability.Attorney: Gregory Saracino.

U.S. Bank N.A., Cincinnati vs.

33-34 Vancourtlandt Realty Partners, c/o Wilson Soto & Associates, Scarsdale,20-7302: Entitlement to rents. Attorney: Joseph Lubertazzi Jr.

401 Pea Pond Road LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: JanniD LLC and BobbyD LLC, Katonah. Property: 401 Pea Pond Road, Bedford. Amount: $4.3 million. Filed Sept. 4.

Citi Property Realty Corp., Peekskill. Seller: Peter Kourakos, Southfields. Property: 13 Bank St., Peekskill. Amount: $425,000. Filed Aug. 31.

Aquarius Realty Management LLC, Larchmont. Seller: Zinrock Resources LP, Purchase. Property: 750 Davenport Ave., 522, New Rochelle. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed Aug. 31.

Did You See It LLC, Jefferson Valley. Seller: Emily Sussman, Scarsdale. Property: 27 Woodruff Ave., Eastchester. Amount: $310,000.

Filed Sept. 4.

Kokoroya International LLC, Chicago, Illinois. Seller: Lewis J. Leone, et al, Scarsdale. Property: 8 Southwoods Lane, Scarsdale.

Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Aug. 31.

LL Parcel E LLC, Horsham, Pennsylvaniaa. Seller: Lighthouse Landing Communities LLC, Irvine, California. Property: 199 Beekman Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $9 million. Filed Sept. 1.

Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc., Morris Plains, New Jersey.

Seller: Scott Lazaruk, et al, Ardsley.

Property: 3 Hillside Place, Greenburgh. Amount: $1 million. Filed Sept. 1.

Gulf Coast Bank and Trust Co., New Orleans, Louisiana. Seller: Leigh Andrew Brand, Cross River.

Property: Canaan Circle, Lewisboro. Amount: $215,000. Filed Sept.

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Below $1 million

JL Property Holdings LLC, Port Chester. Seller: Strategic Realty Fund LLC, San Jose, California.

Property: 132 Surrey Drive, New Rochelle. Amount: $607,420. Filed Sept. 1.

DEEDS

182 Church LLC, Bronx. Seller: John G. Molloy, Somers. Property: 182 Church St., White Plains.

Amount: $522,000. Filed Aug. 31.

Items appearing in the Fairfield County Business Journal’s On The Record section are compiled from various sources, including public records made available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken.

Questions and comments regarding this section should be directed to: Larry Miles c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 701 Westchester Ave, Suite 100 J White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3699

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Garfield Advanced LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Juan Pablo Savinon, et al, Pine Island. Property: 8 Garfield St., Yonkers. Amount: $575,000. Filed Sept. 4.

Valor Rye Holdings LLC, Rye. Seller: 14 Pine Island Road LLC, Rye. Property: 14 Pine Island Road, Rye. Amount: $3.4 million. Filed Sept. 3.

151 Scl Street LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Hugh Lawrence, et al, Wappingers Falls. Property: 151 School St., Yonkers. Amount: $615,000. Filed Aug. 31.

171 Brady Ave LLC, Hawthorne.

Seller: Ludl Associates Inc., Hawthorne. Property: 157-171 Brady Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $3.7 million. Filed Sept. 2.

Friday Properties LLC, Flushing. Seller: Pengtao Zhang, et al, Great Neck. Property: 1155 Warburton Ave., G133, Yonkers. Amount: $12,000. Filed Sept. 1.

GTM Real Estate Holdings LLC, Katonah. Seller: Charles D. Cattanach, et al, Cortlandt Manor.

Property: 148 Frederick St., Cortlandt. Amount: $160,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Miguel Diaz, Rockland County, et al, vs. Symmetry Medical Manufacturing Inc., d.b.a. Tecomet, Suffern, 20-7317: Job discrimination. Attorney: Brittany A. Stevens.

Above $1 million

ON THE RECORD

3574 Lexington LLC, Hawthorne.

Seller: 17 Saw Mill River South LLC, Hawthorne. Property: 17 Saw Mill River Road, Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $610,000. Filed Sept. 1.

414 Manhattan Avenue LLC, Armonk. Seller: Geraldine M. Burke, Nurney, Ireland. Property: 414 Manhattan Ave., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $400,000. Filed Sept. 1.

Blue Sky Equities 26 LLC, Roslyn Heights. Seller: NLO Holding Corp., Mineola. Property: 520 McLean Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $260,000.

Filed Sept. 1.

Mamaroneck Ave Properties LLC, Roslyn Heights. Seller: Coleman Ave Properties 2 LLC, et al, White Plains. Property: 1211-1215 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains.

Amount: $480,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Mamaroneck Ave Properties LLC, Roslyn Heights. Seller: Coleman Ave Properties I LLC, et al, White Plains. Property: 1221 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Amount: $720,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Steve Giordano Builders Inc., Yorktown Heights. Seller: Demetri Vourliotis, Croton-on-Hudson.

Property: 5 Flanders, Cortlandt.

Amount: $105,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Tuckahoe Partners LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Rosemarie McLoughlin, et al, Mahopac. Property: 38 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers. Amount: $575,000. Filed Sept. 4.

Blue Sky Equities 26 LLC, Roslyn Heights. Seller: NLO Holding Corp., Mineola. Property: 518 McLean Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $260,000.

Filed Sept. 1.

U.S Bank N.A. Seller: Joan Iacono, Bronxville. Property: 48 Patmore Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $472,500.

Filed Sept. 3.

Capitale PM LLC, Mineola. Seller: Jacqueline Samuels, Yonkers. 120 Locust Hill Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $850,000. Filed Aug. 31.

Vanta Holdings Corp., Yonkers.

Seller: Elizabeth D. Bruno, Yonkers. Property: 224 Jessamine Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $345,000. Filed Sept. 1.

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YY BSD LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Robert Biddle, et al, Mahopac.

Property: 347 Walnut St., Yonkers.

Amount: $285,000. Filed Sept. 2.

JUDGMENTS Bella Nails II Inc., Scarsdale. $30,748 in favor of Orange Valley Solutions LLC, Garden City. Filed Sept. 1.

Global Moving and Relocations LLC, Yonkers. $8,466 in favor of MTC Transportation Company LLC, Brooklyn. Filed Aug. 31.

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

Cappelli, Saverio, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $416,000 affecting property located at 197 California Road, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed Aug. 28.

Contreras, Henry R., et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 456 N. High St., Mount Vernon 10552. Filed Aug. 25.

Dilallo, Laura, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $641,250 affecting property located at 101 Harris Road, Katonah 10536. Filed Aug. 21.

Edwards, Janet E., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $444,493 affecting property located at 404 S. Second Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Aug. 25.

Garcia, Roman, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $552,900 affecting property located at 2-4 Fairmount Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed Aug. 21.

Greenfield, Alec, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1 million affecting property located at 4 North Ridge, Armonk 10504. Filed Aug. 27.

Guthrie, Claude, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $634,482 affecting property located at 584 Scarsdale Road, Yonkers 10707. Filed Aug. 18.

Heirs and distributees of the estate of Robert Barbieri, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,000 affecting property located at 39 Hillcrest Road, Hartsdale 10530. Filed Aug. 27.

Hernandez, Kimberly, et al.

Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $668,000 affecting property located at 1380 Quarry Drive, Mohegan Lake 10547.

Filed Aug. 20.

Jones-Batts, Kim, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $315,000 affecting property located at 119 Gallows Hill Road, Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed Aug. 27.

Kolesar, Daria, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $482,000 affecting property located at 97 Patton Drive, Yonkers 10710. Filed Aug. 20.

Lee, Thomas, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $640,000 affecting property located at 58 Underhill Road, Scarsdale 10583. Filed Aug. 24.

Maggett, Lynn D., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $380,832 affecting property located at 86 Harrison Ave., Yonkers 10705. Filed Aug. 20.

Mcintosh, Robert, et al. Filed by New Residential Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $294,000 affecting property located at 463 E. Fifth St., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed Aug. 21.

Misuriello, Francesca, et al.

Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $621,000 affecting property located at 87 Post Place, Harrison 10528. Filed Aug. 20.

Moran, Brendan, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $349,000 affecting property located at 11 Orchard Lane, Katonah 10536. Filed Aug. 24.

Pulley, Bernice Cosey, et al.

Filed by Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $544,185 affecting property located at 381 Fifth Ave., New Rochelle 10801. Filed Aug. 27.

Rivera, Rosario, et al. Filed by 21st Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $600,000 affecting property located at 139 Lincoln Ave., West Harrison 10604. Filed Aug. 20.

Rodriguez, Raphael A., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $275,000 affecting property located at 2 Locust St., Elmsford 10523. Filed Aug. 25.

Tucker, Suzette, as heir to the estate of Gloria Yates, et al. Filed

by Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $544,185 affecting property located at 4 The Lane, Somers 10589. Filed Aug. 27.

Woods, Wesley D., as heir and distributee of the estate of Wesley Woods, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $412,500 affecting property located at 527 S. Third Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Aug. 19.

