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Strategic IRA wealth transfer: maximizing legacy through tax-efficient planning
The landscape of retirement account inheritance has changed, presenting challenges and opportunities for effective wealth transfers. Understanding the distinctions of...
Hachette Book Group seeks to meet readers where they live
A Hachette Book Group (HBG) lineup, from left: Chief marketing officer Leigh Marchant; Sally Kim, president and publisher of Little, Brown...
CNN WIRE — Party City is going out of business
By Emmy Abbassi and Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Party City is closing down all of its stores, ending...
Onward and upward for the Pelham Art Center
The Pelham Art Center, on the site of a former Citgo gas station, recently underwent a $500,000 revamp as part of...
The ‘Shady Lady’ of hats turns from TV producing to fashion
The Shady Lady herself, Allyson Mandelbaum, wearing one of her own Shady Lady hats. Photograph by Bryan Mandelbaum. Based in Fairfield,...
A new chapter begins in town with namesake Bedford Books
Fran Hauser, author and "Bookbound" podcaster, is also the owner of the new Bedford Books, the namesake town's first bookstore. Photography...
New York and Connecticut among states spending the most on home improvements
© Gavril Margittai | Dreamstime.com In recent years, persistently high mortgage interest rates have led many homeowners to renovate their existing...
Dutchess Roots, Poughkeepsie’s first state-licensed recreational cannabis dispensary, to open in spring
Rendering of Dutchess Roots, a cannabis dispensary opening in Poughkeepsie in the spring. Courtesy Jason Lichwick Architecture PLLC. It's a new...
Eye on Small Business : Ann Charles Photography, Ridgefield
From left, Chuck and Ann Herman. Courtesy Ann Charles Photography. When Clarkson University student Charles Hermann met SUNY Potsdam student Ann...
Travel Talk with Jeremy Wayne — The Oberoi Marrakech, Morocco
Main lobby, The Oberoi Marrakech. Photographs courtesy Oberoi Hotels & Resorts. United Airlines’ new nonstop service between Newark Liberty International Airport...
County parks again receive national accreditation
Westchester County's parks have for the fifth time received accreditation by the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA). NRPA operates the...
Effy Jewelry offers aspirational luxury
A .45-carat emerald-cut diamond flanked by pavé stones in 14-karat white-gold setting in one of Effy Jewelry's signature panther boxes against...
Rising to the challenge of racial and gender inequity
Uché Blackstock, M.D., author of "Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine," greeting a well-wisher at the "In Community"...
Buoyed by sales, new stores, Barnes & Noble doles out the bookworm goodies for Black Friday
Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Hartsdale reflects the community approach and individualized, airy designs instituted under CEO James Daunt. With a...
More Americans are finding Portugal an expatriate’s paradise
Lisbon is Portugal's pastel-colored capital. Amid the reelection of President Donald J. Trump, many affluent Americans are setting their sights on...
