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Dobbs Ferry butcher to showcase Hudson Valley meats BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

butcher shop set to open this month in Dobbs Ferry will offer house-made charcuterie and custom cuts of meat from Hudson Valley farms. Matt Campbell is eyeing a mid-June opening for Campbell Meats. The butcher shop will offer whole animal cuts from four farms within a 90-mile radius of his storefront at 3 Cedar St., a popular area for restaurants in the riverfront village. Campbell moved to Westchester from New York

Matt Campbell at the site of his Dobbs Ferry butcher shop, set to open in mid-June. Photo by Bob Rozycki.

City a year and a half ago and said he soon found there weren’t any butcher shops that sourced locally and used the whole animal. “Which is a shame, because that’s probably some of the best beef in the country,” he said. Campbell will offer whole animal cuts of beef, pork, lamb and poultry. He said whole animal methods allow him to offer cuts that “utilize the animal beyond the basic T-bone.” This can help not only provide different options for cooking but cut down on the amount of meat that is wasted. » BUTCHER, page 6

Old Yonkers land�ill may become a Target BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

SOMETHING JUST MIGHT HAPPEN THIS time at the old Austin Avenue landfill in Yonkers. The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency gave its approval on March 25 to Morris Cos. to build a department store, “ending 35 years of attempts to develop the property,” according to an agency announcement. The Westchester Industrial

Development Agency took its turn on the following day, unanimously approving a resolution to sell the property to Morris for $32 million. Sometime this month, possibly June 6, the deal will go to the Westchester County Board of Legislators for final approval. Morris Cos. of Rutherford, N.J., plans to build a Target department store on the site, located along the New York State Thruway.

TWB Business Money Market Account Banner Ad 6” w x 1.5” h The Target was proposed 4-15-16 about 15 years ago but construction was derailed by various disputes between the developer, Yonkers and Westchester County. You could even go back farther, to 1979, when Yonkers entered a consent agreement with the state Department of Environmental Conservation to remediate the Austin Avenue landfill. Twenty-five years later, in

2004, Morris agreed to finance the cleanup and Yonkers IDA issued a $1.5 million Brownfield redevelopment bond. It took another 10 years, to 2014, for the state to grant an environmental easement allowing development on the landfill. Or, you could start the clock at 1982, when Morris Industrial Builders made a deal with Yonkers and the county to develop Austin Avenue Office Park.

By 1985, the developer and the governments formalized their plans in a complicated deal they called the “Five Party Agreement.” The landfill and other land owned by various entities were consolidated into one parcel owned by the Westchester IDA. The city and county agreed to issue $5.8 million in general obligation bonds to finance offsite » TARGET, page 6

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Port Chester firefighter supporters BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

t a recent meeting of the Port Chester Board of Trustees, two major issues confronting the village board collided: firefighters and the redevelopment of the former United Hospital site. At a May 2 meeting, trustees voted to eliminate eight paid firefighter positions and transition to an all-volunteer force. The board said the move was necessary and will save the village $800,000. But it has sparked protests in the community both by the professional firefighter unions and residents. At the same time, the board has been weighing a $300 million proposal by Starwood Capital Group to redevelop for mixed uses the former United Hospital site at the southern end of the village. The village held the first of a series of public hearings on a proposed zoning change and a preliminary final environmental impact statement submitted by the developer on May 24. Those issues collided at a rally before the public hearing, as a group involved in the United Hospital redevelopment, the Sustainable Port Chester Alliance, took up the cause of the firefighters and held a rally outside the hearing. Protesters said the village should not extend tax breaks to Starwood if it does not have the money to pay its fire department. The Sustainable Port Chester Alliance is a 20-member coalition of faith, housing, education, labor and Port Chester resident groups. The group is seeking a community benefits agreement with Starwood, which it says could provide assurances the developer would fund school costs, set aside affordable housing and provide jobs to residents. Alliance representative Joan GrangenoisThomas said she saw a synergy to the protests of the professional firefighters and her group. “If Port Chester claims they can’t afford to keep on the eight paid firefighters, then it seems to us they should even more so be behind a community benefits agreement that would decrease the PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes agreement) extended to Starwood,” she said. “In other words, make sure that Port Chester is getting all that it can get from this agreement.” The Greenwich-based group wants to convert the former hospital site at 406 Boston Post Road into a mixed-use development that would include a 135-room hotel, 217,000 square feet of medical office space, 90,000 square feet for retail and small restaurants, 500 residential units targeting young professionals, 230 age-restricted apartment units

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for people 55 and over and about an acre of open public space. Starwood is seeking a $60 million PILOT agreement over 20 years. United Hospital closed in 2006. Starwood bought the property that same year for $28 million. In a presentation at the meeting, representatives from Starwood and its development partners stressed that it was time to move forward with the project. “This project brings great benefits to the village,” said Lucy Wildrick, a representative of Street-Works, a Port Chester design and planning company working with Starwood on the site. “The PILOT will bring millions more to the village than this site brings today.” Wildrick also noted the village would receive a $1 million community benefits payment for the Starwood project’s density beyond what would be allowed in the

“THIS PROJECT BRINGS GREAT BENEFITS TO THE VILLAGE. THE PILOT WILL BRING MILLIONS MORE TO THE VILLAGE THAN THIS SITE BRINGS TODAY.” —Lucy Wildrick, Street-Works

revised zoning. That payment could go to affordable housing, housing rehabilitation and job training. She said the project is expected to create 1,800 construction jobs and 972 jobs during its operation. A report from AKRF, a consulting firm the village hired to review the Starwood proposal, found that a PILOT agreement would be necessary for the project to be economically viable. The hearing was designed to consider both the environmental impact statement and whether the village should increase the allowed density of the zoning area for the development. Early comments from villagers focused mainly on traffic. Rye Mayor Joe Sack spoke at the hearing, explaining that while the project is billed as the “southern gateway to Port Chester,” it is also the northern gateway to Rye. Rye is also listed as an involved party to the developer’s environmental review, and Sack said that the city could not release positive findings for the report until certain traffic issues are addressed. He said the project would require changes to the bridge over

I-287, among other concerns. “We all want development,” Sack said. “We just want development that is reasonable and adequately addresses adverse impacts.” Similar concerns about increased traffic to the area and whether the environmental report adequately addresses them were raised by multiple residents who spoke. Lou Larizza, a Port Chester resident and developer of affordable housing in Westchester, said at the meeting he wasn’t as concerned with the project increasing traffic. “I hear the problem is traffic, traffic, traffic,” he said. “I know [the Port Chester Board of Trustees] can work it out... Traffic is good, I know it’s not good for residents, but it’s good for the economy.” The project will also require the demolition of a building at 999 High St. that includes 134 units of affordable workforce housing. How much of that workforce housing could be replaced or increased by the project was brought up at the hearing. One suggestion was to require Starwood to include 20 percent of units as affordable housing as part of approving the zoning change. “If we’re looking for a diverse community, a community that attracts millennials, millennials don’t all commute to the city,” said Rev. J. Bruce Baker of All Souls Church in Port Chester. “Millennials live in this community and would like to be able to stay in this community.” One resident of the High Street housing spoke highly of her experience working with Starwood to find a new place to live. Audrey Moore said that while at first she saw the developer as the “big bad wolf,” she ultimately found Starwood to be helpful. “It is about economic growth for Port Chester, but it’s also about who you are dealing with,” Moore said. “And for the residents of 999 High St., I can say that they have truly supported us. If they support us, why would they not support Port Chester?” Grangenois-Thomas has said her group is not against development of the site, but will continue to push Starwood to meet to discuss a possible community benefits agreement. In a statement to the Business Journal in April, Starwood said it is currently focused on the environmental review process and meeting with stakeholders, but “look(s) forward to more dialogue with members of the community.” The Port Chester Board of Trustees held a second public hearing June 1 on the Starwood project after the Business Journal went to press.

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he two founding scientists and physicians leading Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Incwere at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan recently to celebrate their Westchester company’s new sponsorship of the nation’s Science Talent Search and $100 million, 10-year commitment to the annual competition for high school students and other educational programs promoting the sciences. Regeneron’s sponsorship of the 74-yearold Science Talent Search was announced on May 26 by the Society for Science & the Public, the nonprofit that hosts the prestigious annual competition, whose alumni include 12 Nobel Prize winners, 17 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” winners, and Regeneron’s two founders, President and CEO Leonard Schleifer and George D. Yancopoulos, the company’s chief scientific officer and president of Regeneron Laboratories. Society officials said Regeneron was selected through a competitive process that attracted the nation’s leading companies and philanthropists. Regeneron immediately succeeds Intel, the California-based microprocessor maker, as the competition’s title sponsor after 18 years. Westinghouse sponsored the program from its inception in 1942 through 1997. Since its start in World War II, the Science Talent Search has awarded more than $25 million overall to more than 8,500 competing students and schools. Each year, approximately 1,800 students submit original research, some focusing on medical issues, technology breakthroughs and social innovations. The top 300 entries are recognized as the top young scientists in the U.S. Forty finalists are invited to Washington, D.C., for a week-long competition and celebration of science. Society officials said Regeneron has committed $100 million to support the talent search and other Society programs through 2016. The biopharmaceutical company is nearly doubling the overall award distribution to $3.1 million annually, increasing the top award to $250,000 and doubling the awards for the top 300 young scientists and their schools to $2,000 each. Of Regeneron’s total investment, $30 million will be dedicated to expanding Society initiatives to increase outreach and equity for students nationwide to nurture their interest in the sciences. Society officials said the funding will support programming designed to reach new and underprivileged communities, support teachers and inspire more students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

life-changing experience that inspired my future scientific career.” Regeneron, he said, is “committed to supporting a rich pipeline of future talent who will improve our world through science and engineering for generations to come.” Schleifer, another Queens-bred alumnus of the Science Talent Search who competed in 1970, said it is “absolutely critical that the best and brightest minds pursue careers in science and engineering. This unrivaled program provides important motivation and reinforcement for talented young people to stay this course.”

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BRIEFLY COUNTY LDC OKS $26.5M IN BONDS FOR RIPPOWAM CISQUA PROJECT THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT Corp. recently approved $26.5 million in tax-exempt bond financing for a construction and renovation project due to start this month at the Upper Campus of Rippowam Cisqua School in Bedford. The 22,000-square-foot project will create approximately 150 to 200 construction jobs and retain approximately 195 full-time and part-time jobs, according to the office of Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino. Local Development Corp. directors at their May 26 meeting approved bond financing for both project costs and $6 million in mortgage refinancing for Rippowam Cisqua, a coeducational, independent country day school founded in 1917. The project on the middle school campus includes a new library and media center, innovation center, arts classrooms and science labs, a new dining hall and an outdoor amphitheater. Construction is expected to

be completed in approximately 15 months. Rippowam Cisqua Head of School Colm MacMahon said in a press release that the new Bedford campus “will bring tremendous teaching and learning spaces to the community. We are excited about this project because we know how important middle school is to education, and having an environment that is specifically designed and sized for middle- school-aged students.” Rippowam Cisqua School teaches students in pre-kindergarten through ninth grade at its campuses in Bedford and Mount Kisco.

SUNY CHANCELLOR ZIMPHER TO STEP DOWN IN 2017 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher will step down in 2017, SUNY announced May 31. Zimpher, who will turn 70 in October, has guided the nation’s largest public university system for seven years. During that time, she is credited with launching multiple programs that helped SUNY gain national prominence. “Nancy Zimpher has transformed SUNY and lifted our system up as the national model of higher education for the 21st century,” said SUNY Chairman H. Carl McCall in a release. In a letter to the 64 campuses in the SUNY system, Zimpher said she wanted to

give SUNY enough notice to find a proper replacement. She will officially step down June 30, 2017. SUNY’s first female chancellor, Zimpher launched “The Power of SUNY” initiative early in her tenure, which helped position SUNY campuses as drivers of economic growth and community development. In 2015, she announced a “Completion Agenda” initiative. The agenda calls for an increase in the amount of degrees SUNY awards per year to 150,000, up from 93,000. In the letter to SUNY campuses, Zimpher outlined her priorities in the final year of her tenure. She said she will focus on growing the TeachNY program, which helps train teachers to address a statewide shortage; securing an extension for NYSUNY 2020, which creates a “rational” annual tuition increase, and increasing completion rates. Before arriving at SUNY, Zimpher served as president of the University of Cincinnati, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and executive dean of the Professional Colleges and dean of the College of Education at Ohio State University. In an interview with The New York Times, Zimpher said she was not retiring and would continue to be active in education, including in teacher preparation. McCall said the search for a new chancellor will begin soon.

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Three elements to creating business out of busyness

e often visit companies to review their operations and diagnose why things are not going as well as the business owners had thought. Invariably everyone is busy at a variety of tasks and everyone is working hard — but often there is a wide gap between business and busyness. There are countless ways everybody can be full of busyness. From reviewing numbers, analyzing analyses, emailing, talking, tweeting or engaging with someone about something through some channel. But what will be the net result for all this busyness? Will there be an increase in business? If every associate, every manager and every contractor engages in whatever means to achieve a nebulous, ill-defined end, busyness will grow, but will the business? Strategy solves this problem. A well thought through plan is often the difference between a successful business and a group full of busyness. The term is, admittedly, overused. Corporate boondoggles and highlevel initiatives with no life are often labeled “strategy.” Strategy should help focus the company on a winning course of action. Its purpose is to align the efforts of all participants and ensure that the company delivers Jeff Loehr value for the customers and creates wealth for its investors. Companies, large or small, that do not have a working strategy will end up chasing everything that can be done in a given moment. Busyness leading only to more busyness. The end result is internally competing initiatives, politicking and an escalation of wasted time and resources. Fortunately creating a useful strategy does not need to be a complex exercise; there is nothing mysterious about it. Building a successful strategy requires three essential elements: A GOAL. This can be a problem that needs to be overcome, a challenge that needs to be addressed or achieving a vision for the development of something entirely new. A good goal is one that stretches the entire company and requires a coordinated effort by all. Establishing the importance of this goal — the “reason” behind the drive toward an end — and bringing others to buy into agreement with the importance of the goal is fundamental. THE APPROACH REACHING THAT GOAL. The

important step here is to decide how the company will achieve the goal. Often there are myriad approaches and many considerations including market forces, competition and business constraints that impact the decision. Defining and refining the approach can take time, but it can also be as simple as merely deciding: This is how we are going to do things. A PLAN OF ACTION. This plan will detail who will do what. It should have clear and executable actions and it should include metrics to assess performance and efficacy of the strategy. The plan enables execution and measuring results allows the company to refine and improve the strategy. In the simplest form such a strategy is easy. If, for example, the goal were to cut down a tree, the goal would be pretty simple: cut it down. The next step would be to determine which course bringing down the tree would be most appropriate, using a chain saw (big tree) or a weeding fork (sapling) — the approach. Finally, a plan of action would engage the tree according to the approach and measure your results (tree down or not). Such a simple plan is great for one tree. But if there were a thousand trees to bring down — or a business to run — the strategy would become more challenging. The goal would not be as clear, the approach would require more thought and market assessment and the plan would be more detailed. This is where strategy becomes challenging — good strategy requires choices between mutually exclusive goals. A business cannot do everything. Instead, managers must determine what their competitive advantage is and how they can use this advantage to generate value for the company. Likewise, the approach must fit the goal and be capable of delivering results in a complex and changing market. Developing such an approach requires managers to step out of their day-to-day activities and think creatively about the best way to accomplish goal. Finally, the action plan must be broken down into specific, tangible and achievable actions. If this is not done well, the company will fall back into busyness and struggle with execution. Failure here is often the result of not being specific enough or creating » BUSY, page 8

Citrin Cooperman Corner Two Sets of Books? BY AARON PELACCIA, CPA, MST, MANAGER CITRIN COOPERMAN For all practical purposes, businesses record transactions utilizing two different accounting methods (two sets of books), which often have opposing objectives. The first is maintained to comply with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP books) and the second is to comply with the Internal Revenue Code (IRC books). The GAAP books are presented to internal and external stakeholders, AARON PELACCIA including third party lenders and SEC regulators, while the IRC books support the company’s tax return. Often, the two sets result in very different bottom lines. A CEO wants the GAAP books to show a strong profit and balance sheet in order to meet debt covenants and show vendors, prospects (customers, acquisition targets, or potential buyers of the business), and investors that the company is healthy and profitable. The IRC books should minimize taxable income at both the entity level and shareholder level. Choosing the proper accounting methods will be determined based on the business’s legal form, gross receipts, credit being extended to customers, inclusion of inventory, and tax laws established by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). An accounting method includes an overall method to record the majority of transactions, as well as different treatments which are applied to specific transactions.

GAAP Books The most common accounting method for financial statement reporting is the accrual basis. This method records revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred. GAAP rules are designed to record transactions consistent with their economic effect, and not, for instance, by how a legal document may have been structured. GAAP rules are complex and, like tax rules, can change on an annual basis. Other acceptable methods for financial statement reporting include the cash basis, modified cash basis, and tax basis. Tax Books The options of accounting methods for tax books include cash, accrual, special methods (specially designed for specified items of income and expense), or a combination method which combines components of two or more of any of these methods. The method that is chosen will depend on several factors, some of which the taxpayer has control over and some of which are dictated by IRS rules. The selection of an appropriate accounting method can have an immediate and sizeable impact on the company’s and shareholder’s tax liability and overall exposure to tax risk. Establishing an efficient tax structure is one of the most challenging and often overlooked components of running a company. Tax Books - Cash Method Many businesses are permitted to use the cash method as the overall method of accounting, which records revenue at the time payments are received, and expenses at the time they are paid.