Mechanic’s Liens American Sports Group LLC, as owner. $19,133 as claimed by Carpet World of Westchester Inc., White Plains. Property: in Greenburgh.

Filed Sept. 2.

Craft Building Housing Development, as owner. $50,750 as claimed by 360 Fire Prevention LLC. Property: in New Rochelle.

Filed Sept. 1.

Daley, Anita A., et al, as owner. $92,000 as claimed by Current Contracts and Electrical. Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed Sept. 4.

HSBC Bank N.A., as owner. $1,780 as claimed by Evolution Electric Inc., Hawthorne. Property: in Yonkers. Filed Sept. 2.

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

Sole Proprietorships 2G Greater New York, 17 Wagon Wheel Road, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Ellen B. Greenberg. Filed March 20.

Aardvark Roofing, 23 Oak Ave., Tuckahoe 10707, c/o Spencer Lang.

Filed March 19.

Canvasluxs.com, 52 Yonkers Terrace, Apt. 6G, Yonkers 10704, c/o Vincent John McNulty. Filed March 26.

Facts & Figures Certified Executive Overseer, 46 Westminster Court, New Rochelle 10801, c/o Richard Macafity.

Filed March 13.

CP Pavers, 229 North High St., Apt. 1, Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Hector Sahagun Chavez. Filed March 17.

Cromatch, 18 Woodside Ave., Apt. 1, West Harrison 10604, c/o Wilfred A. Gomez-Penaloza. Filed March 13.

Curry on Purdy, 7 Purdy St., Harrison 10528, c/o Nirmala Chellappan. Filed March 25.

DKW Consulting, 87 Saratoga Ave., Apt. 1, Yonkers 10705, c/o Karintha Parker. Filed March 20.

Evolved Shopping, P.O. Box 2347, Mount Vernon 10553, c/o Ashley Nembhard. Filed March 18.

Head to Toe Self Care, 90 Morningside Ave., Yonkers 10703, c/o Cheyanne T. Bray. Filed March 25.

Homeland Pathways, 414 Garden Ave., Mount Vernon 10553, c/o Edgar Henderson. Filed March 16.

J. Bennett Capital, 153 Hilburn Road, Scarsdale 10583, c/o Bennett J. LaGreca. Filed March 13.

Joy Cleaners Westchester, 113 Wolfs Lane, Pelham 10803, c/o Sae Ki Chun. Filed March 13.

Lucy’s House Cleaning, 1735 Maxwell Court, Yorktown Heights 10598, c/o Luz H. Quichimbo Sigsig.

Filed March 16.

New-u-trition, 40 Broadway, Hawthorne 10532, c/o Mariah Hagan. Filed March 13.

Shear’s Cut and Shave, 466 North Ave., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Jerry Rivera. Filed March 19.

Simple Withdrawal, 20 Saratoga Ave., Yonkers 10705, c/o Veitch D. Mitchell. Filed March 16.

Stray Sketches, 1155 Warburton Ave., 4M, Yonkers 10701, c/o Alexa Holly Jones. Filed March 17.

Wade’s Catering, 1623 Rose Ave., Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Wade Williams. Filed March 18.

PATENTS Adding an individual to a video conference. Patent no. 10,771,741 issued to Spencer Reynolds, et al.

Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Augmenting datasets using de-identified data and selected authorized records. Patent no. 10,770,171 issued to Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Automatic modifications to a user image based on cognitive analysis of social media activity. Patent no. 10,771,573 issued to Edgar Zamora Duran, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Cognitive triggering of human interaction strategies to facilitate collaboration, productivity and learning. Patent no.

10,770,072 issued to Vinicius Costa Villas Boas Segura, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Conductive polymers within drilled holes of printed circuit boards. Patent no. 10,772,215 issued to Joseph Kuczynski, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Communication of event messages in computing systems.

Patent no. 10,771,311 issued to Andrew Feltham, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Dynamic network monitoring.

Patent no. 10,771,371 issued to Aaron Baughman, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

First-responder-feedback-based emergency response floor identification. Patent no. 10,771,920 issued to Sushain Pandit, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Gate-all-around fin device. Patent no. 10,770,594 issued to John Campi Jr., et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Hybrid servo pattern configurations for magnetic tape.

Patent no. 10,770,102 issued to Nhan Bui, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Justifying passage machine learning for question and answer systems. Patent no.

10,769,552 issued to Bridget Beamon, et al. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Humanized model of kidney and liver disorders. Patent no.

10,765,762 issued to Kishor Devalaraja-Narashimha, et al. Assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown.

Method and system for trustworthiness using digital certificates. Patent no. 10,771,449 issued to Ankur Arora, et al. Assigned to Mastercard International, Purchase.

Mobile person-to-person voice payment. Patent no. 10,769,630 issued to Rohit Modi, et al. Assigned to Mastercard International, Purchase.

Payment card transaction systems and methods with dynamic geo-targeted, incentive-based transaction and delivery management. Patent no. 10,769,659 issued to Manoneet Kohli, et al. Assigned to Mastercard International, Purchase.

Rotatable surgical table. Patent no. 10,758,331 issued to John Strein, et al. Assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown.

System and method for ecommerce ticket sales based on seat occupancy. Patent no. 10,769,604 issued to Richard Unnerstall, et al.

Assigned to Mastercard International, Purchase.

HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million 141 Acres LLC, Monroe, as owner. Lender: Northeast Community Bank, White Plains. Property: 141 Acres Road, Monroe. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Sept. 1.

Liberty Progress LP, et al, Kingston, as owner. Lender: Sterling National Bank, Montebello. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $20.1 million. Newburgh Progress Housing Development Fund Company Inc., Liberty Progress LP, Kingston, as owner. Lender: Sterling National Bank, Montebello. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $20.1 million.

Filed Sept.

Below $1 million

Latendorf Morgan, Colin, as owner. Lender: Primelending.

Property: in Milan. Amount: $114,107. Filed Sept. 1.

Macerone, Joseph, et al, Bloomingburg, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 515 Midland Lake Road, Wallkill 10941. Amount: $468,750. Filed Sept. 1.

59-61 Firth St LLC, New Windsor. Seller: Hudson View Development Corp., Cornwall-on-Hudson. Property: 275 Hudson St., Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Amount: $665,000. Filed Sept. 3.

617 South Road LLC. Ardsley.

Seller: U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Property: 617 South Road, Marlborough.

Amount: $60,666. Filed Sept. 3.

Purcell, Richard, et al, as owner. Lender: TEG Federal Credit Union. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $199,395. Filed Sept. 2.

Austin Black LLC, Monsey. Seller: U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Property: 2670 Route 208, Montgomery. Amount: $115,200. Filed Sept. 4.

Richfield, Daniel A., et al, Kerhonkson, as owner. Lender: The Bank of Greene County, Catskill.

Property: in Rochester. Amount: $465,000. Filed Sept. 1.

B and N Estates LLC, Monroe.

Seller: Rafiq A. Majeed, Newburgh.

Property: 148 Dubois St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $205,625. Filed Sept. 1.

Soltankhah, Shaheen, Ulster Park, as owner. Lender: Wallkill Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association, Wallkill. Property: 87 River Road, Ulster Park 12446. Amount: $176,000. Filed Sept. 1.

Brookview Holdings LLC, Wallkill. Seller: Romeo Remigio Jr., Walden. Property: 7 Southeast Court, Newburgh. Amount: $242,500. Filed Sept. 4.

DEEDS Above $1 million Net Lease Suds II LLC, Rockville Centre. Seller: Middletown Real Estate LLC, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Property: 1020 Dolsontown Road, Middletown. Amount: $6.6 million.

Filed Sept. 3.

SB Union Square LLC, White Plains. Seller: Mara Hofman, Los Angeles, California. Property: 80 Big Elm Road, Brewster 10509.

Amount: $2.7 million. Filed Sept. 2.

Timberhill Estates LLC, New York City. Seller: Roger L. Maulfair, Greenwood Lake. Property: 11 Timberhill, Warwick. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Sept. 4.

Union Avenue DG Real Estate LLC, Elmhurst, Illinois. Seller: HZ Development Partners LLC, Stony Point. Property: in New Windsor.

Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Sept. 1.

Castle 2020 LLC, White Plains.

Seller: HSBC Bank USA N.A. Property: 64 W. Main St., Port Jervis 12771.

Amount: $30,500. Filed Sept. 2.

CNC Property Group LLC, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Seller: Big Bing Realty Holding Corp., Middletown. Property: in Middletown.

Amount: $650,000. Filed Sept. 2.

Deal House Capital Fund I LLC, Mamaroneck. Seller: Debra A. Travali, et al, Patterson. Property: 171 Haviland Drive, Patterson 12563.

Amount: $85,000. Filed Sept. 3.

DMF and CJF Holdings LLC, Fishkill. Seller: Wendy M. Weathers, Peekskill. Property: 11 Old Sylvan Lake Road, East Fishkill. Amount: $175,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Eberhard Equities LLC, Pleasant Valley. Seller: Pamela D. Strain, et al, Windsor, Colorado. Property: 26 Drake Road, Pleasant Valley.

Amount: $210,000. Filed Aug. 31.

