12 parks? Name 'em.

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Explore White Plains' Many Parks with 'Passport to Parks'

Looking for something fun and adventurous to do this summer with the kids? The WP Rec & Parks Dept has the solution: Passport to Parks. It's a safe, fun way to travel, explore & discover White Plains parks. Pick-up your Passport this Sat @ Truck Day! Additional Info...

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Truck Day? What the heck?

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This passport will encourage you to visit 12 fabulous city parks ...
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If there's one thing that downtown White Plains lacks it's parks. There is ONE: between Lake Street and Main Street. That thing on North Broadway between Main and Hamilton Avenue is a really nice center divider whose width is the same as the four road lanes on each of its two long sides. If the west side of Central Park in Manhattan had a comparably wide group of lanes they would extend to about the Hudson River.

New York City also includes small strips of land in its count of "parks" but it also has large botanical gardens in Brooklyn and the Bronx and, of course, Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

A central park is exactly what White Plains lacks. It should have been created at the site of the unsightly Galleria indoor shopping mall between Main Street and Martine Avenue. Evacuation and controlled demolition are the only real solution to that mess.

But even if that occurred, what are the chances that City decision makers would make a comparable mistake with that second chance? About 100%.

They seem intent on doing that with the development of the barren area near the train station, bus depots mess. Basically, rearrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. More parking, new "station" structure, probably office buildings. It's unimaginable that developers would consider erecting apartment buildings above and/or adjacent to the ever expanding and underutilized bus depots.

I sent a message to the City Parks employee whose email ID was posted in the message about the 12 parks. After five days just two dysfunctional auto replies suggesting something is amiss with the City computer network. Maybe the network admin person is out enjoying one of the dozen parks ... or looking for them.