The cash method allows the business owner to significantly influence taxable income primarily by controlling when expenses are recognized. There are special rules: for instance when purchasing capital items, and when property or services are received in place of cash.

Tax Books - Accrual Method The accrual method for tax begins as it does for GAAP, but deviates on treatment of particular items when booking income and expense. For the accrual method of accounting, the entity will commonly report income in the year it was earned and deduct or capitalize expenses in the year they are incurred. The accrual method, unlike the cash method, results in a better matching of revenue and expenses in the year earned and incurred, respectively. There are special rules that relate to payments made in advance, estimating earnings, and altering a payment schedule for services performed. In general, you deduct or capitalize an expenditure when the all-events test has been met (all events have occurred that establish the fact of liability and the liability can be determined with reasonable accuracy) and when economic performance has occurred. Tax Books - Combination Method An entity can use any combination of cash, accrual, and special methods of accounting if the combination clearly reveals your income and expenses for the period and it is applied consistently throughout. Some restrictions apply to the use of this method, including the presence of inventory and the requirement to account for revenue and expenses using the same overall method. Worth the Trouble Business owners should understand there are ever-changing opportunities to minimize taxable income while maximizing net income for financial reporting purposes. Some of these opportunities are time-sensitive and can be expensive and difficult to reverse. Understanding both sets of books requires continual discussions with the right financial consultants and is time well spent. JOIN THE CEO EVOLUTION. Citrin Cooperman is proud to be partnering with the University of Connecticut School of Business and the Fairfield County Business Journal, to host the third annual CEO Evolution on June 15, 2016, at the University of Connecticut in Stamford. Mark Fagan, managing partner of Citrin Cooperman’s Connecticut office will serve as the moderator for a panel that includes William Simon, former President and CEO of Walmart, Margaret Keane, President and CEO of Synchrony Financial, and Scott Gillis, Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder of Galt & Company. For more information, please contact Laura Di Diego at ldidiego@citrincooperman.com. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Aaron Pelaccia, CPA, MST, is a manager based in Citrin Cooperman’s Norwalk office. He can be reached at 203.847.4068 or at apelaccia@citrinncooperman.com. Citrin Cooperman is a full-service accounting and business-consulting firm with offices in White Plains, NY; Norwalk, CT; Bethesda, MD; New York City; Plainview, NY; Livingston, NJ; and Philadelphia. For more information, visit www. citrincooperman.com.

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Campbell learned his craft as a butcher at two popular New York City shops: Marlow & Daughters in Brooklyn and Harlem Shambles in Harlem. He has also worked as a chef at The Marrow in Manhattan and recently produced charcuterie for Chevalier in Manhattan, where he made connections with Hudson Valley farms. He said meat still trails produce when it comes to farm-to-table purchasing. “You might purchase fantastic seasonal produce from a few miles away, but still get beef from Montana,” he said. “So I think it’s a natural progression: if you are going to source locally, why not also your beef?” Meat will come to Campbell Meats from three farms in the Hudson Valley: Kinderhook Farm in Ghent in Columbia County; Meili Farm in Amenia in Dutchess County and John Fazio Farms in Modena in Ulster County. Campbell also plans to sell some cheese from Sprout Creek Farm in Poughkeepsie. The meat is targeted toward what Campbell describes as “conscious carnivores,” meat eaters who are concerned with the treatment of the animals at commercial meat operations. He said the farms he works with are family-operated and small in scale. “They have good lives,” Campbell said of

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improvements for the office park. Morris agreed to pay rent to the county and to build 875,000 square feet in office buildings within 20 years. The real estate market changed and the deal was amended to allow construction of a shopping center. Morris built stores for Stew Leonard’s grocery, Costco wholesale, and Home Depot. Nothing new has been built since the three opened in 1999. The Five Party Agreement devolved into lawsuits and counter-suits over state tax credits, payments in lieu of taxes, allocation of rents and use of land to replace an abandoned park. Then the county wanted to swap land with the developer to provide housing for developmentally disabled residents of Ferncliff Manor. The remains in a neglected Orthodox Jewish cemetery had been disinterred and reburied in Israel to make way for a parking garage for Costco and Home Depot. But after the garage was built it was discovered that the remains of many children were unaccounted for. A monument was erected at a hillside near the parking garage, commemo-

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said. He plans to offer handouts with information on each farm, designed like a baseball card. From each farm, animals will be taken to a U.S.Department of Agriculture-certified slaughterhouse in Rensselaer County before shipment to Dobbs Ferry. Campbell expects just one or two deliveries a week. “Everything that comes in will be gone

walking to the butcher shop and saying I want however many pounds of meat, and I want it this way,” Campbell said. “And it might take them longer, but you got exactly what you wanted.” He admits that style of meat shopping is “a generation behind us,” but believes more people are coming around to the idea of trying new cuts of meats. “They can come

in here and have a cut of steak that they had never even heard of.” Campbell’s specialty is charcuterie. His terrines and pâtés, capicola and other cured and aged meats will help dsitinguish him from competitors as the locally sourced meat industry grows, he said. “If in five years there are five more butchers getting meat from the same place I am, I hope this is what sets me apart,” he said. Campbell is eyeing June 15 for his opening day. He still needs to complete some tiling and install the walk-in cooler, he said. His shop also need to be inspected and licensed by the state Department of Agriculture and Markets as soon as the location is ready for business. While most of his sales will be direct to customers, he said he will do a small amount of wholesale business as well. He is in talks with a few restaurants to provide charcuterie. First on the list is L’inizo, a farm-to-table Italian restaurant in Ardsley owned by his wife’s sister and her husband, Heather and Scott Fratangelo. There’s another potential customer Campbell has in mind: his newborn son. He said his son is part of what inspired him to move to Westchester and start the business. “When he is old enough to have a hot dog, I don’t want him to have a nasty hot dog full of chemicals,” said the butcher. “I want him to have one that I made.”

rating the cemetery. “It’s really convoluted,” said Ken Jenkins, who as president of the Yonkers IDA and as a county legislator representing Yonkers, has had a ringside seat to the various disputes and complications. In 2014, he said, the city and county and their development agencies settled their disagreements. Meanwhile, Yonkers and Morris Builders were negotiating, according to John Larkin, the Yonkers council member who represents the Austin Avenue area. The developer wanted planned multi-use district zoning, like Ridge Hill just across the Thruway. That would allow Morris to build 400 units of housing, stores and other types of projects. But the zoning requires at least 80 acres and Morris had only 70 acres. “That zoning allows just about everything,” Larkin said. “When I became the real estate committee chair, I had a talk with them. I told them they had to understand that we would never support the PMD zone.” Instead, they agreed on an Austin Avenue Special Shopping District. Morris dropped its housing plans and agreed to lower a 40-foot wall along Prior Place that could have become an eyesore for residents on that street. The wall will have to slope from 30 feet down to 10 feet and include landscaping to soften the view.

The Five Party Agreement was still a complication, but everyone had incentives to resolve their disputes. “The timing was right,” said Bill Mooney, director of the county Office of Economic Development. The developer, according to city and county officials, risked exhausting Target’s patience for building the store. And if Target backed out, the region would lose about 560 jobs and an expanded tax base. The company also was eager to buy out its county lease, Larkin said. Morris officials did not respond to a request for an interview. The city and county need money. The county, for example, is dealing with a potential $17 million budget deficit, and County Executive Rob Astorino is a proponent of increasing revenue without increasing taxes. The Austin Avenue site presented an opportunity to accomplish just that. “At the same time,” said Michael Kaplowitz, Democratic chairman of the county Board of Legislators, “we don’t want to rely on one-shot deals.” He said this one-time sale of property is prudent because a large portion of the budget deficit is due to lower sales tax revenue caused by a one-time drop in petroleum prices. As gas prices normalize, sales tax revenue should increase in the coming years.

The pending agreement will terminate the Five Party Agreement. The county will get $15 million up front, $3 million when Yonkers issues a building permit for the store and $1 million when the store opens. Yonkers will get $10 million up front, $2 million when its issues the building permit and $1 million when the store opens. Morris will get the permits and planning approvals it needs to build the Target store. It also has plans to build an 80,000-squarefoot store or possibly a hotel, Larkin said. The developer will no longer have to pay rents or payments in lieu of taxes. When Target opens, a new 10-year payment in lieu of taxes will kick in. Morris will get an option to buy nine acres from the county next to the site. Yonkers will get 11 acres to establish New Hogan Park to replace a park that had fallen into disuse. “The Austin Avenue development site is a way to unlock our resources,” Mooney said. Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano also touted the new deal. “This project means new jobs for people who live here, more tax revenues for the city and another boost for our economy,” he said in a prepared statement. “Target seems to know a good location when they see it,” Jenkins said, “because they certainly hung in there long enough.”

the animals. “One of the farmers joked that they only have one bad day, and that’s the last one.” He said he also wants to be transparent with customers, and believes many people have lost the connection to the food they eat. “I want them to not only see what I am physically doing with the product, but the farm where it came from as well,” Campbell

by next delivery,” he said. “So if I get a delivery on Monday, by next Sunday I should have processed and sold all that meat.” While there will be some pre-cut meats and cold cuts available, Campbell said the specifications of most cuts will be left to the customer’s preferences. “I’m too young to even remember it, but when I talked to my parents, they remember

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action steps that are too broad — such as “get customers” or “grow revenue.” Such vague statements are useless as guides for managers and associates as to what actions to take that will deliver the desired, measurable results. Developing a strategy is important to maintaining focus on business goals. The process does not need to be long and difficult. But, it does involve thinking, planning in advance and making hard choices. This can be challenging, but if management doesn’t do it, the rest of the company won’t either.

And without a strategy any company will invariably degrade into a bunch of people who are busy throughout their day in the hope that something works. Putting the time and effort into creating a clear strategy is a better way. It is also the only way to convert mere busyness into a successful business. Jeff Loehr is a principal consultant at Stratist Consulting in White Plains, a firm that helps businesses of all sizes design strategies, business models and execution plans. He is also a founding partner of the Westchester Angels, an investment group that brings earlystage investors and startups together. He can be reached at jeff.wbg@stratistconsulting.com.

Striking Verizon workers back on the job BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

ea rly 4 0,000 Ver i zon Communications employees who have been on strike since April returned to work on June 1. The telecommunications company announced a tentative agreement on May 30 with unions representing strik-

ing Verizon employees. The company said the agreement includes cost-savings measures, while the unions said it provides big gains for workers. The unions, which represent workers primarily in Verizon’s network operations and consumer and mass business units, are celebrating the addition of 1,300 new call center jobs and 10.9 percent raises over the four years of the tentative deal. Workers represented by the Members of the Communication Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers had been on strike since April 13. “The addition of good new jobs at Verizon is a huge win not just for striking workers, but for our communities and the country as a whole. This contract is a victory for working families across the country and an affirmation of the power of working people,” said Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America. “It proves that when we stand together we can raise up working families, improve our communities and advance the interests of America’s working people.” The deal also includes provisions that assure threatened call centers in the MidAtlantic region will remain open, along with three of the five threatened centers in upstate New York. For Verizon, the company said the deal allows for cost savings in health coverage, such as maintaining limits on postretirement health care costs and adopting Medicare Advantage plans for retirees. “The new contracts will help ensure that Verizon employees continue to receive solid wages and excellent health care and retirement benefits,” said Marc Reed, Verizon’s chief administrative officer. “They also include key changes sought by the company to better position our wireline business for success in the digital world.” The strike included about 1,500 members of the CWA Local 1103, which represents about 2,000 workers and retirees in Westchester and Putnam counties and southern Connecticut. Both unions still must vote to ratify the contracts. If approved, the agreements would run through August 2019.

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AG accuses Domino’s franchises of wage theft BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

ew York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sued Domino’s Pizza, claiming locations of the international pizza franchise in the state systematically undercalculated employees’ gross wages. Schneiderman’s lawsuit, filed May 23 in state Supreme Court, alleges that three Domino’s franchisees underpaid workers by at least $565,000 at 10 stores in New York, including one in Westchester. The suit names the three franchisees, as well as the Domino’s corporation itself. The three franchisees named in the lawsuit are Anthony Maestri, Schueb Ahmed and Matthew Denman. Ahmed owns and operates two Domino’s locations in Nassau and New York counties, while Denman runs two in Montgomery County, according to the suit. Maestri owns and operates three Domino’s locations in New York City, but previously owned locations in Ossining, Mount Kisco and Cortlandt Manor, according to the suit. A multiyear investigation by the attorney general’s office found that Domino’s allegedly urged franchisees to use payroll reports from the company’s system that the corporation knew undercalculated employees’ gross wages. Multiple updates were made to Domino’s wage software, but the flaws that

led to underpayment of wages were deemed “low priority,” Schneiderman said. Schneiderman is suing Domino’s as a joint employer along with the franchisees. His office claims that the micromanagement of franchisees by Domino’s headquarters — including hiring and firing decisions and electronic performance reviews — makes the corporation responsible for the alleged underpayment of employees as well. “At some point, a company has to take responsibility for its actions and for its workers’ well-being,” Schneiderman said. “We’ve found rampant wage violations at Domino’s franchise stores. And, as our suit alleges, we’ve discovered that Domino’s headquarters was intensely involved in store operations, and even caused many of these violations.” The lawsuit also pursues fraud and franchise law claims against Domino’s, claiming the company knowingly sold a flawed software product to franchisees and did not remedy its problems. The allegations at the 10 locations mentioned in the suit vary, but include subminimum wages, failure to pay overtime, abuse of tip credit and failure to fully reimburse employees for delivery expenses. In a statement, Domino’s said its corporate offices had been working with the attorney general’s office for three years to help franchisees “understand and comply with

some of the many complex wage and hour laws,” including possibly funding a third-party payment system. “We were disappointed to learn that the attorney general chose to file a lawsuit that disregards the nature of franchising and demeans the role of small-business owners instead of focusing on solutions that could have actually helped the individuals those small businesses employ,” the statement said. Domino’s added it will continue to take steps to help franchisees comply with wage and hour laws and looks forward to responding to the allegations in court. Domino’s is the world’s second-largest

pizza chain, following leader Pizza Hut, and the largest pizza delivery chain in the U.S. The company has 136 franchisee-owned stores in New York, with another 54 owned by Domino’s itself. Schneiderman’s office has settled cases in the past with 12 Domino’s franchisees, who have agreed to pay $1.5 million to date. The investigation uncovered documents produced by Domino’s that show 78 percent of New York franchisees over a two-year period listed rates for at least some employees below the required minimum wage, Schneiderman said, and 86 percent listed rates below the required overtime rate.

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Want to win the talent war? Try coffee. Last week’s Business Intel Breakfast about attracting, retaining, and developing today’s workforce had many surprises. But one of the biggest was that millennials spend more on coffee and food than anything else. They also value collaborative working spaces, transparency, and bosses who value them. And if millennials (and others) feel their expectations aren’t being met, 22% of staff turnover occurs in the first 45 days after being hired. Shake your head, but what it really points to is this: the workplace and workforce have changed.

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On the heels of our groundbreaking conference, “Westchester: County of Tomorrow,” the Westchester County Association (WCA) is taking action to spur Smart Growth in Westchester, particularly in our cities. “It’s no longer about what’s new,” says Bill Mooney, WCA President & CEO. “It’s about what’s next!” What’s next is growth and innovation in the NYC metro region. And what’s next on WCA’s agenda is to capitalize on that trend. “Data are telling us that 1200 people are moving to New York City every week,” said Bill Cuddy, EVP of CBRE’s Westchester/Fairfield office and chair of the WCA’s BLUEPRINT for Smart Growth. “That’s over 300,000 a year. The city simply cannot keep pace. So, this is a tremendous opportunity for Westchester to become competitive once again.” The WCA just held two, standing-room only Smart Growth meetings that attracted over 150 local officials, business people, community leaders, educators, and others. The goals are to: • Bring hi-speed broadband to every business/household in the county; • Build housing that’s attractive and affordable for Westchester’s current and future workforce; • Create innovation districts in Westchester’s cities and towns. “The object is to bring everyone to the table and move this forward,” says Cuddy. “With New York City maxed out on space, affordability, and livability, millennials and entrepreneurial businesses are turning to the suburbs. We want Westchester to be ready.” If you are interested in learning more, please contact the WCA at 914.948.6444.

The “Westchester: County of Tomorrow” conference was ground-breaking, easily the most important in the county in a decade. The conference attracted 250 Westchester leaders from business, real estate, government, engineering, education, healthcare, and the nonprofit sectors. It inspired a call to action: The Westchester County Association will lead Smart Growth in Westchester!

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THELIST: MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICES

Medical Group Practices

WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND HUDSON VALLEY

Ranked by number of physicians. Listed alphabetically in the event of a tie. Group name Address Area code: 914, unless otherwise noted Website

CareMount Medical *

Westmed Medical Group PC

3030 Westchester Ave., Purchase 10577 831-4100 • westmedgroup.com

155 Crystal Run Road, Middletown 10941 845-703-6999 • crystalrunhealthcare.com

90 and 110 S. Bedford Road, Mount Kisco 10549

241-1050 • caremountmedical.com

Crystal Run Healthcare

Boston Children's Health Physicians 40 Sunshine Cottage Road, Skyline Suite 1N-C26 Valhalla 10595 594-2100 • bchphysicians.org

ENT and Allergy Associates LLP

560 White Plains Road, Suite 500, Tarrytown 10591 333-5800 • entandallergy.com

60 Golden's Bridge, Route 22, Katonah 10536 232-1919 • westchesterhealth.com

Westchester Health Associates

NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group/Westchester

685 White Plains Road, Eastchester 10708 914-787-4100 • nyp.org/medicalgroups

Phelps Medical Associates

(A member of Northwell Health)

701 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow 10591 366-1000 • phelpsmedicalassociates.org

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Number of physicians

Number of locations

Year established

Cover all major practices?