Below $1 million

Equity Trust Co., Kingston. Seller: Bluestone Builders LLC, Kingston.

Property: 67 Millers Lane, Kingston. Amount: $369,000. Filed Sept.

3.

Deal House Capital Fund I LLC, as owner. Lender: Lendinghome Funding Corp. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $139,800. Filed Sept. 4.

275 Route 17K LLC, Newburgh.

Seller: Philip E. Segali, et al, New Windsor. Property: 275 Route 17K, Newburgh. Amount: $410,000.

Filed Sept. 1.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Judith Reardon, Katonah. Property: 89 Pigott Road, Mahopac 10541. Amount: $518,431.

Filed Sept. 1.

Deal House Capital Fund I LLC, Mamaroneck, as owner. Lender: LendingHome Capital Fund LLC, San Francisco, California. Property: 171 Haviland Drive, Patterson 12563.

Amount: $114,900. Filed Sept. 3.

45 Jackson Street LLC, Hopewell junction. Seller: Auchmoody Holdings LLC, Hopewell Junction. Property: 45 Jackson St., Fishkill 12524.

Amount: $400,000. Filed Sept. 3.

G and V Homes LLC, Middletown. Seller: Paolo Rosanelli, Middletown. Property: 3 Estate Drive, Middletown. Amount: $80,000.

Filed Sept. 3.

8 Verven Road LLC, as owner.

Lender: Patch of Land Lending LLC. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $30,000. Filed Sept. 4.

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Granman Enterprises LLC, New York City. Seller: Ina S. Kramer, New York City. Property: 449 Plutarch Road, New Paltz. Amount: $390,000. Filed Sept. 2.

Greenheart Holdings LLC, Mahopac. Seller: Predator Properties Inc., Salisbury Mills. Property: 56 Carson Ave., Newburgh. Amount: $90,000. Filed Sept. 2.

Jett Management LLC, Poughquag. Seller: Bridge Funding LLC, New York City. Property: in Beekman. Amount: $150,000. Filed Aug. 31.

JNC Asset Management LLC, Kingston. Seller: Pleasant View Subdivision LLC, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 14 Falcon Drive, Lloyd.

Amount: $65,000. Filed Sept. 2.

Leprechaun Ventures Ltd., Esopus. Seller: James P. O’Donnell, Highland. Property: 436 Upper North Road, Lloyd. Amount: $20,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Melchin Management Group LLC, Saugerties. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 11 Garden Circle, Saugerties. Amount: $120,000. Filed Sept. 2.

Modena Homes LLC, Cleveland, Ohio. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Property: 1746 Route 44/55, Plattekill.

Amount: $114,300. Filed Sept. 2.

Munchkin Realty LLC, Williston Park. Seller: KLA BPL Portfolio Owner LLC, Chicago, Illinois. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $654,000. Filed Sept. 1.

MWJ Contracting Solutions LLC, Monsey. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 3390 Route 208, Hamptonburgh. Amount: $246,000. Filed Sept. 4.

NBNY104 Dowling LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Brenda J. Scott, Newburgh. Property: 104 Dowling St., Newburgh. Amount: $25,000. Filed Sept. 3.

New Paltz Storage LLC, New Paltz. Seller: New Paltz Fire Department Inc., New Paltz. Property: in New Paltz. Amount: $70,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Newburgh Progress Housing Development Fund Company Inc., Kingston. Seller: New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, White Plains.

Property: 245 Liberty St., Newburgh. Amount: $550,000. Filed Sept. 1.

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Facts & Figures Newburgh Progress Housing Development Fund Company Inc., Kingston. Seller: Rupco Inc., Kingston. Property: 257 Liberty St., Newburgh. Amount: $50,000. Filed Sept. 1.

Nine H LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Dennis Fouhy, et al, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 43 Park Ave., Poughkeepsie 12401. Amount: $97,500. Filed Sept. 3.

North Hamilton Parcel LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Beulah Baptist Church, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $100,000. Filed Aug. 31.

Olive Fire Department No. 1 Inc., Olivebridge. Seller: Clarke H. Ulmer, et al, Boiceville. Property: in Olive. Amount: $150,000. Filed Sept. 4.

Parmenter Equities LLC, Monroe. Seller: Tommy L. Boyd Sr., Newburgh. Property: 151 W. Parmenter St., Newburgh. Amount: $93,000.

Filed Sept. 3.

Platinum Homes USA LLC, Marlboro. Seller: Lauren L. Drum, Pleasant Valley. Property: in LaGrange.

Amount: $145,000. Filed Aug. 31.

Point Z LLC, New York City. Seller: Carrie Kell, et al, Woodstock. Property: 581 Zena Road, Woodstock.

Amount: $850,000. Filed Sept. 2.

Roger Tully Productions LLC, Rhinebeck. Seller: Quentin P. Johnson, Poughkeepsie. Property: 12-14 Old Primrose Hill Road, Rhinebeck 12572. Amount: $679,500. Filed Sept. 3.

Trout Brook Holdings LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: 603 Stage LLC, Highland Mills. Property: 4 Rye Hill, Monroe. Amount: $110,000. Filed Sept. 1.

Westerlind Millerton LLC, Millerton. Seller: Hendrick Properties LLC, Millerton. Property: 41 Main St., North East. Amount: $672,500.

Filed Aug. 31.

JUDGMENTS 3 Guys Pizza and Catering Inc., Highland. $3,934 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

94 Angels Deli Corp., Blooming Grove. $3,204 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

A and J Mart Inc., Rosendale. $143,407 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

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B.E.T. Deli Corp., Walden. $712 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

Black Magnet Enterprises Inc., Middletown. $81,521 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

Capital Advanced Partners Corp., Newburgh. $7,336 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Sept. 1.

Carreros Curbside Café Inc., Sugar Loaf. $13,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Sept. 8.

CZR Autobody Inc., Maybrook. $10,157 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

Dexter Laundromats Inc., Walden. $26,536 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

Drunken Cherry Cookie Company Corp., Warwick. $68,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Sept. 8.

E and R Trading Inc., Monroe. $1,795 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

Food Fanatics Inc., Middletown. $828 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

Henry and Son Construction Inc., Highland Mills. $1,015 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Sept. 1.

HV New Deal Inc., Montgomery. $17,620 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

J Epstein Consulting Corp., Monroe. $1,497 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

Jazz-E Motors LLC, Newburgh. $29,613 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

KJ Exercise and Nutrition Center Inc., Monroe. $3,229 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Aug. 31.

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Lily’s of the Valley Floral Design Etc., Highland Falls. $4,379 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Aug. 31.

Sullivan Transport Inc., Vails Gate. $56,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Sept. 8.

Loughran Inc., Salisbury Mills. $23,982 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

United Air Conditioning, Refrigeration, Plumbing and Heating Inc., Newburgh. $2,051 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

Mixers Plus Inc., Port Jervis. $14,719 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

Noel X Noel Ltd., Newburgh. $44,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Sept. 8.

Northeast Wholesale Turf LLC, New Hampton. $91,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany.

Filed Sept. 8.

Nugent CM, Fort Montgomery. $56,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Sept. 8.

Office Services Provider Inc., Monroe. $2,754 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

Orange County Choppers Inc., Newburgh. $12,711 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

Personal Protection Plus Inc., Monroe. $1,812 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

Pretzel Time of Newburgh Inc., Newburgh. $18,685 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

Priority Recovery Inc., New Windsor. $13,697 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

S and G Auto Body Collision, Newburgh. $39,066 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

Servicemaster of Kingston, Kingston. $595 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

So’s Cleaning Service Inc., Newburgh. $25,602 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

Vo2 LLC, Goshen. $21,938 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Aug. 31.

Warner Construction Inc., Middletown. $12,617 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 1.

Worthy Logistics Inc., Monroe. $11,493 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 31.

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

Alexis, Gwendolyn, et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $137,057 affecting property located at 9 Emerald Trail, Monroe 10950. Filed Sept. 4.

Any unknown heirs to the estate of Ellen Silberstein, et al.

Filed by Quicken Loans LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $94,900 affecting property located at 44 Sarah Lane, Middletown 10941. Filed Sept. 4.

Bautista, Christian, et al. Filed

by Amos Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $506,231 affecting property located at 14 Meadow Crest Drive, Mahopac 10541. Filed Sept. 2.

Blick, Sunny, et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $452,000 affecting property located at 36 W. Searsville Road, Montgomery 12549. Filed Sept. 3.

Brenner, Gerri Ann, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $197,005 affecting property located at 180 David Drive, Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed Aug. 28.

Burnard Jr., Robert A., et al.

Filed by PennyMac Loan Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $182,450 affecting property located at 16 South St., Highland Falls 10928. Filed Sept. 8.

Cella, Jo Ann, et al. Filed by Leonard Gerber and Christopher Bromley. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $179,000 affecting property located at 147 Main St., Kingston. Filed Aug. 31.

Chambers 12550 LLC, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $117,500 affecting property located at 105 Benkard Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed Sept. 1.

Cozart Jr., Ronald S., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 11 DeRose Lane, Chester 10918. Filed Sept. 2.

