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WPCNR ROVING PHOTOGRAPHER. By Terri Popiel. March 13, 2004: Today’s Photographs of the Day are shot by WPCNR Roving Photographer of the Day, Terri Popiel. Thank you Terry for the great work on a crisp, invigorating, breezy as the Irish Sea St. Patricks Day. Enjoy this 16-Photo series of Irish shots, by clicking on “Read More”:
POST & MAMARONECK. Photograph by Terri Popiel for WPCNR
St. Patrick’s Day Parade White Plains, March 13, 2004 All Photos by Terri Popiel
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WPCNR PRESS BOX. By Bob & Jenny Petrucci. March 13, 2004: Mr.Golf, Bob Petrucci, has been monitoring the way Westchester County golf courses have been selling advance tee times, and he claims the county has hit another fat hook into the rough off the tee for the new season. Mr. Golf writes:
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WPCNR WHITE PLAINS LIVING. By John F. Bailey. March 13, 2004: The media was given a tour of the 34-story One City Place, the soon-to-be-covetted North Citadel of the City Center, and the first impression is these apartments surpass in view and lifestyle any units currently available in the city or Westchester County. The apartments, even one-bedrooms are spacious, airy, high-ceilinged (10 feet) masterpieces of space utilization with views to New York City, Long Island Sound and Bear Mountain, even at the tenth floor level, with efficient elegant kitchens, dining alcoves and big closets. The rents from $1,600 to $5,000 a month (for penthouse posh) are a mere slight inconvenience to live a “step out of the ordinary” as their elegent brochure suggests. They bring the vistas of Manhattan tower living to White Plains.
Living Room on Tenth Floor Model Apartment at One City Place: Manhattan sophistication graces the White Plains apartment market. Apartment models may be viewed by appointment, by contacting 914-997-1800. Photo by WPCNR StyleCam.
GRAND FOYER: Each apartment style (there are 18 to choose from) features a foyer, with kitchen on your right, tucked away, doing away with the typical abrupt transition to living room typical of most partments. Photo by WPCNR StyleCam
KITCHEN ALCOVE, just off entrance from the foyer, features granite countertops, GE radiant stove and refrig, microwaves, all within fivertip reach. Photo by WPCNR StyleCam.
MEDIA DOGS IMPRESSED: Alex Philippidis, of Westchester County Business Journal, and Jim Benerofe of Suburbanstreet.com, note the dining room in the two-bedroom model. Photo by WPCNR StyleCam.
BEDROOM OVERLOOKS the city, even on the 10th Floor, with enough space for a kingsize bed. Photo by WPCNR StyleCam.
LUXURY ABOLUTIONS: A typical bath contains marble tiles, marbled shower and bath, designer basin. Photo by WPCNR StyleCam.
A VIEW TO DIE FOR: The view from a typical bedroom. Photo by WPCNR StyleCam
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WPCNR’S ADAM IN ALBANY By New York State District 89 Assemblyman Adam Bradley. March 13, 2004: New York’s economic development efforts must focus on the strengths of its various regions. Here in Westchester, we must take advantage of our strong education system and skilled workforce. To help revitalize our struggling economy and meet the challenges of a changing business environment, the Assembly recently released a comprehensive plan called NY@Work. The plan would create tens of thousands of jobs, help businesses, and leave New Yorkers better prepared to compete in today’s high-tech economy.
New York is an uncontested leader when it comes to high-tech research and development. This plan would bring new research-driven technology to commercial markets, and provide businesses with important capital to foster growth in biotechnology, nanotechnology and other advanced technologies to create the jobs of the future.
Developing a workforce for the future
Another Assembly initiative, Expand Local Economies through Vocational and Technical Education (ELEVATE NEW YORK), will help the state invest in its workforce by:
· supporting school-to-work programs that help students by providing career orientation and work experience;
· investing in vocational education and support programs that train workers in the changing technology in trade industries;
· initiating a new program called “Experience and a Degree” which promotes the use of internships that help bridge the classroom to the workplace;
· backing Educational Opportunity Centers which provide job training and educational services to roughly 20,000 low-income New Yorkers; and
· supporting apprenticeships that provide on-the-job training and access to the skilled trades.
This program will help support high-tech training for jobs that will develop in our area. It’s time we kept professionals trained in our universities as part of our workforce, rather then exporting them to the rest of the nation. These initiatives will blend career awareness, education and work experience into a winning formula.
Providing low–cost power
Lowering the cost of energy is vital to keeping the manufacturing sector viable. The Power for Jobs Program – first proposed by the Assembly – provides low-cost power to manufacturers. NY@Work would reform and extend the program for three years, while making key changes so it runs more efficiently.
Supporting community-based economic development
The Assembly’s plan recognizes the importance of community-based development, and offers support to programs like the Minority and Women-Owned Business Development Lending Program and the Rural Revitalization program. It also provides the business community greater manufacturing, agricultural, small business and tourism assistance.
Redirecting the state’s failed approach to economic development
To improve the accountability and efficiency of the state’s economic development efforts, the Assembly’s NY@Work plan would create an Economic Policy Coordination Board to develop a long-overdue strategic plan for economic growth and oversee the state’s investments in research and development projects.
It will also replace the current Empire State Development Board with a new, three-member Economic Development Control Board – providing the governor, the Assembly Speaker, and the Senate Majority Leader each with one appointed member.
