BUSINESS DIRECTORY
The Black Box Performing Arts Center's founders developed proprietary, innovative, and uniquely collaborative workshops in theater (drama and musicals), acting, improv, music, and writing. For adults, teens, and children from all backgrounds, these programs are offered throughout the year and most are performance-based, with the resulting productions playing on our main stage. Now, the Black Box student community shares space with the Black Box Repertory Company, a cutting-edge group of theater professionals who run BBPAC and are about produce their fourth full season of professional theater, including new, recent, and more established works for the stage. Their work can be also be seen in NYC at select times throughout the year.
Originally started in the ballroom of a historic community center on Teaneck's Cedar Lane in 2007, Black Box has emerged as one of the premiere performing arts schools in the Tri-State area, offering a unique form of theater training that utilizes a proprietary improv-based collaborative teaching methodology which allows for maximum success in confidence building, group dynamics, creative output and flow, and true freedom of expression.
The very first workshop consisted of eight middle- and high-school students from varying backgrounds, and within four seasons over 75 students from ages 5 to Adult were participating in year-round offerings, including the acclaimed Summer Rock Musical Theater Intensive program for teens, now enrolling for 2020 and it's 12th production (shows have included Pippin, 1776, Fiddler On The Roof, Les Miserables, Legally Blonde, Sweeney Todd, Heathers The Musical: High School Edition, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee). From 2012-2014, the Black Box Ensemble was formed, combining select high-level teen performers with NYC professionals and NJ-based semi-pros in full-scale productions of Broadway hits like Into The Woods, Summer Brave, Tommy, Next To Normal, House of Blue Leaves and Falsettos, both in Teaneck and at Englewood’s bergenPAC.
To provide Black Box's dedicated students and staff with a permanent home-base, the first incarnation of The Black Box Performing Arts Center was opened in the West Englewood/Plaza section of Teaneck in December of 2015. As BBPAC now relocates to Palisade Avenue in Englewood, NJ, it remains the area's only professional theater/performing arts school combination, where regular performers mentor and teach students of all ages - and where students interact on a daily basis with working actors, musicians, writers, directors, and more. The Black Box Repertory Company runs the operation along with Artistic Director Matt Okin.
Recent full-scale professional productions at and by Black Box include: Shakespeare in the Park Bergen County 2019's Othello and Romeo & Juliet, The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Sweat, How To Transcend A Happy Marriage, Significant Other, Spring Awakening; One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Shakespeare in the Park 2018's Macbeth and Twelfth Night; Hair; Talk Radio; Griller; Peer Gynt; Buried Child; Hand To God; Heathers The Musical: High School Edition (teens); Disgraced; Twist of Faith, Cloud 9; Skip & Rivkah's Not-So-Kosher Interactive Wedding Experience; The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia?; Blood Brothers A Musical; Evil Dead The Musical; Bad Jews; True Groove Productions' Diana & Navy & The Golden Tooth (new musical workshop); The Pillowman; and Passing Strange.
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Seizing the opportunity of making a difference, rather than just talking about making a difference, Larry is deeply involved with many community groups and initiatives, not only in name but in action and involvement as well, all with the goal that we live in a community that is widely diverse and inclusive yet intertwined with various resources right at our doorstep that most take for granted.
Larry has held the role of president of the Teaneck Chamber of Commerce since 2010. With a dedicated board, has ramped up the Chamber’s annual Community Awards Dinner and has taken the Chamber on a course that is different than most other chambers in that it not only embraces the business community but also government and community, bringing everyone together.
In addition to the Chamber, some of his other involvements include being a board member of the Cedar Lane Management Group; an officer of the Rotary Club of Teaneck (part of Rotary International, a non-political, non-denominational organization) serving the Teaneck Community since 1929; serving on the steering committee of the Teaneck International Film Festival, almost since its inception; Commissioner (representing the Township of Teaneck) on the Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission; board member of the Teaneck Creek Conservancy; steering committee member for Age Friendly Teaneck; officer, Teaneck Historical Society; and various others.
When not involved with community activities, Larry is the CEO of a local printing company established in 1977 working with small to medium sized businesses and organizations.
In his free time, he enjoys the outdoors, nature, photography and gardening
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Proud to be recognized as Business of the Year for the Teaneck Chamber of Commerce in 2021
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AREAS OF EXPERTISEBarbara is equally skilled as a listing agent as well as representing prospective buyers. She works well both with both first-time buyers, those who wish to purchase larger homes, relocation, estate sales and long-time home sellers looking to downsize. Barbara is extremely detail-oriented, sensitive to her clients' needs, and prides herself on close follow-up with attorneys, mortgage representatives, home inspectors and appraisers, making sure deals move forward from contract to closing.
AWARDS AND DESIGNATIONS
NJAR Circle of Excellence Award 1993-2008, 2011-2020 NJAR Distinguished Realtor Award Coldwell Banker Sterling Society (2020).Associate of the Year/Teaneck office (2002-07).Associate of the Year/Oradell office (2008, 2013-2014).
