City Fails to Update Website on New Parking Fines, Hourly Rates.

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WPCNR WEB WATCHDOG. By a White Plains CitizeNetReporter. July 19, 2004: A world wide web aficianado reports to WPCNR that the City of White Plains has failed to use its website to alert citizens to the changes in parking rates down town. The new rates charging 75 cents an hour at street meters and 50 cents an hour in parking garages have been in effect for 19 days, but the city website has not updated their information. Our informant notes the following information on the White Plains city website:
MUNICIPAL PARKING IN WHITE PLAINS

WHERE TO PARK…and how to AVOID PARKING TICKETS


 


Metered Parking

MAKING A QUICK STOP….

Most on-street metered spaces provide a 1 hour parking limit. Short time limits at on-street meters promote turnover which increases space availability.

STAYING A WHILE LONGER….

Less expensive off-street parking is available at the following municipal surface lots:























bullet Waller/Livingston (parking permits available)
bullet Lyon Place (parking permits available)
bullet 279 Hamilton Avenue
bullet Mitchell Place
bullet Waller/Maple (parking permits available)
bullet Quarropas Street (parking permits available)
bullet Court Street

PARKING GARAGES….


Short and long term metered parking is available at various municipal parking garages.














bullet Chester/Maple * (Behind Mamaroneck Avenue) (parking permits available)
bullet Hamilton/Main * (Across from Sears) (parking permits available)
bullet Lexington/Grove (Galleria Mall) (parking permits available)
bullet White Plains Center Garage (City Center) (parking permits available)
*Multi-Space Meters Available

For a complimentary City of White PlainsMunicipal Parking Map, call 422-1232.

IF YOU RECEIVE AN “EXPIRED METER” NOTICE…

Pay parking fine immediately to avoid additional penalties. An “Expired Meter” fine may be paid at any municipal parking garage office, before the appearance date indicated on the ticket.

IF YOU RECEIVE A “PARKED BEYOND THE LIMIT” NOTICE…

On streets and in municipal parking areas, the parking limit is indicated by signs and/or by the meter TIME LIMIT. This time limit is the maximum time a vehicle may be legally parked whether or not time is shown on the meter.

At the expiration of the TIME LIMIT, the vehicle must be moved or it is in violation and subject to a summons answerable in City Court.
 

Schedule of Fines
 










DAY OF ISSUANCE AFTER DAY 30 AFTER DAY 90
$10 $25 $50

MULTI-SPACE METERS

In specified municipal structures, parking patrons use centrally located multi-space meters (similar to bank automated teller machines.) These meters accept both coins and bills and issue change and receipts. Parking patrons may purchase additional time as needed without returning to their space.

FRIENDLY METERS

These electronic parking meters accept nickels, dimes, quarters and Cash Keys and grant a six (6) minute grace period.

LOOK FOR METERS WITH THE GREEN STICKERS.

Meter Rates

Downtown









 Off-street $0.25 for 30 minutes  On-street Half-hour meters $0.25 for 15 minutes
 On-street Other meters $0.25 for 20 minutes  Commuter $0.25 for 30 minutes $4.25 for 12 hours $4.50 for 19 hours

Outlying









bullet Outlying 1-3 hour meters $0.25 for 45 minutes
bullet Outlying Commuter $0.25 for 50 minutes $3.00 for 12 hours

To obtain a Permit Parking information booklet, call 422-1232.

 






For questions, comments or concerns, please contact us at
webpo@ci.white-plains.ny.us

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White Plains Photograph of the Day

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WPCNR ROVING PHOTOGRAPHER. July 19, 2004: Today’s photograph is of the developing “Townhouse Row” on Old Mamaroneck Road, showing the line up of the homes that will behind the apartment complex, called The Jefferson at 300 Mamaroneck Road.



TOWNHOUSE ROW. Old Mamaroneck Road. Photo by The WPCNR Roving Photographer

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Ad Agency Looks at Zoning Change Because Property Unsaleable.

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WPCNR Highlands Herald. From a WPCNR Reporter. July 10, 2004: An old carriage house zoned residential, and located at 5 Rutherford, across the street from The Jefferson at White Plains (300 Mamaroneck Avenue), is being considered by the zoning board for a change of zoning because the property is “unsaleable” otherwise. The matter is currently under review. The advertising agency is seeking to purchase the property for use as an office, if the zoning change goes through.