Specialty services

Scott D. Hayworth, M.D. President and CEO

500+

1946

Diabetes and metabolism, gastroenterology, hepatology, general surgery, infectious disease, laboratory, nephrology and hypertension, neurology, ophthalmology, pain management, plastic and reconstructive surgery, spine surgery and vascular surgery

Simeon Schwartz, president and Anthony Viceroy, CEO

405

1996

Ear, nose and throat, infectious disease, internal medicine, sleep medicine, weight management and wound care center

Hal Teitelbaum Managing partner and CEO

362

1996

Electrophysiology, infectious disease, maternal-fetal medicine, pediatric hospital medicine, sleep medicine and sports medicine

Leonard Newman President

334

1998

Adolescent medicine, infectious disease and pediatric cardiology and medical genetics

Robert P. Green President

170+

1998

Ear, nose and throat

Voice and swallowing, facial plastics and reconstructive surgery, disorders of the inner ear and dizziness, rhinology/skull base surgery, hearing aid dispensing,

Peter Mercurio President

111

2007

Allergy and immunology, hand surgery, internal medicine, neurology, pain management, pediatrics, plastic surgery and sports medicine

Michael J. Fosina President, NewYork-Presbyterian/ Lawrence Hospital

Cardiology, endocrinology and metabolism, hematology and oncology, infectious disease, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, palliative care, pulmonary medicine, sleep medicine, urology and surgical oncology

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2011

Cardiology, endocrinology, family medicine, gastroenterology, internal medicine, neurology, neuropsychology, obstetrics and gynecology, T:5” podiatry, rheumatology and senior health

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Keystone Property Group among five BOMA award winners BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

Philadelphia-area real estate company that entered Westchester’s commercial office market two years ago and a Swiss educational company that has expanded its academic presence in the county through adaptive reuse of a former IBM campus were honored at the 25th annual Hall of Honor Awards Dinner of the Building Owners and Managers Association of Westchester. Receiving the BOMA chapter’s Hall of Honor Award at Tappan Hill in Tarrytown were Keystone Property Group and EF Education First. The award is given annually to companies that support and encourage economic growth in Westchester County. Keystone in 2014 acquired five Class A office buildings in Greenburgh and Tarrytown as part of a nearly $231 million deal for a dozen office properties in the tristate portfolio of Mack-Cali Realty Corp. The deal included 555, 565 and 570 Taxter Road outside Elmsford and the Talleyrand Office Park at 200 and 220 White Plains Road in Tarrytown. Richard Gottlieb, senior vice president and operating partner, accepted the award for Keystone Property Group. EF Education First, a private for-profit organization headquartered in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 2008 redeveloped the former Marymount College campus in Tarrytown into an EF International Language Center and in 2014 paid $17 million to a Roman Catholic religious order for IBM’s former Thornwood Conference Center and 97-acre campus at 582-590 Columbus Ave. The Thornwood campus has been converted to an EF Academy International Boarding School for high school-level students. Accepting the award for EF Education First were Headmaster Brian Mahoney and Executive Director Philip Johnson. The BOMA President’s Award was given to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, which has its national headquarters at Reckson Executive Park in Rye Brook. The award is given to an individual or institution making a significant and positive long-term contribution to the well-being of the community. Accepting the award at the May 19 ceremony was Rosemarie Loffredo, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society executive vice president, chief administrative officer and CFO. The Westchester chapter also conferred two Best of BOMA awards this year. Purchase Professional Park, a fourbuilding, 220,000-square-foot office park at 3000-3040 Westchester Ave., was named Comeback Building of the Year for a recently completed major renovation and modernization project. Landlord Simone Development Cos. developed the park in partnership with Fareri Associates of Greenwich with a focus on creating state-of-the-art office and clinical

space for medical practices. Accepting the award was Patricia Simone, president of Simone Management Group. Cushman & Wakefield Inc. won BOMA’s Signature Building Team of the Year award for its management of the Gateway Building, a, 32-year-old, 18-story office tower at 1 N. Lexington Ave. in downtown White Plains. The building is managed by a Cushman & Wakefield team of Caroline Malloy, senior property manager; Kevin Ullrich, assistant property manager; Robert Melly, chief engineer, and Joseph Roccuzzo, assistant engineer. Melly accepted the award for the team.

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Medical Group Practices

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Ranked by number of physicians. Listed alphabetically in the event of a tie. Group name Address Area code: 914, unless otherwise noted Website

Scarsdale Medical Group

259 Heathcote Road, Scarsdale 10583 723-8100 • scarsdalemedical.com

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Top local executive Title

NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group/Hudson Valley Steven J. Corwin

50 Dayton Lane, Suite 202, Peekskill 10566 914-739-0087 • nyp.org/medicalgroups

Premier Medical Group

243 North Road, Suite 304, Poughkeepsie 12601 845-471-9410 • premiermedicalhv.com

Columbia Doctors

155 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 366-0500 • columbiadoctors.org

Number of physicians

Number of locations

Year established

Cover all major practices?

1957

Geriatrics, gynecology, infectious diseases, mind-body medicine, nephrology, rheumatology

Nephrology, rheumatology, internal medicine, neurology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, general and plastic surgery, colon and rectal surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and hospital medicine

Julie Goldfischer Executive Director

1971

Lee Goldman CEO, Columbia University Medical Center

President and CEO

Formé Urgent Care and Wellness Center

7-11 S. Broadway, White Plains 10601 723-4900 • formeurgentcare.com

Hudson Valley Surgical Group LLP

777 Broadway, Suite 204, Sleepy Hollow 10571 631-3660 • hudsonvalleysurgeons.com

AFC Urgent Care

359 N. Central Ave., Hartsdale 10530 • 448-2273 843 Hutchinson River Parkway, Bronx 10465 • 718-925-4400 doctorsexpresshartsdale.com

1985

Gina Cappelli President and CEO

2014

Robert Raniolo Founder

Cancer care, dentistry, digestive and liver diseases, infectious diseases, nephrology, pain medicine, preventive medicine and nutrition, psychiatry and travel medicine

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This list is a sampling of medical group practices that serve the region. If you would like to include your practice in our next list, please contact Danielle Renda at drenda@westfairinc.com. * Formerly Mount Kisco Medical Group.

Urology, Gastroenterology, urology, internal medicine, gastroenterology rheumatology, pulmonology, endocrinology, and internal nephrology and geriatrics medicine

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Specialty services

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United Way of Westchester and Putnam shifts focus BY ALEESIA FORNI aforni@westfairinc.com

hanges are happening at United Way of Westchester and Putnam (UWWP). The organization has announced a new focus: moving individuals toward selfsufficiency, which it defines as being able to work to meet one’s basic needs. The rebranding is not altogether different from its earlier focus on education, income and health. It will continue to work with an array of entities, from government to community leaders and businesses, to achieve that goal. Alana Sweeny, president and CEO of UWWP, said, “We want to do all those things, but if you say self-sufficient, it helps put a greater focus. We’re just getting more specific in those groupings.” The organization is also undergoing a shift in how it tracks success rates. It will now focus on specific “community outcomes” versus the outcomes of the individual programs it funds. Its first initiative is to improve reading skills of children. According to United Way, 62 percent of children in Westchester and Putnam counties are not reading at grade level by the end of third grade. The organization aims to double the number of children who are able to read at that level in the next 10 years. Sweeny said the third-grade reading level benchmark has “tremendous value for future success,” and children who are not reading at that stage are four times more likely to drop out prior to graduating high school. According to Anne Marie Borrego, director of media and public relations at the overarching United Way Worldwide, these shifts go along with United Way Worldwide’s goal of making an impact in local communities. The shift follows a number of local branches that are also taking on specific causes in their own communities. And though each branch under United Way Worldwide’s umbrella is an independent 501(c)(3) organization that “has the ability to make that choice on their own,” Borrego said “we can encourage local United Ways to join us on that journey.” With these changes, Sweeny said UWWP is “still in discussion” regarding which programs or organizations that previously received funding may be cut. Sweeny said that her organization will likely look for “gaps” in the community and use funds to bring outside entities together to fill those gaps. “It looks like that’s more the direction versus having a whole list of people that we just do funding for to do their own program,” she said. For the year ending June 30, 2015, UWWP spent around $3.7 million on its own initiatives, while $5 million was raised on behalf

of other nonprofits. “There are some things that may continue and some that may drop,” she said, adding that the new strategic plan is still being finalized. The organization will also be looking at fundraising efforts to support its new focus. “We’re hoping that donors will be able to rally and get on board,” said Shannon Cobb, senior vice president of marketing and communications for UWWP. United2Read, the organization’s first step toward its new goals, aims to give teachers and parents the tools to increase the reading rates of local children. The program kicked off with a reading symposium in Yonkers on May 24. Partnering with Yonkers Schools and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, the event featured speakers discussing the best ways to enhance literacy among young children. Sweeny said that by bringing peo-

UWWP CEO Alana Sweeny reads to a child during a trip to hand out reading kits. Photo courtesy United Way of Westchester and Putnam.

ple together around this issue, UWWP hopes to find “affordable, creative ways” to improve children’s reading skills regardless of their economic background. Sweeny said that by focusing on a few

“key areas,” including reading levels and school attendance, the organization can make a larger and longer-term impact on children in Westchester and Putnam counties.

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Benefiting: Guiding Eyes For The Blind Join us for cocktails and dinner. You can also purchase a raffle ticket for a chance to win a 2016 Lexus CT200h F-Sport. Raffle tickets are $100 and are available at guidingeyes.org/raffle. Only 1,000 tickets will be sold. All proceeds benefit Guiding Eyes for the Blind, an internationally accredited nonprofit that provides guide dogs to people with vision loss, as well as service dogs to children with autism. Guiding Eyes offers all programs and services at no cost to its students and graduates TIME: 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Cocktails and Ddnner TICKET PRICE: Dinner only $375 per person LOCATION: Mount Kisco Country Club, Mount Kisco CONTACT: Hospitality Resource Group at 761-7111 or visit www.GuidingEyes.org/Golf

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Benefiting: Greenburgh Nature Center Sampling of delicious dishes crafted by artisan food professionals, accompanied by fine wines from area wineries. We celebrate local products and our role in global sustainability initiatives. Entertainment, education and a delight for the palate – all in support of the Greenburgh Nature Center. TIME: 4 to 7 p.m. LOCATION: Greenburgh Nature Center TICKET PRICE: $100 - $150 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Call 723-3470 or email info@greenburghnaturecenter.org or visit www.greenburghnaturecenter.org

Benefiting: Wartburg A Celebration of Arts and Music; Celebrating Wartburg’s 150th Anniversary TIME: 6 to 9 p.m. LOCATION: The Surf Club On The Sound, New Rochelle TICKET PRICE: $250 per person; sponsorship opportunities available CONTACT: Charlotte Steverson at 7470-0519 or visit www.wartburg.org

Benefiting: Friends of Karen A gala benefit evening of gourmet dining, smooth jazz and inspiring stories in one of Westchester’s most beautiful locations. HONORING: Dr. Adam Levy of The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, and Lydia and Neil Singer EVENT CHAIRPERSONS: Alessandra Hernandez, Linda Potash, Sharon Weiner TIME: 7 p.m. to midnight LOCATION: Brae Burn Country Club, Purchase TICKET PRICE: $350 per person; sponsorship opportunities available CONTACT: Gwen Salmo at 617-4051 or visit www.friendsofkaren.org

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Benefiting: ArtsWestchester Come and enjoy some friendly competition on this championship course – one of the most beautiful and challenging courses in the country. The day includes breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus greens fees, carts, fore caddies, prizes, and all the amenities of world-class golf. TIME: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. LOCATION: Wykagyl Country Club, New Rochelle TICKET PRICE: $650 per golfer, $150 for cocktail reception; sponsorship opportunities available CONTACT: Call 428-4220 or email afabrizio@artswestchester.org or visit www.artsw.org/golf

Benefiting: Hospice and Palliative Care of Westchester Hospice of Westchester (HOW) invites members of the community to participate in its 14th annual Golf Invitational playing alongside PGA head golf professional, golf instruction book author and TV/radio host Brian Crowell. Proceeds from the event benefit HOW’s mission: striving to provide extraordinary and dignified comfort, care and compassion to individuals and families facing a serious or life-limiting illness. TIME: 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. LOCATION: Westchester Hills Golf Club, White Plains TICKET PRICE: $400 per golfer; sponsorship opportunities available CONTACT: Holly Benedict at 682-1484 or email hbenedict@hospiceofwestchester.com

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Benefiting: Cerebral Palsy of Westchester Corporate sponsors and individual players will enjoy a day of golf and have a shot at the Hole-In-One and other competitions. After the tournament, participants will take part in the evening’s festivities, which include dinner, silent auction, raffle and a presentation of the tournament winners. Cerebral Palsy of Westchester would like to thank its sponsors and supporters that contribute to the agency’s efforts in raising money for programs and services that thousands of children and adults with disabilities benefit from each year. TIME: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. TICKET PRICE: $695 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available LOCATION: Quaker Ridge Golf Club, Scarsdale CONTACT: Joan Colangelo at 937-3800 or email joan.colangelo@cpwestchester.org or visit www.cpwestchester.org

Benefiting: New Rochelle Humane Society Bring your four-legged friend to the New Rochelle Humane Society for a fun-filled day of pet pampering, nail clipping, microchipping, good food, raffles and vendors. Rain date: July 24. TIME: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. LOCATION: New Rochelle Humane Society TICKET PRICE: Free to the public; donations for dog wash, nail clipping etc. CONTACT: Call 632-2925 or visit www.newrochellehumanesociety.org

Benefiting: Friends of Karen This event honors the memory of Mike and Eileen’s daughter Erin, who died of a brain tumor in 1999. Friends of Karen helped the family through this ordeal and the event benefits other children with a life-threatening illness and their families being helped by Friends of Karen. Be a sponsor, win one of the many raffle and silent auction prizes, stay for a sumptuous dinner or simply enjoy an award-winning course and the company of golfers and others who support our Friends of Karen children. TIME: 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. LOCATION: Salem Golf Club, North Salem TICKET PRICE: $250 per golfer; $75 dinner only; sponsorship opportunities available CONTACT: visit www.friendsofkaren.org

SUBMIT YOUR EVENT Westchester not-for-profit organizations are invited to promote their special events in “Planning Ahead.” To submit an event, visit www.HRGinc.net and click on “Planning Ahead” or for more information, please call 761-7111. Events are compiled in cooperation with Association for Development Officers Inc. www.adoonline.org

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Grant Professionals of Lower Hudson Behind the scenes in the lower Hudson Valley, there is a group of professionals that raises millions of dollars each year for nonprofit organizations. The Grant Professionals of Lower Hudson (GPLH) is a nonprofit association of grant writers in the region that serves the public good and adheres to national standards of professional grant writing excellence and ethics. Founded in 2008 by grants professional Lydia Howie MS, GPC and 18 other grant writers, the organization today has more than 105 members, including grant writers working for nonprofit organizations, grant writing consultants and other fundraising professionals who are passionate about grant writing and/or who want to stay connected to the everchanging fundraising world. The association exists to increase members’ knowledge of industry news and best practices, resources and educational opportunities; help nonprofit organizations seeking grant writers find qualified grant professionals; improve the likelihood of grants being funded; promote the businesses of grant writing consultants; and encourage the highest ethical standards of grantsmanship. Our free and low-cost services for nonprofit organizations and grant writers include: • Free Grant Writing Advice - GPLH answers questions regarding becoming a grant writer or finding a grant writer, launching a consulting business, industry trends, state

registration, finding funding for a particular project, and more. • Grant Writer Referral Service - GPLH acts as a clearinghouse for grant-writing jobs and consulting opportunities. • Quarterly Educational Breakfast Meetings on various grant writing topics. • Meet the Funders Panel Discussion - Annual event whose purpose is to meet and learn from area funders. • E-news blasts on educational opportunities, job postings, surveys and grant industry news. • Free Website Resources, including information on grant sources, evaluations, budgeting and more. • Proofreading Service • Grant Writer Internship Program Among the agency’s accomplishments this past year were hosting a Meet the Funders Panel Discussion for more than 100 fundraisers and five funders, running application workshops for Impact100 Westchester, helping 36 nonprofits find grant writers and helping more than 10 writers enter the field or start their own businesses. For more information, please visit www. GPLH.org or call 914-248-1112.

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WHY GIVE? “Our members are on the front line of helping hundreds of area nonprofits obtain the vital income they need to fulfill their worthwhile missions. We provide the region with information, resources and best practices that help them become better and more successful grant writers.” — Lydia S. Howie MS, GPC President Grant Professionals of Lower Hudson

NONPROFIT WESTCHESTER When it comes to new wage rules, nonprofits try to balance costs with benefits of pay equity

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Like every other business, nonprofits have to review their compensation policies and practices to comply with new U.S. Department of Labor rules regarding exempt/nonexempt status that will take effect December 1. The rules are part of the Obama administration’s fair-wage initiative, and one provision would increase the exempt/nonexempt salary threshold from $22,000 to $47,476 a year. Since nonprofit organizations are concentrated in low-wage fields with high educational requirements, many will fall under this rule. For example, case managers with a master’s degree may be currently classified as exempt. According to a recent survey of nonprofits in Westchester and Fairfield counties, case managers have a median salary of $41,500. Under the new rule, these employees would either need to be reclassified as nonexempt and therefore eligible for overtime or receive a significant salary increase. This is a quandary for many nonprofits that have advocated for higher pay for workers, but find that paying for these increases under their financial constraints may not be so easy. While business can raise prices and governments can raise taxes, nonprofits have nowhere to turn to finance these additional operating expenses. We encourage all donors and funding organizations to consider supporting these important – and now mandated – compensation increases. Resources are available to help nonprofits navigate this -Joanna Straub challenge. Pro Bono Partnership is offering two webinars Executive Director, Nonprofit on this topic June 15 and 28 (details at www.probonopartWestchester ner.org), and NPW has links to helpful information at www.npwestchester.org.

