New York Business

eNewsChannels NEWS: (BROOKLYN, N.Y.) -- Concerned Community 4 Change, a Not-For-Profit dedicated to engaging youth and the community toward positive principles, offering programming that builds healthy minds and bodies, will host an Orange Carpet VIP Benefit Gala on Monday October 17, 2016 6:30 p.m. at the 40/40 Club Barclays Center in Partnership with ITZ Time, NAACP (NYCHA Branch), and the Downtown Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance.

eNewsChannels NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) -- "The Online Movie Show with Phil Hall," a weekly celebration of films and filmmaking, is being relaunched via a new channel and a new production outlet. Each half-hour episode will present original interviews with the creative talent on both sides of the camera.

eNewsChannels NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) -- The Event Planner Expo, is back! This Wednesday, October 5, 2016, EMRG Media is hosting The Event Planner Expo at The Metropolitan Pavilion. The Event Planner Expo is known to have the best venues and services in the event planning industry as well as an exclusive speaker series.

eNewsChannels NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) -- The Pit Stop Players, a celebrated instrumental chamber ensemble composed of veteran Broadway pit musicians, launch their seventh season with a concert of fantasy-themed music at Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, 152 West 66th Street, on October 24, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.

eNewsChannels NEWS (NEW YORK, N.Y.) -- The 2016 Event Planner Expo is the premier trade show in the events and hospitality industry and will take place from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on October 5, at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street. This year the expo will surpass its past years. It will be bigger and better while providing great opportunities to all that are present.

NEWS (NEW YORK, N.Y.) -- The Blue Hill Troupe, now in its 93rd season, offers a fresh new take on Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance." This perennial audience favorite tells the story of a pirate named Frederic, who at the age of 21, has completed his apprenticeship and is ready to seek his fortune as an upstanding citizen. Opens Nov. 11, 2016.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) Jonathan B. Roberts, Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President at Klingenstein Fields Wealth Advisors, a leading wealth management firm with approximately $3 billion in assets under management, welcomed attendees with insightful opening remarks at the Investment Adviser Association's (IAA) 2016 Annual Leadership Conference.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) Brad Fryman - Artistic Director, Oberon Theatre Ensemble announces that Oscar and Golden Globe Winners Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolás Giacobone (Birdman) will join Oberon Theatre's 24/7 Benefit to support its next season.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) Columbia University will confer the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters on the legendary dance pioneer and social activist Arthur Mitchell this month, the Arthur Mitchell Project announced today.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) JenCap Holdings, LLC, a consolidator of specialty insurance distribution and program management businesses, including managing general agencies, specialty program underwriters, transactional wholesale brokers and captive managers, has acquired specialist MGA and wholesaler Trivedi-Capacity Associates, LLC. JenCap Holdings, LLC is a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) Klingenstein Fields Wealth Advisors (KFWA), a leading wealth management firm with approximately $3 billion in assets under management, is pleased to announce that Lacey Johnson has joined the firm as a Director and Wealth Advisor. In this role, Ms. Johnson will be responsible for advising high-net-worth clients on a range of wealth management issues, as well as helping to grow the firm's client base.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) New York City foodies are in for a treat. Spring Taste NYC, hosted by EMRG Media, promises to deliver a feast for the senses like no other food show has done before. In addition to sipping, sampling and savoring, Spring Taste NYC will have cooking demonstrations led by experienced chefs, live entertainment, photo booths, an amazing auction and other fun activities.

NEWS: (WASHINGTONVILLE, N.Y.) The Wigglebutt Warriors are set to put the 'fun' in fundraising, as the creative duo hosts the sold-out, red carpet 'Wigglebutts Uncorked' pet-welcoming gala on Saturday evening, April 16, 2016, to benefit NYC Second Chance Rescue.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) National lawfirm Weitz and Luxenberg, P.C., said today it hopes potentially fatal side effects associated with SGLT2 inhibitor drugs will be reported to consumers faster, since people taking these next-generation diabetes medications deserve to be notified of the health dangers shortly after they have been reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) The American Friends of Neve Hanna today announced that 'golden opportunity' took on a special meaning when award-winning chef and co-owner of Philadelphia's Zahav (Gold) restaurant, Michael Solomonov, met the girls and boys of the Neve Hanna Children's Home in Kiryat Gat, Israel.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) Super Lawyers revealed that 8 Weitz and Luxenberg, P.C. attorneys have been named by the magazine as 2016 'Rising Stars' of the profession, Weitz and Luxenberg today announced.

NEWS: (ISLIP TERRACE, N.Y.) Diverse Technology Solutions Inc. (DTS) a N.Y. based cloud hosting service provider has acquired cloud hosted Voice Over IP (VOIP) telephone service provider Voitual of Delray Beach Florida. The newly formed company DTS VOIP LLC will acquire the assets of Voitual rebranding the companies Hosted PBX Voice Over IP telephony service as DTS-VOIP adding another cloud product to the portfolio of DTS's successful cloud hosting solutions.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, together with a team of Weitz and Luxenberg attorneys, look forward to meeting with victims of the Hoosick Falls, New York PFOA groundwater contamination on Saturday, January 30, 2016, said the nationally known personal injury and mass tort law firm.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) Laconia Capital Group L.P. announces the launch of a new Business-to-Business Venture Capital Fund. The newly capitalized fund utilizes an investment approach described as 'Inflection Capital Investing,' through which Laconia will invest in late seed-stage companies that have reached an inflection point in their business development that strongly suggests continued growth.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) Robin L. Greenwald, head of the Weitz and Luxenberg Environmental, Toxic Tort and Consumer Protection litigation unit, will serve as interim co-lead counsel in the developing Excellus BlueCross BlueShield data breach class action lawsuit, according to the firm.

NEWS: (NEW YORK, N.Y.) Robin L. Greenwald, a former senior attorney within the U.S. Department of Justice and now head of the Weitz and Luxenberg Environmental, Toxic Tort and Consumer Protection litigation unit, has been appointed to an important leadership role in the multidistrict federal court litigation currently advancing against Volkswagen, Weitz and Luxenberg today announced.

NEWS: (ISLIP TERRACE, N.Y.) Synergy Resources, the largest Value Added Reseller and service provider of Infor's VISUAL ERP software has announced a partnership with Diverse Technology Solutions (DTS), a leading provider of cloud hosting and technology consulting services.

NEWS: (PATCHOGUE, N.Y.) Prestige Worldwide Group, parent company of Crime Scene Clean Up, announced today that it has acquired KRI Crime Scene Cleanup of Texas, Crime Scene Inc. of Maryland and Crime Scene Clean LLC of Texas, three of the largest biohazard firms in the U.S. This deal marks one of the largest of its kind in the crime scene cleanup industry and now makes Crime Scene Clean Up the leading firm in the business.

NEWS: Weitz & Luxenberg is investigating bringing a lawsuit against one or more companies believed responsible for certain cancers and other illnesses affecting residents of Hoosick, New York, where the residents have unwittingly been drinking water contaminated with PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), the nationally known personal injury and mass tort law firm today announced.

NEWS: Thintri, Inc. announces a new market study that projects significant opportunities for new technologies in wear coatings. The report, 'Wear Coatings: Hard Chrome and Its Alternatives, 2016,' highlights the movement from traditional hard chrome and even common chrome replacements like thermal spray to an array of new technologies that care poised to capture significant markets in wear coating applications.