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County IDA approves $500,000 in sales tax relief for Atlas Air projects BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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tlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. has gone back to Westchester County for the second time for tax relief for expansion projects at two facilities. The county’s Industrial Development Agency approved $500,000 in sales tax relief on Sept. 27. “We have an issue that we’re delighted to have,” Scott Roper, Atlas’ vice president of taxation, told the IDA board. “That is, we’re growing so fast that we are bursting at the seams.” He said space is so tight at corporate headquarters in Purchase that workers are squeezed into conference rooms. The headquarter’s job count averages 527, out of 3,500 worldwide. The IDA also extended the original 2012 sales tax agreement by another three years to Dec. 31, 2021. Atlas Air Worldwide owns Atlas Air, Southern Air Holdings, Titan Aviation Holdings and 51 percent of Polar Air Cargo. It provides cargo and charter services, such as » ATLAS AIR

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Instructor Duane Townes works with students in the Yonkers Pathways to Apprenticeship program. Photo by Ryan Deffenbaugh.

Yonkers IDA program provides ‘Pathways’ to career in booming construction field

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he nonprofit Pathways to Apprenticeship (P2A) is already gearing up for the anticipated January launch of its next training course in Yonkers designed to put young people on a career course in the construction industry. Not too long ago, on the fourth floor of the Yonkers Parking Authority building in the city’s down-

town during a humid August afternoon, Herlema Owens was instructing a group of about 10 Yonkers residents on safely utilizing power tools. On the other side of the room, Duane Townes leads a similar size group through a lesson on measurements using wooden square blocks. The room hosts 20 students total, the first cohort for the Yonkers Pathways to Apprenticeship, a program launched this past summer in

an effort to connect the city’s unemployed or underemployed young residents with careers in the building trades. Called P2A for short, the 25-day program prepares its students for direct entry into paid union apprenticeships in building trades that put each student on the path to become, among other careers, laborers, carpenters and electricians. The course’s lead instructor, Townes, is a P2A graduate » YONKERS

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ark Fowler and Jessica Kaplan are bucking a tide. Or perhaps they are really riding a wave. For years, we have heard how first, bookstore chains like Barnes & Noble and, then, Amazon would sound the death knell of the independent bookstore. While several shuffled off their mortal coil in the Great Recession of 2008, Fowler said, “I think they’re making something of a comeback.” “There are some good ones in Westchester,” adds Kaplan, who with Fowler, her husband, has visited some 62 from New Jersey to Washington state. Now the Scarsdale couple hope they’ve added one more to the places you’d like to cozy up in. Bronx River Books opened last month in a 1,200-squarefoot space on their hometown’s Spencer Place with the motto “Shop the village. Read the world.” Surely, if there were ever a place to read the world, it is Scarsdale. You need only visit its packed public library — particularly on the late summer weekend of its annual book sale, when you can’t get into the parking lot — to realize that this is a most literary community. Indeed, during the interview, shortly before the bookstore launched, passers-by couldn’t resist peeking in, hoping against hope that maybe, just maybe the new shop was already open. While it wasn’t, Fowler and Kaplan paused graciously to greet them briefly and answer eager questions. Might the new store have some wrapping paper and greeting cards in the manner of the late, lamented Reading, Writing and Wrapping? (It might.) Might a new author leave his contact information? (Certainly.) New authors are just part of the plans for the shop — a most contemporary space in black, white and a pop of red with enough shelves in oak veneer with a fruitwood stain to hold 8,000 to 10,000 books. Many of the bookcases are on casters so that they can be rolled away to accommodate 40 chairs for events, such as authors’ readings and story hours. A table in front will support local book clubs, while nooks allow for individual readers/browsers.

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Publisher Dee DelBello Managing Editor Bob Rozycki Associate Publisher Anne Jordan Group Associate Publisher Dan Viteri NEWS Copy and Video Editor • Peter Katz Reporters • Ryan Deffenbaugh, Bill Heltzel, Phil Hall, Georgette Gouveia, Mary Shustack, Kevin Zimmerman ART & PRODUCTION Creative Director Dan Viteri Art Director Sebastian Flores Art Director Kelsie Mania Digital Content Director Meghan McSharry Jessica Kaplan and Mark Fowler, the couple behind the new Bronx River Books in Scarsdale. Photograph by Sebastián Flores.

Surely, if there were ever a place to read the world, it is Scarsdale. You need only visit its packed public library — particularly on the late summer weekend of its annual book sale, when you can’t get into the parking lot — to realize that this is a most literary community.

Seating was one of the tips the couple picked up in doing due diligence in bookstores across the nation, Kaplan said, adding “I think it’s a great idea.” Seated or standing, patrons are apt to conclude that this is not your average bookstore. Volumes are organized in an interesting way, with “The Human Condition” replacing the old philosophy and religion sections and romance giving way to “Passion.” While the titles are mostly contemporary, some are classic, so that the shop has both Homer’s “The Odyssey,” and Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic,” about an octogenarian who enrolls in his son’s classics class at Bard College before they embark on an odyssey of their own. And while the books range across subject matter, Fowler says they are probably “overrepresented with fiction.” That’s because he is a writer and lawyer who has spent his career in the publishing industry, poring over cases involving libel or freedom of information. He’s still associated with the Manhattan firm of Satterlee Stephens LLP. She is a retired middle school English

teacher who taught at Rye Country Day School, Greenwich Academy and the French-American School of New York. Both have been involved in The Center for Fiction, which is moving to its new home in Brooklyn in December — he as a board member and she as a reader/rater for the center’s First Novel Prize. In addition to their three grown sons, Fowler and Kaplan are the pet parents of Virginia Woolf, an English Springer Spaniel who may become the bookshop dog. (The writer Virginia Woolf counted a Cocker Spaniel, Pinka, among her dogs and wrote a book from the viewpoint of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Cocker Spaniel, “Flush: A Biography.”) Now Virginia Woolf, Fowler and Kaplan have set sail on their own odyssey, for as the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, “There is no Frigate like a Book.” Bronx River Books is at 37 Spencer Place. For more, call 914-420-6396 or visit bronxriverbooks.com. This article originally appeared in WAG magazine, the Business Journal’s sister publication.

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Businesswomen advised to merge cooperation with competition BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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omen in business need to temper their competitiveness with cooperation, to create something called “co-op-etition,” according to Helen Rothberg, professor of strategy at Marist College and a faculty member of the Academy of Competitive Intelligence. Rothberg delivered the keynote address at the event “Women's Blueprint: Mentors That Have Inspired Leadership” on Oct. 2 at the Osborne in Rye. “There is nothing sadder for me than walking into a company and seeing women not being kind to other women, not helping them, not mentoring them,” said Rothberg, who also operates the consulting firm HNR Associates. “The more we work together the bigger the whole value of everything and then we can compete if we need to for the little things in the middle.” Rothberg is author of the book “The Perfect Mix: Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned as a Bartender.” She told the audience of experienced businesswomen and new entrepreneurs, “If you don’t lead yourself you can't lead others and no one is gonna lead you. You have to do more and say less. You have to work from a place of civility and ingenuity, you have to have vision, you have to have integrity, you have to try to communicate, you have to care.” Participating on a panel were: Marcy BermanGoldstein, a board-certified radiologist and co-founder of the retailer I Am More Scarsdale; Holly Mitchell, who has been CEO of CPW Dentistry and recently founded LeadWell Network, a consulting company; Fran Pastore, founder and CEO of the Stamfordbased Women’s Business Development Council; and Daniel Trust, founder and CEO of the Daniel Trust

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Foundation. Berman-Goldstein said her store recorded about $250,000 in sales in its first quarter of operation. “We happen to have very large networks of friends in an amazing community and we really through social media and our friends got the word out there.” Mitchell attributed some of her success in business to the willingness of the first dentist for whom she worked to pay for whatever courses she felt she needed to take to learn about business and dentistry. Pastore noted that the Women’s Business Development Council has been helping women in business for 21 years. “Everyone wants to get to women entrepreneurs today; that’s why you're all here,” she said. “Women entrepreneurs are the fastest growing segment in our economy. They create more jobs than (all of the) Fortune 500 companies combined.” Trust said that his foundation currently provides mentoring for 72 students. Trust was born and raised in Rwanda and fled the genocide there at the age of 15, finding asylum in the U.S. Rothberg noted that helping create opportunities for other women involves some risk “because maybe the person won’t be successful, but maybe they will and maybe they'll be even better and then they can pay it forward.” The presenting sponsors of the event were Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Westfair Communications, publisher of the Westchester County Business Journal, the Fairfield County Business Journal and WAG magazine. The gold sponsor was the health insurance company Oscar, the silver sponsor was the UCONN School of Business and the supporters were Avalon Bay and Hidden Realms Wellness. Each guest received a copy of Rothberg’s book courtesy of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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Clockwise from top left: Helen Rothberg, Daniel Trust, Fran Pastore, Marcy Berman-Goldstein and Holly Mitchell. Photos by Bob Rozycki.

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himself from a course in New York City and a journeyman with the Local 79 union. Owens is president and founder of the Association of Women Construction Workers of America, Inc. The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency (IDA) launched the city’s program in collaboration with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. The IDA will fund three courses total at a cost of $250,000. The first course wrapped up in the first week of September, with 13 of its 20 students placed in paid apprenticeships as of the Business Journal’s press time.

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Construction was one of the five fastest-growing job fields in New York over the past 12 months, according to state Labor Department data. The field added 15,000 jobs between August 2017 and August 2018 in New York. The national Bureau of Labor Statistics, meanwhile, expects employment in construction and extraction fields to grow 11

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The nonprofit Pathways to Apprenticeships organization in charge of the program has been running similar courses in New York City since 2014, which were initially focused on helping people who were re-entering society after incarcera-

“People generally have these skills, but they haven’t worked on them for a while,” said Dominique Bravo, executive director of Pathways to Apprenticeship. “We get them to where they will be able to be successful in the apprenticeship class.” But P2A also emphasizes soft skills, such as conducting interviews, budgeting, presenting positive body language, handling workplace conflict and working with supervisors. They also make visits to job sites and to union offices and training centers. “Our mission at P2A is not just to get people in,”

Bravo said. “We want people to be successful. We want to see them take ownership of this industry.” One of the Yonkers students, Joseph Abraham, said in August that a visit to the headquarters of a Long Island carpenters’ union sparked an interest in carpentry in particular. Seeing the work the carpenters had completed to furnish their own training headquarters, “opened my eyes,” Abraham said. He has worked in general construction before but said he is now planning to pursue the carpentry trade. “This program,” he said, “has given us all the tools necessary to be successful in the union.” Jennifer Candelario, a Yonkers resident who studied in the course’s first cohort, described her interest in the pre-apprenticeship program during an interview using a phrase heard often in the classroom. An apprenticeship in the building trades offers the chance, she said, “at a career, not a job.” “As it says, pathway: this opens that pathway for you,” Candelario said. “This is that pathway to a better future, a better career.”

cites a Sept. 6 letter from Atlas that notes that the company has facilities outside of Westchester, “where the cost of labor and materials for capital improvements is significantly lower than the costs in Westchester County.”

The tax exemption would mitigate that differential, the resolution said, and would encourage the company to invest in Westchester. Atlas intends to spend $2 million on its facilities, according to the IDA resolution, and asked for the sales tax benefits to be increased by $500,000. Roper said in a telephone interview that Atlas expects to spend $6 million on building out its space in Purchase, plus a significant amount on IT infrastructure for employees. “It’s an old space,” he said. “We need to reconfigure it and make it more efficient, so we can put in more employees.” The IDA resolution does not mention job retention or job-creation numbers. Roper said that at a minimum Atlas is committed to retaining the current level of jobs. “We’re hiring new people now,” he said.

Students and instructors for the Yonkers Pathways to Apprenticeship course pose with Mayor Mike Spano. Photo by Ryan Deffenbaugh.

tion launch careers in the construction trades. The program expanded to include people from low-income communities, as well as those who live in public housing. In 2017, the state Department of Labor approved P2A as a direct entry organization, meaning its participants have direct access to interviews for apprenticeships from 15 different unions apart from general recruitment, which can be extremely competitive. Once students complete the course, they receive a certificate of completion that qualifies them for union apprenticeships, as

well as an interview for an apprenticeship with a local union. Since its founding, P2A has assisted 235 people from low-income communities, two-thirds of whom were formerly incarcerated, be admitted into a building trades apprenticeship program. The Yonkers course runs five days per week, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Students are told to arrive 15 minutes early, same as would be expected on a job site, course directors say. The program teaches hard skills, such as learning to safely use a saw, power tools and taking proper measurements.

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delivering packages for DHL and Amazon. Last year, Atlas booked $223.4 million in net income on nearly $2.2 billion in revenue. It has a market capitalization of nearly $1.6 billion. The original deal, in 2012, was for $600,000 in sales tax relief on $8.9 million in projects. Atlas pledged to retain 445 jobs and add 50 to its Westchester payroll. In 2015, Atlas asked the IDA to amend the agreement to allow an estimated $1 million in sales tax relief on $21 million in projects, through the end of this year. That agreement expanded the project to include a data center in Hawthorne. Atlas needed to improve its network capabilities, security and logistic operations, Roper said in a 2015 letter to the county.

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percent nationwide over the next 10 years, faster than average for all occupations. Among those categorized as extraction workers are earth drillers, blasters and derrick operators. But Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, who is also chairman of the IDA, said the city’s young residents may not consider the building trades as a career option. The IDA hopes the program will introduce more Yonkers residents to the industry, and possibly a chance to benefit from the jobs created in a billion-dollar development boom along the city’s waterfront and downtown. “This exposes young men and women to an industry they may not have otherwise been exposed to, (and) gives them the grasp of what they need to go in and become journeyman, laborers, or work in plumbing, electrical, carpentry,” Spano said.

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We have an issue that we’re delighted to have. That is, we’re growing so fast that we are bursting at the seams. — Scott Roper

He noted that Atlas also had a data recovery site outside of New York state and that it was in the process of deciding whether to make the infrastructure improvements there or in Westchester.