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ASK ANDI

BY ANDI GRAY

Can this partnership be saved? I have a partner who cuts corners all the time. I want to do things the right way. Seems like we don’t see eye to eye very often. What should I do? THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Start with goals to get clear about what each of you expects from the company. Think about how well matched the two of you are. Communicate a lot. Resolve your differences now. In most instances, businesses with multiple partners tend to grow faster, have greater depth and last longer than companies with

a single owner. That’s with three caveats: all partners need to be on the same page when it comes to big picture items, partners can agree to disagree on small issues and there’s a common understanding about what’s big versus small. Lay out a picture of where you each want to take the company over the next three, five and 10 years. Look for common ground and inconsistencies. If you’re in agreement on the big picture, but disagree on tactics, that’s OK. But if you’re trying to go in two very different directions, you could end up pulling the company into pieces. Check on the big issues: ethics, handling finances, workload, accountability, payoff, brand value, customer base, how employees

are handled. It’s much easier if you both see the world the same way. In some instances it’s essential. For example, if you agree to pursue a customer base that values price over quality, you better be prepared to make sacrifices on how the product or service is delivered. If you’re not willing to give on quality, find out now if your partner is ready to raise prices to afford what it will take to deliver a higher standard. Differences can add value as you apply critical thinking to building the business. Divide tasks by playing to each other’s strengths. Avoid weaknesses that might be more problematic if you were the only one running the business. Just make sure that you both respect that there’s more than one

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way to reach an end goal. If either of you is a control freak, be prepared to let go of that inclination now or think twice about going any further as partners. You can’t spend all your time secondguessing or countermanding each other. It’s wasteful and unnecessary. Make sure you both can make a decision and move forward — and respect your partner for doing the same. You’re both going to make mistakes along the way. Make sure you can allow for failure in others as well as yourself. Also make sure your partner is as committed as you are to digging deep in order to fix problems once they occur. Many problems arise because of misunderstandings. Agree on how and how often you will communicate with your partner. Weekly meetings, daily email updates, written reports, monthly results reviews and quarterly check-ins are all tools to help you communicate. Use them. Err on the side of over-communicating and make sure your partner is prepared to do the same. If you disagree on a fundamental issue, such as ethics, don’t kid yourself. Move on now before you’re any more invested. Just make sure that it’s really substantive and not just stubbornness or ego talking. Decide who holds the majority of shares. In most cases, majority shareholders ultimately get to decide. If shares are split equally, and no partner can make a decision without the other agreeing, set up a process for resolving disputes. Set up responsibilities and authority of decision-making — CEO, CFO, chief of sales, marketing, operations, human resources, etc. Assign positions to your partner and yourself. Clarify chain of command and what kinds of decisions need to be escalated. Make sure you can live with the level of authority granted to each of those positions.

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Stamford startup measures a booming digital media market BY REECE ALVAREZ

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he Stamford Innovation Center is quickly gaining a reputation as the city and state’s launch pad for tech businesses with more than a dozen startups currently under its roof and several successful former tenants striking out on their own. Among the innovation center’s alumni is Tru Optik, a digital media analytics company in Stamford that uses patented data collection technology to measure audiences who view digital media via the internet rather than through the traditional cable, satellite and other pay-television services. According to co-founder and CEO Andre Swanston, Tru Optik is essentially on the cutting edge of the new frontier of media consumption as streaming media services like Netflix, Apple TV, Hulu and Roku and internet-connected televisions and gaming consoles are leading a generational shift in media consumption, along with unauthorized or pirated peer-to-peer downloads. “What we realized is that everybody was chasing the same old stuff and using the same old tactics,” said Swanston, who started the business in 2013 with co-founder Alex Geis, Tru Optik’s chief technology officer. “All of the audience measurement and consumer intelligence and insight that people are getting has been based off of the same core. There has been no innovation in the space. People are still using panels and surveys for TV data and consumer research,” Swanston said. “There is half a billion people around the world that download and stream movies, TV shows, video games, software, music, e-books from peer-to-peer sharing and nobody was measuring it.” In a 2015 analysis, Tru Optik estimated that over 500 million consumers shared over $800 billion of digital media via peer-topeer networks in 2014. Movie and television content accounted for over half of all global download activity. By measuring both the illegal and legal services by which consumers obtain and view media, Tru Optik has positioned itself as the only audience measurement and data management platform built for nontradition-

al media providers, also known as over-thetop viewing. Swanston, a vice president of investments at JPMorgan Chase from 2010 to 2012, started laying the groundwork for the company with Geis in 2011. “I reached out to him because he was the smartest person I knew,” Swanston said of his co-founder. “I can’t code — no tech background whatsoever.” A year later, the two partners self-fund-

his youth in the Bronx and his days as “the biggest club promoter and event promoter in southern New England” learning about the latest black-market music trends in the 1990s and 2000s. “If people aren’t buying it or sharing it or downloading it or streaming it off-network, it’s not relevant. That’s indicative of what is going to perform commercially,” he said. “That has always been my mentality. Even if

Andre Swanston, co-founder and CEO of Tru Optik at 422 Summer St. in Stamford.

ed the company with roughly $220,000, 85 percent of which went to purchase the hardware necessary to store and analyze the massive amounts of data they would collect on tens of millions of unauthorized downloads exchanging hands across the internet. “It doesn’t matter if some of it is considered piracy, from a pure data perspective, it is the largest and most granular and most indicative leading indicator of audience demand for a trillion dollars worth of media,” Swanston said of Tru Optik. “(If) the alternative to getting data from half a billion people is doing a survey on 2,500 people, which one is more valuable?” Swanston, 35, traced the business acumen that led him to this niche market to

you look at finance, you want to buy low and sell high. People are always looking for pockets of opportunity of understanding where trends are going.” Swanston and Geis were advised to open shop in the Stamford Innovation Center (SIC) after finding their first angel investors through Douglas Roth, director of investments at the Connecticut Innovations state agency. Both Stamford, drawing regional talent away from Manhattan with its preferable commutes, and the innovation center (SIC) serving as an incubator of ideas and startup activity, proved to be a boon for Tru Optik. “For a town the size of Stamford, there are a lot of venture-backed startups and almost

all of them we know were at SIC and raised capital and then moved out,” Swanston said. “It ended up being a good resource for meeting other entrepreneurs and kind of getting tapped into the ecosystem.” Swanston singled out he help of Peter Propp, the innovation center’s chief marketing officer. “Our approach was to get to know the company and then, as requested, provide support around strategy and messaging along with introductions to investors and other key resources who could help them achieve their goals,” said Propp. “We miss having them around but are proud that we were able to provide them with a well-priced office with a short-term lease that they were able to leverage to grow their business.” In addition to the cultural benefit of having dozens of like-minded entrepreneurs sharing the same space, Swanston said the office leasing options made possible through the SIC were a significant help in the early stages of the business. “To not be tied into a five-year lease in downtown Stamford — having more flexibility — made the task of starting a company less daunting.” Now at 20 employees and projecting staff to rise to 40 by summer 2017, the company is on a growth trajectory, raising $2.5 million in funding in the last 12 months. Swanston predicted an eightfold increase in revenue for this year and the next. Being a startup enabled Tru Optik to get the edge on audience measurement giants like Nielsen, Adobe and comScore, Swanston said. “None of them we’re prepared for it. Maybe it wasn’t being forward-looking enough, maybe it just didn’t just make sense because they were making so much money on the other stuff where we just benefited from being able to focus on the future,” he said. “That’s what’s good about startups. Most innovation in every industry comes from a startup and I think it is because you are able to have people who aren’t locked in to legacy ways of thinking either strategically or technology and they can focus on innovating. Their only job is to come up with something new.” WCBJ | HV Biz

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BY AL ALPER

MSPs: What’s in them for you?

very business, from the small owneroperator to a large corporation, can benefit from a Managed Services Provider (MSP). MSPs offer experience, depth of expertise and a vantage point about what your competition is up to technologically that you just can’t get by yourself or with an in-house IT staff. It’s not because you or your team aren’t capable, but focusing on your business is usually all-consuming. A quality MSP can give your business significant competitive advantages with increased system reliability as well as an understanding of what the marketplace is doing. Consider a small owner-operator business. They’re out there all day working with customers and clients, bringing in new business, dealing with vendors, managing employees. The to-do list is endless. One day they come in and the computer with all the financial data, or customer data, or employee data won’t turn on. They spend the next hour trying to get it to work, calling a “friend who knows computers” who walks them through a series of steps that has “always worked.” This time, after several hours and a trip to

the nearest Best Buy Geek Squad, the prognosis is the patient has passed away. That’s when it starts to get dark: no computer, no records, no backup, no luck. Had an MSP been managing the computers, this scenario would likely have been anticipated. Backups of all data would be in place and all software and licenses would be inventoried. The MSP would have recommended replacing the computer long before it died, but even if it did die it could have the business back up and running fast — often the same day. Now let’s look at a small business with about 25 or more employees. While the smaller owner-operator may be able to continue in the short term with a pencil and paper while they get their systems up and running, larger businesses literally grind to a halt when the network and systems fail. They have dozens of employees sitting idle because their jobs demand they use the programs and files on the network and the equipment that’s connected to it — whether it’s email, word, or accounting systems to pay vendors, make payroll, or finish the proposal that must go out by the end of the day. Others working the

shop floor where the CNC machine is driven by the CAD software that is no longer working are also idled. For organizations like this an MSP is not a nice-to-have; it’s an invaluable member of the team. From asset replacement planning and budgeting, to monitoring the health of all the systems and network, to ensuring your servers, workstations and equipment are up to date and running smoothly, to protecting your valuable data and other private and confidential information from prying eyes, a good MSP will be your partner with a vested interest in the ongoing operations of your business and the systems and network that support it. Even large corporations with an in-house IT team are not exempt from the needs of the skills of an MSP. In-house teams are usually built to support the day-to-day operations of the large and often complex organization and while they do that with aplomb, they are sized for that purpose. That means they’re often so bogged down by routine daily tasks that their talent is wasted, jeopardizing the very core of your business infrastructure. In-house teams become overworked on the minutiae and underutilized given their skill set, making

them more vulnerable to error. They aren’t adding nearly as much value to your business as they should be; it’s not a good place to be, for you or them. An MSP can free an in-house IT team from the daily burdens that plague businesses and consume their time. Whether it’s through automating the basics like operating system and application patch management, security audits/updates or providing an end-user help desk to deal with end-user frustrations, an MSP can free your staff to work on all the things that help your business grow. They would be solid contributors to your business if they weren’t running around extinguishing tech fires and handling monotonous tasks that are below their skill level. The long and the short of it is that every business and any business can benefit from using an MSP. Al Alper is CEO and founder of Absolute Logic in Wilton, a technical support and technolo�y consultant to businesses of up to 250 employees in Connecticut and New York, and a national speaker and author on IT and security issues. He can be reached at al.alper@absolutelogic.com or 203-936-6680.

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FACTS & FIGURES BANKRUPTCIES MANHATTAN Dawson International Investments (Kinross) Inc. P.O. Box 706, Natick, Mass. 01760. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Nathan S. Greenberg and Patrick L. Hayden. Filed: May 27. Case no. 16-11551-jlg. Dawson International Properties Inc. P.O. Box 706, Natick, Mass. 01760. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Patrick L. Hayden. Filed: May 27. Case no. 16-11552-jlg. Dawson Luxury Garments Inc. P.O. Box 706, Natick, Mass. 01760. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Patrick L. Hayden. Filed: May 27. Case no. 16-11554-jlg. DCC USA Inc. P.O. Box 706, Natick, Mass. 01760. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Patrick L. Hayden. Filed: May 27. Case no. 16-11553-jlg. Illion Properties Inc. P.O. Box 706, Natick, Mass. 01760. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Patrick L. Hayden. Filed: May 27. Case no. 1611550-jlg.

WHITE PLAINS Bruno Holdings. 2 South St., Suffern 10901. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Elizabeth A. Haas. Filed: May 27. Case no. 16-22738-rdd.

East Coast Orthotic & Prosthetic Corp. Filed by Kenneth J. Lynch. Action: Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Attorney: Samuel J. Samaro. Filed: May 31. Case no. 7:16-cv-04033. Fairﬁeld Family Care LLC. Filed by Kenroy Williams. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Michael John Borrelli, Alexander Todd Coleman and Jeffrey Robert Maguire. Filed: May 26. Case no. 7:16-cv-03903-VB. Health Quest Medical Practice PC. Filed by Dina M. Rosado. Action: FMLA – Family and Medical Leave Act (findings and purpose). Attorney: Russell Gustavson Wheeler. Filed: May 31. Case no. 7:16-cv-03996-CS. K.R.G. Electric Inc. Filed by Samuel Fratto III, James Johannemann and Gilbert Heim. Action: E.R.I.S.A. – civil enforcement of employment benefits. Attorney: Matthew Francis Hromadka. Filed: May 27. Case no. 7:16-cv03956-VB. Putnam Golf Inc. Filed by Westchester Disabled On The Move Inc. Action: Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Attorney: William David Frumkin. Filed: May 26. Case no. 7:16-cv-03960-NSR. The Sun Products Corp. Filed by Shaya Eidelman. Action: diversity action. Attorney: Gary Steven Graifman. Filed: May 26. Case no. 7:16-cv-03914NSR.

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COURT CASES Best Buy Co. Inc. Filed by Sergio Ramos. Action: diversity action. Attorney: Maria Papasevastos. Filed: May 31. Case no. 7:16-cv-03999-CS. Caliber Home Loans Inc. Filed by Charles Battiste and Nadine Thompson. Action: diversity – notice of removal. Attorney not listed. Filed: May 31. Case no. 7:16-cv-03983-VB. Items appearing in the Westchester 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: Bob Rozycki c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 3 Westchester Park Drive, Suite G7 White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3680

110 S Street LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: 110 School Street Realty Corp., Yonkers. Property: 110 School St., Yonkers. Amount: $1 million. Filed May 26. 450 Trinity Apartments LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Trinity Sharp Realty LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 450 Walnut St., Yonkers. Amount: $4.7 million. Filed May 26. Cortlandt Manor Equities LLC, New York City. Seller: Frontier Cortlandt Manor LLC, Miami, Fla. Property: 3025 E. Main St., Cortlandt. Amount: $10.7 million. Filed May 26. Doja LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: 45 Penn Boulevard Ltd., Scarsdale. Property: 45 Penn Blvd., Scarsdale. Amount: $4 million. Filed May 24. Greater New York Corporation of Seventh-Day Adventists, Manhasset. Seller: Metro New York District Church of the Nazarene, Valley Stream. Property: 1243 White Hill Road, Yorktown. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed May 27.

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Sapientia Association Inc., Norwalk, Conn. Seller: the Jewish Family Congregation of South Salem New York, South Salem. Property: 111 Smith Ridge Road, Lewisboro. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed May 25. Tav Properties LLC, Chappaqua. Seller: Olivier Flosse, et al, Rye. Property: 49 Coolidge Ave., Rye. Amount: $1 million. Filed May 25.

Below $1 million 792 McLean LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Elise Realty LLC, Mamaroneck. Property: 792 McLean Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $750,000. Filed May 24. 89 Ash Street LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Albert Fakhoury, Yonkers. Property: 89 Ash St., Yonkers. Amount: $525,000. Filed May 26. Aneen LLC, Garrison. Seller: 50 Welcher Ave Realty Corp., Elmsford. Property: 63 Welcher Ave., Peekskill. Amount: $350,000. Filed May 26. Bank of America N.A. Seller: Michele L. Bermel, Chappaqua. Property: 83 Young Ave., Cortlandt. Amount: $576,529. Filed May 25. Blue Dwarf Properties LLC, Hastings-on-Hudson. Seller: Hattie Lou Pointer, Mount Vernon. Property: 77 Lorraine Terrace, Mount Vernon. Amount: $140,000. Filed May 26. Citibank N.A. Seller: David Dembitzer, Scarsdale. Property: 50 Cliffside Lane, Bedford. Amount: $901,001. Filed May 25. Evergreen Contracting NY LLC, Ossining. Seller: Terre Thomas, Ossining. Property: 3 Butler Place, Ossining. Amount: $115,000. Filed May 26. Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: James C. McMahon, et al, Ossining. Property: 196 Pinesbridge Road, New Castle. Amount: $382,969. Filed May 24.

