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Peekskill's restaurant owners--new and old--can agree on one thing, revitalization has been good for business. As much as they've benefited, they've collectively given back to Peekskill residents, tourists and businesspeople [...]

Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren had to start somewhere. That's what Daniel Casarella a native of Bedford, and Andrew Rudjord of Brooklyn are thinking as they nurture their clothing line [...]

You might say that all the world's a stage to Jessica Lyon, account services manager with marketing and public relations firm Co-Communications. Based in Mount Kisco, the company serves clients [...]

Born and raised in Armonk, Kristin Muller can't remember a time when she couldn't swim. The youngest of four children, sports were such a part of the family's life that [...]

Jonathan Flaks can describe what it feels like to place his hand around the tentacle of an octopus, what a baby seal looks like up close and how it is [...]

In theaters now is a movie featuring as its main character a young Argentine man who ultimately became the leader of the Cuban revolution and as such one of the [...]

You could say that Michael Lavery's life has given him something to sing about. Today, the Missouri native works as the administrative director for ITV (or Instructional Television) of the [...]

Attorney Gerry Geist learned about election recounts the hard way. It was more than 20 years ago when Geist was for the first time running for councilman in the town [...]

Today, Rocky Cipriano, owner of Insight Marketing, turns to sailing to put his mind at case. Being out on the water, though, didn't always bring peace to the Mamaroneck native [...]

When Mary Jane Goldman decided to go into the printing business 25 years ago it wasn't really a woman's field. A registered nurse, Goldman said she was getting a little [...]

Martha Dubinsky-Witkowski likes the creative side of her work as the operations manager for Zip Jack Custom Umbrellas in Elmsford. Her father, Mammy, started the business in 1950 in the [...]

A native of Hastingson-Hudson, Marjorie Lang has the river in her blood. Today, Lang comes home from work as a regional manager for M&T Bank's business banking group to Irvington, [...]

It isn't unusual that someone who has spent nearly all of her career working for the Girl Scouts would see the world as wide and inviting. As the manager of [...]

Certain things put a swing in the step of Karen Spencer of Karen Spencer Design Inc. in Armonk. One is good design. Her 20-year-old firm specializes in full-service design and [...]

Lately, Nancy A. Shenker isn't afraid to take a swipe at what stands in her way of achieving balance between work and life. A 25-year veteran of the corporate world, [...]

Kristi Stangeland didn't always know what she wanted to be when she grew up. She spent the better part of her career years as a cirtified public accountant, working at [...]

Ben Blumberg of Blumberg Salesworks L.L.C. in White Plains says he's really just a kid at heart. He launched his sales training and coaching business three years ago mainly to [...]

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Seth Neubardt seems to prefer taking the road less traveled. This approach sets him apart in his medical career and in life. In practice for 13 years [...]

David Stowe likes being on top of the world. When he's not busy at work as co-owner of the family business D&M Press in New Rochelle he is likely to [...]

Jeri Froehlich and Bob Bonini are partners in life and in business. Based in Ossining, the couple launched their graphic design business Froehlich Bonini eight years ago. Both had been [...]

Peter Giles, president of Giles Communications, remembers fighting over the piano with his younger brother Tom. Giles started playing in the third grade and thanks to parents who nurtured his [...]

For 20 years, Shin Tsudome has been serving customers with precision hair cutting based on a customer's individual style and personal lifestyle needs at Salon Shin in Manhattan. Seven years [...]

Dave Morris says that last year when he called to tell his wife, Lynda, about his new job as the publisher of Sports Illustrated (SI) his news was met with [...]

After years of working in Manhattan as an art director and later running a freelance graphic design company, 12 years ago Sherry Bruck Munched a full-service graphic design firm in [...]

In 1979 Sibby Chritensen of the Associated Press and other set out to establish an organization that would serve as an extension of the New York City chapter of Women [...]

As one of three founders of White Plains hair salon company Static, George Bartko handles the business side of things and leaves much of the hip new salon's creative edge [...]

