City website:
MetroNorth Railroad Environmental Assessment Notice in relation to the construction of an approximately 500 space, five level parking garage (ground floor plus four levels above grade) to be located on the site of an existing 109 space parking garage owned by the MTA and located at 50 Haarlem Avenue.
Paragraph above was copied and pasted, including Haarlem.
More cars. More parking. Cars. Parking. The decision makers never break out. Stuck in an untenable position. A vicious circle.
One result is that downtown White Plains is dominated by an endless stream of really, really ugly parking garages. If you were to grope for an architectural definition of downtown White Plains, that would be it: parking garages.
The fact that there are no charming buildings only emphasises and reinforces that conclusion.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Do White Plains city officials face criminal liability for failure to have snow/ice from public sidewalks?
This message will be sent to White Plains city officials through the form on the city website.
Obviously White Plains city officials face civil liability for their failure and/or refusal to perform a basic municipal function: keep the public sidewalks cleared of snow and ice.
White Plains city officials have repeatedly been notified of its performance failure, both in this public blog and in e-mail messages sent to the mayors and Common Council members. Their conduct constitutes depraved indifference to human life, which would be homicide should someone die because of the snow and ice on public sidewalks.
It's been a few days since the most recent snow storm and one of the public sidewalks not cleared of snow and ice is one of the repeat offenders: empty lot on the southeast corner of Hale and Maple Avenues, both streets. Also, the lot on the south side of Maple Avenue between Waller Avenue and South Broadway.
The snow has melted and New York Hospital sidewalks on Bloomingdale Lane and Bryant Avenue are finally clear after another lousy job of snow removal, which when done at all, leaves an inch of snow/ice. They need to use person used by Bloomingdales. New York Hospital continues to do a much worse job of snow removal than Bloomingdales, with which it shares the public sidewalk along Bloomingdale Lane.
A couple of days ago while walking on Bryant Avenue on the New York Hospital public sidewalk I asked its workers who were dispensing a meager amount of salt onto the sidewalk why New York Hospital did such an inferior job compared to Bloomingdales, which always does a very good job. They said that the city cleans New York Hospital public sidewalk.
Say what? The City of White Plains cleans snow from the New York Hospital public sidewalk? Can this be? If so, why? Also, why doesn't the City of White Plains clean all public sidewalks or at least those that are not properly cleaned by their owners and bill and fine the owners?
Obviously White Plains city officials face civil liability for their failure and/or refusal to perform a basic municipal function: keep the public sidewalks cleared of snow and ice.
White Plains city officials have repeatedly been notified of its performance failure, both in this public blog and in e-mail messages sent to the mayors and Common Council members. Their conduct constitutes depraved indifference to human life, which would be homicide should someone die because of the snow and ice on public sidewalks.
It's been a few days since the most recent snow storm and one of the public sidewalks not cleared of snow and ice is one of the repeat offenders: empty lot on the southeast corner of Hale and Maple Avenues, both streets. Also, the lot on the south side of Maple Avenue between Waller Avenue and South Broadway.
The snow has melted and New York Hospital sidewalks on Bloomingdale Lane and Bryant Avenue are finally clear after another lousy job of snow removal, which when done at all, leaves an inch of snow/ice. They need to use person used by Bloomingdales. New York Hospital continues to do a much worse job of snow removal than Bloomingdales, with which it shares the public sidewalk along Bloomingdale Lane.
A couple of days ago while walking on Bryant Avenue on the New York Hospital public sidewalk I asked its workers who were dispensing a meager amount of salt onto the sidewalk why New York Hospital did such an inferior job compared to Bloomingdales, which always does a very good job. They said that the city cleans New York Hospital public sidewalk.
Say what? The City of White Plains cleans snow from the New York Hospital public sidewalk? Can this be? If so, why? Also, why doesn't the City of White Plains clean all public sidewalks or at least those that are not properly cleaned by their owners and bill and fine the owners?
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