JM West LLC, Bellmore. Seller: Lisa M. Blustein, Scarsdale. Property: 7 Old Farm Road, New Rochelle. Amount: $375,450. Filed May 25. Lincoln FSNY Realty Corp., Yonkers. Seller: Woodside Developers Inc., West Harrison. Property: 149 Lincoln Ave., No. 147, Harrison. Amount: $753,000. Filed May 24. LNV Corp. Seller: Guy Parisi, Rye. Property: 31 Crest Drive, Somers. Amount: $197,960. Filed May 25. National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Andrew R. Mannarino, et al, Chappaqua. Property: 25 Hardscrabble Hill Road, Mount Pleasant. Amount: $799,000. Filed May 27. Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Seller: Dennis Douglas, Bronxville. Property: 276 Bedford Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $476,028. Filed May 25. North Division Street Holdings LLC, Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Pasquale Cartalemi, et al, Cortlandt Manor. Property: 695 N. Division St., Peekskill. Amount: $100,000. Filed May 24. Shen Group Real Estate LLC, Greenwich, Conn. Seller: Dennis Derienzo, et al, Larchmont. Property: 725 Forest Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $835,000. Filed May 24. The Bank of New York Mellon. Seller: Robert Ryan, White Plains. Property: 10 First St., North Salem. Amount: $831,004. Filed May 25. U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Nancy Hughes, New City. Property: 50 Lincoln St., New Rochelle. Amount: $690,900. Filed May 25. Ventures Trust 2013-I-H-R by MCM Capital Partners LLC, Bethesda, Md. Seller: Rosimar Jewell, Cortlandt Manor. Property: 25 Chester Court, Cortlandt. Amount: $635,000. Filed May 26.

Gaillard Woods LLC, Tuckahoe. Seller: Alice Corso, Wilmington, N.C. Property: Gaillard place, New Rochelle. Amount: $55,000. Filed May 27.

WB Pinebrook Associates LLC, Bronx. Seller: Palmer Avenue Housing Development Fund Company Inc., Tarrytown. Property: 2101 Palmer Ave., 207, Mamaroneck. Amount: $269,414. Filed May 25.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Cirino M. Bruno. Property: 65 S. Beechwood Road, Bedford. Amount:$404,406. Filed May 24.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Michele Bermel, Chappaqua. Property: 580 Seventh Ave., Pelham. Amount: $733,400. Filed May 27.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Linda Markowitz, White Plains. Property: 31 Sheldrake Lane, New Rochelle. Amount: $743,908. Filed May 24. HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Theresa M. Daniele, White Plains. Property: 17 Lenox Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $735,776. Filed May 25.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Maria J. Frank, Yorktown Heights. Property: 13 Banksville Road, North Castle. Amount: $74,680. Filed May 27.

FORECLOSURES HARTSDALE, 614 Colony Drive, Apt. 614. Condominium, lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Board of Managers of the Colony Hartsdale Condominium. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Goldenberg & Selker, 914-997-0999; 399 Knollwood Road, White Plains 10603. Defendant: Edna Johnson. Referee: Robin Dale Carton. Sale: June 22, noon. Approximate lien: $25,347.94. MOUNT PLEASANT, 12 Suzanne Lane. Single-family residence; lot size: 1.15 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-2195787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Robert Mangieri. Referee: Jack Schachner. Sale: June 7, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $705,252.33. MOUNT VERNON, 33 Elm St. Two-family residence; lot size: .11 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: David Godinez. Referee: Thomas Gallivan. Sale: June 8, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $897,894.42. MOUNT VERNON, 118 W. Second St. Two-family residence; lot size: .12 acre. Plaintiff: Southstar I LLC. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Quanda Moore. Referee: Jack Schachner. Sale: June 7, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $690,793.77. MOUNT VERNON, 301 E. Third St. Condominium building, lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Arthur Munro. Referee: Paul Miklus. Sale: June 15, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $408,165.84. NEW ROCHELLE, 38 Allard Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .14 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Ricardo Aquije. Referee: Joan Salwen. Sale: June 15, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $572,085.74. NEW ROCHELLE, 306 and 308 Fifth Ave. Commercial building; lot size: .09 acre. Plaintiff: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 585-987-2800; 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Rochester 14614. Defendant: Jesula Fauvel. Referee: Julia Henrichs. Sale: June 8, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $549,170.64. PEEKSKILL, 150 Rolling Way. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Bonnie Bartlett. Referee: Mitchell Weingarden. Sale: June 8, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $374,649.41.

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STATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL AWARDS HVEDC Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. (HVEDC) in New Windsor recently received five major marketing awards from the New York State Economic Development Council (NYSEDC). HVEDC, which works to promote economic development throughout the seven-county region, was recognized for developing and implementing a wide range of digital and traditional marketing efforts receiving Best in Class awards in the categories of Multimedia Advertising and Annual Reports, while receiving honorable mentions in the Printed Advertising and Printed/ Electronic Newsletter. “This recognition is not just about being acknowledged for great design and writing,” said Larry Gottlieb, HVEDC president and CEO. “These awards are about the economic development results these tools generated and that’s

how we approach everything we do… seeking positive outcomes for our work. I’m so honored to lead such a great organization.” “It is humbling to be recognized again this year by NYSEDC for our organization’s marketing materials,” said Robert J. Levine, interim chairman of the HVEDC Board of Directors. In the Multimedia category, HVEDC received accolades for its HVEDC Launches Hudson Valley EDs and MEDs video produced by Ellenbogen Creative Media. Its 2014 Annual Report, designed by Focus Media, was deemed “Best in Class” in its category. “Working with HVEDC to position this great region for economic growth has always been a thrill for our agency,” said Josh Sommers, CEO of Focus Media and member of the HVEDC Board of Directors.

WESTMED EARNS NATIONAL RECOGNITION The CDC has recently announced that WESTMED Medical Group is one of 18 health care professionals, practices and systems in the U.S. recognized as a “Million Hearts Champion.” The recognition is for achieving a blood pressure control rate at or above the Million Hearts target of 70 percent of adult patients with hypertension.

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CAR WASH

Town of Warwick Supervisor Michael Sweeton, Mayor Michael Newhard and members of the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce recently joined owner Paul LeDuc and his family and staff to celebrate the installation of environmentally

friendly car wash equipment at Warwick Car Wash & Oil Express. Located on Elm Street behind Mitchel Corners, Warwick Car Wash & Oil Express also offers fullservice vehicle maintenance.

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In addition, WESTMED is the only “Million Hearts Champion” in Westchester and Rockland counties in New York and Fairfield County in Connecticut. Hypertension Control Champions were found to use a number of innovative approaches to achieve BP control rates of 70 percent or better in their practices.

NEW BOOK TELLS A FASCINATING STORY Ecologists Richard T. Holmes of Dartmouth College and Gene E. Likens of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook co-authored “Hubbard Brook: The Story of a Forest Ecosystem” a book about the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and how forest ecosystems work, from the flow of water and nutrients to the ecology and behavior of forest animals. Hubbard Brook is best known for being the site where Likens and colleagues first discovered

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acid rain in North America, and the home of pioneering studies that have advanced our understanding of how acid rain and other atmospheric pollutants impact forests and adjacent freshwaters. This work has informed a range of policy measures, including the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. Holmes is a research professor of biology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Likens is founder and president emeritus of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook.

Groundwork Hudson Valley kicked off this year’s Get Fresh Yonkers Farmers Market season on June 3 at the Van der Donck Park, across from the Metro-North Yonkers station. The market will run from noon to 5 p.m. weekly through Oct. 28. This season, the market will feature locally grown produce and hydroponic vegetables. The market will have produce from partnering farms such as Peace and Carrots Farm of Chester, Dagele Brothers Produce of Florida

and Alex’s Tomato Farm of Ossining. Market attendees will have the opportunity to take guided tours of the market’s location, Van der Donck Park, which is an urban wildlife refuge. These tours will be led by U.S. Fish & Wildlife trained members of the Green Team, a summer youth employment program. Groundwork Hudson Valley attempts to empower communities to reclaim and revitalize environmentally and economically distressed neighborhoods.

ACCESSORIES SHOP LAUNCHES COMFORT SNACKS

BEVERAGE PLUS CELEBRATES EXPANSION

SUNY ORANGE NAMES VP FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE

Daniel Hall

Town of Warwick Deputy Supervisor James Gerstner and members of the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce joined owners Annette and Jim DiZenzo and their son Matt and daughter Kisti to celebrate the grand opening of the Comfort Snack Shop. Photo by Roger Gavan.

KristiNicole Accessories owners Annette and Jim DiZenzo and their son and daughter recently celebrated the grand opening of their Comfort Snack Shop within their existing shop at 22 Railroad Ave. in the town of Warwick “We are very excited about this new addition to our business,” said Annette DiZenzo. “While on vacation down south we came across a store, The Peanut Shop of Williamsburg,

that offered tastings of their line of seasoned nuts. After sampling their peanuts we decided we wanted to make this part of our business so we created the Comfort Snack Shop, within our existing store.” KristiNicole Accessories and the Comfort Snack Shop are open Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ULSTER SAVINGS AWARDS GRANT

From left, Kathy Weiss, church trustee; Jeffrey Wood, executive director of the Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation; Karen Seyfert, trustee; Glenn Sutherland, president and CEO of Ulster Savings Bank; Bette J. Sohm, pastor at the New Paltz United Methodist Church; and Sue Benz, foundation member, inside the church’s kitchen.

The Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation recently awarded a $2,000 grant to the New Paltz United Methodist Church to assist with capital improvements. The grant will help the church with planned kitchen upgrades,

including the enclosure of an exterior stairwell to accommodate donated convection ovens and the purchase of 100 chairs, which will be needed as the facility serves an increasing number of community groups.

WOMEN’S RUGBY IN WESTCHESTER The White Plains Rugby Football Club (WPRFC), the region’s premier rugby organization has announced the addition of White Plains Women’s Rugby to the club. The metro New York area has a rich tradition of men’s and women’s rugby, but the Westchester area was without a women’s team until now. Rugby has grown rapidly across college campuses throughout the country and rugby players often continue to play with community teams after graduation.

This year, women and men’s rugby will be featured as a new sport in the Rio Olympics. WPRFC is looking forward to increased interest from athletes who are new to the game with an excellent coaching staff, experienced players and a regional and national organizational structure complete with top-tier officials. To find out more or to get involved, contact Ayana Rivera at whiteplainsrugby.com or email at info@wprfc.com.

Far left, town of Warwick Deputy Supervisor James Gerstner, Mayor Michael Newhard (far right) and members of the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce joined Patel, his wife, Bindiya, his staff and members of the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce to celebrate Beverage Plus 2 expanded location. Photo by Roger Gavan.

Boasting an inventory of more than 1,200 different domestic and imported beers, Nayant Patel, owner of Beverage Plus, describes his business as “A beer lovers’ paradise.”

Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce and town officials joined Patel, his wife, Bindiya, his staff and members of the to celebrate Beverage Plus 2’s expanded location at 17 South St. in the village of Warwick.

LEGAL SERVICES TO HOST FUNDRAISER Legal Services of the Hudson Valley (LSHV) has announced that it will honor Timmian Massie, senior vice president for marketing, public affairs and government relations at Health Quest as Champion of Justice and Iseman Cunningham Riester & Hyde LLP as Advocate for Justice at its third annual Dutchess Partners in Justice Reception, a fundraiser to support its programs in Dutchess County. The event will be held on Sept. 22, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at Locust Grove Estate, Poughkeepsie. Massie will be honored for his “extraordinary level of community service” to more than 50 organiza-

tions throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond, as well as for his support of LSHV’s work in Dutchess County. The law firm will be honored for its “generous support” of LSHV over the past 10 years. The mission of Legal Services of the Hudson Valley is to provide free, high-quality counsel in civil matters for poor and low-income individuals and families who cannot afford to pay an attorney where basic human needs are at stake. For more information, call Loretta Spence at 845-471-0058, ext. 423, or email LSpence@lshv.org.

EXCELLENCE IN NURSING Bijo Thomas received the third annual St. Elizabeth Seton Children’s Foundation Mission Award in Nursing in honor of Sister Miriam Kevin Phillips during a ceremony on May 11 at the Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center. The foundation established the award in 2014 to be given annually to a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse who embodies the mission of St. Elizabeth Seton through the commitment and service they provide to the residents of the pediatric center and their families. The award’s namesake is a member of the Sisters of Charity of New York and serves as Volunteer of Special Projects. Thomas has worked as a nurse at the pediatric center since July 2013. In one submission nominating Thomas for this award a colleague

wrote, “Bijo’s leadership, knowledge, patient-centered approach and innovation have shaped and impacted numerous nurses, residents, families and the pediatric center as a whole. He is a role model for all staff and I am honored to have the opportunity to work with him. I cannot think of another person who is more deserving of a nursing excellence award because, simply put, Bijo is not only an exemplary employee, but he is the nurse you want to take care of your own child.” Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center is a not-for-profit, specialty nursing facility, serving the most medically complex children in New York state. The center, which is a 137-bed and 165,000-square-foot complex in Yonkers, is in its 28th year of service.

Daniel Hall, vice president for finance and facilities at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, Minn., for the past four years, has been named SUNY Orange’s new vice president for administration and finance announced by college President Kristine Young. With more than 25 years of public and private sector senior-level administrative experience, he will be a member of Young’s executive leadership team and will oversee the business office, maintenance and facilities, safety

and security, human resources, payroll and institutional research. At North Hennepin, Hall was a member of the president’s cabinet and executive team, directing administrative and auxiliary functions including finance, accounting, budget, facilities, physical plant, risk management, environmental health and safety, bookstore and printing services. He successfully led the development of a new 60,000-square-foot bioscience and health careers center, which was completed on schedule and $1 million under budget. He aligned the college’s financial resources to more fully support North Hennepin’s master plans for academics, student affairs, facilities and information technology. A native of Oregon, Hall holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and urban and regional governments from Willamette University in Salem, Ore., in addition to his master’s degree.

CENTRAL HUDSON EXPANDS IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM Central Hudson has invested in the region’s electric and natural gas delivery system to improve efficiency, accommodate growing distributed sources of renewable energy, address aging infrastructure, provide storm hardening measures and enhance safety and system reliability. “We’re embarking on the most significant infrastructure improvement initiative in our history, with total investments of $128 million this year in the electric and natural gas systems,” said Michael L. Mosher, president and CEO of Central Hudson. He explained that future investments, projected through 2021, are estimated at $730 million, and support the ongoing transition to a cleaner and more efficient energy delivery system.

Examples of planned and ongoing system investments during 2016 include the replacement of 13 miles of aging natural gas mains, the expansion of natural gas service into seven new neighborhoods and the environmental remediation of a former manufactured gas plant on the Rondout Creek in Kingston. Central Hudson will also upgrade seven electric substations in Dutchess, Orange, Greene and Ulster counties, rebuild and provide storm hardening measures to critical and aging electric transmission lines in the towns of Pleasant Valley and LaGrange, and install equipment along portions of the electric distribution system to provide operators real-time information on system conditions and the ability to direct energy flows remotely

BHGRE RAND REALTY WINS AWARDS Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate has announced the annual award recipients from across its franchise network. BHGRE Rand Realty in New City was named the number three company within the nationwide network and sales associate Margo Bohlin was ranked second in her position among all franchises. Rand Realty also was awarded the Company Talent Attrac-

tion Award, which recognizes the top brokerage based on highest net agent count increase for the year. Additionally the company won the Community Involvement Award for their charitable efforts. These performance-based awards recognize the top producers within the BHGRE network nationwide based on criteria in the categories of total closed units and gross commission income.

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WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL HOSTS NARCAN TRAINING

TSTT HOSTS RECOGNITION BREAKFAST

White Plains Hospital hosted and co-sponsored a Westchester County Health Department training session recently for pharmacy professionals on how to safely and effectively administer the drug naloxone (brand name: Narcan). The training was organized through the Westchester Society of Health System’s Pharmacists (WCSHP) and coordinated by Patricia Byrne, president of the Westchester Society and director of pharmacy at White Plains Hospital. “We are very excited to be able to bring this opportunity to the pharmacists in the WCSHP and White Plains Hospital and work together with the department of health to save lives. We are looking forward to future community collaborative events to increase awareness and skills to effectively

Today’s Students Tomorrow’s Teachers (TSTT) honored and recognized its school districts and college partners, alumni teachers and the 2016 high school and college graduates from the Greater Hudson Valley region on their accomplishments over the past year. School districts represented at the ceremony included New Rochelle, Greenburgh, Peekskill, Mount Vernon, East Ramapo, Yonkers, Ellenville, Fallsburg and Monticello. During the ceremony, TSTT held a special tribute to one of the organization’s longtime supporter Jane Cecil, who died last year. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the New York state Senate Democratic leader, addressed the audience of 200 current and future educators, at Manhattanville College about the need for more diversity in the teaching ranks in the state and nationwide. Sterling Roberson, vice president of the United

administer Narcan,” Byrne said. Westchester County Health Commissioner Sherlita Amler, provided opening remarks and joined in the training provided by health department staffer Patrick Quinn. Free naloxone kits were provided to all participants, including 35 registered pharmacists and other nursing leaders, who were certified for two years to administer naloxone. As part of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino’s Safer Communities initiative, more than 800 police officers have been trained to administer Narcan. Those officers have already saved at least 65 lives from May 2014 through March 2016, according to the New York State Department of Health.

THE WORLD’S BEST SHORT FILM SHOW RETURNS Asbury Shorts, New York’s longest-running short film exhibition, returns to Rosendale Theatre in Rosendale on June 11 with its special touring 35th Anniversary Short Film Concert co-presented by the Rosendale Theatre and Ulster County Tourism. The first film is screened at 7:30 pm. An Asbury Short Film Concert combines award-winning films from past years with new international festival honorees, creating a rare opportunity for audiences

to see world-class short films on a real cinema screen as opposed to You Tube, smartphones or computers. Academy Award nominated director Jason Reitman calls Asbury Shorts “The best short film show I’ve ever seen.” The fast-paced, highly entertaining evening features the best in comedy, drama and outstanding animation. Tickets can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com/ event/1438355. For directions and more information, call 845-658-8989.