Cindy Suna, Hearthstone Alzheimer Care's director of community relations for New York, speaks passionately and prolifically about why it is important to embrace your hobbies, whatever they may be. 'What [...]

When John Tolomer's career took him from living in Westchester and working in New York City to both living and working in Westchester, he realized quickly what new opportunities were [...]

Steve Sribnik likes bringing things to life. Currently, the vice president of business development for Mormax Company in Mount Vernon, Sribnik is launching a new refreshment division for the company [...]

Harriet Dunkerley, a Fleet Bank vice president responsible for overseeing three banking centers in New Rochelle, is a relative newcomer to the banking world. Before starting in banking six years [...]

Mark Schiowitz--founder and president of Briarcliff Manor-based Digitech Computer Inc.--knows what it's like to be the new kid on the block. The child of an Air Force dad, Schiowitz grew [...]

Katonah-based graphic designer Gene Krackehl learned soon enough that it was important to maintain balance between work and life. After 15 years working in key creative positions at major corporations [...]

Mike Dardano of Westchester-based Adpotential wishes he had listened more to his piano teacher as a child growing up in Boston. Like many kids, Mike did not want to practice [...]

Frederica Sigel, the chief operating officer of the Manhattan-based landscape architecture firm Thomas Balsley Associates, believes in doing things that help enrich communities and the lives of the people who [...]

Since 1985, Loris Crawford has taught management at New Rochelle's Monroe College. Drawing upon her education and background in the areas of economics, marketing and finance, Crawford instructs students in [...]

Lonnie Lehrer, chief executive officer of Hawthorne-based Leros Point to Point, sees things sometimes where others see nothing. Considered by some to be a visionary in ground transportation, Lehrer recognized [...]

The story of Susan and Bruce Chung could make almost anyone believe in fate. The story of how Susan found her passion in Tae Kwon Do, how this passion led [...]

Aaron Kershaw, founder and president of Westchester1 Media, credits youth groups in New Rochelle for most of his good fortune. His business grew from a Web site he established as [...]

Westchester County Executive Andy Spano says he had the unusual good fortune of expanding one of his hobbies into a job. Now that this former teacher's days (and many nights) [...]

For Arthur Breuer, sole proprietor of his Chappaqua-based mechanical/electrical consulting engineering firm ARBPE, challenge and adventure often justify risk. With 38 years of professional engineering behind him, Breuer has also [...]

At work, Michael Pilla, president and founder of Pilla Marketing Communications, embraces new things. Fresh new ideas and technology fuel the company that specializes in developing Web-based branding initiatives for [...]

Rob Seitz will be able to tell his grandchildren he rode with Lance Armstrong. Although the self-employed public relations consultant from New Rochelle says he was never much of an [...]

Monica Walsh Watson, Mount Kisco resident and founder and managing partner of the Manhattan-based creative employment agency Creative Network Systems, is known for going to great lengths for team sports--softball [...]

An experience with her grandmother reinforced to Dianne Averill, owner of White Plains-based graphic design and printing firm Averill & Associates, how important animals can be. 'My grandma spent a [...]

Few people can say they changed someone's life on their last vacation. That's not true for Markham F. Rollins III, co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Rollins Agency Inc. [...]

For husband and wife Albert and Anne Lewis, working together full time wasn't enough. In search of a way to excel as a couple outside of work, the owners of [...]

Although he has lived here for 14 years, Mal MacDougall, owner of Salt Pond Productions, says he has just found a way to feel really connected with the Westchester community. [...]

Contact is something Greg Bender appreciates at work and at play The president and chief executive officer of Rye-based Message Logix Inc. has made a career out of putting corporations [...]

For Mayma Raphael, founder and owner of Paper Passions which opened in Mount Kisco this month, the sky is the limit. That means nothing--from getting on the Oprah show to [...]

Rick Berlin, founder and chief executive officer of Berlin Productions, met his wife, Rosemary, through a classified ad. But not the way you think. Berlin was trying to find someone, [...]