Five-Star Realtor (NJ MONTHLY Magazine, 2013-2020)
One of Top Ten Sales Associates/Closter office (2015-2019)
Finalist, 2016 EBBR Good Neighbor Award
2018 "Woman Of The Year" (Teaneck Chamber of Commerce)
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Former Trustee, Teaneck Board of Education 1995-2007; Longtime PTA/PTO volunteer; VP, Teaneck League of Women Voters & Bergen County LWV; Board of Directors, Community Scholarship Fund of Teaneck; Bergen County Volunteer Center mentoring programs; AGE-FRIENDLY TEANECK task force; GBAR Community Service Committee.
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Barbara and her husband, Jeff, have been Teaneck residents since 1983 and raised four children who were educated in the local public schools. She is also the proud grandma of five!
COMMUNITIES I SERVE
While Barbara specializes in the Teaneck market area, she is experienced in listing and selling homes throughout Bergen County. Barbara has listed, sold and rented hundreds of properties in many communities from New Milford to River Edge, Paramus to Englewood, Hackensack to Fair Lawn, Norwood to Tenafly, Oradell to Oakland.
In addition, Barbara also successfully refers many buyers and sellers to top experienced agents in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Illinois, California, Maryland, Colorado, Delaware, Virginia, Florida and throughout the USA through the Coldwell Banker nationwide referral network. She firmly believes that the highest compliment a realtor can receive is a referral from family, friends and clients! Call Barbara with all your real estate questions -- she's ready to help you!
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As a Broker-Associate , Steven Finkelstein, have become a "go to" agent & a consistent leader with a reputation for protecting his client's interests. Savvy negotiations & un-compromising integrity are just a few of his strengths. Steven is exceptionally well- respected for his ethical standards, strong work ethic and will do everything in his power to ensure a positive experience for all parties in a transaction: buyers, sellers & cooperating agents.
Steven is a recipient of the NJ Realtors® Circle of Excellence Sales Award 2017-2020, Greater Bergen Association of Realtors® 2018/2019 Rising Star Award & holds a special SRES® designation as a Seniors Real Estate Specialist® & SRS- Seller Representative Specialist. Notary Public NJ
Steven thrives on matching people with the right properties and helping them through the process. Using his extensive knowledge of the marketplace, client's can expect a realistic outlook on what to expect in today's marketplace.
Steven is a member of Greater Bergen Association of Realtors® , New Jersey MLS, Garden State MLS, Teaneck Chamber of Commerce, Teaneck Real Estate Committee & various community/professional & volunteer groups.
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We are a community-based, full-service commercial bank that emphasizes the banking needs of small to medium-sized businesses, professional entities, governmental agencies and individuals. We opened in January 2006 under the name Northern State Bank. We offer a broad range of consumer and commercial banking services to our customers. We offer high-quality service by providing more direct, personal attention than we believe is offered by competing financial institutions, most of which are branch offices of banks headquartered outside our primary trade area. We believe that this combination of quick, responsive and personal service, combined with state-of-the-art banking technology, provides our customers with a superior banking experience. We urge potential investors to read our 2015 Annual Report, and subsequent Shareholder Letters, for a review of our operations, by selecting the investor relations tab on this website.
On July 22, 2010, we entered into a Recapitalization Agreement. The Recapitalization was consummated on December 14, 2010, and we raised approximately $18.3 million in additional capital. As part of the Recapitalization, we also relocated our headquarters to 105 River Avenue in Lakewood, while maintaining our original branch in Closter, New Jersey. We now serve Ocean, Monmouth, and Mercer Counties in New Jersey, as well as our original target market of Bergen County, New Jersey. We also restructured our Board of Directors, adding 11 new Board Members, while maintaining four members of the Bank’s original Board.
With the Recapitalization in December 2010, Northern State Bank finished the year 2010 with $77.6 million in total assets and $21.6 million in total capital. Subsequently, the Bank formally changed its name to First Commerce Bank in June, 2011, with additional capital of $7.2 million being raised in January, 2012 and $11.0 million in August, 2013. In the 4th quarter, 2015, there was $2.9 million raised from the exercise of warrants previously granted to the Northern State Bank shareholders as well as the founding directors and founders of First Commerce Bank, in formation. As of June 30, 2016 total assets were $758.4 million and total capital was $63.8 million.
From January 2011, to February 2018, First Commerce Bank expanded its physical presence as follows:
Recently, the Bank has received certain performance recognition in the banking community.
The Bank was the fastest growing bank, headquartered in New Jersey, for 2013, 2014 and 2015 with growth being measured organically and on a relative basis.
Financial Management Consulting Group (FMCG) in 2015 ranked our Bank as number 4 in overall financial performance for banks headquartered in New Jersey.
FMCG ranked our Bank as number 1 in overall financial performance for banks headquartered in New Jersey as of March 31, 2016.
SNL, in Charlottesville, Virginia, ranked First Commerce Bank number 13 in the country in overall financial performance in 2014 for banks in asset size between $500.0 million and $5.0 billion.
SNL, in Charlottesville, Virginia, ranked First Commerce Bank number 27 in the country in overall financial performance in 2015 for banks with less than $1.0 billion in assets.
First Commerce Bank prides itself on being efficient, responsive, and relationship driven. The mission is to build the right family of talented staff members in order to achieve the desired results. First Commerce Bank is not about earnings, which is a short-term objective, as its mission is to build franchise value.