Five businesses will be inducted into The Business Council of Westchester’s Hall of Fame when the organization holds its annual awards dinner Wednesday night at the Glen Island Harbor Club in New Rochelle.
The inductees are:
• New York Life Insurance Co., for Corporate Citizenship. The company employs about 1,000 at its Sleepy Hollow campus, where it [...]

USA Bank of Port Chester reported a net loss of $2.7 million, or 47 cents a share, on net interest income of $5.8 million for fiscal 2008, compared to a net loss of $4.3 million, or 75 cents a share, on net interest income of $4.1 million in fiscal 2007.
The bank said it incurred a [...]

New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson will speak on developments in the city before the Commercial and Investment Division of the Westchester County Board of Realtors on Thursday, April 25 at 8:15 a.m. at the board’s office at 60 S. Broadway in White Plains.
For more information, e-mail Leah Warncke at the board at leah.warncke@wcbr.net.

The parent company of Provident Bank in Montebello reported higher profits and revenues in its fiscal second quarter, but also saw an increase in chargeoffs of bad loans as the economy worsened.
The parent, Provident New York Bancorp, had net income of $5.54 million, or 14 cents a share, on net interest income of $23.6 million [...]

Motivational speaker and Paralympic athlete Ron Williams will speak at a free Financial Fitness Forum sponsored by Westchester County on Tuesday, May 12 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the County Center in White Plains.
The program will discuss how to manage personal finances and credit, save for college or retirement, deal with identity theft, [...]

Rodney Reynolds said his RJR Communications and RJR Media Group have acquired American Legacy magazine and related brand products from Forbes Inc., and have moved its offices to 7 W. Broad St. in Mount Vernon. Terms were not disclosed. American Legacy Magazine, published quarterly and distributed nationally through black churches and educational and cultural organizations, [...]

North Street Community said it has a joint venture agreement with The Engel Burman Group to develop an assisted living community at the former St. Agnes Hospital in White Plains. Engel Burman is a real estate company that owns, builds and manages residential and other kinds of properties throughout the eastern United States, including the [...]

A Mount Vernon public forum is planned on Thursday, April 9 at 7 p.m. at City Hall to discuss the potential impact of state bond funding and federal stimulus on local schools and businesses.
The forum will address New York State EXCEL Bond funding for repairs and improvements to city schools, and federal stimulus spending on [...]

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has barred Thomas Joseph Downs from any association with any FINRA member business. Downs, who had addresses in Pleasantville and Peekskill, settled a FINRA complaint without admitting or denying guilt, the agency said in its March disciplinary report. Downs was accused of making two unauthorized trades in two separate accounts, [...]

Westchester County will sponsor a job fair on Saturday for people seeking seasonal work at Playland in Rye. Applications will be accepted and interviews will be conducted for ride operators and cashiers; ride operators must be at least 18, and cashiers at least 16. The job fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 [...]

Three church groups will ask shareholders of ITT Corp. of White Plains to require the defense contractor to report on its foreign sales of weapons-related and military services.
The Dominican Sisters of Hope, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Episcopal Church plan to present the resolution at ITT’s annual [...]

New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman will speak on the national economy on Friday, May 1 at 1 p.m at Westchester Community College’s Academic Arts Building Theatre in Valhalla. The free event is rescheduled from earlier this month, when it was postponed for weather.
Krugman, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for [...]

Rockland Economic Development Corporation and Rockland Business Association will sponsor a free program for county-based minority – and women-owned businesses on Thursday, March 26, at 9 a.m. at the IBM Executive Conference Center in Palisades.
The program will discuss opportunities available to minority – and women-owned business enterprises that join a state certification program. To learn [...]

The Yonkers Downtown BID is presenting a free seminar, “Eco Mania: Profiting from Being Green,” Tuesday, March 24, 8-9 a.m. at the Yonkers Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Center.
Panelists will discuss ways that businesses and residences can use clean energy. There will also be an overview of the free training programs available for businesses to [...]

The African American Chamber of Commerce of Westchester and Rockland Counties, Inc. will hold its tenth annual Business-to-Business Expo on Thursday, March 26, at the Yonkers Public Library at One Larkin Center in Yonkers from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
There is no fee associated with the event this year. Space is limited, and participants [...]

Yonkers city officials today welcomed two new businesses in the city’s downtown.
Alberto and SiraLuz Peralta have opened Continental Restaurant II at 104 New Main St. Also open is A&T Nail Salon at 35 Main St., managed by Daniel Lopez.

The Westchester Library System will launch a workshop series, “Your Business is Our Business,” at area libraries. The program will show businesspeople how to effectively search commercial databases, research trends that impact their industries, review magazines and trade journals, and use other library tools to grow business.
The first workshop is Thursday, March 26, at 11 [...]

KeyBank said that longtime Citibank executive Yitty Gutner will succeed Reginald C. Fuller in a key executive position in its Hudson Valley/Metro NY District headquartered in Orangeburg.
Fuller, who was market president of the district, has left to pursue other opportunities, KeyBank said. Gutner was named senior vice president and district retail leader, and will run [...]

A global security business is consolidating three separate offices into a single site in Elmsford, and a biotechnology company has renewed its lease in Hawthorne, Mack-Cali Realty Corp. said.
Diebold Enterprise Security Inc. has signed a seven-and-a-half year lease for 32,000 feet at 3 Westchester Plaza, at the Cross Westchester Executive Park, Mack-Cali said. Diebold will [...]

The Rockland Economic Development Corporation will hold a free Procurement Technical Assistance Center program on doing business with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Friday, March 20, at 9 a.m. The program will be held in Room 100 of the classroom building at Westchester Community College in Valhalla.
Eleanor Lincoln, a small business specialist [...]