Electric Vehicle Charging: White Plains, NY - Official Website

Email:

from: Kenneth Matinale
to: commoncouncil@whiteplainsny.gov
cc: parking@whiteplainsny.gov

date: May 14, 2023, 7:59 PM
subject: Electric Vehicle Charging | White Plains, NY - Official Website

https://www.cityofwhiteplains.com/368/Electric-Vehicle-Charging-Stations

When was this updated? I think they add up to 31. Five years ago I counted 28.

Is the number increasing to about 90? What's the schedule?

In addition to the Mitchell apartment complex and Continuum II and its nearby office to resident conversion, Barker and Hamilton have three new residential complexes under construction that will add 2,300 parking spaces. Barker Avenue is one lane in each direction and already has giant buses roaring down to the train station because you won't route them on Hamilton Avenue. Barker will become a traffic mess.

What are you planning to do about ensuring that these vehicles, gas and electric, can get fuel?

White Plains needs way more Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations, both public and private. The city needs to do some mandating.

Stop staring at those ridiculous giant buses with few, if any, passengers. Stop congratulating yourselves over them. Make some useful decisions on transportation.

Kenneth Matinale

White Plains resident

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EV charging stations for residents of apartment buildings: electrify White Plains. Thursday, March 2, 2023

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EV charging stations for residents of apartment buildings: electrify White Plains.

https://www.cityofwhiteplains.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1757

Unfortunately, that's all there is on the city website, just that image.

City of White Plains Completes 6.8 MW Community Solar Portfolio

Please click here to view photos of the City of White Plains Community Solar Portfolio.

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from: Ken
to: commoncouncil@whiteplainsny.gov,
parking@whiteplainsny.gov
date: Mar 2, 2023, 5:10 AM
subject: Electrify America Adds MEGA Battery Backup to Charging Stations

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/10/20/electrify-america-adds-mega-battery-backup-to-charging-stations/

I didn't notice any electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at the solar panels in the recreation department parking lot (GedneyWay). Are there any EV charging stations at any of the other such locations in White Plains? If not, why not.

Where can the thousands of White Plains residents, who live in apartments, charge their EV? The city needs to mandate that apartment buildings, new and OLD, provide EV charging stations in or near their garages. I don't think that the new Mitchell building has them. I think that Continuum II has some Tesla charging stations. And that office building conversion across the street may have generic EV charging stations. The Seasons condo has some and supposedly a co-op on Old Mamaroneck Road.

What about the aforementioned three residential developments under construction on Barker and/or Hamilton? They will add 2,300 residential parking spaces. I think that total new parking spaces for recent and upcoming apartment buildings exceeds 11,000. It's wishful thinking to assume that the developers will do it on their own.

Are the number of municipal EV charging stations increasing from 28 to 90 and, if so, what's the schedule? Can apartment residents rely on them rather than EV charging stations at the garages where they live?

With Common Council members elected at large and pretending to represent all citizens, in the last half century probably ninety percent of the time seats are filled by members who live in houses, representing the interests of the people on their street, people who can charge an EV in their private garages.

Note: multiple inquiries to the Parking department, including one to the email of the commissioner, have gone unanswered.

Kenneth Matinale

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Electric Vehicles (EV): charging station policy and status? Friday, July 15, 2022

Electric Vehicles (EV): White Plains should require charging stations at apartment garages, new and old. Monday, February 6, 2023

Electric Vehicle (EV) label just created for posts on that subject. Thursday, March 2, 2023

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Pedestrian Safety is administered by the Parking Department.

https://www.cityofwhiteplains.com/922/Pedestrian-Safety

Pedestrian Safety

You may have noticed…

The City of White Plains has installed a “HAWK” signal on Main Street between Lexington Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard.

What is a HAWK signal?

HAWK stands for High-intensity Activated cross WalK. It is a new kind of signal designed to assist pedestrians when crossing at a mid-block crosswalk.

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Questions? Please contact: City of White Plains Parking Department/ Traffic Division, 914.422.1232, parking@whiteplainsny.gov.

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Pedestrian Safety is administered by the Parking Department. And all it has is that one ridiculous item. Ignored are all the dangerous intersections throughout downtown. The people in charge are not aware of them because they don't walk downtown. They drive everywhere. Note the year on the post below.

White Plains needs a Pedestrian Commissioner, part II Tuesday, May 17, 2011

https://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/search/label/Pedestrians

Contact city but only by phone ... no paper trail.

https://www.cityofwhiteplains.com/

Click on "Contact us":

https://www.cityofwhiteplains.com/directory.aspx

It's nothing but phone numbers.

That's what organizations do when they do not want to communicate.

Call prompting. Yuck.

If you speak to someone, there is no "paper trail".

You can figure out email IDs but that's not how they want you to contact them.

Use the good OLD phone.

Electric Vehicles (EV): White Plains should require charging stations at apartment garages, new and old.

2,300 new parking spaces on Barker and Hamilton in three new unfinished apartment projects.