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Atlas said it would retain 502 employees in the county, according to minutes of the October 2015 IDA board meeting, and create an unspecified number of jobs in the IT department in Hawthorne. The new IDA resolution

Businesswomen offer insights to their successes BY MEGHAN MCSHARRY mmcsharry@westfairinc.com

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elebrating female entrepreneurship and empowering women to start their own businesses, Westfair Communications’ Women in Food, Beverage and Hospitality event focused on four local entrepreneurs who detailed the successes and hardships they experienced in creating their own businesses. For panelist Loren Brill, it was dealing with a life-threatening disease that led her to creating her business. After being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at just 22 years old, Brill became more conscious of what she was putting into her body, she told attendees at the VIP Country Club in New Rochelle on Sept. 27. She found there was a gap in the market for healthy alternatives to traditional baked goods. After hours of baking different batches in her mother’s “test” kitchen, she created Sweet Loren’s, a cookie dough brand utilizing all-natural ingredients. As for others, finding independence and pursuing their passions were the catalysts. Recent studies show that flexible work hours are correlated to higher levels of happiness and productivity. Many women claimed that having that flexible schedule was one of the driving factors that led them to starting their own companies. “I never wanted to go back and work for somebody else. I wanted to be able to have a family and to travel the world,” said Silvia Baldini, creator of Strawberry and Sage in New Canaan. “I wanted to have something of mine, and it was important to me.” Baldini found even greater success as a chef after becoming a 2015 champion of Food Network’s “Chopped,” a reality show in which four chefs compete to create a three-course meal with unlikely ingredients. But despite the independence that running your own business may allow, each woman admitted there were times they felt defeated. Many left careers in entirely separate industries to start a new venture, such as Simone Klabin, who had previously worked in film and law before authoring her book, “Food and Drink Infographics.” “You have this idea and this energy that you’re putting toward this new business from nothing,” said Claire Marin, founder and CEO of Catskill Provisions, an artisanal food and craft spirits company. She explained that starting a new business from scratch is an ongoing learning process. She recalled bringing her products to New York City and knocking on restaurant doors to build relationships with chefs and get Catskill Provisions into their kitchens, hoping that they would then stock the brand’s whiskey behind the bar. Brill said that “every time I got to a really low point, something magical would happen in 24 hours. I would meet Hoda Kotb from the ‘Today Show’ and ‘think this is a sign.’”

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Faces and Places Luncheon special Westfair Communication’s Women in Food, Beverage and Hospitality event celebrated female entrepreneurship and empowering women at the VIP Country Club in New Rochelle on Sept. 27. Panelists detailed the successes and hardships they experienced in creating their own businesses Bronze sponsors for this event were Courtyard Travel, VIP Country Club, Catskill Provisions, 3E Public Relations, Greater Hudson Bank, Gilda Bonanno LLC, Buzz Creators and Digitalchair. Supporters for this event were Big Green Truck Pizza, Unified Wealth Management, Thompson’s Cider, Hidden Realms, JanCare, Professional Women of Westchester, The Recipe of Success, Hospitality Resource Group and Daniels O’Connell PC. The event honored Ready to Empower. Photos by Bob Rozycki. 1. Nancy Panzer and Jackie Polikoff from Courtyard Travel 2. Simone Klabin author of ‘Food and Drink Infographics.’ 3. Valerie Hovasapian and Elizabeth Bracken from Thompson Cider 4. Event moderator Gilda Bonanno from Gilda Bonanno LLC 5. Rachael Engelhardt and Lara Sullivan from Buzz Creators 6. Tracey Daniels and Sari Kaplan Mittler from Daniels O’Connell PC 7. Yami Holguin from JanCare 8. Stephanie Pawlikowski, Claire Marin and Tracy Gavant from Catskill Provisions 9. Lucy Halperin Zaro, Loren Brill and Jennifer Mezzapelle from Sweet Loren’s

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Elder Law and Estate Planning News from Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP

I Was Told Medicaid Could Take My Home and Life Savings If I Go Into A Nursing Home

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On a regular basis, clients will express to me their fear that if they ever go into a nursing home and/ or need long term care that the Medicaid program will take their home and life savings. While it is prudent to be concerned as to what will occur if you or a family member needs long term care, Medicaid does not seize the Medicaid recipient’s home, its contents and his or her life savings upon eligibility for the Medicaid program. If one is both financially and medically (categorically) eligible for Medicaid, and Medicaid has provided services to the Medicaid recipient, (nursing home and/or home care) then in that event, Medicaid will have a claim/lien against the individuals “estate” at the time of his or her death. 42 U.S.C. 1396p (b)(4) defines the “estate” of a deceased person to: (a) include all real and personal property and other assets included within the individual’s estate, as defined for purposes of state probate law; and (b) may include at the option of the state… any other real and personal property and other assets in which the individual had any legal title or interest at the time of death (to the extent of such interest), including such assets conveyed to a survivor, heir or assign of the deceased individual through joint tenancy, tenancy in common, survivorship, life estate, living trust, or other arrangement. New York, as permitted by federal law, has opted to limit the definition of one’s “estate” for Medicaid recovery purposes. Social Service Law § 369 (6) limits the definition to one’s probate and/or intestate estate (when one dies without a Last Will). Thus, only assets that are in the decedent’s name alone which do not have a named beneficiary, rights of survivorship such as joint accounts, life insurance policies (with named beneficiaries), retirement accounts and/or payable on death or transfer on death are considered part of one’s “estate” for recovery purposes. Additionally, Revocable and/or Irrevocable Trusts are not probate assets, thus, they are also not subject to estate recovery in New York. However, it should be noted that the transfer of one’s assets to an Irrevocable Trust will disqualify the Medicaid applicant and his or her spouse for nursing home Medicaid in New York, and create a 60-month lookback period. Assets transferred to a Revocable Trust do not create said lookback period, however, they are still counted as available resources for pur-

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poses of Medicaid eligibility. While the use of an Irrevocable Trust creates the 5-year lookback period (period of disqualification for Nursing Home Medicaid, not Home Care Medicaid in New York). However once said lookback period has passed the assets in the Irrevocable Trust will no longer be available and countable resources for purpose of Medicaid eligibility and the assets in the Trust will no longer be subject to Medicaid Recovery. Finally with respect to the residence of a Medicaid recipient, under New York Social Service Law § 369 (2)(a)(ii) and 18 N.Y.C.R. §360-7.11 (a)(3)(ii); a Medicaid lien may not be placed on the residence if the residence is still occupied by the recipient, recipient’s spouse, child under 21 years of age, blind or disabled child of any age and/or a sibling who has an equity interest in the home and has resided in the home for one year prior to recipients admission to a medical institution. While the above may seem helpful in preventing Medicaid from placing a lien on the residence, in many instances, at the time of a Medicaid recipient’s death the home is owned by the recipient in his or her name alone and/or jointly with his or her spouse. Thus, Medicaid can file their lien for services provided immediately upon the death of the single Medicaid recipient or upon the death of the surviving spouse. In conclusion, the most prudent course of action to avoid Medicaid recovery and/or liens is to be proactive and utilize an Irrevocable Medicaid Asset Protection Trust and gifting scheme, if appropriate, before the need for long term care becomes a reality. *Anthony J. Enea, Esq. is a member of the firm of Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP of White Plains, New York. His office is centrally located in White Plains and he has a home office in Somers, New York. He can be reached at (914) 948-1500. Mr. Enea is the Past Chair of the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). Mr. Enea is the Past President and a founding member of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). He is also a member of the Council of Advanced Practitioners of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Mr. Enea is the President of the Westchester Bar Foundation and a Past President of the Westchester County Bar Association. He is a lifelong Westchester County Resident.

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WE’RE FINDING IT HARD TO TAKE IN MORE WORK AT THE MOMENT. WE ARE SHORT ON STAFF NEEDED TO PRODUCE THE WORK. AND WE’RE FINDING IT HARD TO FIND ENOUGH PEOPLE INTERESTED OR QUALIFIED. HOW DO WE KEEP GROWING IF THIS IS THE NEW REALITY? THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Doing more work with fewer people is an essential skill set in a low unemployment economy. Look for efficiencies. Train the people you have to do more. Find other work to do that is less labor intensive. Automate everything you can. You and your team have to find ways to keep up with growth. Growing companies thrive and if you’ve figured out how to sell more work, that’s great. Now shift part of your focus to figuring out how to produce the extra workload. Labor shortages can tempt owners to pitch in to fill the production gaps. That’s a dangerous move. It takes away from the time you need to spend building long-term solutions. And it doesn’t really solve the problem. As owner, prioritize where you spend your time solving the real problem of not enough workforce to meet the needs of a growing company. Start to solve the workforce problem by looking for efficiencies. Just because you’ve always done things the same way doesn’t mean they’re the most efficient or effective ways. Step back and look at workflow. Are there steps that could be combined or done in a different order to cut down on wasted movement and effort? Are there things that are done by highly skilled people that could be assigned to someone with less skill, freeing up people with more talent and training to work on something else? How much wasted effort could be eliminated if you put routines in place or streamlined the steps your people take to complete existing routines? Do your people really have to do everything you have them doing, or could some things be eliminated, without notice — without worse results? Build a training program to elevate the people you have, starting at the bottom rung of the workforce and going up from there. Giving people opportunity for promotion is a good thing. Help them earn more money, as they contribute more to the business because they can handle more work. Get your best workers involved in running training classes first thing in the morning, before everyone starts work. Record the training sessions and have someone transcribe and edit, using that as the foundation for written documentation on how specific tasks and jobs are performed. Write out a training manual, explaining how things get done, so people going through training have something to refer to.

Get out and look for other work to do that is complimentary to what you do now and that requires less labor to produce. Ask customers what else they need and how much they’d be willing to pay to get it from you. Find work that can be produced in batches. Search for items that can be purchased pre-assembled. Vend out whatever you can by locating reasonably priced producers that you can rely on. Look for automation solutions. Instead of doing things manually, look for opportunities to have machines do the work. Lease new equipment to spread out costs. Train existing employees to do other jobs. Smooth out the workflow by eliminating errors, interruptions, disorganization and nonessential activities. Build teams who can pitch in for each other. Educate people on the use of technology. Use systems to monitor productivity so you can spot problems quickly. LOOKING FOR A GOOD BOOK? “Standardized Work with TWI: Eliminating Human Errors in Production and Service Processes” by Bartosz Misiurek. Andi Gray is president of Strategy Leaders Inc., StrategyLeaders.com, a business-consulting firm that teaches companies how to double revenue and triple profits in repetitive growth cycles. Have a question for AskAndi? Wondering how Strategy Leaders can help your business thrive? Call or email for a free consultation and diagnostics: 877-238-3535 or AskAndi@StrategyLeaders.com. Check out our library of business advice articles: AskAndi.com.

New Rochelle wins $10M state Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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ew Rochelle is the $10 million winner of the state’s annual Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant funding. At a ceremony Sept. 27 at the Boys & Girls Club in New Rochelle, Empire State Development President and CEO Howard Zemsky announced the city as the winner. Mayor Noam Bramson and Westchester County Executive George Latimer joined him on stage. Bramson said the announcement brought “a day of excitement and satisfaction, of a sense of a job well done, and an even larger job still ahead.” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo started the downtown revitalization grant in 2016. The program has each state regional development council review proposals from municipalities for the $10 million grant. Middletown won the $10 million in the first round of the contest, with Kingston named for the grant last year. The mid-Hudson region includes Sullivan, Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties. New Rochelle’s application focuses on a corridor surrounding Lincoln Avenue, about a half-mile north of Main Street. The goal is to connect the area in a better way to the city’s growing downtown. Bramson said the goal is ‘to take the center of our city, where we are today, with all of its promise and all its challenges and link it together, socially, economically and physically to the growing prosperity of our downtown.” The revitalization awards seek out downtowns that are compact and livable, ready to capitalize on future investment, have recent or pending job growth and have already identified development projects near readiness, according to the state’s description of the criteria. In a statement published following the ceremony, Cuomo said New Rochelle's Lincoln Avenue Corridor “is an area ripe with potential to appeal to a new generation of residents, businesses and visitors.” The city’s application — titled “New Rochelle on the Rise — Reimagining Lincoln Corridor” — defined the corridor as a milelong stretch that includes Montefiore Hospital of New Rochelle, market rate and affordable housing, the city’s Metro-North Railroad station and part of New Rochelle’s Arts + Cultural District. The city’s leadership has turned its eyes toward the area as its downtown Main Street continues to grow rapidly under a nearly $7 billion public-private development plan, led by RDRXR at New Rochelle LLC, a joint venture of RXR Realty and Renaissance Downtowns. The Lincoln Avenue corridor, by the city’s definitions, includes the intersection

of Lincoln and North avenues, stretching south several blocks down to Main Street. The area is chopped off from the downtown by Interstate 95 and holds two U.S. Census tracts nominated for designation as federal opportunity zones, which could provide tax incentives to spur development. Better connecting the area to the downtown, city officials believe, could help underemployed residents in the Lincoln Avenue neighborhoods reach new job opportunities in the growing downtown. An already established Lincoln Avenue Task Force has been collecting public opinion on how to improve the area for future growth. Projects identified to help the community include relocating bus stops, amending zoning to foster commer-

cial development and improvement of properties that could include a coworking space aimed at boosting entrepreneurship. The city is also exploring an elevated park, a free electric shuttle between the district and other areas in the city’s downtown, as well as the conversion of a utility bridge into a pedestrian walkway, New Rochelle officials wrote in the application. The plan focuses on forging “connections that will help nourish its northern residential neighborhoods, long separated from the city’s commercial and cultural heart,” city officials wrote. The city’s first use of the $10 million will be $300,000 in planning funds. The money will fund the creation of a strategic investment plan for utilizing the $10 million.

Bramson said with a laugh at the press conference that the funds will not “be redecorating my office.” He promised an inclusive planning process with state and local officials, as well as community input. New Rochelle — with a population just under 80,000 — is larger than the two Hudson Valley municipalities that previously won the downtown grants. Middletown has a population of about 27,000; Kingston is about 23,000. New Rochelle was up against a long list of downtowns, including several Westchester neighbors. Greenburgh, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, Ossining, Peekskill, Port Chester, Sleepy Hollow, White Plains and Yonkers all submitted applications for this year’s competition.