Federation of Teachers in New York City addressed the audience and acknowledged the organization for its mission to recruit, mentor and train culturally diverse teachers and economically challenged students from high school through college on their quest to becoming the next generation of educators. TSTT was founded as an early teacher preparation program to empower the next generation of caring, competent and committed teachers, to create a more diverse and effective teacher workforce. The full-circle career development model makes certain that students can qualify for tuition scholarships from its 24 college partners. TSTT then helps place the graduates in their communities as teachers. Among the nation’s 3.5 million teachers, only 13 percent are teachers of color and only 2 percent are men of color.

ORMC CELEBRATES NATIONAL CANCER SURVIVORS DAY Orange Regional Medical Center’s Spagnoli Family Cancer Center will host a celebration of life in conjunction with National Cancer Survivors Day (NCSD) on Saturday, June 11. The event will take place under the tent outside of Orange Regional’s Conference Center located at 707 E. Main St., Middletown from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. This free event is open to anyone

who has been diagnosed with cancer, is in treatment for cancer or has completed cancer therapy, as well as their friends, family members and caregivers. The event will include a mini health fair, food, music and a celebration of the lives of the cancer survivors in our community. Reservations are required by June 8. Call 888-321-6762.

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FACTS PEEKSKILL, 625 Harrison Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Federal National Mortgage Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Alina Rodriguez. Referee: David Gallo. Sale: June 7, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $521,773.96. PLEASANTVILLE, 16 Club Court. Single-family residence; lot size: .05 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Ben Rosenshine. Referee: Steven Lubowitz. Sale: June 8, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $682,006.11. TUCKAHOE, 198 Midland Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .14 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Heather Dolgetta. Referee: Charles D’Agostino. Sale: June 5, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $851,733.76. WHITE PLAINS, 86 North Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .14 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Arlene Nembhard. Referee: Jay Hashmall. Sale: June 8, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $603,130.21. YONKERS, 2 Landscape Place aka 14 Landscape Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .13 acre. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Berkman, Henoch, Peterson & Peddy, 516-222-6200; 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City 11530. Defendant: Muhannad Assi. Refere: David Gallo. Sale: June 21, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. YONKERS, 44 Crotty Ave. Twofamily residence; lot size: .1 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Edwin Caminero. Referee: Michael Santangelo. Sale: June 21, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $393,776.90.

JUDGMENTS J.V. Molinaro Builders LLC, Pawcatuck, Conn. $41,089 in favor of DLG ADV LLC, Jericho. Filed May 27. Med Plus USA, Suffern. $73,241 in favor of MMS East LLC, New Rochelle. Filed May 25. Pet Discount Planet USA LLC, North Caldwell, N.J. $21,995 in favor of Oakwood Center LLC, Yonkers. Filed May 24. Stay Focused Marketing LLC, Northvale, N.J. $174,460 in favor of Lockard and Wechsler Inc., Irvington. Filed May 25.

Ultimate Tire Shop Ltd., Poughkeepsie. $8,006 in favor of Tire Buys Inc., Mount Kisco. Filed May 23. Unlimited 1 Adjustments LLC, White Plains. $92,682 in favor of Five Waller Avenue Company LLC, Armonk. Filed May 25.

LIS PENDENS The following filings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed. Arquinio, Julio C., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $510,400 affecting property located at 135 Edgepark Road, White Plains 10603. Filed March 24. Bajtal, Ibrahim, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $360,000 affecting property located at 1355 N. Ridge Road, Shrub Oak 10588. Filed March 24. Balsky, Gayle, et al. Filed by Capital One N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $950,000 affecting property located at 9 Hoffman Road, Mount Kisco 10549. Filed March 25. Bell, Florence L., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $622,500 affecting property located at 505 Manchester Road, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed March 26. Blair, Mitzy Elizabeth, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $452,000 affecting property located at 158 S. 11th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed March 25. Brown, Valerie A., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $467,500 affecting property located at 73 Dell Ave., Mount Vernon 10533. Filed March 25. Bruno, Maria, individually and as administrator and distributee of the estate of Antonio Bruno, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $408,000 affecting property located at 1 Lynette St., New Rochelle 10801. Filed March 24.

Galperin, Jeﬀrey, et al. Filed by RBS Citizens N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $247,500 affecting property located at 11 Howard Place, Rye. Filed March 27. Greater Westchester Property Group LLC, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $471,250 affecting property located at 542-544 Locust Ave., Port Chester 10573. Filed March 24. He, Enhua, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $310,000 affecting property located at 13 Sand St., Millwood 10546. Filed March 26.

FIGURES Petronella, Frank, individually and as surviving spouse of Lisa Scholl, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $402,750 affecting property located at 1607 Half Moon Bay Drive, no. 16-08, Croton-on-Hudson 10520. Filed March 26. Pucha, Mario V., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $598,025 affecting property located at 13 ½ N. French Ave., Elmsford. Filed March 25. Reyes, Juan C., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $460,000 affecting property located at 26 S. Regent St., First floor, Port Chester 10573. Filed March 25.

Venturi, Vincenzo, as owner. $5,078 as claimed by Westchester Automated Gate LLC, Baldwin Place. Property: in Pound Ridge. Filed May 25. Warden, John, et al, as owner. $2,391 as claimed by Admiral Conservation Services II. Property: in Bedford. Filed May 25.

Luis Zhina, 6 Todd Place, Ossining 10562, c/o Luis A. Zhina. Filed Oct. 19.

NEW BUSINESSES

Nick’s Touch Up, 61 Webster Ave., Harrison 10528, c/o Nicholas Pecora. Filed Oct. 19.

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Robinson, Michael, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $218,500 affecting property located at 6107 Villa at the Woods, Apt. A 507, Peekskill 10566. Filed March 24.

Lombardo, Giuseppe S., et al. Filed by Citibank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $193,500 affecting property located at 48 Glen Wood Road, Millwood 10546. Filed March 27.

Smith, Frances, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $644,077 affecting property located at 62 Great Oak Lane, Pleasantville 10570. Filed March 26.

Lopez, Eneida, as heir at law and next of kin to Robert Rivera, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $169,169 affecting property located at 849 Washington St., Peekskill 10566. Filed March 26.

Walker, Beatrice, et al. Filed by Aurora Loan Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $560,000 affecting property located at 56 Patmor Ave., Yonkers 10710. Filed March 26.

Manning, Troy W., et al. Filed by First Horizon Home Loans. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $235,000 affecting property located at 143 North St., Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed March 25.

MECHANIC’S LIENS

Pietro Demarco Importers Inc., d.b.a. Presto Wines USA, 1185 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers 10710. Filed Oct. 19.

162 Grand Street Realty LLC, as owner. $36,750 as claimed by Benjamin Schaffer Architect, White Plains. Property: in White Plains. Filed May 25.

Saccente’s House of Printing Inc., d.b.a. Shop Signs, 621 S. Columbus Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Oct. 19.

Ortiz, Carlos, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $375,000 affecting property located at 56 Morningside Ave., Yonkers. Filed March 26.

Estate of Daniel L. Forbes, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $603,000 affecting property located at 173 Country Ridge Drive, Rye Brook 10573. Filed March 24.

Ozoria, Joanna, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $437,705 affecting property located at 53 Salisbury Road, Yonkers 10710. Filed March 25.

Freeman, Patrick J., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 160 Elm St., Yonkers 10701. Filed March 24.

Pepperman, Michael, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $544,947 affecting property located at 126 Parkview Drive, Bronxville 10708. Filed March 25.

570 North Bedford Road LLC, as owner. $307,025 as claimed by Robertson Construction Inc., Goldens Bridge. Property: in Bedford. Filed May 25. Casabianca, Caterina, et al, as owner. $2,066 as claimed by A and C/Furia Electronic Motors Inc., White Plains. Property: in Rye. Filed May 25. Joseph Rustins Inc., as owner. $91,605 as claimed by Whitewater West Industries Ltd. Property: in Pelham. Filed May 26. New Roc Associates LP, as owner. $6,838 as claimed by GSI Systems Inc., New York City. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed May 25. Tecza, Suzanne, as owner. $11,035 as claimed by Sunrise Solar Solutions LLC, Briarcliff Manor. Property: in Mamaroneck. Filed May 25.

Julia Vicars, MAAT, 97 Robertson Ave., White Plains 10606, c/o Julia Vicars. Filed Oct. 19. Luciana Unique Cleaning Style, 9 Bedell Road, Amawalk 10501, c/o Luciana Miranda. Filed Oct. 19.

Westchester Gardens Realty LLC, as owner. $9,325 as claimed by Monforte Electric Corp., New Rochelle. Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed May 26.

Kruse, Patricia, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $750,000 affecting property located at 4 Chiusa Lane, Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed March 26.

Mortellaro, James Jr., heir to the estate of James Mortellaro, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $630,000 affecting property located at 37 Jean Way, Somers 10589. Filed March 27.

Hockeymoms.org, 13 Olmsted Road, Scarsdale 10583, c/o Carol Wolfe. Filed Oct. 19.

Doing Business As Arsun Corp., d.b.a. Spice Village, 8 Columbus Ave., Tuckahoe 10707. Filed Oct. 19. Better Building Concepts Inc., d.b.a. CClean, 551 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook 10573. Filed Oct. 19. New York Non-Proﬁt Development Group Inc., d.b.a. Lead Belly Fest Charities, 746 Mamaroneck Ave., Suite 1301, Mamaroneck 10543. Filed Oct. 19.

Westchester Deltas Inc., d.b.a. Violet Torch Foundation, 507 Palisade Ave., Yonkers 10703. Filed Oct. 19. Yorktown Huskies AC Inc., d.b.a. Empire State Huskies, 2750 Quinlan St., Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed Oct. 19.

Sole Proprietorships Bruce Oberfest and Associates, 287 King St., Chappaqua 10514, c/o Bruce Oberfest. Filed Oct. 19. Diamond Cuts Barbershop, 137 Main St., Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Luis Emmanuel Paulino. Filed Oct. 19. General Upholstery and Decorations, 50 Locust Hill Ave., Yonkers 10701, c/o Willy Duran. Filed Oct. 19. Hockeymoms, 13 Olmsted Road, Scarsdale 10583, c/o Carol Wolfe. Filed Oct. 19.

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Montees, 33 S. Fourth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Jamaine L. Legare. Filed Oct. 19.

Vantage, 600 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers 10710, c/o William Mauro. Filed Oct. 19. Wordways125, 125 Judson Ave., Dobbs Ferry 10522, c/o Lisa Donati Mayer. Filed Oct. 19.

PATENTS 276-pin buffered memory card with enhanced memory system interconnect. Patent no. 9,357,649 issued to Sungjun Chun, Austin, Texas; and Brian J. Connolly, Williston, Vt. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Client-side script to application communication system. Patent no. 9,357,013 issued to David R. Shepherd, Durham, N.C.; Mark A. Silbert, Durham, N.C.; and David M. Soroka, Raleigh, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Cooling method with automated seasonal freeze protection. Patent no. 9,357,682 issued to Levi A. Campbell, Poughkeepsie; Richard C. Chu, Hopewell Junction; Milnes P. David, Fishkill; Michael J. Ellsworth Jr., Lagrangeville; Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Foster City, Calif.; Robert E. Simons, Poughkeepsie; Prabjit Singh, Poughkeepsie; and Jing Zhang, Poughkeepsie. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Disambiguating conflicting content filter rules. Patent no. 9,356,937 issued to Jeffrey Robert Hoy, Southern Pines, N.C.; Shadi Eskamaei Albouyeh, Raleigh, N.C.; Bernadette Alexia Carter, Raleigh, N.C.; and Stephanie Lynn Trunzo, Wake Forest, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Entity registration in multiple dispersed storage networks. Patent no. 9,357,009 issued to Jason K. Resch, Chicago, Ill.; Gary W. Grube, Barrington Hills, Ill.; and Timothy W. Markison, Mesa, Ariz. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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FACTS Liquid-cooling apparatus with integrated coolant ﬁlter. Patent no. 9,357,74 issued to Levi A. Campbell, Poughkeepsie; Richard C. Chu, Hopewell Junction; Milnes P. David, Fishkill; Michael J. Ellsworth, Poughkeepsie; Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Foster City, Calif.; Roger R. Schmidt, Poughkeepsie; and Robert E. Simons, Poughkeepsie. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Optimizing network communications. Patent no. 9,357,035 issued to Omar Cardona, Cedar Park, Texas; Matt R. Hogstrom, Cary, N.C.; and Rakesh Sharma, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Pump-enhanced, immersion cooling of electronic component(s). Patent no. 9,357,675 issued to Levi A. Campbell, Poughkeepsie; Richard C. Chu, Hopewell Junction; Milnes P. David, Fishkill; Michael J. Ellsworth Jr., Poughkeepsie; Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Foster City, Calif.; Roger R. Schmidt, Poughkeepsie; and Robert E. Simons, Poughkeepsie. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Streaming video to cellular phones. Patent no. 9,356,985 issued to Erik J. Burckart, Raleigh, N.C.; Robert Madey Jr., Spicwood, Texas; Victor S. Moore, Lake City, Fla.; and Richard Poundstone, Ridgefield, Conn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. System and method to support identity theft protection as part of a distributed service-oriented ecosystem. Patent no. 9,357,384 issued to Mamdouh Ibrahim, Rochester Hills, Mich.; Sri Ramanathan, Lutz, Fla.; Tapas K. Som, Germantown, Md.; and Matthew B. Trevathan, Kennesaw, Ga. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

HUDSON VALLEY

Cunningham, John P., et al, New York City, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: Sparkling Ridge Road, Gardiner 12561. Amount: $650,000. Filed May 23. Freeman, Andrew R., et al, Brooklyn, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 15 Rock Oak Lane, Rochester. Amount: $660,000. Filed May 23. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center Inc., Kingston, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: in Kingston. Amount $120,000. Filed May 26. Martin Home Builders Corp., Walden, as owner. Lender: Libertyville Capital Group II LLC, Montgomery. Property: 43 Donna Christie Lane, Walden. Amount: $180,000. Filed May 25. O’Neill, Liam T., et al, Huguenot, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Deerpark. Amount: $238,000. Filed May 26. Platinumrock Real Estate LLC, Henderson, Nev., as owner. Lender: RCN Capital Funding LLC, South Windsor, Conn. Property: 514 South St., Highland 12528. Amount: $185,250. Filed May 24. Stewart, Shannon A., et al, Saugerties, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Ulster. Amount $238,000. Filed May 25. Tondo Custom Concrete LLC, Goshen, as owner. Lender: ABL One LLC, Hoboken, N.J. Property: 3 Heidi Lane, Monroe 10950. Amount: $390,000. Filed May 24.

DEEDS Above $1 million Aphis Realty, Astoria. Seller: East End Realty Partnership II, Ridgewood, N.J. Property: 2419 Main St., Pine Bush. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed May 23.

BUILDING LOANS

Lucretia Investment Holdings LLC, New York City. Seller: Fox Hill Realty LLC, Chester. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $1 million. Filed May 25.

Above $1 million Lofts @ Beacon Falls LLC, as owner. Lender: CPC Funding SPE 1 LLC. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $12 million. Filed May 26.

Sovran Mahopac 534 LLC, Buffalo. Seller: Value Store IT Mahopac LLC, Miami Lakes, Fla. Property: 5 Lupi Court, Mahopac. Amount: $7.7 million. Filed May 10.

Below $1 million

Westport Management LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Gale Marie Patrick, et al, Arlington, Texas. Property: 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed May 25.

Behnke, David, et al, Highland, as owner. Lender: Salisbury Bank and Trust Co., Lakeville, Conn. Property: 244 Pancake Hollow Road, Lloyd 12528. Amount: $452,000. Filed May 25.

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13 Garﬁeld Holdings LLC, Monroe. Seller: Serena Katz, Brooklyn. Property: 13 Garfield Road, Kiryas Joel. Amount: $200,000. Filed May 27. 187 Esopus Creek Road LLC, Saugerties. Seller: Quinn Realty Partners LLC, Saugerties. Property: in Saugerties. Amount: $134,000. Filed May 23. 32 Church St LLC, Monsey. Seller: NRZ REO IV Corp., Coppell, Texas. Property: 17 Railroad Ave., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $20,000. Filed May 25. 42 Realty Holdings LLC, Middletown. Seller: Ronald J. Pestone, et al, Otisville. Property: in Mount Hope. Amount: $765,000. Filed May 25.

FIGURES Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Michele Marte-Indzonka, Newburgh. Property: 11 Monhagen Ave., Middletown 10940. Amount: $414,496. Filed May 24. Double R Capital Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Tariq Mahmood, Wappingers Falls. Property: in Wappinger. Amount: $52,000. Filed May 24. Dutchess County Assets LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Robert P. Ianelli, Fishkill. Property: 181 Johnson Road, Wingdale 12594. Amount: $103,000. Filed May 24. Emerald PJ LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: HSBC Bank USA N.A. Property: 152 Front St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $31,000. Filed May 26.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Gunar Skillins, Aurora, Ontario, Canada. Property: 164 Wall St., Kingston 12401. Amount: $160,478. Filed May 25. Imokilly Regato LLC, New Paltz. Seller: Mark Sturgis, et al, New Paltz. Property: in New Paltz. Amount: $222,245. Filed May 24. JAS Palushaj LLC, Holmes. Seller: FSB Properties Inc., Uniondale. Property: 25 Miller Road, Mahopac. Amount: $893,560. Filed May 10. JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Michele L. Bermel, Chappaqua. Property: 10 Summit Road, Patterson 12563. Amount: $191,931. Filed May 6. Kondaur Capital Corp. Seller: Alan L. Joseph, Goshen. Property: 511 Upper Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $325,042. Filed May 26.

56 Duelk Contractors LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Jacob Lebovits, Brooklyn. Property: 56 Duelk Ave., Monroe 10950. Amount: $255,000. Filed May 25.

