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?

Sidewalk snow removal in White Plains: inadequate as usual.

Why bother?  Why do I even bother to write about this again when it's obvious that nothing will improve?  Why not?  Why let the bums (euphemism for city officials) off the hook?  Why let them pretend that nothing is wrong.  If at least one person points out a problem then those responsible in White Plains city government cannot pretend that they did not know.  The link for this post will be sent to the mayor White Plains.

I did a search of my posts on "new york hospital" and found the three hits below.  As you can see the two leading sidewalk snow removal offenders have been and with the snow storm of Sunday Dec. 26, 2010 continue to be:

1. New York hospital (Bloomingdale Lane and Bryant Ave.)

2. City of White Plains (Mamaroneck Ave and Bryant Ave.) - you know, that secret park the city owns.

In addition there are the usual and continuing offenders: owners of  empty lots, including: SE corner of Barker Ave. and Church St. and those along the south side of Maple Ave. between Mamaroneck Ave. and Bloomingdale Lane

White Plains, NY: Snow on Sidewalks

Dec 21, 2008

Comments intended to improve the quality of life in the city of White Plains in Westchester county New York. ... I think WP keeps the park land a secret so that the city can attempt to shake down the hospital for more land in exchange for allowing thehospital to develop other parts of its property but that's just a guess. 1. Why does the City of White Plains not at least clear the sidewalk adjacent to its own land? That's pretty basic stuff. Does the city issue summonses ...

http://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/

Roads cleared, sidewalks not.

Jan 20, 2009

Meanwhile, the sidewalk of the New York Hospital grounds along Bloomingdale RD and Bryant Ave. was cleared this morning but the worker left a half inch of snow. Compare that to the stretch of Bloomingdale RD sidewalk cleared by the ...

http://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/

Parks, soccer fields and common sense.

May 29, 2008

Consider this the next time you try to negotiate to obtain property from New York hospital. Soccer fields do not make a park. 2. WP already has park land at the southeast corner of Mamaroneck and Bryant Avenues. ...

http://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/

Snow removal: inadequate even before winter actually begins.

The City of White Plains is up to its old tricks: prizing the movement of cars over the safe movement of pedestrians.

I walk to Whole Foods along Maple Avenue between Mamaroneck Avenue and Bloomingdale Lane.  The usual scoff law properties were allowed by the City of White Plains to leave dangerous snow/ice on the public sidewalks after the recent snowfall.  Maple Avenue was, of course, cleared of snow for the movement of cars.

The City of White Plains has been notified about this for years and has failed to remedy the situation.  Anyone who is injured can easily bolster a law suit against the City of White Plains by referencing these public notifications on this blog, all of which have been sent to the city and its officials via e-mail.

City of White Plains, do the right thing.  And failing that, do the practical thing.  Stop waisting taxpayer dollars by exposing residents to dangerous conditions that could cost them dearly in law suits that could easily have been avoided.

Note: Link for this post sent to the mayor's office through his web form and to the CC members by individual e-mail IDs.

Yippie! The City of While Plains did NOT buy a country club during a "national debt crisis"!

In an e-mail message from CNA (Council of Neighborhood Associations):

The French-American School of New York (FASNY), which currently has 825 students attending its preschool in Scarsdale, lower school in Larchmont and upper School in Mamaroneck, has contracted to buy the Ridgeway Country Club for $11 million.

Great.  As long as the City of While Plains didn't buy it.  That would have been an inexcusable capitulation to the house owners who live near thecountry club.

The French-American School has "preschool in Scarsdale, lower school in Larchmont and upper School in Mamaroneck".  That sort of makes my point that this entire issue was another canard to provide city wide resources for the benefit of the While Plains house owners who live in almost Scarsdale and almost Harrison.

The While Plains Common Council lucked out and was precluded from taking sides in the social divide that is the main problem in the governing of the City of While Plains: downtown apartment dwellers v. suburban house owners who have dominated the Common Council for decades to the extreme detriment of downtown residents.

White Plains, NY is considering acquiring a country club ... during a "national debt crisis".

Mounting Debts by States Stoke Fears of Crisis
By MICHAEL COOPER and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH

Published: December 05, 2010

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=709396&f=19

But the finances of some state and local governments are so distressed that some analysts say they are reminded of the run-up to the subprime mortgage meltdown or of the debt crisis hitting nations in Europe.


Analysts fear that at some point - no one knows when - investors could balk at lending to the weakest states, setting off a crisis that could spread to the stronger ones, much as the turmoil in Europe has spread from country to country.

So how come White Plains, NY is considering acquiring a country club?

Real Estate Property Taxes

http://cwp.munisselfservice.com/citizens/RealEstate/Default.aspx?mode=new

Use to search.

"Envisioning a More Walkable White Plains" - wptimes.com

http://wptimes.com/local_news.php?viewspecific=1&storyid=2958

A friend sent the link to me with this comment:


"Did you see this article in the latest W.P. Times?   Got some of your ideas in it."

Here is my response:

Wasn't a raised pedestrian walkway in the original design 30 years ago?

I'm desperately trying to "visualize automobile traffic diverted from Mamaroneck Avenue".  Can't do it.  The committee they set up 10-15 years ago suggested angle parking on Mamaroneck Avenue but WP couldn't even do that.

Try something.  Try anything.

As I state in my blog, WP looks like its design decisions are made by people who do not live here (downtown).

Ridgeway Country Club: the new Railside canard.

House owners in the suburbs of White Plains are at it again.  As with the Railside issue, of which 99% of White Plains residents remain oblivious, the almost in Scarsdale and/or Harrison crowd want ALL White Plains residents to pay for something that can benefit only the house owners who live nearby.

If the house owners succeed, them shame on the majority of us who live in apartments downtown.

NO, the City of White Plains should NOT buy the Ridgeway Country Club!

http://www.ridgewaycc.com/

White Plains house owners, just secede and become part of Scarsdale.

I just received an e-mail message stating:

There will be a meeting of the White Plains Sustainability & Environmental Enhancement Committee (SEEC)  tonight, September 29 from 7:30 - 9:00pm at the White Plains Education House, 5 Homeside Lane

That's a location closer to Scarsdale than White Plains city hall.  It also requires that people drive.

Odd, considering the nature of the meeting.  Wouldn't people who are comfortable with this location be more comfortable if their houses were actually in Scarsdale and not in White Plains?

House owners, just secede and become part of Scarsdale.

An appeal to New York state to provide public safety in White Plains.

Sent to New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (you know, the guy running for governor):

Form submitted on August 9, 2010 7:38:25 PM EDT

Personal Information:

     Kenneth Matinale

Comments:

http://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/2010/06/white-plains-needs-pedestrian.html

The city of White Plains, NY has a consistent pattern of refusing to enforce its own traffic and safely rules and laws.  This has been true for multiple administrations.

At what point can New York state step in and protect the citizens of White Plains?