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31st ANNUAL WESTCHESTER REAL ESTATE AWARDS BREAKFAST GREATER NEW YORK MARKET Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Hilton Westchester • Rye Brook, NY 7:00 a.m. THE REAL ESTATE AWARD Bruce Berg, CEO, Fuller Development Company THE MARTIN S. BERGER AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Peter S. Duncan, President and CEO, George Comfort & Sons, Inc. MARCH OF DIMES LEGACY AWARD Michael Weinstock, Market President – Connecticut, M&T Bank TITLE SPONSORS Cappelli Organization Pavarini North East Construction Co., Inc. PLATINUM SPONSOR George Comfort & Sons, Inc. Shipman & Goodwin LLP The Aiello Foundation c/o Peter DiNardo Enterprises GOLD SPONSORS Benerofe Properties Corp. Cuddy & Feder LLP Delbello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP DLC Management Corp. Jones Lang LaSalle M&T Bank People’s United Bank RPW Group, Inc. SILVER SPONSORS Acadia Realty Trust • AKRF • Belway Electrical Contracting Corp./LeChase Construction Services • Benchmark Title Agency • CBRE • Cooper Horowitz LLC • De Clercq Office Group/Knoll • Diamond Properties • G&S Investors • Gibraltar Management • Ginsburg Development Companies, LLC • Houlihan-Parnes Realtors, LLC/GHP Office Realty, LLC • Mack-Cali Realty Corporation • MacQuesten Development, LLC • National Realty & Development Corp. • Reckson, a division of SL Green Realty Corp. • Robert Martin Company • RXR • Shleppers Moving & Storage • Simone Development Companies • Sterling National Bank • VHB • Waldner’s Business Environments/Steelcase, Inc. MEDIA SPONSOR Westchester County Business Journal RSVP www.marchofdimes.org/westchesterrealestate Jessica Fortuna at 914-610-7530 or JFortuna@marchofdimes.org

5 ways to grow your business with live video

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ive videos are here to stay. They are an excellent engagement tool as “viewers will watch a live video approximately three times longer than a pre-recorded one” according to Social Media Today. Social media platforms reward publishers with increased reach on their live videos, which are increasingly growing in popularity. Currently, “20 percent of all Facebook videos are broadcast live” as Buzzsumo reports. Additionally, video marketing is an effective way to draw attention to the launch of a new product or service as “84 percent of consumers surveyed were convinced to buy a product or service after watching a brand’s video” according to Kissmetrics. So how can your business take advantage of this trend? Here are five strategies:

PERFORM WEEKLY BROADCASTS AT A SPECIFIC DAY AND TIME

Get your community into the habit of viewing your videos at the same time each week. Email your subscribers the day before and twice during the day of your broadcast, highlighting the benefits of what they’ll learn if they join you live. For example, you can discuss the launch of a new product or service, showcase your onsite location during an office walkthrough, highlight a recent media feature or announce the winner of one of your social media contests. You can also use day-specific hashtags in the caption of your live videos. Examples include #MotivationMonday, #TerrificTuesday, #TransformationTuesday, #TestimonialTuesday, #WisdomWednesday, #ThrowbackThursday, #FabulousFriday, #SocialSaturday and #SuperSunday.

RESPOND TO YOUR COMMUNITY’S COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS

People may leave comments during or after the live broadcast. Acknowledge that they took the time to watch your broadcast and reply to their feedback. It helps establish a deeper connection with your viewers. To encourage more feedback from your audience, post a comment on your video after your broadcast ends thanking everyone for watching and asking them to post any comments or questions in the comments section.

START AND END YOUR BROADCASTS THE SAME WAY EACH TIME

In advance of your live video, decide how you are going to start and finish the video. For example, my usual opening is “Hi everyone I’m Michael Guberti, social media strategist and co-founder of Guberti Giving, happy to discuss (insert topic of live video).” The typical ending for my videos is “If you like this content, then visit MichaelGuberti.com for more strategies and videos like this. Until I see you in person, in the next video or speak with you over the phone, ‘Dream Big, Achieve

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Greatness and Unlock Your Potential Today!’” The beginning and end of your videos is an excellent opportunity to insert your company motto or tagline. Be sure to mention your website and if appropriate, phone number and email address so your viewers can contact you for further information.

#TECHTALK: TURN ON AIRPLANE MODE, RECONNECT TO WIFI AND CHARGE YOUR PHONE

Connect your phone to airplane mode so you don’t get a text or phone call in the middle of your broadcast. When you do this, your phone will disconnect from WiFi so be sure to reconnect back to the network you were using. Additionally, live video requires a fair amount of battery strength so ensure your phone is charged before you go live.

GO LIVE ON MULTIPLE PLATFORMS AT THE SAME TIME

Different people use different platforms. So, if you’re going to do a video, why not go live on more than one platform? You can increase your exposure and show that you’re using social media in a cutting-edge way. How many of your competitors are regularly broadcasting live on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube at the same time? Stand out in your market by doing just that.

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER:

By 2021, Cisco predicts that 82 percent of all internet traffic will be video. Of all the types of video you can publish, live video is extremely engaging because it is real, raw, unedited, establishes a deep connection with the viewer and distinguishes you from your competition. The point? Go live! Michael Guberti is the founder of Smart Business People Services, a full-service digital marketing agency. He has spoken at Microsoft, the annual ECA Fitness Conference and has been featured on television show,s including Verizon FiOS News. With his brother Marc, he co-founded the nonprofit 501c3 organization Guberti Giving to empower youth, veterans and single mothers.

HealthLinkNY partners with fellow health information exchange BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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ealthLinkNY, a nonprofit that operates a health information exchange utilized by many Hudson Valley health care providers, will form a strategic partnership with another nonprofit exchange operator to expand its coverage of the state. Binghamton-based HealthLinkNY announced Sept. 27 that it would team up with Syracusebased HealtheConnections. The two nonprofits operate health information exchanges that together cover more than 40 percent of the state. The health care information exchanges allow health care providers such as hospitals, laboratories and doctors’ offices to share patient records across a regional platform. The health records are not publicly accessible, care providers can only access a patient’s record after receiving the patient’s consent. The state Department of Health oversees and funds eight separate nonprofit entities that are each building and managing a “network-within-a-network” for patient records in separate regions of the state. The state’s goal is to expand the use of each regional network and have it feed into a statewide network that connects them all, known as SHIN-NY, short for the Statewide Health Information Network of New York. As of 2018, SHIN-NY connected 98 percent of hospitals in New York, along with more 80,000 medical providers. The state hopes the program will improve patient outcomes and cut costs by allowing care providers easy access to crucial patient records on demand. HealthLinkNY’s exchange operates in the southern tier and Hudson Valley counties from Steuben in the west to Westchester in southeast. HealtheConnections’ regional presence includes 11 counties in central and northern New York. The two organizations said the partnership was inspired in part by the state Department of Health's initiative to increase the use of regional health information exchanges and SHIN-NY. “HealtheConnections and HealthLinkNY have a shared vision of using health data to create healthier communities, improve health care delivery and deliver value to providers,” said Rob Hack, president and CEO of HealtheConnections. “This type of progress can only be achieved through enhanced collaboration and looking beyond the status quo.” Staci Romeo, executive director of HealthLinkNY, said the nonprofit chose HealtheConnections as a partner for its strong technological platform and the quality of its services and customer engagement. While HealthLinkNY said it started the search for a strategic partner in 2017, the announcement came just one week after HealthLinkNY pushed back against plans from a competitor to expand into its territory. The Albany-based nonprofit Hixny, which previously focused its health information exchange in the Capital region and parts north to the Canadian border, said Sept. 16 that it would offer its exchange to

health care providers in the Hudson Valley and the Southern Tier. “The success of the SHIN-NY hinges on meeting the needs of providers based on complete, accurate and up-to-date data,” read a statement from Hixny CEO Mark McKinney. “At Hixny we’ve demonstrated the effectiveness of our model — and want to do the same for the providers and patients in our neighboring regions.” HealthLinkNY officials pushed back against the move, particularly an assertion in the press release from Hixny that the Hudson Valley and southern tier have “historically lagged in

connecting providers to one another and collecting patient consent.” Romeo said in a statement two days later that Hixny’s claims were “unfounded and sound like a case of sour grapes after being passed over during our search for a strategic partner.” She cited HealthLinkNY’s 35 hospitals in the Hudson Valley and Catskill region, as well as 1,207 sites. “The truth is that an unnecessary expansion into this service area compromises the effectiveness of the Health Information Exchange,” Romeo said. HealthLinkNY and HealtheConnections will

together operate in a service area that covers 24 counties and connect all of the region’s 66 hospitals, about a quarter of all hospitals in New York. HealthLinkNY officials said the company will begin to migrate its current health information exchange interface to the HealtheConnections platform early next year. The new platform, HealthLinkNY says, will allow users to be able to further filter data, set up advanced alerts and results routing and have access to more databases, such as those from the New York State Immunization Information System, Veteran’s Administration and Department of Defense.

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In Court

BY BILL HELTZEL

Michael Scronic sentenced to eight years in prison

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ichael Scronic was sentenced yesterday to federal prison for eight years for running a Ponzi scheme that his lawyer depicted as the product of a gambling problem and federal prosecutors argued was mere greed to fuel a lavish lifestyle. Scronic, 46, created a fictitious hedge fund in 2010 and ran it out of his home in Pound Ridge. For seven years, he persuaded friends and family members — including $50,000 from his mother — to invest in his unregistered Scronic Macro Fund. He took in $24.5 million. He repeatedly lied to 45 investors,

Michael Scronic

according to court documents, telling them he was making money when he was really losing money. In June 2017, for instance, he claimed $21.7 million in assets when he actually had $102,376. Scronic pleaded guilty to securities fraud in March. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel sentenced him to 96 months in prison and three years of supervised release. She ordered him to pay $22 million in restitution. Federal prosecutors wanted the court to imprison him for 12 1/2 years. The U.S. Probation Office recommended seven years.

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Scronic’s attorney, Alexei Schacht, argued for no more than three years. “This case involves a tragic story of an accomplished person and once respected banker who descended into compulsive gambling,” Schact wrote in a sentencing memorandum. Scronic, he said, accepts full responsibility for his crime. He has undergone tremendous personal growth since his arrest. He has put himself on the right path. He is unlikely to ever commit a crime again. He regularly attends Gamblers Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, as well as Refugee Recovery, a Buddhist-based addiction recovery program. Gambling “was in the family’s DNA,” Schacht said. Scronic’s maternal grandfather was a compulsive gambler. His mother gambled away his father’s retirement savings. Scronic gambled excessively on cards, casino games and sports throughout his high school and college years. When he worked as a Morgan Stanley trader from 1998 to 2005, “his gambling followed him to Wall Street, which was like a huge casino.” He lost that job after losing millions of dollars on trades. He received several hundred thousand dollars in severance money and increased it to $4 million, his attorney said, and then lost it all in two weeks. Then he lost his retirement savings and about $1 million from the sale of a condominium. He borrowed $5 million from a college roommate and “gambled that money away” in 8 months, on high-risk, short-term options. He continued to trade in ultra-risky options, Schacht said, with investments from friends and family. On Oct. 5, 2017, the day he was arrested, he admitted himself to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation and seven days of observation. Mental health experts diagnosed Scronic as a compulsive gambler, his lawyer said. One psychiatrist said his behavior could be explained in part by alexithymia, a dysfunction of emotional self-awareness and expression. Expert opinions, according to Schacht, explain how he “kept chasing his consistent losing stock market bets and persisted in the delusion that he could eventually dig his way out of the hole and make his victims whole.” Scronic’s gambling, Schacht argued, may constitute diminished capacity and justify a lower prison sentence. Greed, not a gambling addiction, motivated Scronic, Assistant U.S. Attorneys James McMahon and Daniel Loss argued in their sentencing memo. He spent an average of $500,000 a year in

stolen money on a luxurious lifestyle, including $12,275 a month to rent a 10-acre estate in Pound Ridge, a vacation home in Stratton, Vermont, club memberships and expensive vacations. He paid no taxes. “He blames his criminal conduct on a newly found gambling addiction and describes the great anguish he has been suffering as result of this ‘disease,’” the prosecutors wrote. But Scronic “never said a word about having a gambling problem or sought help for it until his arrest.” The prosecutors were dismissive of the medical experts. They relied on Scronic for their diagnoses, they said, and never spoke to or reviewed evidence from prosecutors, FBI, the Securities & Exchange Commission or victims. “According to the defendant,” the prosecutors wrote, “redemption is possible for him because his crimes arose from a gambling addiction, which ‘can take hold of a good person and make them commit acts they can’t even fathom.’” Scronic thinks his punishment should be lenient, the prosecutors said, because “he is the victim of a disease and should be admired for his perseverance in the face of adversity, instead of being incarcerated.” A true compulsive gambler, they argued, would have used the stolen money to gamble. Instead, for seven years, he spent it on a lavish lifestyle, revealing his true mental state. “He was driven,” the prosecutors said, “by greed.”

