Can Downtown White Plains Save the Galleria Mall?
by Duke Ratliff March 18, 2021 westchestermagazine.com/
Referring to “the great wall of the Galleria,” Roach says the rehabilitation of the downtown area including and surrounding the mall was one of his first goals as mayor.
“That section of the city is devoid of street level services, and it is cold and antiseptic,” Roach says. “I think we’re going to turn it into something that’s alive with street life, like what you see on Mamaroneck Avenue.”
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Earth to mayor. Earth to mayor. Come in, mayor. Mamaroneck Avenue has two lanes of traffic, in each direction, moving slowly, in part, because of parallel parking on each side. Main Street along the north "street life" side of the Galleria mall is FOUR lanes in one direction going pretty fast and made more interstate like by all the HUGE busses, most with few passengers, some (think Hudson Link) with ZERO passengers. Oh, and there's no parallel parking; it would slow the speeders.
There's also the pedestrian death defying two lanes (sometimes three) turning left into the crosswalk onto MLK Blvd in the middle of the Galleria. Some of those turning cars must quickly move three lanes to the right to make a right turn onto Hamilton Avenue, one of too many such dangerous downtown intersections to which city planners and officials have become numb and disinterested.
Yeah, who wouldn't want that kind of street life?
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