Desisso, Antoinette, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 30 Winding Ridge Lane, Unit 8104, Middletown 10940. Filed Sept. 2.

Executive Realty Group LLC, et al. Filed by TBG Funding LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $750,000 affecting property located in Newburgh.

Filed Sept. 3.

Maurizzio, Louis R., et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $181,970 affecting property located at 15 Emboden Ave., Otisville 10963. Filed Sept. 4.

Morley, Debbie A., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $320,000 affecting property located at 49 North Ave., Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed Aug. 28.

Nudge, Andrew, et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $246,500 affecting property located at 21 Rockridge Drive, Woodbury. Filed Sept. 3.

Schiele, Warren, et al. Filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1 million affecting property located at 90 Indian Lake Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Sept. 3.

Tondo Custom Concrete LLC, et al. Filed by HOF I Grantor Trust 5. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $635,000 affecting property located at 3 Heidi Lane, Chester 10918. Filed Sept. 3.

Mechanic’s Liens Barrett, Charles, et al, as owner. $40,915 as claimed by Komatsu America Corp., Pine Bush. Property: 639 Smithfield Road, Millerton.

Filed Sept. 2.

Skutnik, Terry, et al, as owner. $1,700 as claimed by Dumpster Dude LLC, Warwick. Property: 71 Jessup Switch Road, Goshen. Filed Sept. 2.

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

Partnerships Lewis and Scott Co., 139 Partition St., Saugerties 12477, c/o Anthony Joseph Lewis and Xavier Samuel Scott. Filed Sept. 3.

Sole Proprietorships AC Wildlife Removal, P.O. Box 451, Shokan 12468, c/o Angel L. Cordero. Filed Sept. 2.

Assassin, 318 Wall St., Kingston 12401, c/o Robert G. Shaver. Filed Sept. 2.

Bogeybuilders, 174 North Drive, Saugerties 12477, c/o Matthew Michael Bogert. Filed Sept. 2.

Bolde Studios, 32 Ulster Ave., Ulster Park 12487, c/o Rebecca A. Bolde. Filed Aug. 31.

Brichanel Boutique, 95 Woodside Knolls Drive, Middletown 10940, c/o Beverly Burns. Filed Aug. 13.

Compassionate Counseling, 20 Delta Place, Kingston 12401, c/o Allen Charles Nace. Filed Sept. 3.

EnlightenUp, 1232 Church Road, Saugerties 12477, c/o Christina M. Reich. Filed Sept. 2.

Fuller Industries, 157 Briggs Highway, Ellenville 12428, c/o Wayne Fuller. Filed Aug. 31.

Informedone Consultant, 580 Beattie Road, Rock Tavern 12575, c/o Griselda Gbolo. Filed Aug. 13.

Khan Tailoring and Restore, 6101 Route 209, Kerhonkson 12446, c/o Mohi Uddin Khan. Filed Sept. 2.

Laura Loftus Physical Therapy, 275 Route 375, West Hurley 12491, c/o Laura A. Loftus. Filed Sept. 2.

Lonely Party, 45 Rockwood Drive, Newburgh 12550, c/o Nicholas Maxwell White. Filed Aug. 13.

MDA Asset Management, 3 Forester Ave., No. 90, Warwick 10990, c/o Nelson Chan. Filed Aug. 13.

LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Formation of SNS Transporting LLC, Arts. Of Org. filed with the NY Sec. of State 07/21/2020. Office Loc. West. County. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/ her to 10 California Road, Mt. Vernon, NY 10552.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62627 Notice of formation. Thereís No Place Like Home Plate, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 6/2/20. Office loc:Westchester County.

SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon which process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 127 Dale Ave, Cortlandt Manor, NY, 10567.

Purpose: any lawful business activity. #62628 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC).

NAME: BRIGHTWORLD ADVISORS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/22/2020. 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: BrightWorld Advisors LLC, 9 Hanford Place, Tarrytown, NY 10591, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #62629 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Arts By Joni Joan LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/17/2020. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon which process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 57B Route 6, Ste 110, Baldwin Pl., NY 10505. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62630 Notice of Formation of Ore Amare LLC Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/30/2020. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 78 Vaughn Ave, New Rochelle NY 10801. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62631 Notice of Formation of Plimsoll Capital LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/15/2020. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: THE LLC, 8 Brookside Place, Pleasantville, NY 10570.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62632

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: MacKenzie Overlook LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on August 12, 2020. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to MacKenzie Overlook LLC, 1055 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley, New York 10502.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #62633 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: MacKenzie Overlook Manager LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on August 12, 2020. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to MacKenzie Overlook Manager LLC, 1055 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley, New York 10502.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #62634 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: MacKenzie Overlook Associates LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on August 12, 2020. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to MacKenzie Overlook Associates LLC, 1055 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley, New York 10502.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #62635 Kome Find Me LLC, date of filing Articles of Organization with Sec. of State on 7/27/20. LLC located in Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against may be served. The Sec. of State shall mail copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her to: 100 Fisher Avenue, White Plains, NY 10602. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62637 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LOS JONES ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/19/20. Offc. loc: WESTCHESTER Cty. SSNY desig. agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 239 Sheridan Ave, Mt. Vernon, NY 10552.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #62638

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ONLY ONY REAL ESTATE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/19/20. Offc. loc: WESTCHESTER Cty. SSNY desig. agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 239 Sheridan Ave, Mt. Vernon, NY 10552.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #62639 One HealthIT LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/20/2020. 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, 62 Congress Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62640 130 W Third Mount Vernon LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/20/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 279 Franklin Ave, Apt A, Mount Vernon, NY 10553. General Purpose. #62641 303 Design Consultants LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/12/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 303 East 57th St., Apt. 21J, New York, NY 10022. General Purpose. #62642 Foundation RX Bedford LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/9/2020. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 80 Business Park Dr., Ste. 308 Armonk, NY 10504.

General Purpose. #62643 112 North Chatsworth, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/3/2020. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 495 New Rochelle Rd., Bronxville, NY 10708.

General Purpose. #62644 Grandview Land Services LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/18/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to c/o Grossman & Gardner, 17 Elm Pl., Rye, NY 10580. General Purpose. #62645

Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: Mind at Ease LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was June 22, 2020. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to. Michael A Figueroa 125 Claremont Avenue Mount Vernon, New York 10550. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. #62646 Notice of formation of Dominique Brienne, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/06/2020 . 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: 151 Lorraine Ave. Mount Vernon, NY 10553. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62647 Notice of Formation of 401 Pea Pond Road, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/26/2020. NY Office location: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, c/o Cassin & Cassin, LLP, 2900 Westchester Avenue, Suite 402, Purchase, New York 10577. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #62648 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: TnT Capital Holdings, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/13/20.

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, 499 North Broadway White Plains New York 10603, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #62649 Notice of Formation of Fresh Beginnings Yonkers, LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/31/20. 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, 22 Peach St, Nanuet, NY 10965.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62650

Notice of Formation of Law Office of Frances E. Vazquez, PLLC, a domestic Professional Limited Liability Company (PLLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/2020.

Office location: Westchester County. Principal business location: 75 S. Broadway, Suite 4-3982, White Plains, New York 10601. SSNY is designed as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the PLLC to c/o Frances E. Vazquez, 75 S. Broadway, Suite 4-3982, White Plains, New York 10601. Purpose: the practice of law. #62651 Notice of Formation of Genesis Realty Associates LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/01/2020. Office location: Westchester Cty. Princ.

Office of LLC: 14 Sunnyside Dr. 2nd fl, Yonkers, NY 10705. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the address of its princ. office. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62652

Notice of Formation of Student Lending Group, LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/28/2020. 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, 3151 Stoney St. Mohegan Lake., NY 10547. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62653 Name of LLC: Boutique of Balanced Wellness, LLC. Date of filing Art. of Org. with DOS: 6/26/20. Location of LLC: Westchester County. Agent: Boutique of Balanced Wellness,LLC PO Box 114, Mount Vernon, NY 10552, upon whom process against it may be served.

Business Purpose: health and wellness. #62654 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Limited Liability Company GUARDXPRO, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 2nd, 2020.

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 at 925 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. #62655

Notice of Formation of Simply Sweet by Cindy, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/10/2020. 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, 800 Westchester Ave, Ste S-602, Rye Brook, NY 10573. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62656 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: EMERALD SUNSET PUBLISHING, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/10/2020. 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: EMERALD SUNSET PUBLISHING LLC C/O LAYLA QAABIDH, 1853 Central Park Avenue 7B, Yonkers, NY 10710, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #62657

Sealed bids will be received as set forth in Instructions to Bidders (https://www. dot.ny.gov/bids-and-lettings/construction-contractors/important-info) until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, October 08, 2020 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read. Maps, Plans and Specifications may be seen at Electronic documents and Amendments which are posted to www.dot.ny.gov/doingbusiness/opportunities/const-notices.

The New York State Department of Transportation, in accordance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federally-assisted programs of the Department of Transportation and Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200, Title IV Program and Related Statutes, as amended, issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all who respond to a written Department solicitation, request for proposal or invitation for bid that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability/handicap and income status in consideration for an award.

