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Second-hand gold
For memorabilia king, used beats new every time
By JOHN GOLDEN

Behind the glass-topped desk in his New Roc City office, Brandon Steiner was on the phone last week talking business, at times profanely, with a senior New York Yankee official. As he spoke, the 48-year-old founder and CEO of Steiner Sports Marketing in New Rochelle tapped out brief e-mail replies at his desktop computer.

Tax attack
Devil’s in the details for fixing system
By JOHN GOLDEN

A prominent Westchester County business leader sounded a rallying call for “political courage” and a cooperative effort of the public and private sectors to bring about urgently needed property tax reform in New York, while public officials in the county called for greater state involvement at the local level when testifying last week before a state commission exploring ways to make government more efficient and less costly for taxpayers.

 

Energy misers
Yonkers company to target bottom line
By JOHN GOLDEN

A start-up energy consulting and construction company with national ambitions will make Yonkers its headquarters while providing cost-saving energy conservation solutions for residential and commercial customers in New York City and the lower Hudson Valley.

 

Above the Bar Awards prepares for second year

After a successful inaugural event last year, the Above the Bar Awards, which recognizes Westchester’s best and brightest lawyers and law firms, is making its second appearance in the spring. Local businesses and a leading law school decided last year it was time for the business and legal community to annually recognize outstanding achievement in the legal profession in Westchester.

 

Proposed budget ups tax levy
More money for social services, prisons
By JOHN GOLDEN

Westchester County Executive Andrew J. Spano told a Yonkers Chamber of Commerce breakfast audience last week that a $24.4 million tax levy increase in the county’s proposed 2008 county budget is due to state-mandated spending items “that we didn’t expect.”

 

Fighting words
Finances and business climate raise ire
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

Billions in red ink on the state ledgers and entrenched obstacles to doing business here are finding sharper focus now that New York’s always-contentious budget season nears.

 

Compulinx founder remains in jail year after arrest
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

Former Compulinx Chairman and CEO Terrence Chalk has been in jail for more than a year since his arrest by federal agents last October in White Plains, and his most recent bail application has been denied.

 

Health care scales the to-do list
Packed house highlights burning issue
By RYAN DORAN

The conference room was standing-room-only for the Access to Health Care Coalition meeting Nov. 16 at the White Plains Crown Plaza. Its members stirred the waters, proposed solutions and gave multiple perspectives for the health-care issues facing Westchester and Putnam counties.

 

Train crowd takes the wheel
Rental cars are headed to the train station
By MARY SUE IAROCCI

Metro-North anticipates new revenues and potential ridership gains as a result of a new program partnership with Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

 

Stewart lauds Port Authority plans for airport
By KATHY KAHN

James Wright, who heads the Stewart Airport Commission, praised the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s leadership at the commission’s last meeting of 2007. He, like many on the panel, is ready to “move forward into 2008.”

 

Gordon takes on infirmed health system
By MARY SUE IAROCCI

Businesses in New York state have overwhelmingly identified employee heath care as their top cost-of-doing-business concern.