Pound Ridge finance executive accuses South China Morning Post of libel

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Pound Ridge man who managed a finance firm in Hong Kong has sued the South China Morning Post for $20 million. Avery Stone claims that the publication and reporter Peter Guy defamed him in 2016 when they depicted him as a crook, a low-life and an operator of a Ponzi scheme. The Morning Post caused him “disgrace, humiliation and shame throughout the world,” Stone said in a complaint originally filed in Westchester Supreme Court and moved on Sept. 25 to federal court in White Plains. Stone graduated from Manhattanville College in Purchase in 1989 and NYU Stern School of Business in 1994, according to his LinkedIn profile. He worked for American Express and then 10 years for MasterCard. In 2008, he co-founded Global Merchant Funding Ltd. The Hong Kong firm extended cash advances to local businesses, for a percentage of future credit card receipts. It also originated mortgages and small to medium-size enterprise loans. GMF, according to Stone’s complaint, made returns of 8 percent to 15 percent a year. But by early 2016, the business was insolvent. The South China Morning Post published a story that year that introduced GMF as Hong Kong’s latest swindle. It said that police were trying to help investors recover $58 million and

that investors alleged that the firm’s three directors, including Stone, had absconded. A week later, Bloomberg Markets magazine published a story that described Stone as a smooth talker who convinced bankers to invest $32 million and then vanished.” The Morning Post re-published the Bloomberg story the following day. One of the most damaging passages quoted Stone’s father, Richard, then 82, of Pound Ridge. His father allegedly told a Bloomberg reporter that he had loaned Avery Stone $89,000 “to get out of Hong Kong very fast.” He said his son stole $400,000 of family belongings, including a Smith & Wesson pistol, a Lalique bowl and a collection of watches. “He’s a crook, OK? You can quote me on that,” Richard Stone allegedly said. “He’s lying low, because he’s a low-life.” Avery Stone claims the Morning Post published false allegations. He did not “vanish,” for instance. He merely moved back to Westchester and he was accessible through the same email account. He said his father suffers from dementia, including abrupt mood swings, disorientation and poor judgment. Pound Ridge police would confirm that it has no basis for crediting “Richard Stone’s dementia-induced fairytale of an account,” the complaint states, “or to charge Avery Stone with any criminal wrongdoing.”

The Morning Post should have known that Stone had not vanished and was not lying low, according to the complaint. It used those statements “to sensationalize their story and falsely paint Avery Stone as a malicious and evil villain and international fugitive from justice.” Stone is accusing the publication and reporter of libel per se and he is demanding from $10 million to $20 million in damages. The defendants have not yet answered the charges. Stone also sued Bloomberg LP for its story in 2016 in Westchester Supreme Court. Bloomberg has broadly denied Stone’s allegations and claimed that its story was a substantially accurate report of two police investigations, in Hong Kong and Pound Ridge, and that it was privileged under the First Amendment, the state constitution and the New York Civil Rights Law. In July, the state Second Appellate Division upheld a ruling by Lewis J. Lubell, Westchester Supreme Court justice, denying Bloomberg’s motion to dismiss the complaint. “It cannot be said as a matter of law that the statements provide a substantially accurate reporting of the two police investigations,” the appellate justices ruled. Stone is represented by Kevin T. Mulhearn, Orangeburg. The Morning Post is represented by Willkie Farr & Gallagher of Manhattan.

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THE LIST: Leading CMOs

Marketing directors

WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND REGION

Listed alphabetically. Name, address, phone number Area code: 914 (unless otherwise noted) Website

American Cancer Society 2 Lyon Place, White Plains 10601 800-227-2345 • cancer.org

American Heart Association

301 Manchester Road, Poughkeepsie 12603 845-867-5370 • heart.org

CMO/Marketing director Title(s) Email address Year appointed

Sharon Byers Chief development and marketing officer sharon.byers@cancer.org 2015

Meighan Girgus Chief marketing and programs officer meighan.girgus@heart.org 2009

Balchem Corp.

Bradley Sorrell Director of marketing 2011

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals

Cynthia North Customer marketing director 2000

52 Sunrise Park Road, New Hampton 10958 845-326-5600 • balchem.com

555 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 366-1800 • healthcare.bayer.com

Burke Rehabilitation Hospital 785 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains 10605 597-2500 • burke.org

Citrin Cooperman

709 Westchester Ave., White Plains 10604 949-2990 • citrincooperman.com

Emelin Theatre

153 Library Lane, Mamaroneck 10543 698-0098 • emelin.org

Richard Sgaglio Senior administrator, marketing, communications and development 2010

Laura F. Kucera Principal, chief marketing officer 2015

Francesca Carter Marketing director francesca.carter@emelin.org 2015

ENT & Allergy Associates LLP

Richard Effman Director of marketing 2007

Heineken USA

Jonnie Cahill Chief marketing officer 2018

75 S. Broadway, Suite 300, White Plains 10601 949-3888 • entandallergy.com

360 Hamilton Ave., Suite 1103, White Plains 10601 681-4100 • heinekenusa.com

Houlihan Lawrence

800 Westchester Ave., Suite N-505, Rye Brook 10573 967-7680 • houlihanlawrence.com

IntegraMed Fertility

2 Manhattanville Road, Purchase 10577 253-8000 • integramed.com

International Business Machines Corp.

1 New Orchard Road, Armonk 10504 499-1900 • ibm.com

Mack-Cali Realty Corp.

100 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford 10523 592-4800 • mack-cali.com

Gay Prizio Director of marketing and sales, project marketing N/A

Jill Hamilton Director of marketing, customer experience jill.hamilton@Integramed.com 2015

Ray Day Senior vice president, marketing and communications 2017

Ilene Jablonski Senior vice president of marketing at Roseland Residential Trust, a Mack-Cali Company 2011

Name, address, phone number Area code: 914 (unless otherwise noted) Website

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Loreen Babcock Vice president and chief marketing officer 2015

NetJets Inc.

Patrick Gallagher Executive vice president, sales and marketing 2015

New York Life Insurance Co.

Michelle Bottomley Chief marketing officer 2018

111 E. 210 St., Bronx 10467 718-920-4321 • montefiore.org

38 Loop Road, White Plains 10610 877-356-5823 • netjets.com

1 Rockwood Road, Sleepy Hollow 10591 366-4940 • newyorklife.com

NewYork-Presbyterian/ Hudson Valley Hospital

1980 Crompond Road, Cortlandt 10567 737-9000 • hvhc.org

Northern Westchester Hospital 400 E. Main St., Mount Kisco 10549 666-1200 • nwhc.net

Pace University

1 Martine Ave., White Plains 10606 422-4000 • pace.edu

PepsiCo Inc.

700 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase 10577 253-2000 • pepsico.com

Phelps Memorial Hospital Center 701 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow 10591 366-3000 • phelpshospital.org

Greg Lyons Chief marketing officer 2017

Margaret Plofchan Director of marketing and communications mplofchan@northwell.edu 2016

Myron Hebert Senior director, marketing 2016

Somnia Anesthesia

Laura Herrera Vice president, marketing 2008

777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown 10591 847-7000 • regeneron.com

10 Commerce Drive, New Rochelle 10801 365-6119 • somniaanesthesiaservices.com

Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates LLC 38 Main St., Tarrytown 10591 332-7070 • sothebysrealty.com

St. John's Riverside Hospital 967 N. Broadway, Yonkers 10701 964-4444 • riversidehealth.org

Raja Rajamannar Chief marketing and communications officer 2013

Westchester Medical Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester

Avice Meehan Senior vice president, chief communications officer 2013

500 Westchester Ave., West Harrison 10604 367-7000 • mskcc.org

Leila Franchi Assistant vice president, marketing and communications lfranchi@pace.edu 2017

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

MasterCard Inc.

2000 Purchase St., Purchase 10577 249-2000 • mastercard.com

Gretchen Mullin Director, marketing and public affairs gmullin@ nwhc.net 2011

Janet Delpozzo Marketing and communications director for SLGreen Realty Corp. 1996

(A division of SLGreen) 360 Hamilton Ave., White Plains 10601 750-7200 • regeneron.com

The Ritz-Carlton New York, Westchester

1275 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains 10605 997-4488 • marchofdimes.org

Ellen Bloom Director of marketing and development 2015

Reckson

Chris Maddocks Senior vice president, marketing and communications 2016

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CMO/Marketing director Title(s) Email address Year appointed

3 Renaissance Square, White Plains 10601 946-5500 • ritzcarlton.com/Westchester

100 Woods Road, Valhalla 10595 493-6813 • westchestermedicalcenter.com

White Plains Hospital

41 E. Post Road, White Plains 10601 681-0600 • wphospital.org

Kevin Thompson Chief marketing officer 2017

Denise Weizner Mananas Director of marketing, public relations and development 1992

Maureen Stella Director of sales and marketing 2016

Andy LaGuardia Director of Communications andrew.laguardia@wmchealth.org NA

Dawn French Vice president, community relations and marketing 2010

This list is a sampling of chief marketing officers from a selection of companies located in the region. If you would like to include your CMO in our next list, please contact Peter Katz at pkatz@westfairinc.com. Note: Addresses above contain regional locations, not necessarily company headquarters. * Montefiore Health System is headquartered in the Bronx and operates facilities in Westchester County. N/A = Not available.

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Lawsuit reveals second drama in filming of Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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s Steven Spielberg was directing “The Post,” a historical drama filmed last year in White Plains, another drama was simmering behind the scenes. The entity that leased the former AT&T office building, where the movie was shot, was a shell company, according to a lawsuit filed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. It did not own the building. Aaron S. Wexler, an owner of White Plains Development LLC, used the company, according to a complaint filed in federal court, “as a vehicle to commit fraud.” Wexler did not immediately respond to an email request for comment. “The Post” depicts efforts by the Washington Post in 1971 to publish the Pentagon Papers, classified documents that detailed the U.S. military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The White House challenged the newspaper’s right to publish and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Post. Meryl Streep portrayed Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Post. Tom Hanks played Ben Bradlee, the executive editor. The film was released in December 2017 and was nominated for best picture and best actress in the Academy Awards. Fox leased the building from April through June 2017, for prepping, filming and wrapping “The Post,” the complaint states, and was allowed to have access through July 2017 to strike the sets and store property. Fox paid $300,000 plus a $100,000 refundable security deposit, for use of the premises. It vacated the site by July 31. In 2016, AT&T Corp. sold its building at 440 Hamilton Ave. to American Equity Partners, I and II, of Woodmere, New York. Wexler, also of Woodmere in Nassau County, was man-

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ager of the two companies. But when Wexler agreed to lease the empty building to Fox last year, he allegedly represented White Plains Development LLC of Woodmere as the sole and exclusive owner. The location agreement required White Plains Development to return the $100,000 security deposit within five days. There was one exception, according to the lawsuit. The owner could keep a portion of the deposit if Fox had damaged the property. Fox was allowed to make some alterations, because the vacant building was to be converted to residential apartments. The filmmaker could remove nonloadbearing office walls on the 10th floor, for instance, paint walls, install more lighting and reroute ceiling ducts. Damage claims had to be submitted within 48 hours of Fox vacating the building. Then Fox had the right to assess damages and to make repairs or agree to a mutually approved restitution payment. Fox claims that Wexler ignored its demands until Aug. 18, 2017, when he stated in an email that claims would be supplied. On Sept. 1, he allegedly wrote that the list of damages was not yet completed, “due to summer vacations schedules, etc.” On Sept. 7, more than a month after claims were due, Wexler submitted his demands. “Many of the alleged dam-

ages were simply fabricated,” Fox claims. Some of the damages were apparent when Fox took possession of the property, the filmmaker claims. Some were permitted by the location agreement. Some were moot, given that the property was scheduled for demolition. Fox says Wexler ceased communicating a year ago. Fox claims that the two American Equity entities still owned the property when the location agreement was signed. Wexler allegedly concealed the true ownership to commit fraud and he claimed damages as a pretense “to keep money that rightfully belongs to Fox.” The security deposit and any assets held by White Plains Development have since been stripped, Fox claims, leaving a shell corporation. Fox is demanding $100,000 plus interest. Last November, the American Equity companies sold the building to 440 Hamilton Owner LLC, an affiliate of Rose Associates in Manhattan. Rose has proposed a $203 million project: converting the 12-story office building to 255 apartments and building a parking garage and two new structures with 255 apartments behind the AT&T building. Fox is represented by Jonathan Zavin and Sara A. Slavin of Loeb & Loeb in Manhattan.

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Elevator maintenance training reaches new heights in Yonkers BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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new training center for what’s been described as “the most lucrative blue-collar trade in the nation” had its formal opening on Oct. 3 in Yonkers. Bob Schaeffer, CEO and president of D&D Elevator Maintenance, which is based in Elmsford and operates the new training center, told the Business Journal that he’s confident the center will help fill industry’s need for highly skilled elevator maintenance technicians while opening up career opportunities for many who otherwise would never have been able to secure such well-paying jobs. The Elevator Learning Center is at 200 Corporate Blvd. in the South Westchester Executive Park.

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In addition to classroom space, the 2,500-squarefoot facility includes workshop areas where elevator mechanical equipment is set up and functioning for use in hands-on training sessions. The center is equipped with advanced communications technology, allowing students anywhere along the internet to interact with instructors using high-definition video streamed with high-fidelity audio. “We’re struggling to bring in new talent,” Schaeffer said of the elevator maintenance industry. “Most kids today are opting for college degrees rather than the trades, so it’s very important to deliver education and give incentives for these kids to be part of this trade, the elevator industry.” Schaeffer told the Business Journal that the Elevator Learning Center is in talks with the Yonkers school

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system about creating programming for the Saunders Trades and Technical High School. This would give stu-

Most kids today are opting for college degrees rather than the trades. — Bob Schaeffer

Bob Schaeffer, CEO and president of D&D Elevator Maintenance.

dents exposure to career opportunities resulting from elevator maintenance technician training. For Schaeffer, the formal opening of the center brought great personal satisfaction. “For me it’s very exciting. I was involved early on in the actual process to create the

Certified Elevator Technician Program and the accreditation process. We have an accreditation from ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and ANSI (American National Standards Institute),” he said. The two organizations are involved in setting and

monitoring compliance with various industry standards. “It’s a great satisfaction to see all these enhancements and being able to start delivering to, not just our company, but to other companies that wish to participate.” Since its founding in 1981, safety has been D&D’s number one concern, Schaeffer noted. Not only safety for the public riding in elevators serviced by the company, but also for the technicians who work to keep them properly maintained. “Safety is the number one important issue for us. Safety is an important factor in what we teach today,” he said. In fact, while addressing the guests gathered for a ribbon cutting and tours of the new facility, Schaeffer emphasized that travel by elevator is the safest form of transportation and D&D wants to continue doing its part to keep it that way.