Unsaleable? The property at 5 Rutherford, now zoned residential, is being considered by the city to change its zoning to allow a business to buy it and use it as a headquarters. Photo by WPCNR News

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The Other Cappelli Eyeballs Subdividing a Home on Old Mamaroneck Road

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WPCNR HIGHLANDS HERALD. From a WPCNR Reporter. July 18, 2004: Michael Cappelli, brother of the Superdeveloper, Louis Cappelli is considering developing a 6 home subdivision in White Plains. The home being considered as a possible division by Michael Cappelli is at 109 Old Mamaroneck Road. The item is coming up on the Planning Board agenda.  The two Cappelli brothers, a spokesman told WPCNR, usually do not work together. However, this may be changing for the two Cappellis are partners in  Cappelli Development South LLC, in Del Rey Beach, Florida, recently reestablished in August, 2003.



THE GREENING OF OLD MAMARONECK ROAD: 109 Old Mamaroneck Road is being eyeballed as a possible 6-Home subdivision by MC LLC. It’s before the Planning Board. Photo by WPCNR News

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Casting Call for WPPAC ‘SCROOGE’

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WPCNR STAGE DOOR. From White Plains Performing Arts Center. July 19, 2004:  The White Plains Performing Arts Center announces an open casting call for its production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL on Monday, August 23 and Tuesday, August 24. The production, which will run from November 26 – December 12, calls for 25 performers of various ages.



Four women, seven men and fourteen children (age range from 9 – 16) are needed for the cast with most actors doubling the more than fifty roles.  Actors will not be seen with out a picture and resume. A sign up sheet available at 3pm on each Audition day. 

Audition times are 4:00 to 6:00 PM for children on both days and 7:00 to 10:00 PM for adults. Callbacks are scheduled for August 25.  Auditions will take place at the White Plains Performing Arts Center at 11 City Place, on the 3rd floor of the City Center in downtown White Plains. Rehearsals start October 12 for children and November 1 for adults.  This is a non-union show with a travel stipend for adults only.

Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story has been adapted by Del Tenney with an original underscoring by DreamTheatre keyboardist Jordan Rudess. Tony Stimac, Producing Director of the White Plains Performing Arts Center, will direct.  

For additional information, including exact rehearsal or performance dates/times, call Melinda O’Brien at 914-328-1600, ext. 18 or email Melinda@wppac.com.

The main roles include:
Scrooge – the classic grumpy curmudgeon
Fred, his nephew – a spunky, fresh-faced young man about 25
Bob Cratchit – world weary, beaten-down family man
Mrs. Cratchit – his over-worked, good-hearted wife
Marley – Scrooge’s sometime partner and ghost
Ghost of Christmas Past – otherworldly beauty
Ghost of Christmas Present – a ghost with a presence
Belle – ingénue, sweet lost love of Scrooge
2 Gentlemen/ Mr. Fezziwig – character actors
Mrs. Fezziwig – character actress
Fan – Scrooge’s young sister
Tiny Tim – angel of a boy

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Michelle Smith Thrills 2,000 Fastpitchers at PONY National Opening Ceremonies

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WPCNR PRESS BOX. By Fastpitch Johnny. July 18, 2004: Michelle Smith, the Olympic Champion pitcher in 1996 and 2000, opened the 2004 PONY Fastpitch Nationals in Sterling, Virginia Sunday with an inspiring talk to hundreds of young fast pitch softball players from over 300 travel teams of 12 year olds and 14 year-olds gathered at Franklin Park for the PONY National Opening Ceremonies in this burg along Route 7 in northern Virginia.


Ms. Smith spoke for 35 minutes, then took questions from ballplayers which were smarter than most sportswriters ask. After graciously and candidly answering her adoring fans’ questions, Ms. Smith signed autographs for two hours with hundreds still standing in line. Ms. Smith,  who plays professionally in the Japanese professional league, and has for 12 years, revealed  that she did not start pitching until she was 15 years of age, and that at age 19, an auto accident nearly severed her left arm to the point where doctors said she would never pitch again. She used that as an example of why the young pitchers out in the audience and ballplayers should never take someone else’s negative assessment of their abilities as a reason to quit.


Ms. Smith talked about her Olympic experience and showed off her two gold medals from 1996 and 2000, and handicapped the upcoming 2004 Olympic Softball competition. She said she expected Japan to be the most competition for the USA Team. She said that Japanese pitchers tend to fool batters with more pinpoint control than American pitchers, who tend to depend more on movement. She noted one star Japanese team pitcher pitches very slow stuff  (about 60 miles an hour, a opposed to the 70 MPH stuff delivered by USA pitchers), and is very successful.


Smith emphasized to the thousands of young players that you don’t have to be from California to make the Olympics anymore, saying your success in the sport depends on how hard you work.


Asked by one of her young questioners what her best pitch was, Ms. Smith said riseball, but that after she became known for her rise among hitters, she developed a drop to go along with it, encouraging young pitchers to develop their repertoire.