Please call (518)457-2124 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting.

Region 08: New York State Department of Transportation 4 Burnett Blvd., Poughkeepsie, NY, 12603 D264323, PIN 881383, Columbia, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, Westchester Cos., STRUCTURES WHERE & WHEN REGION WIDE, Bid Deposit: 5% of Bid (~ $200,000.00), Goals: MBE: 5.00%, WBE: 10.00%, SDVOB: 6.00%

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BUILDING PERMITS Commercial Arjan Holdings LLC, Bridgeport, contractor for Arjan Holdings LLC. Construct self-storage units at 1444 Barnum Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $5,735. Filed July 20.

DaSilva, Aquias, Bridgeport, contractor for Aquias DaSilva.

Construct front deck at 827 North Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $8,500. Filed July 23.

Pure Point Energy, Norwalk, contractor for Debra Buster. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 1245 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport.

Estimated cost: N/A. Filed July 21.

Transcend Wireless, Mahwah, New Jersey, contractor for Sycamore Housing Association.

Replace antennas and RRUs and remove two cabinets at 285 Maplewood Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed July 16.

Transcend Wireless, Mahwah, New Jersey, contractor for BTTC LL LLC, et al. Replace antennas and RRUs at 803 E. Washington Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed July 16.

Transcend Wireless, Mahwah, New Jersey, contractor for Cartright Towers Condominiums. Replace and upgrade telecommunication equipment at 80 Cartright St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed July 23.

Residential A Preferred Constructor, Bridgeport, contractor for Kathy Vernon. Replace windows at 160 Village Lane, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $6,450. Filed July 16.

Items appearing in the Fairfield County Business Journal’s On The Record section are compiled from various sources, including public records made available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken.

A Preferred Constructor, Bridgeport, contractor for Frances Smith. Remove existing roof and re-roof 390 Dover St., Bridgeport.

Estimated cost: $19,800. Filed July 23.

A Preferred Constructor, Bridgeport, contractor for Johnnie Mae and Trina Preston. Remove existing roof and re-roof 46 Crowther Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $17,350. Filed July 23.

Best Way Roofing, Waterbury, contractor for Robert Discata.

Remove existing roof and re-roof 2076-2078 Boston Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $26,838.

Filed July 21.

Burr Roofing Siding and Windows, Stratford, contractor for Tavares Tacares. Repair fire damage at 940-944 Pearl Harbor St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $16,000. Filed July 16.

CMSA, Waterbury, contractor for Bridgeport Housing Authority.

Remove existing roof and re-roof 408 Poplar St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $60,000. Filed July 16.

DiGiorgio Roofing and Siding, Beacon Falls, contractor for Lois Moore. Replace windows and door at 125 Clover Hill Road, Bridgeport.

Estimated cost: $15,990. Filed July 22.

Escobar, Priscilla, Bridgeport, contractor for Priscilla Escobar. Finish basement and add bathroom at 316 Woodrow Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $7,200. Filed July 23.

Forst, Ralph, Bridgeport, contractor for Ralph Forst. Perform replacement alterations at 420 Courtland Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $65,000. Filed July 21.

Galvin Pools, Orange, contractor for Robert Rodriguez. Construct above-ground pool at 1140 Norman St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $4,428. Filed July 24.

Gomez, Diana, Bridgeport, contractor for Diana Gomez.

Construct in-ground pool at 470 Brooklawn Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $22,000. Filed July 20.

The Home Depot USA, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, contractor for Esther Santana. Replace windows at 38 Gilmore St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,446. Filed July 22.

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The Home Depot USA, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, contractor for Erik Olofson. Replace windows at 34 Seaver Circle, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,057. Filed July 22.

Neto, Carmen, Bridgeport, contractor for Carmen Neto. Rebuild deck at 510 Birmingham St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $4,200. Filed July 23.

Voccola, Raymon, Stratford, contractor for William Newbauer.

Remodel Unit 5 at 155 Brewster St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $75,000. Filed July 22.

The Home Depot USA, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, contractor for Ned Fisher. Replace windows at 81 Cumberland Drive. Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $4,042. Filed July 22.

Omegas Construction, West Haven, contractor for Trishana Forest. Remove existing roof and re-roof 40 Kent Ave., Bridgeport.

Estimated cost: $3,550. Filed July 17.

Woods, Yuonne, Bridgeport, contractor for Yuonne Woods.

Add store to garage at 45 Wade Terrace, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $8,500. Filed July 16.

The Home Depot USA, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, contractor for Brian Gayle. Replace windows at 363 Lynne Place, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,664. Filed July 22.

Pinedo, Raul, Stamford, contractor for Tushna Hall Campbell. Replace siding and roof at 140 Tully Circle, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $9,965. Filed July 16.

The Home Depot USA, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, contractor for Audrey Tyson. Replace windows at 289 Remington St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $6,174.

Filed July 22.

Posigen Connecticut LLC, Bridgeport, contractor for Dominique Vaillant. Install structural reinforcement for solar panels at 679 Lakeside Drive, Bridgeport.

Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed July 21.

The Home Depot USA, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, contractor for Marisa Alves. Replace and install windows at 819 Connecticut Ave., Unit 4, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,466. Filed July 22.

The Home Depot USA, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, contractor for Brittany Matos. Replace and install windows at 40 Patricia Road, Unit A, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,068. Filed July 22.

The Home Depot USA, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, contractor for Elizabeth Luedecker. Replace windows at 20 Haddon St., Unit 4, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,297. Filed July 22.

Lopes, Marcia, Bridgeport, contractor for Riverstone Development LLC. Convert one-family home to two family at 25 Bowker Place, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed July 17.

Posigen Connecticut LLC, Bridgeport, contractor for Simone Diaz Blagrove. Install structural reinforcement for solar panels at 418 Indian Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed July 27.

Posigen Connecticut LLC, Bridgeport, contractor for Jase Diaz. Install structural reinforcement for solar panels at 881-883 Kossuth St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed July 27.

Premier Construction, Bridgeport, contractor for Alexis Tisdalle. Remodel bathroom and kitchen at 242 Yaremich Drive, Bridgeport.

Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed July 20.

Pro Custom Solar, East Berlin, contractor for Jeanmary Jeanricot.

Remove existing roof and re-roof 168 Beechwood Ave., Bridgeport.

Estimated cost: $5,400. Filed July 22.

Monteiros Masonry & Construction, Milford, contractor for Filipe Monteiro. Construct new single-family residence at 176 Lakeview Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $125,000. Filed July 17.

Pro Side Restoration, Middletown, contractor for Phoenix Properties. Replace windows at 118 Wade St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $14,200. Filed July 27.

Monteiros Masonry & Construction, Milford, contractor for Filipe Monteiro. Construct new single-family residence at 166 Lakeview Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $125,000. Filed July 17.

RP Construction LLC, Stamford, contractor for Daee McKnight. Remove existing roof and re-roof at 131 Tully Circle, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $5,041. Filed July 23.

Monteiros Masonry & Construction, Milford, contractor for Filipe Monteiro. Construct new single-family residence at 156 Lakeview Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $125,000. Filed July 17.

Star Renovations LLC, New Haven, contractor for Thomas Brown. Remove existing roof and re-roof at 83 Fox St., Bridgeport.

Estimated cost: $5,500. Filed July 17.

Zachs Pool, Hamden, contractor for Maria Rodriguez. Build above-ground pool at 73 Sanford Place, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,200. Filed July 21.

COURT CASES Bridgeport Superior Court Ho, Raymond Kinbond, New Haven. Filed by Meagan MacDaniel, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rubens & Lazinger, Bridgeport.

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 the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-206098503-S. Filed July 14.

Phillips Fuel Systems Inc., Bridgeport. Filed by Sandra Gregory, Seymour. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jonathan Eamon Spodnick, Trumbull. Action: The plaintiff was walking across the sidewalk area in front of the defendant’s headquarters when she was caused to trip on metal materials, which were owned and controlled by the defendant. As a result, plaintiff suffered injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-206098934-S. Filed July 30.

Ramos, Anthony M., et al, Stratford. Filed by Raquel Pina, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Millman & Millman, Westport.

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 the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-206098877-S. Filed July 27.

Stackable, John Michael, New Haven. Filed by Elisa Saez-Sanders, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Zeisler & Zeisler PC, Bridgeport. 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 the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-206098620-S. Filed July 17.

Danbury Superior Court Decarvalho-Sa, Danielly, Danbury. Filed by Jose D. Rodriguez, 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-20-6036727-S. Filed July 29.

Dixon, Walter, et al, Yonkers, New York. Filed by Ramirez Alexander, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Cummings Law Firm LLC, Waterbury. 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 the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-206036641-S. Filed July 21.

Pirir, Mercedes, et al, Danbury.

Filed by Steven Hussain, Brookfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bradley Denkovich & Karayiannis PC, Bridgeport. 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 the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-206036562-S. Filed July 13.