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$168M retirement community takes shape THE CLUB AT BRIARCLIFF MANOR DEVELOPER READIES FOR SUMMER 2019 OPENING

Rendering of the first phase of The Club at Briarcliff Manor, a $168 million senior living development. Provided by Senior Lifestyle Corp.

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he Club at Briarcliff Manor, a sprawling $168 million retirement community overlooking the Hudson River, has started marketing the mix of senior living options its constructing on the 59-acre site. The project, from Chicagobased Senior Lifestyle Corp., is about a year and a half into construction of its first phase, which is two interconnected buildings that will house a total of 287 rental units, a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care apartments, several of which will feature views of the Hudson. On Oct. 1, the cars of the construction workers lined the entry road to the hilltop campus. Much of the structure appeared to be in place for both new buildings in the first phase, with workers attaching windows. A welcome center and model home for The Club

is expected to open in the next few weeks. Marketing materials for The Club describe it as the “pinnacle of sophistication and service.” Rents start at $7,350 per month. Senior Lifestyle Corp., which will also operate The Club at Briarcliff Manor, expects to open the site to residents by the summer of 2019. The property was previously home to the Briarcliff Lodge, an early 20th Century Tudor style resort building that was run as one of the Westchester County’s first hotels. The property was later used as the campus for The King’s College before being abandoned altogether in the 1990s and lost to fire a decade later. The first phase of the site’s construction, called the Upper Village, is designed with ornamental features that evoke the original Tudor style look of the Lodge. The southernmost of the two buildings will rise eight stories above grade,

with one level below grade. The building next door will be seven stories. Amenities will include chef-prepared meals, a 1,500-square-foot lodge room and gathering areas that include a creative studio and card room, each with river views. The river can also be viewed from a rooftop terrace on the southernmost building. The buildings will also include a wellness center with a salon, physical therapy gym, visiting physician office and fitness center with state of the art equipment. Anna Wynn, vice president of sales and marketing for Senior Lifestyle Corp., described the Briarcliff property as “rich in history, hospitality, as well as a sense of family — all of this is exactly what this The Club will continue with our luxury retirement community.” Plans for the site to be converted into some form of senior residence community date to the late 1990s. Integrated Development

Construction progress as of Oct. 2 at The Club at Briarcliff Manor, a $168 million senior living development. Photo by Ryan Deffenbaugh.

Group, a suburban Chicagobased company that bought the Briarcliff Manor property for $32 million in mid2009, broke ground on a senior housing development project in 2013. It merged with Senior Lifestyle Corp. that same year. Senior Lifestyle Corp. started site work and construction for the latest iteration of the development in

April 2017. The Club at Briarcliff Manor is among the largest of a wave of development projects aimed at seniors in Westchester County, driven by a demand from baby boomers reaching retirement age. Senior housing communities have been built or proposed for former golf clubs, under-utilized office buildings, on

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college campuses, and in the downtowns of cities such as White Plains. The most recent such project to start construction in the county is the St. Regis Residences in Rye, a $100 million development project that will offer 95 luxury senior condominiums at 120 Old Post Road, the site of a former office building.

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SPECIAL REPORT | Contributing writer | Mary K. Spengler

Begin the conversation – the importance of advance care directives

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t is rarely easy to start a discussion with a loved one about end-of-life care, yet there are many stories in the news about family and court battles over the wishes of patients who can no longer speak for themselves. This demonstrates the importance of beginning the conversation with loved ones early.

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES EXPRESS REQUESTS AND CHOICES

Advance directives spell out a person’s wishes about health care and financial matters in the event of a critical and life-threatening illness or accident. These directives can include a health care proxy, a living will and/or the power of an attorney. For doctors and family members, health

care directives lay out the type of care one wants in the event that one becomes seriously ill and cannot communicate one’s wishes. Even healthy adults without known medical problems should consider drafting a health care directive, which will aid in the decision-making process regarding levels of care. A living will addresses desired levels of care during a terminal illness — that is, when a person has less than six months to live. A health care proxy names a family member, friend or professional as the agent who can sign documents and make decisions if one becomes unconscious or unable to make independent medical decisions. If the condition is temporary, the agent will only be needed for a short period of time.

STARTING THE CONVERSATION IS ESSENTIAL

According to elder law attorney Michael J. Amoruso, discussions with loved ones regarding advance directives should not be placed on the back burner. “Unfortunately, people tend to delay discussing advance directives with their loved ones because the topic of one’s mortality may be uncomfortable for some,” said Amoruso of Amoruso & Amoruso LLP in Rye Brook. (He also serves as president of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.) “Without these documents, however, if an individual becomes incapacitated or incapable of making decisions regarding their care or finances, the family may have no choice but to commence a guardianship

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proceeding in court to have a guardian appointed to make the decisions for them. That process can add unwanted stress on the family and can, if contested, amount to thousands of dollars.” New York state has developed simple advance directive forms that are available online, through hospitals and other health care providers. These forms should be filled out thoughtfully and thoroughly. “It is not enough for an individual to express a general desire to avoid being sustained by machines,” Amoruso points out. “The advance directives need to either explicitly spell out the person’s wishes as they pertain to specific circumstances that may affect quality of life, or give complete discretion to their agent to make the required decisions based on the agent’s actual knowledge of the patient’s wishes (e.g. partial or complete paralysis from a stroke, inability to recognize loved ones because of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, or other stages of a terminal illness). The directives should also include wishes not only about ‘extraordinary means’ (i.e., machines), but also directives regarding artificial nutrition and hydration in the event that the person cannot eat or drink independently.” Families often need assistance from an attorney, hospice professional or other professional with expertise in drawing up advance directives, to ensure that the documents are written with sufficient detail and clearly express the person’s wishes.

LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO BEGIN THE CONVERSATION

It may be easiest (and the most comfortable) to piggy-back the advance directives discussion onto a medical, financial or legal issue. One might bring up the topic after a doctor’s appointment for a check-up or to treat an illness. A meeting with a financial advisor about a retirement portfolio also offers a natural segue into a conversation about estate planning and advance directives. Additionally, the topic of advance directives could be brought up during or after a meeting with a family or elder care attorney. Family members may even privately suggest that the attorney start the discussion. Advance directives are best addressed when a parent or loved one still is healthy and can clearly express wishes and desires. In this way, loved ones can face critical or end-of-life illness with grace, dignity, comfort and compassion. Mary K. Spengler, M.S., is the CEO of White Plains-based Hospice of Westchester, which provides comprehensive hospice health care services to people with a serious or life-limiting illness and provides help to their families. For additional information, visit hospiceofwestchester.com or call 914-682-1484.

Contributing writer | Staci Romeo

When a HIE helped diagnose a resident’s cancer

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omething wasn’t right with Tom, a 64-year-old resident at the Absolut Care skilled nursing facility in Endicott, New York. His health had been declining for a year and no one could figure out why. A diagnostic ultrasound was ordered in May and there it was: a lump was found in his thyroid. But the doctor did not see a need to do a biopsy, saying it should be checked again in six months. When Tom’s health continued to deteriorate, Donna Grover, director of medical records at Absolut Care, decided to dig into Tom’s health history. Absolut Care is accessing the HealthlinkNY Health Information Exchange (HIE), which pulls together a patient’s complete medical record from all of his or her different providers. Grover looked up Tom’s records and found a biopsy had been performed on a thyroid mass four years ago. With a phone call, Grover managed to track down the pathology report. It had been positive. Somehow, the diagnosis had fallen through the cracks. Tom is being treated now by an oncologist. Grover hopes that the prognosis will be good. Grover’s easy access to Tom’s medical records may have saved his life.

TRACKING DOWN RECORDS TAKES TIME

Residents of skilled nursing facilities typically receive care in many different locations: primary and specialty practices, hospitals, diagnostic centers and laboratories and in the skilled nursing facility itself. A skilled nursing facility needs to have access to records from all of these encounters so they can properly care for their residents. Either because of age or illness, residents may have difficulty remembering their medical histories, medications, care instructions or even their diagnoses. Family members may not be able to fill in the information gap. So, tracking down medical records from different sources consumes a large part of a facility’s care manager’s time. That’s why many long-term care organizations are connecting to the HIE. “HealthlinkNY is fabulous technology,” said Rita Mabli, president and CEO of United Hebrew of New Rochelle, a comprehensive campus of senior care. “It keeps everyone in the loop. For example, when we are in a time-sensitive situation and need documents from other facilities, we can look in HealthlinkNY and obtain the records immediately. Otherwise, we would have to sign an authorization form, send it to the facility and have to wait two weeks to get the records.” Mabli adds that her team also uses HealthlinkNY to avoid inconveniencing a resident by having to repeat a test or procedure when the results are available online. That also reduces the cost of care. “Instead of ordering another x-ray or contacting a doctor for information, we see the information right away,” she explained.

MORE INFO CAN REDUCE READMISSIONS

Reducing the number of preventable hospital readmissions within 30 days is a big chal-

lenge for skilled nursing facilities, which care for people with complex medical conditions. But now they have a financial incentive to do so. Medicare has introduced a Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Base Purchasing Program that includes a hospital readmission measure. Facilities are eligible for an additional performance payment based on their score. Last year, Absolut Care’s hospital readmissions rate was running about 23 percent, which is higher than the national LTC average of 18.2 percent. So, Absolut Care introduced new systems to knock its rate down. The facility contracted with a medical practice to have a physician and nurse practitioner on site two or three days a week and it assigned a resident care manager for each of its four units. It also began to mine more data in HealthlinkNY for follow-up care after hospitalization. The result: Absolut Care had a zero readmissions rate in the first quarter of 2018, followed by a respectable 8.2 percent in the second quarter 2018. Grover, the medical records director, says HealthlinkNY played a key role in driving the rate down. The HIE makes a resident’s record, test results and discharge instructions immediately accessible, so there is no gap in care, she explained. Grover says if the follow-up exam involves lab work or diagnostic imaging, HealthlinkNY allows her to compare those results to the results of hospital tests. “A white blood count may be trending slowly up, from 7,000 to 8,000 to 9,000,” she said. “Nine thousand is not critical, but it tells you that something is going on and it needs attention.” She noted that laboratories do not flag such nuanced changes even though they could indicate further care is necessary. Lastly, HealthlinkNY allows skilled nursing facilities to receive alerts about a resident’s change in status within the hospital, such as when a visit to the ER has resulted in an admission. Maintaining an accurate census is necessary for accurate billing. “Even if you call the hospital, they are not always as knowledgeable as HealthlinkNY is,” Grover said. It’s no wonder that many skilled nursing facilities are using the HIE to improve care for residents. Now facilities, including United Hebrew and Absolut Care, are taking the next step. In addition to looking up records in the HIE. United Hebrew is currently building a connection to the HIE so they can upload their records, and Absolut Care is anticipating that they will soon be building a connection as well. Those records are valuable to any provider who cares for a resident. When health care providers can see the complete picture of their patient, health care quality is vastly improved. Staci Romeo is executive director of HealthlinkNY, which operates the Health Information Exchange (HIE) in the Hudson Valley, Catskill and southern tier of New York state, and connects to the statewide Health Information Network of New York (SHIN-NY). She can be reached at sromeo@ healthlinkny.com.

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ging with dignity isn’t only an aspiration that most people want for themselves, but also one they want for those they love. Discovering that an aging loved-one isn’t eating regularly or keeping up with personal grooming, managing his or her medications well or socializing could indicate that the individual’s quality of life has begun to suffer and that it might be time to consider a move from a private home to an adult residence for optimal wellbeing throughout senior years. Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that longterm care will be needed by more than two-thirds of the people that reach 65 during their lifetime. In New York state, there were 3 million adults aged 65 and older in 2015, according to the New York State Office for the Aging and that number is expected

Finding the right fit for eldercare to reach more than 3.2 million in 2020. For the peace-of-mind that comes with securing an adult home that aligns with an aging person’s needs, personality and lifestyle preferences, consider the points, below.

fessional organizations such as: New York State Center for Assisted Living, www.nyscal. org; Leading Age New York, www.LANY.org; Empire State Association of Assisted Living, www.esaal.org.

Positive feedback on specific adult care facilities can be a good indicator of an adult home’s solid standing. Look into the reputation of homes of interest by: • Contacting the New York State Department of Health for summarized information on specific adult care facilities through the Freedom of Information Law, including associated fees, https://profiles.health. ny.gov/acf/pages/foil; • Researching ratings for adult homes through platforms like www.senioradvisor.com, www.caring.com and www. assistedliving.com; and • Investigating which residences are affiliated with pro-

Touring potential homes of interest during regular and off hours can give people a firsthand experience of the home’s physical structures, staff interactions and residents’ wellbeing. When visiting potential adult homes, consider: • How the home looks and smells, overall, including maintenance of the exterior and the interior rooms; • The sizes, condition and furnishings of the common areas and private rooms; • Whether the residents seem happy and well attended; and • What the food is like, including if it’s tasty and the meals well rounded.

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your loved one is as important as the facility’s physicality. Ask about the vetting process by which staff members are selected, including whether potential staff members undergo criminal background checks and health screenings, what the educational or training standards encompass and what the staff-to-patient ratio is, particularly on nights, weekends and holidays.

LIFESTYLE

Whether a person lives in a private residence, adult home or other type of residence, a welcoming environment with access to lifestyle amenities, matters. Be sure any adult home of interest is a comfortable and inviting retreat by considering: • How far the residence is located from family members and friends; • Whether there is 24/7 family access to the residence; • If each resident has a private room;

• What the schedule of onsite activities and recreation includes, such as games, clubs and fitness programs; • The availability of onsite amenities such as laundry and salon services; • The frequency of off-site amusement trips and what they encompass; and • Whether transportation is available to the local shopping center or other recreational places.

COSTS

When reviewing the cost of a long-term adult home, consider not only the monthly totals, but how those fees will be paid and what happens if the resident runs out money. Ask about which services are included in the home’s monthly rate, such as meals, laundry and housecleaning and whether there’s a tiered structure in those or other offerings.

