Real Estate Update

1. The Southern New York Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society held its Night
of Appreciation dinner at Abigail Kirsch’s Tappan Hill Mansion in Tarrytown. 107.1 The Peak, radio station WFAS and the Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors Association were among the honorees. Pictured (from left) are: former chapter board chair Dennis Kremer and current board chair Tobi Rogowsky. From left (1A), chapter president William O’Reilly is pictured with award recipients Dave Ashton and Mary DeSilva of WFAS Radio. Rob Del la Greca, 107.1 The Peak sales manager, and Mike Batiste, on-air personality, are pictured in the insets.

2. Seniors (from left, front) Mary Merritt and Marie Ruggiero are enjoying chairs donated to their center at 2 Park Ave., Yonkers, by Classic Residence by Hyatt. Pictured with them are residence executive director John Muzio and Kathy Moran, director of the Offi ce of Aging Services in Yonkers. The Hyatt facility donated 150 diningroomchairs to the senior center.

3. More than 35 employees of the Rollins Insurance Agency, based in Tuckahoe, built six bicycles for the Andrus Children’s Center in Yonkers from kits as a team-building exercise at the firm’s annual employees’ retreat. Pictured (from left) are: Chuck Rollins, agency partner; Nancy Ment, president and chief executive offi cer, children’s center; Mark Rollins, agency partner; and John Moccia of the insurance agency.

4. New York state Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson (second from right) is pictured with, from left, Karen Spar Kasner, chair of the Westchester Government Relations Committee of UJA-Federation of New York; Debra Abrahams Weiner, president, Westchester Jewish Conference; and Eric S. Goldschmidt, UJA-Federation Westchester regional chair. Paterson addressed an audience of more than 200 state and county elected offi cials, social service executives and other leaders at Temple Israel Center in White Plains March 9. The event was designed to build relationships with legislators and highlight key issues and concerns of the federation’s network of care-providing agencies.

5. New York state Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Scarsdale) is pictured visiting the Parent
Child Center, a free drop-in playspace group at St. Gabriel’s School in New Rochelle, sponsored by the Westchester Jewish Community Services.

6. The former Higham Press on Manville Road in Pleasantville is pictured under demolition
in the site-preparation phase for the Jacob Burns Film Center’s media and education center,
a 26,000-square-foot facility, designed by Mount Kisco-based Kaeyer, Garment & Davidson Architects & Engineers P.C., which will be built on the site and an adjacent property on Grant Street. Construction is expected to take nine months.

7. Mahopac National Bank recently donated funds to nine Rotary organizations throughout
Westchester County for literacy programs. Pictured (from left) are: Charla Marshall, Pleasantville Rotary; Verna Belcastro, bank branch division manager; James Sbarra, assistant bank branch manager, Mount Kisco; and Kim Arco, Mount Kisco bank branch manager.

8. Pictured (from left) are American Red Cross in Westchester County honorees: Garrison
Jackson of Cortland Manor, entrepreneur honoree, chief executive offi cer, Circulation Experti in White Plains; Helen Williams of Millwood, community service honoree; and Kenneth Theobalds of New Rochelle, business honoree, vice president of government affairs, Entergy Nuclear Northeast. They were cited at a dinner celebrating the life and career of Jerome H. Holland, Ph.D., the fi rst African-American chairman of the American Red Cross.

9. More than 300 guests celebrated the reopening celebration of Eva’s Design and
Decorating in White Plains, after its $1 million makeover. Pictured at the ribbon-cutting (from
left) are: Janet Langsam, executive director, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains; Joseph
Delfi no, White Plains mayor; and owners Leonard Weisman and Cathy Poses.

10. The recent gerontechonology demonstration at United Hebrew Geriatric Center, New
Rochelle, sponsored by the Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services, was part of the county’s Take Your Grandparents to School/Work Week. Pictured (from left) are: Colette Phipps, research analyst, county senior department; Linda Forman, vice president, community relations, geriatric center; and Jean F. Coppola, Ph.D., assistant professor, technology systems, Pace University.

11. Yorktown resident and Broadway star Craig Schulman hosted a roster of his colleagues
at a benefi t concert at Yorktown Stage, Broadway Sings for Jenna’s Dream, a program
created to provide funds for at-risk children to attend summer theater arts programs and scholarships to outstanding high school seniors who are planning to attend college for the performing arts. Pictured (from left, front row) are: Tamra Hayden, Sharon Wheatley, Maya Schulman and Lauren Molina; (from left, back row) are: Robert Newman, John Treacy Eagan, Craig Schulman, Eric Schulman, Merwin Foard, Glory Crampton, Matthew Schulman and Monica Robinson Schulman.