Facts & Figures Smith, Ryan Nathaniel, et al, Waverly, New York. Filed by Modzelewski Towing & Storage Inc, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: BBB Attorneys LLC, Stratford. Action: The plaintiff provided towing services to the defendants’ truck and conducted extensive clean-up operations of dangerous fluids from the scene of the accident. The plaintiff has requested payment and defendants have refused or failed to make payments. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-206036702-S. Filed July 28.

Stamford Superior Court Dessarzin, John, et al, Norwalk. Filed by SHD Landscaping Company Inc., Port Chester, New York. Plaintiff’s attorney: Wofsey Rosen Kweskin & Kuriansky LLP, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff and defendants entered into an agreement with the plaintiff to perform maintenance services at the defendants’ property. The plaintiff performed additional services on the property for which it was never paid. This amount was billed to the defendants multiple times and they refused or failed to pay the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-20-6047617-S. Filed July 16.

Gauld, Suzanne Dache, Westport. Filed by Jamshid Shirani, Plaintiff’s attorney: Diserio Martin O’Connor & Castiglioni, Stamford.

Action: The plaintiff and defendant share a common boundary line on their properties. Based on the property description the defendant extended several feet into the plaintiff’s property. Plaintiff maintains that the boundary line was established in 1915 and the court should him, free and clear of any claim or interest by the defendant. The plaintiff seeks entitled action, equitable remedy of declaratory relief and such other and further relief the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-206047501-S. Filed July 9.

Ghiorzo, Jose M., et al, White Plains, New York. Filed by Raquel A. Casiano, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: DePanfilis & Vallerie, Norwalk. 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 the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-206047387-S. Filed June 30.

The Standard Fire and Insurance Company, Hartford. Filed

by Kevin Spichiger, Stamford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP, Stamford. 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 the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV-20-6047822-S. Filed July 30.

DEEDS Commercial 15 Maple Tree LLC, Stamford.

Seller: Maple Tree Properties LLC, Stamford. Property: 15 Maple Tree Ave., Stamford. Amount: $280,000. Filed July 17.

26 Hemlock LLC, Norwalk. Seller: 26 Hemlock Place LLC, Norwalk. Property: 26 Hemlock Place, Norwalk. Amount: $290,000.

Filed June 29.

303 Wakeman Road LLC, Fairfield. Seller: Stephen J. Finnegan, Fairfield. Property: 303 Wakeman Road, Fairfield. Amount: $325,000. Filed July 24.

Arce, Daniela, Stamford. Seller: 1596 Stratfield Road LLC, Fairfield.

Property: 1596 Stratfield Road, Fairfield. Amount: $285,000. Filed July 21.

Banner, Alan and Kelly Banner, Darien. Seller: Travis Azous Revocable Trust, Darien. Property: Pine Point Road, Unit 223, Norwalk. Amount: $85,000. Filed June 30.

Cho, Euna and William Kang, Fairfield. Seller: Pinnacle Peak Inc., Shelton. Property: 851 Oldfield Road, Fairfield. Amount: $780,000. Filed July 20.

Exclusive Homes LLC, Stamford. Seller: Kevin John Muzin, Norwalk. Property: 7 Topping Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $350,000. Filed June 25.

Lehman, Development LLC, Stamford. Seller: Michael J. Taylor and Patricia A. Taylor, Westerly, Rhode Island. Property: 83 Avery St., Stamford. Amount: $672,000.

Filed July 17.

Marcou, Deborah, Fairfield.

Seller: 85 Rhoda Corp., Westport.

Property: 85 Rhoda Ave., Fairfield.

Amount: $2,000,000. Filed July 21.

Parker-Stephens, Stacy and Craig Stephens, Thornwood, New Jersey. Seller: Rowland Tides LLC, Fairfield. Property: 70 Thornhill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1,100,000. Filed July 21.

Patterson, John F. and Deborah E. Levenson, Redding. Seller: 206 Country Road LLC, Fairfield. Property: 206 Country Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $699,990. Filed July 20.

Ripken To Murray LLC, Greenwich. Seller: Andro Ratiani, Stamford. Property: 143 Hoyt St., Unit 3G, Stamford. Amount: $250,000.

Filed July 16.

Spring, Karen and Rick Lieb, Fairfield. Seller: Alder H. Crocker and Erin Crocker, Fairfield. Property: 185 Webb Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $728,500. Filed July 20.

Sullivan Property Holdings LLC, Darien. Seller: Peter H. Hahn and Caroline R. Hahn, Norwalk.

Property: 9 Range Road, Norwalk.

Amount: $600,000. Filed June 30.

Residential Agyei-Kyem, Victoria, Norwalk.

Seller: Mark S. Zucker and Barbara L. Zucker, Delray Beach, Florida.

Property: 324 Strawberry Hill Ave., Unit B201, Norwalk. Amount: $190,000. Filed June 26.

Albino, Jason and Martina Albino, Fairfield. Seller: Solomon Briks and Louise Briks, Fairfield.

Property: 785 Church Hill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $505,000. Filed July 22.

Cortese, Nicholas and Michelle Haines, Stamford. Seller: Alexander Ziemba and Ursula B. Cary, Norwalk. Property: 55 Noahs Lane Extension, Norwalk. Amount: $495,000. Filed June 29.

Lynn, David A. and Sheryl Hahn Lynn, Stamford. Seller: Matthew J. Peckham and Vanessa T. Odenbach, Stamford. Property: 217 Cedar Wood Road, Stamford.

Amount: $682,000. Filed July 16.

Andronic, Dan-Christian, Norwalk. Seller: Rogelio Gavilanes and Marizela Gavilanes, Norwalk.

Property: 25 Chestnut St., Unit 2E, Norwalk. Amount: $215,000. Filed June 26.

Falcone, Kelly L. and Eric R. Falcone, Stamford. Seller: Joseph S. Stolarski and Nancy L. Stolarski, Texas. Property: 95 Woodcrest Road, Fairfield. Amount: $472,500. Filed July 22.

Miller, Michael, Stamford. Seller: Joseph S. DiFonzo, Stamford.

Property: 63 Hope St., Unit 23A, Stamford. Amount: $185,000.

Filed July 17.

Arias, Estefany Mateo and Felix Hernandez, Yonkers, New York. Seller: Anthony A. Tarzia, Stamford. Property: 1307 Hope St., Unit A1, Stamford. Amount: $310,000. Filed July 17.

Gallegos, Gustavo Sebastian and Emilly Hernandez, Stamford. Seller: Barbara D. Wilmink, Stamford. Property: 33 Hirsch Road, Stamford. Amount: $290,000. Filed July 16.

Athavia, Hemant, Norwalk.

Seller: Terence R. Patton and Lauren Patton, Norwalk. Property: 9 Mark Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $555,000. Filed June 30.

Garvey, Michael T., Norwalk.

Seller: Alexis E. Blais, Norwalk.

Property: 16 Wallace Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $31,365. Filed June 30.

Becker, Randall N., Weston.

Seller: John G. Gulbin, Fairfield.

Property: 138 Robertson Crossing, Fairfield. Amount: $320,000. Filed July 23.

Gomez, Michel R., New Canaan. Seller: Sharon L. Shavrick and David A. Shavrick, Stamford.

Property: 4 Fara Drive, Stamford.

Amount: $539,000. Filed July 16.

Brill, Daniel B. and Abby L. Brill, Fairfield. Seller: Robert Nathan Hadden and Kendra Allyssa Hadden, Fairfield. Property: 136 Wilton Road, Fairfield. Amount: $595,000. Filed July 24.

Grey, Danen and Rouby Grey, Norwalk. Seller: Andrew M. Frank and Maryellen Frank, Norwalk.

Property: 10 Hillandale Manor, Norwalk. Amount: $695,000.

Filed June 30.

Price, Deirdre, Westport. Seller: Geoffrey Shafer and Kristin Shafer, Fairfield. Property: 105 French St., Fairfield. Amount: $850,000.

Filed July 23.

Burns, Gregory E. and Janice H. Burns, Stamford. Seller: Lyudmila Tuller and Alexander Tuller, Stamford. Property: 34 Goodwin St., Unit 34, Stamford. Amount: $295,000. Filed July 16.

Hahn, Charles A. and Leila S. Hahn, New York, New York.

Seller: Gregg Brozek and Kelly Brozek, Fairfield. Property: 120 Palomar Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $500,000. Filed July 24.

Qureshi, Ahmed and Maryam Seal, Fairfield. Seller: John M. Tallent and Donna M. Tallent, Fairfield. Property: 90 Colonese Road, Fairfield. Amount: $475,000. Filed July 24.

Calabrese, Gregory and Ashley Calabrese, Stamford. Seller: Vebi Gjyliqi, Darien. Property: 29 Albin Road, Stamford. Amount: $790,000. Filed July 15.

Isola, Thomas and Whitney Ahneman, Stamford. Seller: Rainer Ippolito and Christin Russo, Stamford. Property: 54 MacGregor Drive, Stamford. Amount: $610,000. Filed July 15.

Ramos, Elena, Stamford. Seller: Lilian Amanda Castellanos, Stamford. Property: 151 Courtland Ave., Unit 3D, Stamford. Amount: $264,900. Filed July 16.

Charleston, Jared A., Stamford.