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attention and emergencies, ensure that a long-term home is ready to meet the health and safety needs of your loved one by considering: • How familiar you are with the nearest medical facility and its distance from the residence; • The home’s policy regarding resident medications. • Ask which doctor will be engaged as needed. Will it be your loved one’s personal physician (and how far away that doctor is from the residence) or the location’s visiting doctor; • How prescribed therapies are handled; and • The residence’s emergency plan. Taking the time to see that the residence is a right fit can help ensure that person’s quality of life will flourish. Ericka Von Salews is the executive director of the Vassar-Warner Home in Poughkeepsie, http://vassarwarner.org/.

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Can Medicaid take my home and life savings if I go into a nursing home?

n a regular basis, clients express to me their fear that if they ever go into a nursing home and/or need long-term care, the Medicaid program will take their home and life savings. While it’s prudent to be concerned as to what will occur if you or a family member needs long-term care, Medicaid does not seize the recipient’s home, its contents and his or her life savings upon eligibility for the Medicaid program. If one is both financially and medically (categorically) eligible for Medicaid, and Medicaid has provided services to the Medicaid recipient (nursing home and/or home care), Medicaid will have a claim/lien against the individual’s estate at the time of his or her death.

42 U.S. Code 1396p (b) (4) defines the estate of a deceased person to include all real and personal property and other assets included within the individual’s estate, as defined for purposes of state probate law. It may also include, at the option of the state, any other real and personal property and other assets in which the individual had any legal title or interest at the time of death, including such assets conveyed to a survivor, heir or assign of the deceased individual through joint tenancy, tenancy in common, survivorship, life estate, living trust or other arrangement. New York, as permitted by federal law, has opted to limit the definition of one’s estate for Medicaid recovery purposes. Social Service Law § 369 (6) limits the definition

to one’s probate and/or intestate estate (when one dies without a last will). Thus, only assets that are in the decedent’s name alone, which do not have a named beneficiary, rights of survivorship such as joint accounts, life insurance policies (with named beneficiaries), retirement accounts and/or payable on death or transfer on death are considered part of one’s estate for recovery purposes. Additionally, revocable and/or irrevocable trusts are not probate assets thus, they are also not subject to estate recovery in New York. However, it should be noted that the transfer of one’s assets to an irrevocable trust will disqualify the Medicaid applicant and his or her spouse for nursing home Medicaid in New York, and create a 60-month look-back

period. Assets transferred to a revocable trust do not create said look-back period, however, they are still counted as available resources for purposes of Medicaid eligibility. While the use of an irrevocable trust does create the fiveyear look-back period (period of disqualification for nursing home Medicaid, not home care Medicaid in New York), once said period has passed the assets in the irrevocable trust will no longer be available and countable resources for purpose of Medicaid eligibility. The assets in the trust will also no longer be subject to Medicaid recovery. Finally, with respect to the residence of a Medicaid recipient, under New York Social Service Law § 369 (2)(a)(ii) and 18 N.Y.C.R. §360-7.11 (a)(3) (ii); a Medicaid lien may not be placed on the residence if

the residence is still occupied by the recipient and/or his or her spouse, a child under 21 years of age, a blind or disabled child of any age, and/ or a sibling who has an equity interest in the home and has resided in the home for one year prior to recipient’s admission to a medical institution. While the above may seem helpful in preventing Medicaid from placing a lien on the residence, in many instances, at the time of a Medicaid recipient’s death the home is owned by the recipient in his or her name alone and/or jointly with his or her spouse. Thus, Medicaid can file its lien for services provided immediately upon the death of the single Medicaid recipient or upon the death of the surviving spouse. In conclusion, the most prudent course of action to avoid

Medicaid recovery and/or liens is to be proactive and utilize an Irrevocable Medicaid Asset Protection Trust and gifting scheme, if appropriate, before the need for long-term care becomes a reality. Anthony J. Enea, is a member of Enea, Scanlan, & Sirignan LLP, of White Plains and Somers. He is a past chair of the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and a past president and a founding member of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). He is also a member of the Council of Advanced Practitioners of NAELA. Enea is president of the Westchester County Bar Foundation and a past president of the Westchester County Bar Association. He can be reached at 914-948-1500.

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Facts & Figures COURT CASES WHITE PLAINS LoxySoft AB, et al. Filed by Calltrol Corp. Action: False representation of goods sold in interstate commerce. Attorney for plaintiff: Jean-Marc Zimmerman. Filed Oct. 2. Case no. 7:18-cv-09026-NSR. OTG Management PHL, LLC, et al. Filed by the trustees of the National Retirement Fund. Action: Delinquent contributions. Attorneys for plaintiff: Jennifer Oh and David C. Sapp Jr. Filed Oct. 2. Case no. 7:18-cv-09017-VB. Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, et al. Filed by Tara Perez. Action: Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Eckor Joseph. Filed Oct. 2. Case no. 7:18-cv-09007-KMK. S.E.B. Services of New York Inc., et al. Filed by Jeff Fleurinord. Action: FLSA-minimum wage or overtime compensation. Attorney for plaintiff: Howard Todd Schragin. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 7:18-cv08917-KMK. Toyota Lease Trust, et al. Filed by Henry O. Lafontant. Action: Diversity-tort/motor vehicle (P.I.). Attorney for plaintiff: Clifford B. Aaron. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 7:18-cv-08857-NSR.

OTHER AREA COURTS 112 Jerome Dreyfuss LLC, et al. Filed by Luc Burbon. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08881-LGS. Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas LLC, et al. Filed by Luc Burbon. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08882-KPF.

Apta Leads Inc., et al. Filed by International Council of Shopping Centers, Inc. Action: Trademark infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Peter Jason Scoolidge. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08852-LAK-KNF.

Empire Structural Group LLC, et al. Filed by Miguel Ortiz Valencia. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Lawrence Lee Spasojevich. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08848-PAE-BCM.

Bo-Mell Enterprises Inc., et al. Filed by Angel Torres, et al. Action: FLSA-action for overtime wage violation. Attorneys for plaintiff: Michael John Borrelli, Alexander Todd Coleman and Caitlin Duffy. Filed Oct. 1. Case no. 1:18-cv-08997-VEC.

Facebook. Filed by Alejandro Dipp-Paz. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: N/A. Filed Oct. 2. Case no. 1:18-cv-09037-UA.

Bose Corp., et al. Filed by Emanuel Delacruz. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 30. Case no. 1:18-cv-08954-JPO. C.R. Bard Inc., et al. Filed by Carmen Tardio-Garin. Action: Diversity-notice of removal. Attorney for plaintiff: Alexandra Colella. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08927-KPF. C.R. Bard Inc., et al. Filed by John VanDenburgh. Action: Diversity. Attorney for plaintiff: Alexandra Colella. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08942-LGS. C.R. Bard, Inc. et al. Filed by Sheron Stackhouse. Action: Diversity-notice of removal. Attorney for plaintiff: Alexandra Colella. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08938-ER. CBS Broadcasting Inc., et al. Filed by Kisha Bari. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Sept. 30. Case no. 1:18-cv-08955-CM. Cowgirl Inc., et al. Filed by Vernita Worrell. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Donald Jeffrey Weiss. Filed Oct. 1. Case no. 1:18-cv08988-RJS. DJI Technology Inc., et al. Filed by Dareltech LLC. Action: Establishment of PTO. Attorney for plaintiff: David Lawrence Hecht. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-09973-DLC. Dyson Direct Inc., et al. Filed by Luc Burbon. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08880-PAE-BCM.

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Eda Food Inc., et al. Filed by Jesus Angel Basurto. Action: Denial of overtime compensation. Attorneys for plaintiff: Michael Antonio Faillace and Gennadiy Naydenskiy. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv08858-AJN. Elysee Management Inc., et al. Filed by Byron Breeze Jr. Action: Federal question-other civil rights. Attorney for plaintiff: Nolan Keith Klein. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv08915-NRB.

Famiglia International LLC, et al. Filed by Luc Burbon. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 30. Case no. 1:18-cv-08950-ALC.

Henri Bendel LLC, et al. Filed by Luc Burbon. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 30. Case no. 1:18-cv-08952-AT.

Peninsula New York Hotel LLC, et al. Filed by Luc Burbon. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 30. Case no. 1:18-cv-08949-ER.

TDX Construction Corp., et al. Filed by Yefim Gershberg. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: N/A. Filed Oct. 1. Case no. 1:18-cv-08980-UA.

Infomits LLC, et al. Filed by the International Council of Shopping Centers. Action: Trademark infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Peter Jason Scoolidge. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08854-ER.

Primark US Corp., et al. Filed by Luc Burbon. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08878-ALC.

TFS-ICAP LLC, et al. Filed by Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Action: Federal commodity exchange regulation. Attorneys for plaintiff: Kenneth Brent Tomer and Samuel C. Wasserman. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08914-VM.

Iron Mountain Inc., et al. Filed by Chemtall Inc. Action: Motion to compel. Attorney for plaintiff: Emma Leigh Baratta. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-mc-00448-JGK.

Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, et al. Filed by Morris and Judith Family Partnership LLC. Action: Diversity-notice of removal. Attorneys for plaintiff: Kevin A. Fritz and Jeffrey Schreiber. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08851-JSR.

Kadmon Holdings Inc., et al. Filed by James Tonra. Action: Civil action to protect against retaliation in fraud cases. Attorney for plaintiff: Lawrence Michael Pearson. Filed Oct. 2. Case no. 1:18-cv-09028-JGK.

Global Infotech LLC, et al. Filed by International Council of Shopping Centers. Action: Trademark infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Peter Jason Scoolidge. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08856-KPF.

Koropi Corp., et al. Filed by Kareem Nelson. Action: The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Attorney for plaintiff: Erik Matthew Bashian. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08868-RJS.

Goldsky Asset Management LLC, et al. Filed by Securities and Exchange Commission. Action: Securities fraud. Attorneys for plaintiff: Marc Peter Berger, Jorge Gerado Tenreiro and Sanjay Wadhwa. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08870-VEC.

Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Filed by Susan Maynard. Action: Job discrimination. Attorney for plaintiff: Abraham Zev Wolf Melamed. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08877-LAP.

Golo LLC, et al. Filed by Weight Watchers International Inc. Action: Trademark infringement (Lanham Act). Attorneys for plaintiff: Jonathan Zachary King, Joelle Anne Milov and Eric Joseph Shimanoff. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08928-VSB. Group Nine Media Inc., et al. Filed by Kisha Bari. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08883-DLC. GST399 Inc., et al. Filed by Kim Yancey. Action: Federal question-other civil rights. Attorney for plaintiff: Donald Jeffrey Weiss. Filed Oct. 1. Case no. 1:18-cv-08962-GHW. H. Stern Jewelers Inc., et al. Filed by Luc Burbon. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 30. Case no. 1:18-cv-08953-KPF. H&M Hennes & Mauritz LP, et al. Filed by Brian Fischler. Action: Federal question-other civil rights. Attorney for plaintiff: Christopher Howard Lowe. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08897-JGK.

Nareasha D. Willis. Filed by Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. Action: Trademark infringement (Lanham Act). Attorney for plaintiff: Jordan Andrew Lavine. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08912-AKH. Navient Corp., et al. Filed by Kathryn Hyland, et al. Action: Diversity-other contract. Attorney for plaintiff: Faith E. Gay. Filed Oct. 3. Case no. 1:18-cv-09031. New Avon LLC, et al. Filed by Caroline Ruiz. Action: Job discrimination. Attorneys for plaintiff: Jeanne-Marie Bates Christensen and Hilary Joy Orzick. Filed Oct. 3. Case no. 1:18-cv-09033. Ollie Pets Inc., et al. Filed by Linda Slade. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Dan Shaked. Filed Oct. 2. Case no. 1:18-cv-09009PAC. Pearlstone Restaurant LLC, et al. Filed by Hermelindo Tendilla. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorneys for plaintiff: William Michael Brown and C.K. Lee. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08900ALC.

Purple Innovation LLC, et al. Filed by Linda Slade. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Dan Shaked. Filed Oct. 2. Case no. 1:18-cv-09010-VEC. Republic of Suriname, et al. Filed by Everard Findlay Consulting LLC. Action: Breach of contract. Attorney for plaintiff: Amos Emory Friedland. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08926-AJN. Saks & Company LLC Filed by Daniel Logan. Action: Federal question-Family and Medical Leave Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Milo Silberstein. Filed Oct. 2. Case no. 1:18-cv09023-AT. San Pietro Restaurant Inc., et al. Filed by Jean Charles Antoine Quarrato. Action: denial of overtime compensation. Attorneys for plaintiff: Michael Antonio Faillace and Paul Hershan. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08898-UA. Silver Autumn Hotel (N.Y.) Corporation Ltd., et al. Filed by Byron Breeze Jr. Action Federal question-other civil rights. Attorney for plaintiff: Nolan Keith Klein. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08911-PAESN. Sotheby’s, et al. Filed by Accent Delight International Ltd., et al. Action: Diversity-fraud. Attorneys for plaintiff: Daniel Joseph Kornstein, Douglas Edward Lieb, Zoe Antonia Salzman, Ogilvie Andrew Fraser Wilson and Daniel Joseph Kornstein. Filed Oct. 2. Case no. 1:18-cv09011-UA. Source Digital Inc., et al. Filed by Eric Johnson. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Alexander Rudolf Malbin. Filed Oct. 1. Case no. 1:18-cv-08982-LAK-BCM. Sun of May LLC, et al. Filed by Sloan Pearson. Action: Equal rights under the law. Attorney for plaintiff: Benjamin Nathan Dictor. Filed Oct. 1. Case no. 1:18-cv-08969. Sun of May LLC, et al. Filed by Sloan Pearson. Action: Job discrimination (unlawful employment practices). Attorney for plaintiff: Benjamin Nathan Dictor. Filed Oct. 1. Case no. 1:18-cv-08970-VSB.