Equity Homes of New York Inc., Port Jervis. Seller: Alfred DeCastro, et al, Port Jervis. Property: in Greenville. Amount: $50,000. Filed May 26.

70 Linden Avenue LLC, Middletown. Seller: Vineet Sharma, et al, Middletown. Property: in Middletown. Amount: $100,000. Filed May 24.

Fannie Mae. Seller: Kenneth L. Bunting, White Plains. Property: 84 Cottage Road, Carmel 10512. Amount: $331,495. Filed May 6.

Ashtian LLC, Saugerties. Seller: J and K Evergreen Realty LLC, Lynbrook. Property: in Ulster. Amount: $60,000. Filed May 26.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Ralph A. Beisner, Hyde Park. Property: 21 Maple St., Cornwallon-Hudson 12518. Amount: $311,482. Filed May 23.

L and J Holdings LLC, Hopewell Junction. Seller: Palma Sansone Hermann, Hopewell Junction. Property: 7008 Chelsea Cove North, Hopewell Junction 12523. Amount: $82,500. Filed May 23.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Eli Rosenberg, Palm City, Fla. Property: 431 Wilbur Ave., Kingston 12401. Amount $119,661. Filed May 27.

Madinick Properties LLC, Campbell Hall. Seller: 136 Orange Turnpike Inc., Sloatsburg. Property: in Hamptonburgh. Amount: $10,000. Filed May 26.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: John F. Dzielak, Goshen. Property: 51 Ogden St., Middletown 10940. Amount: $310,597. Filed May 23.

Mid-Hudson Addiction Recovery Centers Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Edward May, Wappingers Falls. Property: 17 Virginia Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $133,000. Filed May 25.

Bank of America N.A. Seller: Michael Caputo, et al, Cuddebackville. Property: 9 Forshee, Monroe 10950. Amount: $196,891. Filed May 27. Bank of America N.A. Seller: Peter Botti, Goshen. Property: 19 Bennett St., Middletown 10940. Amount: $315,159. Filed May 27. Bayview Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables, Fla. Seller: Michael L. Fox, Newburgh. Property: 15 Grandview Terrace, Chester 10918. Amount: $262,900. Filed May 25. Beneﬁcial Homeowner Service Corp., Brandon, Fla. Seller: John F. Bernard Jr., Walden. Property: 33 Seely St., Walden 12586. Amount: $94,328. Filed May 26. Brookﬁeld Relocation Inc. Seller: Frank Castro, et al, Putnam Valley. Property: 37 Brookside Ave., Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $342,500. Filed May 6. CitiFinancial Co., Fishkill. Seller: Sharon M. Faulkner, Poughkeepsie. Property: 33 Nassau Road, Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $121,000. Filed May 23. CitiMortgage Inc. Seller: Leslie Baum, Walden. Property: 31 Bircher Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $385,500. Filed May 19. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Geoffrey Eliot Chanin, Goshen. Property: 145 W. Main St., Walden 12586. Amount: $268,160. Filed May 24.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Konstantinos G. Fatsis, Highland Falls. Property: 20 Pierces Road, Unit 52D, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $167,562. Filed May 24.

Kondaur Capital Corp., Orange, Calif. Seller: Eric Ossentjuk, Newburgh. Property: 11 Woodland Circle North, Monroe 10950. Amount: $321,641. Filed May 25.

Modern Home Developers LLC, Carmel. Seller: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Property: 9 Lorene Drive, LaGrangeville 12540. Amount: $147,500. Filed May 25.

Platinumrock Real Estate LLC, Henderson, Nev. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 514 South St., Highland 12528. Amount: $100,000. Filed May 24. PMT NPL Financing 2014-1. Seller: Gary Elliot Eisenberg, New City. Property: 51 Main St., Sparrow Bush. Amount: $284,374. Filed May 23. Re.Vitalize Developments LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Marebello Inc., Highland Mills. Property: 47-49 Liberty St., Newburgh. Amount: $35,000. Filed May 26. Santander Bank N.A. Seller: Allan B. Rappleyea, Poughkeepsie. Property: 36 Whittier Blvd., Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $170,000. Filed May 19. Silo Ridge Ventures Property A LLC, Scottsdale, Ariz. Seller: Harlem Valley Landfill Corp., Dover Plains. Property: in Amenia. Amount: $25,000. Filed May 20. Sycamore Valley LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Michael D. Kranis, Poughkeepsie. Property: 5 Quaker Hill Drive, Hyde Park 12538. Amount: $78,000. Filed May 23. The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Seller: Peter Botti, Goshen. Property: 17 Tanglewood Drive, Goshen 10924. Amount: $363,958. Filed May 24. The Bank of New York Mellon. Seller: Jamie Giannetta, Wappingers Falls. Property: 3477 Route 82, Millbrook 12545. Amount: $678,500. Filed May 25. The Bank of New York Mellon. Seller: Stanley Esposito, Pleasantville. Property: 63 Woodland Trail, Carmel 10512. Amount: $407,207. Filed May 11. The Bank of New York Mellon. Seller: Vincent J. Catalano, Poughkeepsie. Property: 49 Camelot Road, Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $315,000. Filed May 24.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Michael Catania, Newburgh. Property: 25 Bolton Basin Road, Sparrowbush 12780. Amount: $137,063. Filed May 23.

Modern Home Developers, Carmel. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 334 Hibernia Road Salt Point 12578. Amount: $133,000. Filed May 19.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Alan J. Joseph, Goshen. Property: in Monroe. Amount $372,982. Filed May 25.

First Berkshire LLC, Mohegan Lake. Seller: Deborah Esposito, Tarpon Springs, Fla. Property: in Carmel. Amount: $114,000. Filed May 9.

Morluck Equities Inc., Monroe. Seller: Rudolph C. Gross, et al, Brownsville, Vt. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $150,000. Filed May 19.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Charles Edward Frankel, Newburgh. Property: 5 Stone Gate Road, Central Valley 10917. Amount: $373,666. Filed May 24.

Hani Holdings LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Jack Elliott Schachner, Pleasant Valley. Property: 10 Mark Vincent Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $170,000. Filed May 23.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Anthony S. Georgiana III, et al, Carmel. Property: 1225 Farmers Mills Road, Carmel. Amount: $310,000. Filed May 6.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Patrick Gartland, Poughkeepsie. Property: 7 Colonial Road, Unit 11 H, Beacon 12508. Amount: $72,500. Filed May 25.

Homestead Building Corp., Middletown. Seller: Joyce H. Snyder, et al, Newburgh. Property: Ridgeview Drive, Newburgh. Amount: $38,500. Filed May 24.

Nostra Terra LLC, Hopewell Junction. Seller: John B. Baker, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $257,500. Filed May 23.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Dana D. Blackmon, Kingston. Property: 122 Corlies Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $338,000. Filed May 23.

PHH Mortgage Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J. Seller: Leslie A. Baum, Walden. Property: 56 Wileman Ave., Walden 12586. Amount: $327,818. Filed May 25.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Tulsa Knox, Greenwich, Conn. Property: 46 Brothers Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $486,000. Filed May 25. U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Edward C. Bruno, Pine Bush. Property: 23 Mangin Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $376,574. Filed May 23.

FACTS U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Glen A. Plotsky, Port Jervis. Property: 350 N. Water St., Unit 1-7, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $264,585. Filed May 26. U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Gordon B. Fine, Yorktown Heights. Property: 54 St. Michaels Terrace, Carmel 10512. Amount: $419,753. Filed May 6. U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Miesha L.M. Rodriguez, Hopewell Junction. Property: 210 White Pond Road, Stormville 12582. Amount: $264,000. Filed May 23. Urban Builders Inc., Rhinebeck. Seller: Tanya M. Patrick, Poughquag. Property: 19 Clove Road, Rhinebeck 12572. Amount: $10,000. Filed May 20. Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Juliana LoBiondo, Newburgh. Property: 10 Wedgewood Drive, Goshen 10924. Amount: $226,096. Filed May 24. Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Ralph Andrew Beisner, Poughkeepsie. Property: 373 Church St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $316,500. Filed May 23. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Donald D. Brown, Poughkeepsie. Property: 5 Bush Creek Lane, Poughquag. Amount: $240,000. Filed May 25. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Patrick Thomas Gartland, Poughkeepsie. Property: 23 Weber Hill Road, Mahopac. Amount: $219,000. Filed May 6. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Peter G. Botti, Goshen. Property: 23 Oakwood Trail N., Monroe 10950. Amount: $163,216. Filed May 25. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Robert Rametta, Goshen. Property: 414 Rye Hill Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $452,514. Filed May 25. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Stephen Donohue, Bardonia. Property: 44 Ulster Ave., Walden 12586. Amount: $260,745. Filed May 26. YYY Properties LLC, Chester. Seller: Harvey C. Kallus, Goshen. Property: 330-332 Main St., Cornwall-on-Hudson 12518. Amount: $126,130. Filed May 27.

JUDGMENTS Above All Repair Inc., Highland. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25. Accord Speedway Inc., Accord. $809 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

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Acousmatic Mask Ltd., Bearsville. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Elite Parking Inc., Kerhonkson. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Matula-Evans Law Firm PC, Kingston. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Ricketson Bro Inc., New Paltz. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Action Underground Utilities LLC, Wallkill. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Forkandles Inc., Kerhonkson. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

McDonough LLC, Highland. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Roxlor LLC, Olivebridge. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

At Last Entertainment LLC, Middletown. $3,643 in favor of Baker and Taylor LLC, Charlotte, N.C. Filed May 25.

Four Seasons Insulators Inc., Newburgh. $5,078 in favor of USAA General Indemnity Co., San Antonio, Tex. Filed May 26.

Mel Dea Inc., Kingston. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Ruin Inc., Saugerties. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Ay CH Inc., High Falls. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Givepizzachance LLC, Willow. $1,859 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Mel Mike Corp., Saugerties. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Sanchez and Sons, Highland. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Babba Louie’s LLC, Gardiner. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Gray Excavating Inc., Kerhonkson. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Mid Orange Mechanical Corp., Middletown. $120,750 in favor of MidHudson Fire Protection Inc., Beacon. Filed May 26.

Skyline Construction, Rosendale. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Bangkok Café New Paltz LLC, New Paltz. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

J. Honey Nail Inc., Saugerties. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Mole Mole Inc., Kingston. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Tavern 214 LLC, Phoenicia. $6,629 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed May 24.

CAW Enterprises Inc., Lake Katrine. $7,193 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed May 24.

J. Lent and Son General Contracting, Kingston. $5,811 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed May 24.

New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Valley Construction and Builders LLC, Wallkill. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Cool Life Systems Inc., Montgomery. $20,545 in favor of Hudson Valley Datanet LLC, Newburgh. Filed May 24.

J. Whalen Rooﬁng and Co., Kingston. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

New York Pest Solutions Inc., Saugerties. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Video Box LLC, Goshen. $1,795 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 15.

JJ’s Country Café, High Falls. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Orange County Construction Services LLC, Wallkill. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Joe Precour Inc., Highland. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Peoples II Inc., Ulster Park. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

John Angel Restaurant Inc., Kingston. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

PJSG LLC, Saugerties. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Kiki Inc., Kingston. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Primo’s Bar and Grill, Clintondale. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

D and A Masonry, Gardiner. $158,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed May 27. D and M Precast Patching and Cutting Inc., New Paltz. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25. DJ’s Contracting and Creative Surfaces Inc., Glasco. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25. Doc Orders Inc., Esopus. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25. DWL Designs Inc., Kerhonkson. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25. East Coast General Construction LLC, Saugerties. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Leo’s Pitstop and Salvage Corp., New Paltz. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25. Liberty Security Services LLC, Kingston. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Reidbuild Consultancy LLC, West Shokan. $6,234 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed May 24. Reservoir Delicatessen and Dairy Inc., Shokan. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

Walkway Café and Market, Highland. $841 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed May 24. Wallkill Paving and Sealcoating, Wallkill. $1033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25. Woodstock Outdoor Company Inc., Woodstock. $1,033 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed May 25.

LIS PENDENS The following ﬁlings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may aﬀect the title to the property listed. Albert, Dennis, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $272,097 affecting property located at 4 Mabel Road, Wallkill 10941. Filed Oct. 26.

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Angulo, Monica, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $254,000 affecting property located at 24 Watson Place, Hyde Park 12538. Filed May 20. Arce, Edward, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $305,100 affecting property located at 24 Leslie Drive, Mahopac 10541. Filed May 25. Arndt, David, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $240,000 affecting property located at 10 Glendale Road, Carmel 10512. Filed May 13. Arns, Donald C., et al. Filed by Ocwen Loans Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $135,000 affecting property located at 105 Monhagen Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 27. Banton, Yvette, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $450,000 affecting property located at 2135 Route 52, Pine Bush 12566. Filed Oct. 28. Bascus, Felicia, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $289,014 affecting property located at 63 Scotchtown Place, Middletown 10941. Filed Oct. 27. Benson, Sean, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $307,350 affecting property located at 93 Brothers Road, Poughquag 12570. Filed May 20. Bierce, Arthur L., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $354,164 affecting property located at 15 Cottage Road, Carmel 10512. Filed May 25. Blue Roof Properties Inc., et al. Filed by Richard J. Brady, et al. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $430,000 affecting property located at 5064 Route 17M, New Hampton 10958. Filed Oct. 27. Bobinski, Christopher R., et al. Filed by Embrace Homes Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 144 Shore Drive, New Windsor 12553. Filed Oct. 27. Bouton, Charles S. Jr., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $155,677 affecting property located at 40 Seneca Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed May 16. Brown, Owen Lloyd, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $297,000 affecting property located at 90 Duck Pond Road, Stone Ridge 12484. Filed May 23. JUNE 6, 2016

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FIGURES

Burnley, Richard L., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $198,000 affecting property located at 1013 Plains Road, Wallkill 12589. Filed May 24.

Griﬄer, Richard E., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $381,812 affecting property located at 68 Cedar Drive, Tuxedo 10987. Filed Oct. 26.

Leaning, Ian, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $318,750 affecting property located at 116 Laurel Lane, Saugerties 12477. Filed May 25.

Pironi, Looris, et al. Filed by Carrington Mortgage Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $211,612 affecting property located at 4 S. Gate Road, Highland 12528. Filed May 24.

Smith, Danny P., et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $209,322 affecting property located at 27 Overlin Road, Patterson 12563. Filed May 13.

Warwick Yard LLC, as owner. $242,266 as claimed by Musco Sports Lighting LLC, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Property: The Warwick Yard, 122 State School Road, Warwick 10990. Filed May 24.

Calcagni, Jerry, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $230,840 affecting property located at 224 Pirog Road, Pine Bush 12566. Filed May 25.

Grinnell, Robert, et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $221,600 affecting property located at 785 Freedom Plains Road, Lagrangeville 12540. Filed May 20.

Lishnoﬀ, Charles S., et al. Filed by Sterling National Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 57 Little York Road, Warwick 10990. Filed Oct. 28.

Poku, Elizabeth, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $340,941 affecting property located at 15 Brookside Drive West, Harriman 10926. Filed Oct. 26.

Smith, Lynn S., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $748,040 affecting property located at 32 Bristol Drive, Middletown 10941. Filed Oct. 27.

Wright, Alex, et al, as owner. $2,910 as claimed by K.A.D. Custom Masonry Inc., Hyde Park. Property: 23 Buist Road, Rhinebeck. Filed May 24.

Campbell, Morgan C., as administrator and distributee of the estate of William R. Campbell, et al. Filed by Sun West Mortgage Company Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $292,500 affecting property located at 3 Harmon Road, Brewster 10509. Filed May 25.

Grunkmeyer, Christian R., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $248,704 affecting property located at 18 Shore Drive, Greenwood Lake 10925. Filed Oct. 27.

Louttit, Cathleen, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $246,137 affecting property located at 975 Route 17K, Montgomery 12549. Filed Oct. 28.

Prelvukaj, Kumri, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $359,650 affecting property located at 9 Cannon Road, Carmel 10512. Filed May 25.

Spencer, Thomas R., et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $296,750 affecting property located at 39 Rock Mountain Estate, Accord 12404. Filed May 23.

Conklin, Clement Jr., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $144,000 affecting property located at 209 Oakland Valley Road, Cuddebackville 12729. Filed Oct. 28.

Gulnick, Burton Jr., Ulster County commissioner of finance as administrator of the estate of Lois J. Berchtold, et al. Filed by Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $435,000 affecting property located at 1407 Route 208, Wallkill 12589. Filed May 26.

Maher, Christopher, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $329,000 affecting property located at 19 Cornwall Hill Road, Patterson 12563. Filed May 24.

Quick, Dina, et al. Filed by Residential Mortgage Solution LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 103 Bullville Road, Bullville 10915. Filed Oct. 26.

Tremblay, Lawrence J., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $123,100 affecting property located at 310 Temple Hill Road, New Windsor 12533. Filed Oct. 27.

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Mann, David J., et al. Filed by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $378,550 affecting property located at 29 James Clark Drive, Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 28.

Raymond, Rosemary, as executrix of the estate of Barbara Noga, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $60,000 affecting property located at 161 Putnam Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed May 13.

Williams, Nancy A., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 18 Glendale Road, Carmel 10512. Filed May 13.

Marshall and Sterling Inc., d.b.a. Valley Agency, 407 Hurley Avenue Ext., Kingston 12401. Filed May 24.

Riviello, Kathryn, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $130,500 affecting property located at 280 Canal St., Ellenville 12428. Filed May 27.

Yustein, Brian T., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $268,000 affecting property located at 4 Buckingham Drive, Newburgh 12550. Filed Oct. 26.