Seller: Towhid Amin, Stamford.

Property: 85 Lindale St., Unit 3, Stamford. Amount: $193,000.

Filed July 20.

Conejos Miquel, Pedro and Rocio Lopez Diaz, Stamford. Seller: Jorgen Lorentzen, Stamford. Property: 123 Harbor Drive, Unit 306, Stamford. Amount: $640,000.

Filed July 16.

Conklin, Robert S. and Tiffany M. Conklin, Brooklyn, New York.

Seller: Oliver T. Dizon and Julia Watkins Dizon, Norwalk. Property: 46 Pine Hill Ave., Norwalk.

Amount: $780,000. Filed June 26.

Johnson, Roderick M. and Melora Johnson, Norwalk. Seller: Richard David Lane and Abigail Lane, Norwalk. Property: 27 Ensign Road, Norwalk. Amount: $1,070,000. Filed June 29.

Kettenmann, Chris and Sarah Kettenmann, New York, New York. Seller: Scott L. Mangan and Susan D. Mangan, Norwalk.

Property: 14 Park Lane, Norwalk.

Amount: $715,000. Filed June 30.

Kutnick, Toren and Virginia Johnson, Redding. Seller: John L. Stone Jr., Stamford. Property: 37 Craig Court, Stamford. Amount: $754,160. Filed July 16.

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Moreno, Brian and Michael Mondoro, New York, New York.

Seller: Michael S. Lubell, Norwalk.

Property: 124 Grumman Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $485,000. Filed June 30.

Pennella, Marina and Richard Pennella, Greenwich. Seller: Melissa H. Michelin, Stamford.

Property: 271 Bridge St., Unit 279, Stamford. Amount: $240,500.

Filed July 15.

Portillo, Trisha and Josue Portillo, New York, New York. Seller: Gina M. Verschueren and Sean T. Verschueren, Fairfield. Property: 2742 Sturges Highway, Fairfield.

Amount: $835,000. Filed July 24.

Rasch, Susan M., New Hyde Park, New York. Seller: Gretchen L. Orr and Craig Orr, Stamford. Property: 131 Janes Lane, Stamford.

Amount: $635,000. Filed July 17.

Rebocho, Shawn and Carly D. Rebocho, Fairfield. Seller: Tunc S. Aksoy and Ferda Aksoy, Easton.

Property: 70 Walbin Court, Fairfield. Amount: $930,000. Filed July 21.

Reich, Taly and Uri M. Reich, Fairfield. Seller: Miles Leslie Lewis and Vanessa Forma Lewis, Fairfield. Property: 160 Edward St., Fairfield. Amount: N/A. Filed July 21.

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Facts & Figures Rose, Christina, Fairfield. Seller: James L. Turner and Julie K. Turner, Fairfield. Property: 26 Pickwick St., Fairfield. Amount: $325,000.

Filed July 21.

Santiago, Richard A. and Brooke L. Fischer, Stamford.

Seller: Eric Breekland and Lindsay S. Breekland, Stamford. Property: 31 Colony Court, Stamford.

Amount: $669,000. Filed July 17.

Soto, Ramon and Ann Marie Soto, Fairfield. Seller: Michael A. Riffice and Ann Marie Riffice, Fairfield. Property: 185 Red Oak Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1,400,000.

Filed July 21.

Terry, Christopher and Nina Fattahi, Brooklyn, New York. Seller: Kevin P. Fahey and Kimberly B. Fahey, Fairfield. Property: 88 Overhill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $899,000. Filed July 20.

Tinkham, Pamela, Norwalk.

Seller: Ronald A, Gamboa, Norwalk. Property: 149 Water St., Unit 35G, Norwalk. Amount: $226,000.

Filed June 26.

Adam Ifshin, Founder & CEO DLC MANAGEMENT CORP.

Sam Buckley, Executive Vice President New York Brokerage Services N E W M A RK K N I G HT F R A N K

Troiano, Christina and Ashley Mink, Fairfield. Seller: Marc T. Holland, Fairfield. Property: 163 Windsor Road, Fairfield. Amount: $486,500. Filed July 22.

Weiss, Nery, Stamford. Seller: William R. Weiss and Nery Weiss, Stamford. Property: 39 Scofield Ave., Stamford. Amount: N/A. Filed July 15.

H. Guy Leibler, President SIMONE HEALTHCARE DEVELOPMENT

Geoff Flournoy, Co-Founder & Managing Partner BRP COMPANIES

Bonnie Silverman, CEO SILVERMAN REALTY

Wilcox, Emily, Brooklyn, New York. Seller: William M. Tong and Elizabeth H. Tong, Stamford. Property: Parcel C, Chestnut Hill Road, Stamford. Amount: $773,000.

Filed July 15.

Garcia, Cesar, Stamford, $11,838, in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by Rubin & Rothman LLC, Islandia, New York.

Property: 27 Cowing Place, Stamford. Filed Aug. 25.

Giglio, John A., Norwalk, $6,792, in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by Rubin & Rothman LLC, Islandia, New York.

Property: 24 Lovatt St., Norwalk.

Filed Aug. 31.

Giglio, John A., Norwalk, $8,046, in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by Rubin & Rothman LLC, Islandia, New York.

Property: 24 Lovatt St., Norwalk.

Filed Aug. 31.

Joseph, Francesca, Stamford, $10,693, in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by Rubin & Rothman LLC, Islandia, New York. Property: 37 Greenwich Ave., Unit 2-6D, Stamford. Filed Aug. 25.

Sonntag, Steven, Norwalk, $6,644, in favor of Norwalk Hospital Association, Norwalk, by Lovejoy and Rimer PC, Norwalk.

Property: 8 Clarmore Drive, Unit 1B, Norwalk. Filed Aug. 31.

Walker, Alex, Stamford, $9,382, in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by Rubin & Rothman LLC, Islandia, New York.

Property: 91 Mather Road, Stamford. Filed Aug. 25.

LIENS Federal Tax Liens Filed

Zalenski, Cardine and Daniel Zalenski, Fairfield. Seller: Margaret Hill, et al, Fairfield. Property: 275 Mill Plain Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $445,000. Filed July 21.

135 Milbank LLC, 44 Amogerone Crossway, No. 7887, Greenwich. $9,853, civil proceeding tax.

Filed Aug. 17.

JUDGMENTS

135 Milbank LLC, 44 Amogerone Crossway, No. 7887, Greenwich. $435, civil proceeding tax.

Filed Aug. 17.

Alfaro, Walter S., Stamford, $8,447, in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by Rubin & Rothman LLC, Islandia, New York. Property: 60 Pine Tree Drive, Stamford. Filed Aug. 25.

Golden, Ellen DPM PC, 4 Dearfield Drive, Suite 8, Greenwich. $1,812, civil proceeding tax. Filed Aug. 19.

Kochersperger, Jane Fahringer, 510 E. Putnam Ave., No. D-1, Cos Cob. $120, civil proceeding tax.

Filed Aug. 19.

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Kochersperger, Jane Fahringer, 510 E. Putnam Ave,eeding tax.

Filed Aug. 19.

Szczypa, Monika, 20 Courtland Ave., Unit 2, Stamford. $9,750, civil proceeding tax. Filed July 31.

Taylor Mission LLC, 18 Taylor St., Stamford. $7,900, civil proceeding tax. Filed Aug. 3.

Mechanic’s Liens Gettinger, Catherine and Manuel Martinez, Greenwich. Filed

by Redwood Construction & Consulting LLC, by Cassondra Stevenson. Property: 45 Londonderry Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $204,396. Filed Aug. 13.

Greenwich 105 Prospect LLC, Greenwich. Filed by Chris Montanaro Electric LLC, by Chris Montanaro. Property: 105 Prospect St. Greenwich. Amount: $16,494.

Filed Aug. 31.

LIS PENDENS Barrera, Diana E., et al, Norwalk. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Meb Loan Trust II. Property: 40 Myrtle St., Norwalk. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Aug. 28.

Busch, Rainer, Riverside. Filed

by Cacace, Tusch & Santagata, Stamford, for Hilary Dayton Busch. Property: 222 Riverside Ave., Riverside. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed Sep. 4.

Eldridge, Rhonda Darscell, et al, Cos Cob. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Property: 11 River Lane, Cos Cob. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Aug. 13.

Fecenko-Lyon, Karen, Norwalk.

Filed by Bloomenthal & Trow LLC, Stamford, for David K. Lyon. Property: 5 Watering Lane, Norwalk.

Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed Sept. 3.

Gaytan, Heraclio, et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank NA, et al. Property: 47-49 Warren St., Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Aug. 27.

Facts & Figures Harrison at Holmdel LLC, et al, Greenwich. Filed by Ford & Paulekas LLP, Hartford, for PS Funding Inc. Property: 325 Riversville Road, Greenwich. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed Sept. 4.

Whitcombe, Havilande B., Southport. Filed by Russo & Rizio LLC, Fairfield, for Richard Mervis and Jeffrey Rosen. Property: 249 Old South Road, Southport. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed Aug. 28.

Lee, James H., et al, Fairfield.

Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank NA, et al. Property: 1401 Unquowa Road, Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Aug. 28.

Zazzarino, Louis, Greenwich.

Filed by Jillian A. Judd, Stamford, for E. Garrity Water Solutions LLC. Property: Map 5797, Juniper Hill Road, Greenwich. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed Aug. 24.

Mathias, M. Junette, et al, Stamford. Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority. Property: 20 Oak Hill St., Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed Aug. 25.

Putnam Holdings LLC, et al, Greenwich. Filed by Stokesbury, Shipman & Fingold LLC, Farmington, for Savings Bank of Danbury.

Property: 406 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Sept. 1.

Rotante, Theodore P., et al, Stamford. Filed by Cacace, Tusch & Santagata, Stamford, for Dario Palladino, et al. Property: 18 Opper Road, Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Aug. 31.

Seymour, Karin, Fairfield. Filed by the Law Offices of Eric R. Psmantier, Ridgefield, for Jeffrey Seymour. Property: 86 Eunice Ave., Fairfield. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage. Filed Aug. 18.

Voidaros, Vasiliki, et al, Stamford. Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for the Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority. Property: 12 Elm Tree Place, Stamford.

Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage. Filed Aug. 25.

Vukel, John, et al, Stamford.

Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for the Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority. Property: 4 Austin Ave., Stamford. Action: foreclose defendants’ mortgage.

Filed Aug. 31.

MORTGAGES Agudelo, Juan D. and Claudia L. Quiquivix, Stamford, by Dina Tornhelm. Lender: Homebridge Financial Services Inc., 194 Wood Avenue South, Ninth floor, Iselin, New Jersey. Property: 18 Leonard St., Stamford. Amount: $411,350.

Filed June 24.

Al Sayed, Nazih, Stamford, by Eva Lee Chan. Lender: First World Mortgage Corp., 127 Prospect Ave., West Hartford. Property: 22 Scott Place, Stamford. Amount: $413,000. Filed June 25.

Avnir, Dan and Jessica Avnir, Stamford, by Jeffrey Weiner. Lender: Bank of America NA, 100 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 57 Old Well Road, Stamford. Amount: $250,000.

Filed June 25.

De La Cruz, Arnold and Vickiana De La Cruz, Stamford, by Steven T. Wieder. Lender: United Northern Mortgage Bankers Limited, 3601 Hempstead Turnpike, Suite 300, Levittown, New York.

Property: 39 Maple Tree Ave., Unit 29, Stamford. Amount: $452,200.

Filed June 24.

Harnett, Matthew and Carrie Bevilacqua, Fairfield, by David P. Lasnick. Lender: TD Bank NA, 2035 Limestone Road, Wilmington, Delaware. Property: 481 Westway Road, Southport. Amount: $915,000. Filed June 17.

Jones, Britton and Lauren P. Jones, Norwalk, by Scott Rogalski.

Lender: Bank of America NA, 101 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 4 Nathan Hale Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $500,000.

Filed June 25.

Kern, Justin and Tommi M. Kern, Stamford, by Natasha H. Georgette. Lender: Loandepot. com LLC, 26642 Towne Centre Drive, Foothill Ranch, California.

Property: 68 Opper Road, Stamford. Amount: $447,000. Filed June 24.

Megargee, Scott T. and Lauren M. Megargee, Norwalk, by Frank E. Sisson. Lender: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, 724 W. Lancaster Ave., Suite 210, Wayne, Pennsylvania. Property: 4 Eugene Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $510,400. Filed June 26.

Callahan, Michael and Christina Piccolino, Norwalk, by Benjamin McEachin. Lender: Evolve Bank & Trust, 6070 Poplar Ave., Suite 200, Memphis, Tennessee.

Property: 26 Saddle Road, Norwalk. Amount: $405,000. Filed June 26.

Modi, Nishant and Priya Modi, Stamford, by Loretta K. Glazier.

Lender: Quicken Loans LLC, 1050 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Property: 85 Camp Ave., Unit 4A, Stamford. Amount: $376,825.

Filed June 26.

Cappo, Thomas A., Norwalk,

by Benjamin McEachin. Lender: Citizens Bank NA, 1 Citizens Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island. Property: 16 Ox Yoke Lane, Norwalk.

Amount: $256,000. Filed June 26.

Nichols, John and Stacy Nichols, Stamford, by (N/A). Lender: Amerisave Mortgage Corp., 3525 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia. Property: 1631 Newfield Ave., Stamford. Amount: $492,961. Filed June 25.

Parrish, Jason D. and Rachel E. Parrish, Fairfield, by Lori M. Dion. Lender: Home Point Financial Corp., 9 Entin Road, Suite 200, Parsippany, New Jersey. Property: 165 Larkspur Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $575,000. Filed June 17.

Richmond, Lance, Norwalk, by Scott Rogalski. Lender: Citibank NA, 1000 Technology Drive, O’Fallon, Missouri. Property: 29 Melrose Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $256,800. Filed June 25.

Robbins, Lauren and Timothy Robbins, Fairfield, by Michael R. Lowitt. Lender: United Wholesale Mortgage, 585 S. Boulevard East, Pontiac, Michigan. Property: 134 Wynn Wood Drive, Fairfield.

Amount: $285,500. Filed June 17.

Scarpone, Ashley and Chase Barada, Norwalk, by David K. Rose. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank NA, 101 N. Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Property: 46 Bayne St., Norwalk. Amount: $320,000.

Filed June 25.

Shea, Christopher, Fairfield, by Brad M. Aron. Lender: People’s United Bank National Association, 850 Main St., Bridgeport. Property: 1316 Cross Highway, Fairfield.

Amount: $798,300. Filed June 17.

Spaide, Christopher, Stamford,

by Joy Wendy-Ann Bernard. Lender: Warshaw Capital LLC, 2777 Summer St., Suite 306, Stamford.

Property: 136 Woodside Green, Unit F2, Stamford. Amount: $176,100. Filed June 26.

Tiano, Rebecca S., Fairfield, by Brunilda Memaj. Lender: KeyBank National Association, 4910 Tiedeman Road, Suite C, Brooklyn, Ohio. Property: 105 Deer Park Road, Fairfield. Amount: $84,170.

Filed June 16.

Vatman, David, Norwalk, by James Low. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 1111 Polaris Pkwy., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 5 Elmcrest Terrace, Unit 6, Norwalk.

Amount: $106,000. Filed June 26.

NEW BUSINESSES A Hundred Acre Woods Preschool Enrichment Program, 2 Orange St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Noreen Velez. Filed July 24.

Cleaning on The Move, 680 E Main St., Unit 649, Stamford 06901, c/o Larry Smalls. Filed Aug. 5.

Harbor Bridge Realty, 7 Wood Ridge Drive, Stamford 06905, c/o John-Michael Rachinsky-Wood.

Filed Aug. 5.

Hope Gables Canine, 33 N. Water St., Unit 506, Norwalk 06854, c/o Nicolas Angione. Filed July 24.

Inlingua Stamford, 2701 Summer St., Stamford 06905, c/o Language School. Filed Aug. 5.

Kreativ Tur, 42 Kong St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Andrea Gores.

Filed July 27.

Norwalk Supreme Cuts, 58B Main St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Dwayne M. Johnson. Filed July 25.

Robert Hill Shaw Photography, 224 Silvermine Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o Robert H. Shaw. Filed July 24.

Solar Energy Us Inc., 25 Deming Lane, Stamford 06903, c/o Gopal Khar. Filed Aug. 5.

Tamarindo, 80 Atlantic St., Stamford 06901, c/o Moises Jimenez.

Filed Aug. 4.

Tamarindo, 80 Atlantic St., Stamford 06901, c/o Bansal Mohit. Filed Aug. 4.

WMK Consulting, 21 MacIntosh Road, Norwalk 06851, c/o Wayne Kosiminoff. Filed July 24.

PATENTS Aqueous carbon nanoparticle ink composition for resistors.

Patent no. 10,767,069 issued to Chad Smithson, et al. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

False trigger correction for a voice-activated intelligent device. Patent no. 10,770,061 issued to Kevin Hague. Assigned to Harman International, Stamford.

Gradient micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microphone. Patent no. 10,771,875 issued to John Baumhauer. Assigned to Harman International, Stamford.

Hyperspectral imaging system.

Patent no. 10,768,497 issued to Robert Herloski. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Method and system for pinpointing the location of an electronic device. Patent no. 10,771,571 issued to John Whiting. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Multiple distant musician audio loop recording apparatus and listening method. Patent no.

10,769,202 issued to Christopher Belcher. Assigned to Harman International, Stamford.

Techniques for analyzing connectivity within an audio transducer array. Patent no. 10,771,907 issued to Graham Hammell. Assigned to Harman International, Stamford.

XK Services, 9 Heron Road, Norwalk 06855, c/o Xenophon Kleftogiannis. Filed July 28.

Zamar Performing Arts Group LLC, 25 Third St., Unit 306, Stamford 06906, c/o Renee P. Prosper.

Filed Aug. 5.

Chou Chou, 165-C Rowayton Ave., Norwalk 06853, c/o Katharine B. Sanford. Filed July 27.

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