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Townsquare Media Inc., et al. Filed by David McGlynn. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney for plaintiff: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv08875-JFK. Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, et al. Filed by Bouchard Transportation Company Inc. Action: Marine Contract. Attorney for plaintiff: Noe Sebastian Hamra Carbajales. Filed Sept. 28. Case no. 1:18-cv-08924-RJS. Vails Gate Cleaners Inc., et al. Filed by Mireya Aguilo. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Brent Edward Pelton. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 7:18-cv-08850NSR. VF Outdoor LLC, et al. Filed by Luc Burbon. Action: Federal question. Attorney for plaintiff: Joseph H. Mizrahi. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 1:18-cv-08879-PAE-BCM. Walmart Stores East LP, et al. Filed by Frederick Matt. Action: Diversity-notice of removal. Attorney for plaintiff: Jonathan F. Banks. Filed Sept. 27. Case no. 7:18-cv-08864KMK.

FORECLOSURES Amawalk, 15 Watergate Dr. Single-family Residence; lot size: 1.03 acres. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy L.L.C.; 716-2041700; 1775 Wehrle Dr., Williamsville. Defendant: Irina Fiorella. Referee: Maria Rose Sammarco. Sale: Oct. 16, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $675,937.67. Armonk, 3 Leisure Farm Dr. Single-family Residence; lot size: 3.11 acres. Plaintiff: Key Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak; 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Anthony Vereziano. Referee: Anthony Colavita. Sale: Oct. 16, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,953,189.18.

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Good Things Happening HOPING TO RAISE FUNDS FOR HOPE’S DOOR

Assemblyman David Buchwald helps a client at the Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry.

Jerry L. Nadler

NADLER NAMED DEAN

FOOD NONPROFITS RECEIVE $25K The Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry and Meals-on-Wheels of White Plains will each receive $12,500 in grant money from New York state to be used in their efforts to provide food for needy local residents. “Some of my constituents have to choose between paying for groceries or utility bills. Some aren’t physically capable of driving or walking to a grocery store,” said Assemblyman David Buchwald who secured the funding. The Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry serves more than 300 households a week in northern Westchester with fresh produce, eggs, dairy, meat, poultry, fish and nonperishable items. Meals-On-Wheels of White Plains delivers two meals a day, one hot, one cold, to clients who can’t shop or prepare meals for themselves.

HONORS AT CP/W DANCE

Cerebral Palsy of Westchester (CP/W) held its 69th annual Pioneer Social Club Dinner Dance at The Surf Club on the Sound in New Rochelle. Two people who have helped CP/W grow in different ways were recognized: Stanley Bells and Mark Haden. Bells received the organization’s Martie Osterer Award. It is given each year to a Pioneer Club member who has made strides to live life to the fullest. Bells currently lives at Hudson House in Ossining, a residence program of the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities. He attends the day program at The Keon Center in Peekskill, where he earns weekly paychecks. Lisa Ferri, CP/W’s adult recreation coordinator and director of The Pioneer Club, said, “His gentle nature and willingness to improve and grow make Stanley Bells a perfect candidate for this honor.” Haden received the Friendship Award. Haden’s efforts helped ensure that the CP/W Golf Classic has sold out for the past two years, bringing in record contributions. The Pioneer Club is a social recreational program that provides adults with disabilities the unique opportunity to get together and participate in organized activities with their peers. It has more than 200 members.

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Jennifer Ryan Safsel, HD’s director of development and community relations; Colleen Torpie; CarlLa Horton; Dina Mankiewicz; Maria Nicholson; and Brenda Rodriguez, HD’s economic empowerment specialist.

Hope’s Door (HD), a nonprofit with locations in Hawthorne, Ossining and White Plains, which aids victims of domestic violence, is participating in The Allstate Foundation Purple Purse Challenge, a national online fundraising campaign, through Oct. 31. Organizations are divided into divisions and the top five fundraisers from each division win a cash prize from The Allstate Foundation on top of the money they’ve raised.

“As a woman who has experienced financial abuse, I understand the financial and emotional stress victims are experiencing,” said Dina Mankiewicz, a chiropractor located in Hawthorne. Colleen Torpie, owner of an Allstate Agency in Thornwood, said, “I believe it is so important for everyone to know that domestic and financial abuse can happen to anyone, regardless of their income, education or independent success, which is why the awareness, the outreach and the

programs that Hope’s Door is able to offer with these funds are vital.” “One in every four women will experience partner abuse during her lifetime. Most victims will return to the abuser an average of seven to 11 times before they are able to escape the violence. This is due in large part to their lack of financial independence,” said CarlLa Horton, Hope’s Door executive director. More information on the HD website, HopesDoorNY.org.

VOTER REGISTRATION ON CAMPUS

Jerry L. Nadler, M.D., has been appointed dean of the School of Medicine at New York Medical College (NYMC) in Valhalla. He is an internationally recognized diabetes researcher and is scheduled to assume his new duties in March 2019. Nadler comes to NYMC from Eastern Virginia Medical School, where he holds several titles. Previously, he was chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Virginia, co-director of the Diabetes and Hormone Center of Excellence and associate director of Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has been a member of the NIH’s Special Advisory Committee on Type I Diabetes, a standing member of the American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association and NIH grant review committees Nadler has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and has been an invited speaker at major international conferences. He holds 15 patents.

LOPANE JOINS WIHD

Some CNR students involved in the effort pose with, in the center from left: Noam Bramson; Katie Lobach of the New Rochelle League of Women Voters; and William Latimer.

Dozens of students had the opportunity to register to vote while urging others to register at The College of New Rochelle (CNR) as part of National Voter Registration Day. “We are so pleased to have played an active role in ensuring our students are fully able to participate in the democratic process. Informed and active citizens are

necessary to ensure all voices are heard and for the betterment of society,” said William Latimer, president of CNR. New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, who stopped by to meet some of the newly registered students, said, “High school and college students have the power to make a real difference in our community and nation, and have a profound stake in the

choices made by government.” Several students expressed how much they looked forward to voting for the first time. Kailee Frank, a junior, said, “I’ve wanted to and I think it’s extremely important.” “It’s liberating to be able to vote and to have a say in who leads the country,” said Jessica Ramirez, a freshman.

Cindy Lopane has joined the Westchester Institute for Human Development (WIHD) as its director of development and community engagement. Lopane had been with the March of Dimes in White Plains where she served as development and community manager since 2010. Lopane received her bachelor’s degree from Dominican College. A resident of Harrison, she currently serves as president of the Harrison High School PTA and is on the board of the New York Raptors Special Hockey, a nonprofit program for special-needs children and adults, which enables them to participate in ice hockey.

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PEDIATRIC CENTER CELEBRATES 30 YEARS

Carmen Maria Machado. Photo by Tom Storm Photography. Marsha Gordon

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AT PURCHASE

Purchase College-SUNY will host author Carmen Maria Machado on Oct. 11. The free event begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre, 735 Anderson Hill Road. Her appearance is part of the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series. Machado’s debut short story collection, “Her Body and Other Parties,” was published in 2017 and won the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize​. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and other awards. Machado currently serves in the position of Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. According to Elise Lemire, professor of literature at Purchase College, her short story collection “…seems ripped from recent headlines, while the tales she expertly spins reach back to the most ancient of fairy tales in order to show us how far we haven’t come.”

GOLF CLASSIC RAISES $260K FOR BLYTHEDALE The BNC Insurance Golf Classic raised more than $260,000 for Blythedale Hospital’s Health Home Care Management program. More than 100 golfers hit the links and enjoyed a full day of golf, followed by dinner and an auction. At the event, Blythedale Board Chair David Pedowitz thanked sponsors and golfers for their support, giving special recognition to John Cofini, Brian Colby, Todd Rockefeller and Paul Sohigian of the event’s title sponsor, BNC Insurance Agency Inc. Bob Marrone, morning host on New Rochelle radio station WVOX, served as auctioneer. Larry Levine, the president and CEO of Blythedale, said, “We are particularly indebted to our very dear and longtime friend Carmine Lippolis for the role he plays as event chair.”

GORDON NAMED BANK DIRECTOR Yonkers firefighters, members of Local 628, cooked up burgers and hot dogs for guests

The Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center in Yonkers celebrated its 30th anniversary with an event attended by more than 500 children, family members, staff and special guests. Sister Carol Barnes, vice chairperson of the organization’s board of directors, recalled, “What began as a program of the New York Foundling, sponsored by the Sisters of Charity, became a separately incor-

porated organization focused on a pressing need for pediatric skilled care.” Currently, the pediatric center cares for 169 children with diverse medical complexities, including more than 60 children who rely on ventilators and other forms of advanced technology-based care. This level of acuity requires the support of more than 750 staff members. The pediatric center plans to soon pio-

Pat Tursi receives a proclamation from Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano.

neer the nation’s first free-standing young adult facility, specifically tailored for medically complex adults ages 21 to 35. “We have children who are now – which is great news – living past the age of 21 and there’s really no appropriate facility for them to go [to],” said Pat Tursi, CEO. “So, they really are forced to go to adult nursing homes and we want to be the first of a kind to develop a home for medically complex young adults.”

CLOTHING DRIVE IN PROGRESS A clothing drive named “Share the Warmth” is underway to benefit the nonprofits Midnight Run and Vietnam Veterans of America. Those who have new or slightly used clothing in good condition, without tears or stains, are invited to drop off the items in the lobby of the Westchester Broadway Theatre, 1 Broadway Plaza, Elmsford. Collection boxes will be in the theatre’s lobby until Nov. 19. Items needed for men include coats, jackets, hats, gloves, jeans, shirts, t-shirts, tube socks, underwear, sweatpants and sweatshirts (particularly hoodies), sneakers and boots. Large sizes are preferred. Items needed for women include coats, jackets, hats, gloves, jeans, underwear, socks, back-to-work clothing (pants suits, dresses, skirts, blouses, etc.), shoes and boots. Again, large sizes are welcome. Toiletries needed include bar soap, body wash, comb, hair brush, dental floss, deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrush, mouth wash and baby wipes.

Yorktown Heights-based PCSB Bank has announced the election of Marsha Gordon, president and CEO of The Business Council of Westchester (BCW), to its board of directors. “Marsha Gordon is widely considered to be an authority on the business climate in Westchester County, as well as one of the most effective connectors of businesses of all sizes and community-based organizations,” said Joseph D. Roberto, chairman, president and CEO of PCSB Bank. Gordon serves on several boards, including The Business Council of New York State and the Westchester-Putnam Workforce Investment Board. Prior to joining BCW, she was president and CEO of MetroPool, a nonprofit that promotes alternative transportation options. Gordon received her bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College, an MBA from Marist College, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Pace University

LAURIE JOINS HEALTH QUEST

Bob Funking, theatre co-owner, left, and Dale Williams of Midnight Run.

Health Quest Systems Inc., a nonprofit health care provider operating in the Mid-Hudson Valley and northwest Connecticut, has announced that pulmonologist Daniel Laurie has joined its team. Pulmonologists, also known as pulmonary disease specialists, diagnose and treat diseases that impact the structure and function of the lungs. A native of London, Laurie served as a pulmonary and critical care specialist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens. Laurie earned his medical degree from the Imperial College School of Medicine in South Kensington, London, and later became a member of the Royal College of Physicians, also in London. He’s based in Poughkeepsie.

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Facts & Figures Bronxville, 123 Lockwood Ave. Single-family Residence; lot size: .12 acres. Plaintiff: PennyMac Corp. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon; 631-969-3100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore. Defendant: John Depietro. Referee: Steven Lubowitz. Sale: Oct. 22, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $661,781.

Pelham, 1 Hillside Ave. Single-family Residence; lot size: 57 x 36. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C., 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle. Defendant: Manamadurai Somalingam. Referee: Guy Parisi. Sale: Oct. 19, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $605,422.

Disconnect protection for command-line remote terminals. Patent no. 10,091,305 issued to Joshua A. Alger, Raleigh, North Carolina; Alan R. Buss, Raleigh, North Carolina; James D. Creasman, Apex, North Carolina; Jeffrey R. Hoy, Southern Pines, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Katonah, 512 Pea Pond Rd. Single-family residence; lot size: 4.6 acres. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Aldridge Pite L.L.P., Marcus Drive, Melville. Defendant: Sloan Brown. Referee: Lorraine Vivian Kathleen Coyle. Sale: Oct. 15, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,054,809.

Pleasantville, 16 Club Ct. Single-family Residence; lot size: .05 acres. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak; 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Ben Rosenshire. Referee: Steven Lubowitz. Sale: Oct. 9, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $682,006.11.

Displaying virtual target window on mobile device based on user intent. Patent no. 10,091,344 issued to Inseok Hwang, Austin, Texas; Janani Mukundan, Ithaca; Erica J. Rozner, Austin Texas; Chungkuk Yoo, Daejeon, Korea. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Mohegan Lake, 3435 Lexington Ave. Multi-purpose Residence; lot size: 150 x 154. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: DeRose & Surcio, 718-279-2000; 213 44 38th Ave., Bayside. Defendant: Martin Patten. Referee: Elliot Kaplan. Sale: Oct. 17, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $760,685. Mount Vernon, 165 Sheridan Ave. Single-family Residence; lot size: .17 acres. Plaintiff: Citibank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy L.L.C.; 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Dr., Williamsville. Defendant: Karen Keith. Referee: Barbara Lerman. Sale: Oct. 16, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,364,036.02. New Rochelle, 41 Linwood Rd. Single-family residence; lot size: .16 acres. Plaintiff: Bank of America Fund Corp. Plaintiff’s attorney: Davidson, Fink, Cook, Kelly & Galbraith, 585-546-6448; 28 E. Main St., Suite 1700, Rochester. Defendant: Carolyn Sabatini. Referee: Barbara Lerman. Sale: Oct. 16, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $390,141.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of Members of Consumer Reports will be held at The Loft at City Winery in New York, NY, on October 10, 2018, at 6 p.m. Members are encouraged to submit their ballot electronically for the annual election of Directors of Consumer Reports, in accordance with the instructions provided with the ballot sent to the email address associated with your membership. Completed ballots must be received by Consumer Reports no later than October 7, 2018.

