African-American Men of Westchester will hold their New York state Legislators Breakfast meeting Friday, March 20 at 8 a.m. at the Ritz-Carlton Westchester at 277 Main St. in White Plains.

Westchester Community College will hold a Diversity Job Fair for Adjunct Faculty on Wednesday, March 25 from 4:30-7:00 p.m. The free event will be held in the Harold L. Drimmer Library on the college campus at 75 Grasslands Road in Valhalla. Registration is at www.sunywcc.edu/jobs. The fair will provide an opportunity to learn about current [...]

The Yonkers Downtown Business Improvement District will sponsor a free seminar, “Curb Appeal: Store Merchandising Tips,” tomorrow, March 10 from 8-9 a.m. at the Yonkers Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Center. Speakers include Maureen Farrell, project manager and treasurer of the New York City Chapter of the Retail Design Institute; Nicole Innis, owner of Innis Designs; [...]

The worst business environment in decades has failed to dent interest in this Thursday’s Mega Mixer Business Expo, the annual trade show sponsored by The Business Council of Westchester. The program will run from 2-6 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel in Tarrytown. Two hundred exhibitors and 1,000 visitors are expected, about the same as last [...]

Sloatsburg’s only bank, an HSBC branch on Route 17, will close at the end of business on Friday, May 1, and its accounts will be transferred to a branch at 62 Lafayette Ave. in Suffern, four miles away, the bank said. “The viability of each HSBC branch is reviewed regularly in an effort to identify [...]

Students from Iona College’s Hagan School of Business in New Rochelle are offering free tax help to the public on four Saturday mornings between now and April 15, starting this Saturday. Volunteers will be available for consultations between 9:30 a.m. and noon on March 7, March 14, March 28 and April 4. The service will [...]

Labor and community groups plan to rally at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in front of the Michaelian Office Building at 148 Martine Ave. in White Plains to oppose state budget cuts. The groups planning to attend include the Westchester/Putnam Central Labor Body, the Working Families Party, Mount Vernon United Tenants, and state Sen. Andrew [...]

Victor L. Crawford of White Plains, senior vice president of global operations and system transformation at Pepsi Bottling Group in Somers, has been named to Black Enterprise magazine’s “100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America” list. Crawford oversees the company’s PBG’s go-to-market strategy, manufacturing and warehouse operations, global revenue management, and information technology. He previously [...]

The Web site for the Neighborhood Law Center in Peekskill has added a video on strategies for dealing with and preventing foreclosure. Attorney Mel Burruss hosts the discussion with real estate lawyer Jacqueline J. Warner of Hinman, Howard, & Kattell, and Larry Thorpe, vice president of operations of Mortgageopt Corp. The Web page is at [...]

A program to help young professionals invest and plan for the goal of buying a home will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at Hudson Valley Bank, 21 Scarsdale Road in Yonkers. “Investing and Financial Planning for Young Business Professionals” is the third program in the Home Buyers Workshop Series. It’s sponsored [...]

Shareholders at Provident Bank of Montebello and Community Mutual Savings Bank of White Plains will elect directors at their annual meetings Thursday. Five incumbents at Provident New York Bancorp, Provident’s parent company, are on the ballot at its meeting at the Holiday Inn in Montebello starting at 11 a.m. They are Judith Hershaft, president and [...]

The “Meet The International Experts” program scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 11 at the Westchester Italian Cultural Center in Tuckahoe has been cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. No new date has been set for the event, which was sponsored by the U.S. Commercial Service/Westchester Export Assistance Center and the World Trade Council of Westchester.

“How to Thrive in Today’s Economy” is the topic of the Westchester County Association’s Lunch & Learn program on Thursday, Feb. 12 from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Sam’s of Gedney Way in White Plains. A panel of chief executives and business owners will discuss how they make informed decisions to create growth opportunities. [...]

The Yonkers Downtown Business Improvement District will sponsor a free program on obtaining access to credit and cash on Tuesday morning, Feb. 10 from 8-9 a.m. at the Yonkers Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Center. Scheduled to speak are Bruce Davison, vice president of commercial banking at Citibank, and Niall Henry, assistant vice president at Hudson [...]

Centro Properties Group’s decision to sell the Cortlandt Towne Center does not mean the Australian shopping mall giant plans to pull out of the Lower Hudson Valley, a company spokesman said today. But Centro’s sale of the Cortlandt mall to Acadia Realty Trust of White Plains sharply reduces Centro’s profile in the region. The mall [...]

A Valhalla-based startup that produces highly efficient oil filters is hoping that a deal with New York state will lift its profile. SOMS Technologies Inc. said the state’s Office of General Services has added its filters to the state’s preferred buying list. This means that purchasing agents for state agencies and local governments can get [...]

Cohen Brothers Realty Corp. in Manhattan has tapped FirstService Williams in Stamford, Conn. to exclusively market leases at Cohen’s 500,000-square-foot office building at 333 Westchester Ave. in White Plains. About 150,000 square feet of space is currently available for direct lease, FirstService said.

For the time-strapped entrepreneur who’s starting a new enterprise in Westchester County, there’s good news. Counselors are making house calls. The Westchester chapter of SCORE, the free business counseling service, will send advisers to small companies if the owners are too busy to make it to one of SCORE’s workshops in White Plains. Home offices [...]

Wachovia Securities, recently acquired by Wells Fargo & Co., will leave downtown White Plains in May for the Platinum Mile along the I-287 corridor. Wachovia will move from offices at 10 Bank St. and 360 Hamilton Ave. and consolidate on a 74-acre campus at 1133 Westchester Ave., owned by RPW Group. Wachovia signed a minimum [...]

The parent company of Provident Bank in Montebello said it will not avail itself of the asset protection services that the U.S. Treasury is providing in the wake of the financial crisis. Provident said it is well-capitalized and does not need the assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which is helping other banks that [...]