Twisted Foods Pretzel Roll Factory Corp., d.b.a. Twisted Fork, 2919 Lucas Turnpike, Accord 12404. Filed May 24.

Rodriguez, Wilfredo, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $247,000 affecting property located at 15 Canterbury Drive, Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 26.

Zajaceskowski, Kim, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $130,000 affecting property located at 8 Crawford St., Port Jervis 12771. Filed Oct. 26.

Cruz, Eric, et al. Filed by Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 7 Hastings Road, Carmel 10512. Filed May 24. Dolson, John, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 19 Weathervane Drive, Apt. 14, Washingtonville 10992. Filed Oct. 26. Fix, Lucille E., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $85,000 affecting property located at 102 Second Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed May 26. Fleet National Bank, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $26,000 affecting property located at 54 Friedlander Drive, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed May 24. Gary, Vanessa, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $365,989 affecting property located at 18 Alex Court, Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 27. Gjonaj, Toma, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $263,400 affecting property located at 34 Somerset Lane, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed May 18. Gould, Christopher T., et al. Filed by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 18 Partridge Lane, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed May 17. Greenidge, Desiree E., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $120,000 affecting property located at 231 Manorville Road, Woodstock 12498. Filed May 26.

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Gulnick, Burton Jr., Ulster County commissioner of finance as administrator of the estate of Rachelle Katz, et al. Filed by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $240,000 affecting property located at 169 Downs St., Kingston 12401. Filed May 26. Hayes, James, et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $144,700 affecting property located at 41 Crosby Ave., Brewster 10509. Filed May 18. Heirs and distributees of the estate of Starr Edwards, et al. Filed by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $292,500 affecting property located at 34 Bergen Ave., Montgomery 12586. Filed Oct. 27. Hickman, April, et al. Filed by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $258,000 affecting property located at 618 Prosperous Valley Road, Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 28. Hogancamp, Donna L., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $650,000 affecting property located at 1612 Route 55, LaGrangeville 12540. Filed May 24. Keller, Philip R., et al. Filed by Walden Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $323,000 affecting property located in Blooming Grove. Filed Oct. 26. Kennedy, John C., et al. Filed by Citizens Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $289,999 affecting property located at 7 Magnolia Drive, Wappinger Falls 12590. Filed May 23.

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Melissakis, Giorgios, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $236,200 affecting property located at 2 Billy Ave., Washingtonville 10992. Filed Oct. 26. Melrose, Joseph M., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $237,000 affecting property located at 375 Salt Point Turnpike, Unit 1A, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed May 20. Minard, Irma L., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $277,500 affecting property located at 283 Quassaick Ave., New Windsor 12553. Filed Oct. 27. Neser, Kurt J., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $108,760 affecting property located at 2740 South Road, Apt. A-11, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed May 20. Pearsall, Robert T., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $253,600 affecting property located at 287 Cricket Hill Road, Dover Plains 12522. Filed May 24. Pennetta, Elizabeth A., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $463,125 affecting property located at 38 E. Village Road, Tuxedo 10987. Filed Oct. 28. Petroﬀ, Stephen, et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $120,000 affecting property located at 8 Old S. Plank Road, Newburgh 12550. Filed Oct. 26.

Rogers, John J., et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $60,000 affecting property located at 5 Imperato Court, Plattekill 12515. Filed May 24. Rosoﬀ, Neil, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $376,000 affecting property located at 51 Red Hawk Hollow Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed May 24. Sakovsky, Tanya Variel, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $196,000 affecting property located in Marlborough. Filed May 25. Sanchez, Gerardo, as executor to the estate of Zoraida Gonzalez, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $374,500 affecting property located at 180 Montgomery St., Newburgh 12550. Filed Oct. 28. Seton, Irene, et al. Filed by OneWest Bank FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $118,835 affecting property located at 28 Orchard Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed May 17.

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

Cl.Ear Sound Inc., d.b.a. The Builder’s Group, 206 Henry St., Kingston 12401. Filed May 24.

Telesco Auto Body Inc., d.b.a. Telesco’s Auto Body, 10 Commercial St., Highland 12528. Filed May 27.

Partnerships Bartlett Built, 2 Riverview Drive, New Paltz 12561, c/o Hunter Ehlen Bartlett and Donald J. Bartlett. Filed May 26.

MECHANIC’S LIENS

J and J Painting, 45 ½ Henry Ave., Newburgh 12550, c/o Jose Espinoza and Jennifer Aguilar. Filed May 4.

Covington Route 300 LLC, as owner. $12,201 as claimed by Dick’s Concrete Company Inc., New Hampton. Property: in New Windsor. Filed May 23.

Saha and Saha, 160 E. Main St., Port Jervis, c/o Kajal K. Saha and Purabi Saha. Filed May 4.

Great Palace Realty LLC, Newburgh, as owner. $22,283 as claimed by Gianarelli Inc., Cherry Hill, N.J. Property: 5 Lakeside Road, Newburgh 12550. Filed May 23.

Sole Proprietorships Acurate Lien and Title Service, 102 Osseo Park Road, Monroe, c/o Adam L. Paul. Filed May 5.

Highvue Associates LLC, as owner. $8,000 as claimed by Dunrite Construction. Property: in Carmel. Filed May 16.

Black Dirt Motorsports, 80 Pumpkin Swamp Road, Goshen, c/o Desmond E. Meacham Jr. Filed May 6.

Strocchia, Salvatore, as owner. $18,067 as claimed by SRK and B Inc., Montgomery. Property: 1901 Albany Post Road, Shawangunk. Filed May 23.

Blue Mountain Massage Therapy, 1811 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties 12477, c/o Teresa M. O’Brien. Filed May 26.

Tuxedo Reserve Owner LLC, et al, New York City, as owner. $80,717 as claimed by Material Processors Inc., Warwick. Property: in Tuxedo. Filed May 23.

C and C Consultants, 121 Route 375, Woodstock 12498, c/o Carol A. McCauley. Filed May 24. Candelicious4U, 32 Pressler Road, Wallkill 12589, c/o Lisa Pfleger. Filed April 30.

LEGAL NOTICES Scavone Style, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/16/2016 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: 32 Madison Street, West Harrison, NY 10604 principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #60547 Notice of Formation of Basset Moon Studio, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/22/16. 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, c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60548 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Black Dirt Market, LLC (ìLLCî). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on April 11, 2016. NY 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 Black Dirt Market, LLC, c/o Urban Green Foods, LLC, 45 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 10706. Purpose/ character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #60549 Notice of Formation of SHANEKELLI ASSOCIATES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on February 23, 2016. Office Location is in the County of Westchester. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail process to Going to the Dawgs, 757 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY 10805. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60551 Vertu Mazal Tov LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/11/16. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 9 Old Sprain Rd., Ardsley, NY 10502. General purpose. #60552 Brook Plaza Holdings LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 4/27/16. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, P.O. Box 398, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. General purpose. #60554

Flying Fox Enterprise LLC Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on April 11, 2016. Office located in WESTCHESTER COUNTY. SSNY designated as agent upon which process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: 95 BEEKMAN AVE. STE 448W SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY 10591(the LLC’s primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #60555 Notice of Formation of Synergy Beauty Bar, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/28/16. 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, 33 South Broadway White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60556 Notice of Formation of Projectart LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/16/16. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNYdesig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall may process to pricipal business location: 14 Lincoln Rd, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful activity. #60557 Notice of formation of CHAOS Wildlife Solutions of Westchester, LLC filed with SSNY on 4/14/16. Office located Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 515 Decatur Ave. Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose:any lawful purpose. #60558 Notice of Formation of Origin Crafts, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/29/08. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Origin Crafts LLC, 74 Washington St., Port Chester, New York 10573. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60559 Notice of Formation of Land of the Well, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/10/15. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY design.as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC,18 Monroe St. Mount Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60560

Notice of Application for Authority to do business in New York of SEQUOIA SERVICES LLC (ìLLCî). Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY) on 4/1/16. LLC formed in Delaware (ìDEî) on 9/3/15. Office location is Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of such process to the LLC c/o Registered Agents Inc. 90 State Street, Suite 700 Office 40 Albany, NY, 12207. Office address in DE is c/o Harvard Business Services, Inc. 16192 Coastal Hwy Lewes DE 19958. Copies of Certificate of Organization of LLC are on file and may be obtained from the Secretary of State of DE, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal Street ñ Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity. #60561 Nexus Point Advisors, LLC has filed articles of organization with the Secretary of State of NYS on 04/27/16. The offices of this company are located in Westchester County, NY. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is 115 E Stevens Ave, Valhalla, NY 10595. The company is organized to conduct any lawful business for which limited liability companies may be organized. #60563 Pure Bliss Yogurt & Juice Bar, LLC Date of filing articles of organization with secretary of state: April 13, 2016 County in which office of LLC is to be located: Westchester Address of principal place of business of LLC: 988 King Street, Rye Brook, New York 10573 The secretary of state has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the secretary of state shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him or her is: 988 King Street, Rye Brook, New York 10573 Purpose of business of LLC: any lawful purpose. The term of the LLC is perpetual. #60564 Notice of Formation of WESTHILL COTTAGE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/11/16. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Renaissance Square, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60565 Notice of Formation of Global Moving & Relocations LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/23/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Roberto Medina, 1000 Saw Mill River Rd., Unit A, Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: any lawful activity. #60566

Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company : Network Conglomerate LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York On 3/4/2016. Office Location. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1 West Prospect Avenue, Mount Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60567 Notice of Formation of SNAC Properties, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/16/2016. Offc. Loc: 674 Central Park Ave Yonkers, NY 10704. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 674 Central Park Ave Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60568 Notice of Formation of Sadek Wellness, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/22/16. 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, 171 Sparks Ave, Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60569 Notice of Formation of Yoav Cacao, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/12/16. 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, 61 Maple St, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60570 Notice of Formation of Events by Elizabeth, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/4/16. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 Creemer Rd. Armonk, NY 10504. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60571 Notice of Formation of Prevention Design, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/8/2016. 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, 3074 Wharton Dr., Yorktown Hts., NY 10598. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60573 JM Facilities, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 4/22/16. Office Location: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: MJW Law 1846 E. Main St. Mohegan Lake, NY 10547 Purpose: all lawful. #60576 G.V.G. Management, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 5/4/16. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process The LLC, 260 Glenbrook Ave., Yonkers, NY 10705. General purpose. #60577 Deconstructing the Music, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/30/16. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 1409 Entertainment, Inc., POB 238, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. General purpose. #60578

CM Genaro LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/18/14. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Christienne Genaro, 30 Willetts Rd., Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. General purpose. #60580 The Law Office of John P. Seligman, PLLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 5/2/16. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to: The PLLC, 45 Main St Unit 4C, Hastings On Hudson, NY 10706. Purpose: law practice #60581 Notice of Formation of 10 LAFAYETTE RENTAL, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/2016. 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 C/O THE LLC, 8 Gedney Park Drive, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #60583 Notice of Formation of 11 WASHINGTON RENTAL, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/2016. 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 C/O THE LLC, 8 Gedney Park Drive, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #60584 Notice of Formation of 59 DEKALB AVENUE LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/27/2016. 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 C/O THE LLC, 8 Gedney Park Drive, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #60585 Notice of Formation of 25 NORTH MORTIMER AVENUE LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/27/2016. 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 C/O THE LLC, 8 Gedney Park Drive, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #60586 Notice of Formation of REGLI, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/16. Office Location: WESCHESTER. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 Carol Lane, New Rochelle NY 10804. Purpose: any lawful purpose #60587

Notice of Formation of DJ CoolHand LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/16/16. 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, 6 Juengstville Rd PO Box 790 Croton Falls, NY 10519. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60588 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: MECP III LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on May 16, 2016. 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 MECP III LLC, c/o Mountco Construction and Development Corp., 700 White Plains Road, Suite 363, Scarsdale, New York 10583. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #60589 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: MST I LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on May 16, 2016. 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 MST I LLC, c/o Mountco Construction and Development Corp., 700 White Plains Road, Suite 363, Scarsdale, New York 10583. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #60590 Notice of Formation of STONETOWN LLC. Principal Office Westchester County. Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 124 Mount Vernon Avenue, Mount Vernon, NY 10550. Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on April 20, 2016. Purpose: Any lawful act(s). #60591 Notice of Formation of chrisclarkeconsulting, llc. Art. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State (NYDOS) on 5/2/16. Office Location: Westchester County. NYDOS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. NYDOS shall mail process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60592 Notice of Formation of Honig Business Solutions, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 5/9/16. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon which process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 7014 13th Ave, St. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #60593

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CosMedPillow LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 5/20/16. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 40 Westfield Rd., White Plains, NY 10605. General purpose. #60594 Notice of Formation of MERCANTU LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/10/2016. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O MERCANTU LLC, 1 Alexander Street #1102, Yonkers, 10701. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date. #60595 Notice of Formation of Wright Food Company, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/12/2016. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 43A Morningside Dr., Ossining, NY 10562 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60596 Notice of Formation of ROYCE REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/6/16. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 612 East Grassy Sprain Road, Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60597 Notice of Formation of RS PHYSICAL THERAPY, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/22/16. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 35 James Street, Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60598 Notice of Formation of Blue Jade Wellness, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/28/16. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to LLC, 61 Lawton Ave Hartsdale, NY 10530. Purpose: acupuncture, integrated massage. #60599 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by 790 McLean Ave LLC d/b/a Heavy Dee’s Bar & Barbecue Grill to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 790 McLean Avenue Yonkers NY 10704. #60600 Notice is hereby given that a club wine license, #TBA has been applied for by Antonio Meucci Lodge No 213 to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 279 Maple Avenue White Plains NY 10606. #60601

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LEGAL NOTICES Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by 3 M Restaurant Group Inc. d/b/a 808 Social to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 185 Summerfield Street Scarsdale NY 10583. #60602 Notice of Formation of Venti Pine Street, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/02/2016. Office located in 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 any process to: The LLC, 69 Meadow Lane, New Rochelle, NY 10805, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60603

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Notice of Formation of 150 Woodland Avenue, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/27/2016. Office located in 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 any process to: The LLC, 69 Meadow Lane, New Rochelle, NY 10805, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60604 Notice of Formation of 153 Woodland Avenue, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/27/2016. Office located in 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 any process to: The LLC, 69 Meadow Lane, New Rochelle, NY 10805, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60605

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Notice of Formation of 69 Meadow Lane, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/27/2016. Office located in 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 any process to: The LLC, 69 Meadow Lane, New Rochelle, NY 10805, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60606 Four Julian, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 4/29/16. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Eric Medow, 114 Grandview Ave., Rye, NY 10580. General purpose. #60607

The annual return of the AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BITETTO for the calendar year December 31, 2015 is available at its principal office located at D’Arcangelo & Co., LLP, 800 Westchester Avenue, Rye Brook, NY 10573 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is DOMENICK CIACCIA. #60608 Notice of Formation of HBME CPA, LLP. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/03/2016. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The Partnership, 1600 Fox Tail Ln., Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60609 Notice of Formation of Marwan LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/25/2016. 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 564 Kimball Ave Yonkers NY 10704. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60610

Vanotech LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 5/23/16. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to William Kolman, 44 Ganung Dr., Ossining, NY 10562. General purpose. #60611 Notice of Formation of King’s Rush, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/24/2016. 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, 18 Winfield Avenue, Harrison, NY 10528. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60612 Vida Roof LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 4/5/16. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Carmen Osorio, 24 Prospect Terrace, Yonkers, NY 10705. General purpose. #60613

Notice of Formation of Orange Circle Innovations, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/16/16. 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, Nine Livingston Manor, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60614 Notice of Formation of Physiciansí Revenue & Practice Management, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/16/2016. 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, 1155 Warburton Ave - #7C, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60615 Notice of Formation of 23GS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/18/16. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 10 Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: any lawful activity. #60616

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Van Sinderen Plaza Commercial LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on May 26, 2016. 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 Van Sinderen Plaza Commercial LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #60617 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY(LLC). NAME: E2F PROPERTIES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/14/2016. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 21 Alkamont Ave, Scarsdale, NY 10583, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity #60618

FACES & PLACES

That’s the (volunteer) spirit

ore than 600 guests joined Volunteer New York! in recognizing eight individuals and groups from Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties during the 36th annual Volunteer Spirit Awards. In the past year, Volunteer New York! helped connect or inspire more than 19,000 volunteers who have contributed more than 270,000 hours of service to 500 local nonprofits. As Westchester Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett said during the event, “The spirit of volunteerism is alive and well in Westchester.”

1. Robert Baron and Jane Solnick 2. Carissa Duro, Leandro Francisco and Mike Snow 3. Joy Soodik and Susan D. Kroll 4. Joanne Kirkpatrick, Larry Fair and Stacey Petrower 5. Gayle Binney and Jeanette Gisbert 6. Susan Kushner, Eric Nodiff and Joseph Roberto 7. Rob Cordero and Alison and Joseph L. Ali 8. Maria Collins, Zach Lewis and Doug Rogers 9. Markham F. Rollins and Matthew G. McCrosson 10. Jake Gallin, Aurora Anthony and Ally and Thomas Gallin

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Carine Joannou PRESIDENT JAMIS BICYCLES

Steering her company forward. Understanding what’s important. Honoring her father’s legacy has been a priority for Carine since taking over Jamis Bicycles. And she’s done just that, steadily growing the company. So when it came time to choose a new bank, she wanted a financial partner that could help her continue to succeed. Carine found that in M&T Bank. We’ve put in the time to truly understand both her company and the biking industry to determine what Jamis needs to keep moving ahead. To learn how M&T can help your business, visit mtb.com/commercial.

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