Pound Ridge, 33 Rolling Meadow Ln. Single-family Residence; lot size: 1 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Fein Such & Crane L.L.P.; 1400 Old Country Rd., Westbury. Defendant: Santo Borsellino. Referee: Michele Bermel. Sale: Oct. 22, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $224,985. Tuckahoe, 52 Washington St. Two-family Residence; lot size: .11 acres. Plaintiff: Wilmington Trust NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Friedman Vartolo L.L.P.; Broad St., New York City. Defendant: Celia Watt. Referee: Andrew Buder. Sale: Oct. 16, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $916,237.48. Yonkers, 123 Winfield Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .14 acres. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Aldridge Pite L.L.P., Marcus Drive, Melville. Defendant: Joseph Schepisi. Referee: Andrew Romano. Sale: Oct. 15, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $323,547.

PATENTS The following patents were issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. Context aware midair projection display. Patent no. 10,091,482 issued to Sarbajit L. Rakshit, Kolkata, India; Mukundan Sundararajan, Bangalore, India. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Audit Specialist (Auditor) - Pellegrino, Saccomani & Wells, LLP, Thornwood, NY. Duties incl: Handling complex & difficult audit prjcts; Conduct audits of financial, control & other operating records data & info; Dsgn, implmnt audit strategies, procedures & programs for complex assignments; Formulates different policies & procedures as per the reqrmnts of the spec assignment; Make recommendations to improve the efficiency of a particular prjct; & Ensures adherence w/ appropriate qlty control protocols. The position req’s Bachs (or equiv) +5 yrs of progressively more responsible exp. Will also accept a Masters degree (or equiv) & minimum 2 yrs of exp. Must’ve CPA or Certified Charter Accountant. Mail resume to: Joseph Saccomani, Pellegrino, Saccomani & Wells, LLP, 722 Commerce Street, Thornwood, NY 10594.

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Enhanced power conservation for mobile devices. Patent no. 10,091,732 issued to Laurence V. Marks, Raleigh, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Enhancing performance of data storage in a dispersed storage network. Patent no. 10,091,298 issued to Andrew D. Baptist, Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin; Greg R. Dhuse, Chicago; Ravi V. Khadiwala, Barlett, Illinois. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Managing email content in an activity stream. Patent no. 10,091,139 issued to Mustansir Banatwala, Hudson, New Hampshire; David A. Brooks, Arlington, Virginia; Scott H. Prager, Stratham, New Hampshire; Joseph A. Russo, Westford, Massachusetts. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Methods and systems to obtain desired self-pictures with an image capture device. Patent no. 10,091,414 issued to Yuk L. Chan, Rochester; Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania; Deepti M. Naphade, Cupertino, California. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Methods for tuning propagation velocity with functionalized carbon nanomaterial. Patent no. 10,091,870 issued to Dylan J. Boday, Tuscon, Arizona; Samuel R. Connor, Apex, North Carolina; Joseph Kuczynski, North Port, Florida. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Proxy persona to aid facilitation of capturing information on behalf of an end user during real time collaboration. Patent no. 10,091,250 issued to Dhanashree Srivastava, Pune, India; Amy D. Travis, Arlington, Massachusetts. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Recording events in a virtual world. Patent no. 10,091,454 issued to Kulvir S. Bhogal, Pflugerville, Texas; Lisa Seacat DeLuca, San Fransisco, California; Timothy J. Eby, Austin, Texas; Samuel I. Ward, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Remote authentication through reconfigurable boson samplers. Patent no. 10,091, 651 issued to Jason S. Orcutt, Katonah. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Secured event monitoring leveraging blockchain. Patent no. 10,091,228 issued to Guo Qiang Li, Beijing; June-Ray Lin, Taipei; Ronald Williams, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Signal measurement using paired remote device. Patent no. 10,091,676 issued to Henry Gregg Martch, Parker, Colorado. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Solution-centric reporting of security warnings. Patent no. 10,091,232 issued to Stephen Darwin Teilhet, Milford, New Hampshire; Kristofer Alyn Duer, Manchester, New Hampshire; John Thomas Peyton Jr., Arlington, Massachusetts; Omer Tripp, New York City. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Variable air cooling system for data centers. Patent no. 10,091,912 issued to Frederic Bauchot, Saint-Jeannet, France; Jean-Yves Clement, Saint-Jeannet, France; Jean-Marc Legrand, Cagnes sur Mer, France; Francois-Rene Rougeaux, Castelnau le Lez, France. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Suppression of authorization risk feedback to mitigate risk factor manipulation in an authorization system. Patent no. 10,091,181 issued to Pau-Chen Cheng, Yorktown Heights; Lawrence Koved, Pleasantville; Kapil K. Singh, Cary, North Carolina; Calvin B. Swart, Poughkeepsie; Sharon M. Trewin, Croton-on-Hudson. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Virtual voice response agent individually configured for a user. Patent no. 10,091,355 issued to Romelia H. Flores, Keller, Texas; Christian E. Loza, Denton, Texas; Olivia G. Loza, Denton, Texas; John S. Pannell, Keller, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Wireless channel and/or band arbitration. Patent no. 10,091,689 issued to Al Chakra, Apex, North Carolina; Jonathan Dunne, Dungarvan, Ireland; Liam Harpur, Dublin, Ireland. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Formation of REVIBE HEALTH SYSTEMS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/29/18. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 35 Hollywood Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10707. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61853 Notice of Formation of PRIDE Matters LLC Art. Of Org.filed with SSNY on 06/05/18. Offc.Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon who process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 2 Deborah LN Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61858 The Articles of Organization of Fusion Enterprises, LLC (the “Company”) were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on August 9, 2018. The office of the Company is located in Westchester County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company served upon him or her is: 131 Beacon Hill Drive, F16, Dobbs Ferry, New York 10522. The Company was formed for any lawful business purpose or purposes permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Act. #61860 Notice of Formation of JC Tile Installation LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/28/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 2 Darnay Ct, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61861

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Notice of Formation of The Curated Eye, LLC. Arts. of Org filed with SSNY on 8/9/18. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY desingated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 145 Valley Road, New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61862 Category 6 Media, LLC. Appl for Auth filed with SSNY 8/318. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in DE 6/29/18. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 125 River St., Sleepy Hollow, NY 10951. DE address of LLC is c/o NRAI, 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. A copy of the Cert. of Form. on file with State of DE, Div.of Corp., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61863 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Name: Aurelius Crompond LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on September 4, 2018. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Aurelius Crompond LLC, c/o Trinity Associates, LLC, 117 Washington Avenue, Pleasantville, New York 10570. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #61864 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Name: Aurelius Manager LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on September 4, 2018. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Aurelius Manager LLC, c/o Trinity Associates, LLC, 117 Washington Avenue, Pleasantville, New York 10570. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #61865

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Notice of Formation of Bloom and Grow, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/24/2018. Offc. Loc: Queens County SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 16 Idlewood Rd White Plains, NY 10605 . Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61866

Notice of Formation of Lab5Accessories LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/12/18. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Troy Gerber, 1 City Place #2706 White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61870

Notice of Formation of Taras Boulba, LLC. Address of LLC: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, New York 10803. County of business: Westchester County, Article of Organization originally filed with SSNY on 08/24/2018. Agent for Service: Secretary of State. Mail Process to: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: Any lawful activity #61867

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Lee Tech Consulting, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Department of State on Aug 10, 2018. Office location: Westchester County. The Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: InCorp Services, Inc., One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Ave, Ste. 805-A, Albany, NY 12210. Registered agent: InCorp Services, Inc. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61871

368-372 Route 202 LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/6/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2695 Rte. 35, Katonah, NY 10536. General Purpose. #61868 The Articles of Organization of Kristen N. Gizzi, Esq. PLLC, a professional service limited liability company, (the ìCompanyî) were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on August 14, 2018. The office of the Company is located in Westchester County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company served upon him or her is: 201 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers, New York 10701. The Company was formed to perform legal services as a professional service limited liability company under the New York Limited Liability Company Act. #61869

Notice of formation of Mental Wealth Practice, Licensed Mental Health Counseling, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/29/18. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 280 N. Central Ave, Suite 450A, Hartsdale, NY, 10530. Purpose: Practice the profession of Mental Health Counseling #61872 431 Rushmore Avenue, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/13/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Odedd, LLP, 235 Mamaroneck Ave., Ste. 403, White Plains, NY 10605. General Purpose. #61874 507 Halstead LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/10/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 15 2nd St., Harrison, NY 10528-3509. General Purpose. #61875

Notice of formation of FERN LEAF DESIGNS, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/17/2018. Office loc. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process Fern Leaf Designs, LLC 11 Edwards Court, Bedford Corners, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61876 508 Seventh Street, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/18/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 235 Mamaroneck Ave., Ste. 403, White Plains, NY 10605. General Purpose. #61879 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SUPRANOWITZ CONSULTING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the SSNY on 9/13/18. Office location is Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 190 Lake Shore Drive Pleasantville NY 10570. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #61881 Defortuna Design Co., LLC Art.of Org, filed with SSNY on 08/08/2018. Off. loc: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and will mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 48 Brae Burn Drive, Purchase, New York 10577, Purpose: all lawful. #61882 Notice of formation of Arm Security, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 20, 2018. Office located in Westchester. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to 193 Upper Shad Road, Pound Ridge, NY 10576. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61883

Notice is hereby given that a license, serial number Pending, for on-premises liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, and/or wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 147 Chatsworth Avenue, Larchmont, New York 10538, for on-premises consumption. Little Partners LLC d/b/a Durian #61884 Ettore Holdings, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/20/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to c/o The Galinn Fund, 399 Knollwood Rd., Ste 318, White Plains, NY 10603. General Purpose. #61885 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Whole Food’s Market Group, Inc. d/b/a Whole Foods Market Restaurant to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 20 The Crossing, Suite A Chappaqua NY 10514. #61886 Notice of Formation of JPC Pro Consulting LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/17/18. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 4 Cobblefield lane, White plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61887 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MAHSA A SOHRAB MD PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/13/2018. Office location: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC served upon him/her is: MAHSA SOHRAB 18 SMALLWOOD PL WHITE PLAINS NY 10603 The principal business address of the PLLC is: 18 SMALLWOOD PL WHITE PLAINS NY 10603 Purpose: any lawful act or activity #61888

Notice of Formation of LDTD Group, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on March 29, 2018. Office located in Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 162 New Chalet Dr. Mohegan Lake, NY 10547. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61889 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Walison Development LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on September 25, 2018. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Walison Development LLC, 237 West Lincoln Avenue, Mt. Vernon, New York 10550. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #61890 The American Gold Cup, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 09/24/2018. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, Attn: Adam Brodsky, 3 W 57th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #61891 VJ Project Management LLC has filed articles of organization with the Secretary of State of NYS on 09/25/2018. 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 31 Seneca Drive, Chappaqua, NY 10514. The company is organized to conduct any lawful business for which limited liability companies may be organized. #61892

LEGAL NOTICES Notice of formation of STEP OFF THE BOAT, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/10/2018. Office loc. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process Step Off the Boat, LLC 34 Bramblebrook Road, Ardsley, NY 10502. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61893

Notice of formation of 173 Maple LLC Art.of Org. filed w/ SSNY on Sept 7, 2018 office location: Westchester County SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon who prcess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Gregg Anderson 1695 Croton Lake Rd Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Purpose: any lawful purpose #61895

Notice of formation of MY HOUSE BUYER, LLC Art org. filed with SSNY on 9/19/2018. Office loc. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process My House Buyer, LLC 34 Bramblebrook Road, Ardsley, NY 10502. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61894

Hunter Drive-In LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/24/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 315 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591. General Purpose. #61896

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER _________________________________________________ NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY vs.

Plaintiff,

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK VERDI; KARA EDWARD, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK VERDI; JAMES VERDI, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK VERDI; THOMAS VERDI, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK VERDI; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, # TBA has been applied for by La Concha Restaurant Corp. to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 2 W Main Street, Elmsford, NY 10523. #61897 Notice of Formation of Same Day Solutions, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/19/18. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 84 Hyatt Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61898

LASER ELECTRIC SERVICES LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/06/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 137 Pelham Rd., New Rochelle, New York 10805, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61899 Notice of formation of Pavilion Coaching Services LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 05/31/2018. Office location: Westchester. SSNY is designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 19 John Cava Lane Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567 Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61900

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Plaintiff designates WESTCHESTER as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 29 MAC ARTHUR BLVD CORTLANDT MANOR, NY 10567 District: Section: Block: Lot:

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Nectar De Fete LLC. Art. Of Org. Filed with NY Secy of State on 17/19/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to the LLC 20 Van Cortlandt Pl. Cortlandt Manor NY 10567. Purpose: any lawful purpose #61901

Notice of Formation of Lori's Day Care LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/6/18. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 240 Grand St, Mamaroneck, NY 10543. Purpose: any lawful purpose. # 61852

Name of LLC: GPS Funding LLC. Application for Authority of Connecticut LLC filed with NY Sec. of State 9/21/18. Princ. off. loc.: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 2 Dearfield Drive, Suite 3, Greenwich, CT 06831: Purpose is any lawful activity. #61902

Notice of Formation of WESTCHESTER ACADEMY BASEBALL, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/30/18. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 29 Morgan Place, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. # 61856

105 Smith Avenue LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/28/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 105 Smith Ave., Mount Kisco, NY 10549. General Purpose # 61857 Name of the LLC: Soleil Consults (US) LLC Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NYS Dept. of State: 09/06/18 County the LLC is located in: Westchester The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Address of the LLC: 161 Pearsall Dr., Mount Vernon, NY 10552 The character or purpose of the business: Business Support Services # 61880 49 Chestnut Street LLC Filed 9/27/18 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 65-22 79th Place, Middle Village, NY 11379 Purpose: all lawful # 61903

THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $450,000.00 and interest, recorded on September 2, 2010, at Instrument number 502303259, of the Public Records of WESTCHESTER County, New York, covering premises known as 29 MAC ARTHUR BLVD CORTLANDT MANOR, NY 10567. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. WESTCHESTER County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: CYNTHIA MALONE, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675

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To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff's Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT

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Come join us overlooking the Ramapo Mountains at the Historic Montebello Mansion. 75 Montebello Road • Suffern, N.Y. To RSVP or sponsor contact: Anne Jordan at anne@westfairinc.com or 914-358-0764 Tracey Vitale at tvitale@westfairinc.com or 914-358-0762