Common Council,
Come on already! Stop the usual White Plains elitist house owner dominance and show some common sense.
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/no-20233-continuing-temporary-suspension-and-modification-laws-relating-disaster-emergency
Executive Order 202.10, as later extended by Executive Order 202.18, Executive Order 202.29 and as extended and amended by Executive Order 202.32 ...
... modified to permit any non-essential gathering of ten or fewer individuals, for any lawful purpose or reason, provided that social distancing protocols and cleaning and disinfection protocols required by the Department of Health are adhered to.
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Plague: courts opened: tennis yes, basketball no. Thursday, May 21, 2020
Westchester County public golf courses are open, too. Golf and tennis? With what kind of club are they associated?
The baskets had been removed from the backboards to prevent basketball players from ... playing.
Tennis and basketball courts are about the same size. However, much larger is Delfino park on Lake Street with its the two softball fields. Softball activities are still banned. Who thinks two people playing catch might violate physical distancing guidelines?
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Saturday, May 23, 2020
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Plague: courts opened: tennis yes, basketball no.
Westchester County public golf courses are open, too. Golf and tennis? With what kind of club are they associated?
The baskets had been removed from the backboards to prevent basketball players from ... playing.
Tennis and basketball courts are about the same size. However, much larger is Delfino park on Lake Street with its the two softball fields. Softball activities are still banned. Who thinks two people playing catch might violate physical distancing guidelines?
The baskets had been removed from the backboards to prevent basketball players from ... playing.
Tennis and basketball courts are about the same size. However, much larger is Delfino park on Lake Street with its the two softball fields. Softball activities are still banned. Who thinks two people playing catch might violate physical distancing guidelines?
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Plague: bicycle riding on streets? Will the Martine Avenue bicycle lane draw riders when it finally opens?
Shouldn't we see lots of people riding bicycles on the streets of downtown White Plains? Lots of people? Is anyone seeing that? Why aren't Common Council members riding their bicycles now on public streets during the pandemic? And the county executive? Maybe over to the County Center to view the empty pseudo hospital recently created at considerable expense.
The city is completing what appears to be an expensive bicycle lane on high speed Martine Avenue from South Lexington at the northeast corner of the public safety building, past the entry/exit to underground parking, past the expensively upgraded library grounds (still with its extra car drop off lane), across Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., past the county office building to ... Court Street. And, of course, opposite the remaining four lanes of one way traffic all the way is the ever dangerous Galleria parking garage with its multiple entrances. Yeah, can't wait to defy death by riding along that. And for what purpose? Going from where to where to do what?
There's a barrier to protect the bicycle riders, just not where vehicles cross the bike lane. That should protect them from county Bee-Line buses, which have some passengers, and Hudson Link buses, which usually (always during the pandemic) have zero passengers. Multiple lanes of cars crossing diagonally to enter the Galleria parking garage are another matter.
Let's look for Common Council members riding their bicycles on this new bicycle lane.
The city is completing what appears to be an expensive bicycle lane on high speed Martine Avenue from South Lexington at the northeast corner of the public safety building, past the entry/exit to underground parking, past the expensively upgraded library grounds (still with its extra car drop off lane), across Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., past the county office building to ... Court Street. And, of course, opposite the remaining four lanes of one way traffic all the way is the ever dangerous Galleria parking garage with its multiple entrances. Yeah, can't wait to defy death by riding along that. And for what purpose? Going from where to where to do what?
There's a barrier to protect the bicycle riders, just not where vehicles cross the bike lane. That should protect them from county Bee-Line buses, which have some passengers, and Hudson Link buses, which usually (always during the pandemic) have zero passengers. Multiple lanes of cars crossing diagonally to enter the Galleria parking garage are another matter.
Let's look for Common Council members riding their bicycles on this new bicycle lane.
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Shop Rite sells 15 month old Haagen-Dazs.
Shop Rite on Main Street in White Plains, NY today, May 16, 2020, had Haagen-Dazs ice cream with "best by" (euphemism for expiration date) November 2019. Yes, from LAST year. I saw three pints there today from last November.
As we've all observed, these dates are often way in the future. For this product, Shop Rite also had Haagen-Dazs pints dated March 2021. That's NEXT year.
After avoiding the Haagen-Dazs dated LAST year, I bought these three pints:
The two on the right are dated March, 2021. The pint on the left is dated March 2020. That's ONE YEAR apart. Oh, and the expiration date on the older pint is two months ago.
Now I'm a dope for not noticing, but I guess I was mostly just avoiding the 2019 Haagen-Dazs pints.
I've written about this date problem with this particular Shop Rite store previously, dating back to Friday, February 9, 2018.
ShopRite downtown up to its old tricks. Tuesday, October 15, 2019
I wrote to Shop Rite about its problems again today. Apparently Shop Rite stores are independently owned and operated, so that the parent company blows off responsibility. This is the closest I've come to direct communication with someone in authority:
ShopRiteCustomerCare@wakefern.com
wakefern.com is the domain name. shoprite.com has this at the bottom of its home page:
©2020 Wakefern Food Corp, Inc. All Rights Reserved
There are two Stop & Shop supermarkets in White Plains and a Whole Foods. None of them have anything like the problems that Shop Rite on Main Street has.
So how does this happen? My guess is that a Shop Rite buyer gets a bargain price on product that's past due or close to it. If a product is dated more than a year ahead, a product with a date only a couple of month from when you buy, is old product. Where does a buyer even find product that old? And where has the product been all this time?
So the November 2019 ice cream was probably produced in June 2018. If it had a creation date almost two years old, would you buy it? And what kind of company would put it on its shelves?
If these dates were properly regulated, they would have such a creation date, which would be much more instructive than a meaningless "best by" date.
As we've all observed, these dates are often way in the future. For this product, Shop Rite also had Haagen-Dazs pints dated March 2021. That's NEXT year.
After avoiding the Haagen-Dazs dated LAST year, I bought these three pints:
The two on the right are dated March, 2021. The pint on the left is dated March 2020. That's ONE YEAR apart. Oh, and the expiration date on the older pint is two months ago.
Now I'm a dope for not noticing, but I guess I was mostly just avoiding the 2019 Haagen-Dazs pints.
I've written about this date problem with this particular Shop Rite store previously, dating back to Friday, February 9, 2018.
ShopRite downtown up to its old tricks. Tuesday, October 15, 2019
I wrote to Shop Rite about its problems again today. Apparently Shop Rite stores are independently owned and operated, so that the parent company blows off responsibility. This is the closest I've come to direct communication with someone in authority:
ShopRiteCustomerCare@wakefern.com
wakefern.com is the domain name. shoprite.com has this at the bottom of its home page:
©2020 Wakefern Food Corp, Inc. All Rights Reserved
There are two Stop & Shop supermarkets in White Plains and a Whole Foods. None of them have anything like the problems that Shop Rite on Main Street has.
So how does this happen? My guess is that a Shop Rite buyer gets a bargain price on product that's past due or close to it. If a product is dated more than a year ahead, a product with a date only a couple of month from when you buy, is old product. Where does a buyer even find product that old? And where has the product been all this time?
So the November 2019 ice cream was probably produced in June 2018. If it had a creation date almost two years old, would you buy it? And what kind of company would put it on its shelves?
If these dates were properly regulated, they would have such a creation date, which would be much more instructive than a meaningless "best by" date.
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