She revealed her role models growing up were Joan Joyce, the former Brakette great, and Sandy Koufax, also a lefthander. Smith said when she was growing up that she had a quotation from Mr. Koufax on her bedroom door, reading, “Pitching is the art of instilling fear,” meaning that pitchers have to keep batters nervous about what’s coming next.


Asked about her workout routine now that she has been pitching for some 20 years, Ms. Smith said she bicycles some 50-60 miles a day at her home in Japan. Asked about her warmp routines, she said she puts all of her weight on her back left leg, and practices putting shifting all of the weight of her body forward to her right leg snapping her pitching arm at a 45-degree angle in her pregame warmup.


Ms. Smith said not to be afraid of challenge and challenging yourself at the next level. She concluded that though you have to perform as an individual in softball, you achieve success with your teammates. She said her greatest memory was standing on the stage looking at her teammates and wondering at their great accomlishment when they had to win three in a row against teams that had beaten them in the 2000 Olympics.


Ms. Smith’s keynote address took place at a tented city in Franklin Park in  Purcellville, Virginia where  hundreds of colorfully uniformed fast pitch softball players persuaded parents to pay $10 to $15 for T-shirts, more for equipment, other souveniers, and enjoyed hot dogs and hamburgers relaxing in tented headquarters of their teams from the East Coast. They were hanging out trading pins, purchasing t-shirts, examining softball equipment and celebrating the sport of fastpitch softball., and getting to know each other.


There are a lot of them here,too!


Mike Smith, head of PONY National  told WPCNR that between the PONY Nationals for the 12 and 14s being held this week in and around Sterling Virginia and the PONY Nationals for 16 and 18s coming up in Raleigh over 600 teams and 7,800 players will be competing. At the PONY Nationals, local Westchester area teams that have either won championships, finished second and received bids, or hosted tournaments include the prestigious Brewster Rockets, the perennially professional Diamond Dolls,  Hudson Valley Express, The Challenge, newcomers the Hudson River Panthers, and from Connecticut come the Eliminators, the Rapids, Xtreme Chaos. The best team name WPCNR observed today in milling through the huge crowds was The Outsiders.


 


 

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Alex Philippidis, Biz Journal Editor, Guests on White Plains Week

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WPCNR MEDIA WRANGLER. July 18, 2004: Alex Philippidis, longtime member of the three “News Amigos,” with John Bailey and Jim Benerofe  for four years as a regular on White Plains Week, the city’s top rated news roundup show, returns for an up-to-the-minute look at business in Westchester County, the development situation in White Plains, and his unique perspectives on the future Monday evening, when he guests on White Plains Week at 7 P.M.  on WPPA-TV, White Plains Public Access, “The Spirit of 76” on Channel 76. Mr. Philippidis can also be heard Friday mornings on WVOX radio with his pithy commentaries.



PERRY WHITE  RETURNS: Alex Philippidis, Editor-In-Chief of the Westchester County Business Journal, and  longtime co-anchor of White Plains Week with Jim Benerofe and John Bailey, returns to the show Monday evening to review Westchester business at midyear, talk White Plains development and more at 7 P.M. with John Bailey, the White Plains CitizeNetReporter. Photo by WPPA-TV

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Team USA Wraps up Exhibition tour Crushing Brakettes Twice.

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WPCNR PRESS BOX. July 17, 2004: Team USA, the fastpitch Olympic Softball team in their only appearance in the metropolitan area this season annialated the Stratford Brakettes (who had been 34-1) twice tonight in Stratford, 14-0 in the first game and 8-0 in the second game. The Brakettes were never in either game as Team USA, obviously smarting from almost losing a game Tuesday night to the National Pro Fastpitch Western All-Stars, simply hammered the Brakette pitching from the get-go, before a capacity crowd.

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Nauts Salvage Final of Akron Set, 3-2. Trail by 1-1/2

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WPCNR PRESS BOX. Special to WPCNR From Leigh Greenfelder, Akron, Ohio. (Edited) July 17, 2004:  The Akron Racers picked up their ninth series win this weekend, but fell 3-2 on Saturday afternoon to the New York/New Jersey Juggernaut at Firestone Stadium. Gina Oaks went all the way containing the pesky Racers oin 5 hits for her sixth win of the year against three losses, also driving in a run.  Newcomer Laura Harms scored two runs as the Nauts avoided becoming Ohio road kill. 2004 National Pro Fastpich (NPF) All- Star second baseman Brandi Stuart hit a solo home run in the third inning. The Racers still hold a 1.5 game advantage over the Juggernaut for first place in the NPF. The Nauts at 23-13,  return home to face the California Sunbirds in Montclair Monday night at 7:35 P.M.