Four email messages to the Common Council since July 2022: zero replies and no apparent action. The content of the fourth message is below and links to the other messages follow. This link to the city website shows projects, usually including the number of parking spaces.  Some of the newer, larger ones are listed below. 

https://city-of-white-plains-projects-and-proposals-wp-planning.hub.arcgis.com/

Hamilton Green (old mini mall, former site of DMV) 962

440 Hamilton (North Broadway: between Hamilton and Barker; former AT&T building and its parking lot) garage access is on Barker. 575

Gateway II (You know, that huge L shape building on Hamilton near the train station) 755

Those three alone: 962+575+755=2,292. Poor little Barker Avenue.

The Mitchell (Mamaroneck Avenue between Post Road (22) and Mitchell) garage access is on Post Road. 460

Completed on Bank Street:

Continuum I: 288 apartments; 668 parking spaces

Continuum II: 309 apartments, parking spaces not list be must exceed 309.

from: Ken
to: commoncouncil@whiteplainsny.gov
date: Feb 5, 2023, 11:03 PM
subject: Nissan Projects Solid-State Batteries in Its EVs by 2028

To: Common Council

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42768205/nissan-solid-state-batteries-2028-evs/ 

Hello.

So, what, if anything is White Plains doing about requiring new apartment garages to supply electric vehicle charging stations? There will be thousands more parking spaces soon on Barker Avenue and Hamilton Avenue. What about the Mitchell? And Continuum I and II? And ...

Gasoline pumps would be a good idea too.

Fuel for all the new vehicles that you're bringing into downtown. Downtown is that area that you ruling house owners like to visit.

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Fuel for cars and food for people: wake the heck up! THOUSANDS more cars downtown. Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Gas or electric: fuel for thousands of new cars in big new apartment buildings? Thursday, December 29, 2022

Electric Vehicles (EV): charging station policy and status? Friday, July 15, 2022

One White Plains or a Tale of Two Cities? Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Tax on RESIDENTIAL parking space rented in private garage structure.

What? Since when? Only on renters in those big, new apartment buildings?

Probably. Does White Plains collect tax on any other RESIDENTIAL parking space? How about a private garage on the lot of a house?

9.5% "sales tax".

Fuel for cars and food for people: wake the heck up! THOUSANDS more cars downtown.

No, I don't expect White Plains to go from zero imagination to what's below but ...

from: Ken
to: commoncouncil@whiteplainsny.gov
cc: news12wc@news12.com
date: Jan 3, 2023, 6:35 AM
subject: A new wireless EV charging road is currently under construction in Germany

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/germany-first-public-ev-charging

You need to wake up or White Plains is going to be a fueling nightmare for both gas and electric vehicles.

Require apartment building garages to have both gas pumps and electric vehicle charging stations. Both.

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Gas or electric: fuel for thousands of new cars in big new apartment buildings? Thursday, December 29, 2022

And where will they get food? Right, these are all mixed use developments. Where will the new supermarkets be?

Saturday morning should be fun. Even those who take the train to work will have to fuel their cars to drive to a supermarket.

All we see is overbuilding but not a single change in fuel for cars or food for people.

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Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in White Plains

The City of White Plains currently offers twenty-eight publicly accessible electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in parking structures and lots throughout the City.

They are located in the following public parking locations:

Lexington-Grove East Garage (100 Main St.) - 3 chargers
Lexington-Grove West Garage (100 Main St.) - 2 chargers
Hamilton-Main Garage (365 Hamilton Ave.) - 3 chargers
Longview-Cromwell Garage (11 Longview Ave.) - 2 chargers
Lyon Place Garage (5 Lyon Place) - 2 chargers
Shapham Place Parking Lot (17 Shapham Place) - 2 chargers
Chester-Maple Garage (9 Chester Ave.) - 3 chargers
Library Garage (100 Martine Ave.) - 3 chargers
TransCenter Garage (11 Ferris Ave.) - 8 chargers

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The 8 chargers at 11 Ferris Ave. are outdoors at the fire station. Really.

Gas or electric: fuel for thousands of new cars in big new apartment buildings?

No reply, of course:

from: Ken
to: commoncouncil@whiteplainsny.gov
cc: news12wc@news12.com,
letters@lohud.com
bcc: ???
date: Dec 28, 2022, 6:40 AM
subject: White Plains, NY: Electric Vehicles (EV): charging station policy and status?

http://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/2022/07/electric-vehicles-ev-charging-station.html 

So? Drivers will increasingly opt for EV because they won't want to continue the hideous practice of getting fuel at a gas station, which brings us to the real dilemmas in White Plains:

Whether gas or electric, where the heck are the many thousands of new cars parking at those big new apartment buildings going to get fuel? Did you ever once consider that?

Oh, and how will they get into and out their garages, especially on small streets like Mitchell and Barker?

And where will they get food? Right, these are all mixed use developments. Where will the new supermarkets be?

Saturday morning should be fun. Even those who take the train to work will have to fuel their cars to drive to a supermarket.

All we see is overbuilding but not a single change in fuel for cars or food for people.

Kenneth Matinale

White Plains apartment resident

ShopRite expiration date on milk: more than 50 in the future.

Yesterday (Thursday, August 11, 2022) I bought this product

The "expiration" date is October 1, 2022. That's 51 days later. For milk. What the heck? Is any of this regulated? If so, how? I bought it at:

ShopRite
13 City Place
White Plains NY 10601
914-539-4500
https://www.shoprite.com/sm/planning/rsid/231/

The system puts a date/time stamp on this post.