The Juggernaut got on the board in the first with an unearned run to gain the early lead. The Racers responded in the bottom of the second when shortstop Kristin Johnson drew a one-out walk and moved to second with her eighth stolen base of the year. Akron third baseman Tracee McCoy lined a hard single off the wall in left field to bring in Johnson and knot the score at one.

Akron took the lead in the home half of the third when Stuart led off the frame with a line drive home run to right-center field. The homer was Stuart’s second this season and was named the Summa Health Care System Play
of the Game.

The Racers were unable to maintain their lead, as the Juggernaut rallied for ne run in both the fifth and sixth innings. Despite the loss, the Racers still own the best record in the NPF at 22-9 on the season.

Pitcher Brandee McArthur threw a complete game, striking out five opposing batters and allowing only two earned runs while scattering eight hits. McArthur was named the Custom Sports Imprints Player of the game and now
holds a 5-6 record.

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Racers Lap Nauts 7-5, Lead by 2-1/2 Games.

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WPCNR PRESS BOX. Special to WPCNR from Leigh Greenfelder, Akron, Ohio. (EDITED) July 16, 2004, UPDATED 11 P.M. E.D.T.: It’s all over in Akron. The Akron Racers spotted the Nauts a 3-0 lead and roared back in the middle innings off Kaci Clark and Amanda Scott on more Naut miscues tonight to beat the Juggernaut 7-5 in Akron putting some daylight into the National Pro Fastpitch pennant race. Amanda Scott (now 9-5)  took her second straight loss, this time in relief. The Nauts will participate in a 9K walk-a-thon with the Racers Saturday morning and attempt to salvage the final game of the three-game set before returning home to face the California Sunbirds Monday night in the friendly confines of Montclair. Nikki Myers pitched a stalwart six innings for the win. The details:

The Racers offense exploded for four runs in the fifth inning to keep them in first place in the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) standings with a two and a half game lead over the Juggernaut.

 


NY/NJ got on board first with two runs in the first inning and another in the second to take a short-lived 3-0 lead. The Racers responded in the bottom half of the third with a pair of runs off of Juggernaut starter Kaci Clark. Third baseman Tracee McCoy recorded Akron’s first base hit of the game with a single to left and moved around the base paths on Brandi Stuart’s sacrifice bunt and a Juggernaut error. McCoy touched home as center fielder Iyhia McMichael drew a throw while stealing second. McMichael, who had reached on a walk, moved to third on a wild pitch and scored Akron’s second run of the game on designated player Dana Degen’s RBI single down the right field line.


 


The Racers tied the game in the fourth inning when left fielder Heather Wright singled to center field and moved to third base on Clark’s two-base error. Wright knotted the score as Stuart drove a single to center field for her 11th RBI of the season.


 


Akron took the lead in the fifth when McMichael legged out an infield single and scored from second on the third Juggernaut error of the game. First baseman Nicole Trimboli drove in the Racers fifth run with a sacrifice fly that scored Danielle Fincham, pinch-running for Degen who had reached on a single. McCoy drove in the Racers sixth run with a single to left, bringing in catcher Jenn Poore who had walked. McCoy went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored to be named the Custom Sports Imprints Player of the game.


 


Shortstop Kristin Johnson recorded the Racers seventh run of the evening as she reached on a fielder’s choice and came around to score on Stuart’s RBI ground-out. Johnson also made a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch into shallow left field in the first inning to save a run, which was named the Summa Health Care System Play of the Game.


 


Last week’s NPF Player of the Week, Nikki Myers threw six innings in the pitcher’s circle, allowing five runs on five hits while striking out two to earn her fifth win of the season. Brandee McArthur came on in the seventh inning to preserve the win, picking up her second save of the year.


 


The two teams are next in action tomorrow at 1:05 p.m. at Firestone Stadium as the Racers go for the three-game sweep. The Akron Racers will hold its inaugural 9K Opportunity Walk for Women and Girls in Sports before the match-up, with the walk stepping off at 9:30 a.m. at Firestone Stadium.  


 


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NPF STANDINGS


As of July 16

 




























































 


W


L


PCT


GB


HOME


AWAY


Akron Racers


22


8


0.733



15-4


7-4


NY/NJ Juggernaut


22


13


0.629


2.5


14-4


8-9


Texas Thunder


18


11


0.621


3.5


10-3


8-8


New England Riptide


15


19


0.441


9.0


8-8


7-11


Arizona Heat


10


23


0.303


13.5


4-12


6-11


California Sunbirds


10


23


0.303


13.5


6-9


4-14


 

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