The decisions we make now will affect the prosperity of our region and state for years to come. Investing in economic development policies which take advantage of our unique strengths will ensure that New York continues to move forward economically.
For a copy of the NY@Work plan, visit www.assembly.state.ny.us.
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WPCNR’S THE FEINER REPORT. By Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner. March 13, 2004: I am pleased to invite Greenburgh residents to a work session meeting of the Town Board on Tuesday afternoon around
Representatives of the Library Board met with the Library architect on Friday afternoon to review the progress of the
ON Wednesday, March 24th the Greenburgh Town Board will hear a more formal power point presentation by Todd Harvey, Library Architect. He will also discuss the project and be available to answer questions.
We also will post the conceptual drawings on our town web site (www.greenburghny.com) and will ask that the drawings be provided to us in digitial format as soon as possible so you, the public, can view the information at home from your computer.
I want to thank the Library Board for all their hard working highlighting the need for a
We also invite you to join a group of citizens working to reach out to private foundations/donors/benefactors who could help raise some private donations to offset the costs of this important expansion initiative. Contact me: pfeiner@greenburgh.com if you have any private donation/foundation tips that could be followed up.
On another matter—on March 24th the Greenburgh Town Board will hold our next evening meeting at Town Hall,
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TO RENOVATE ABANDONED HOUSE AT TAXTER RIDGE PARK—I am pleased to report that Habitat for Humanity will be renovating the abandoned house at Greenburgh’s newest park, Taxter Ridge. A town employee will be provided with the opportunity to reside in an affordable home once the work is complete. IT would have been a crime to take an abandoned house and to
Any questions about the town? Call me at 993 l540 or home: 478-1219.
PAUL FEINER
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WPCNR ROVING PHOTOGRAPHER. March 13, 2004: Today’s photograph is from the 29th Floor Terrace of One City Place at City Center, as the North Citadel of City Center opens for rentals. The view is Southeast. The Street in the center of the picture is Maple Avenue. The buildings left of center constitute White Plains Hospital Medical Center. The building at far right is Post Road School. The skyline is New York City.
CITY CENTER SUNSET. 29th FLOOR. By The White Plains Roving Photographer
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WPCNR STAGEDOOR. By John F. Bailey. March 12, 2004: The Fort Hill Players, those maestros of memory, continiue their run at “The Roch”, 228 Fisher Avenue at this week, Friday and Saturday at 8, with matinee at 2 on Saturday when they present their original show, Radio Days, TV Nights featuring a trip down memory lane into the radio world of the 30s and 40s, and the golden age of television from 1950 to 1980. Admission is $14 at the door. $12 for students. For more on the show, go to www. fortbillplayers.com. Call 914-309-7278.
YOUR HIT PARADE OF MEMORIES: Remember when Cigarette Packages Danced and had great legs? That’s just one of the memories the Fort Hill Players bring back to life at The Roch tonight as Radio Days, TV Nights debuts on the boards of White Plains ancient theater. You’ll see entirely new episodes of Linda Hendrick, Patti Rome and Jim Brownold’s hilarious parodies of 30s and 40s radio serials, hear their great voices, backed by the “Hoagy Charmichael of White Plains,” Mark Snyder, the quintessential keyboard impresario, then as Radio Days turn into TV Nights, you’ll hear those great TV lines again, jingles, commercials, and all the shows you remember. It’s a cultural education for the young, a celebration of American Electronic entertainment before “reality shows” became entertainment. Photo by WPCNR StageCam.
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WPCNR WHITE PLAINS VARIETY. March 12, 2004: Ron Jackson, “The Last Activist,” lifelong friend of Jerome “Bump” Robinson, the leader, founder of the Slater Center, founder of the Slater Drum Corps, will reminisce with John Bailey, the White Plains CitizeNetReporter Monday night , about his old friend, the outpouring of community grief, and what can be learned from Robinson’s story on the city news roundup show, White Plains Week, Monday evening at 7:00 P.M. on the “Spirit of 76,” WPPA-TV, Channel 76, White Plains Public Access Television. News on the School District, City Budget and the unfolding Louis Cappelli story will be highlighted on the Roll-O-Newsreel March of Time segment.
THE LAST ACTIVIST, Ron Jackson, right, talks about the void, the legacy of a real Legacy of White Plains, Jerome Robinson who was buried Thursday after a most touching Home Going Ceremony at Mount Hope A.M.E. Zion Church. Photo by WPCNR News
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WPCNR WHITE PLAINS VARIETY. By John F. Bailey. March 12, 2004, UPDATED 3:00 P.M. E.S.T.: The Committee to Save the White Plains Watch met Thursday evening at United Methodist Church in White Plains. Susan Chang reported that The Watch Subscription Role is growing with over 60 new subcriptions either pledged, or donated since last weekend. Susan Chang, Publisher of The Watch, who suspended publication January 1, said today in an e-mail thanking participants that she needed 240 subscribers to start the paper up once more.
WPCNR got the sense from last night’s meeting that The Watch would not be publishing until May, and Ms. Chang did not commit to the committee a date when the comeback issue would be published. On Friday morning, Ms. Chang has written confidantes the countdown to the comeback now sits on 240 more subscriptions needed to signify enough of a community commitment to bring the paper back.
THE WATCH ON THE WATCH CONTINUES: Saul Yanofsky, former Superintendent of Schools, left, chairs Thursday evening’s meeting of the White Plains Committee to Save the Watch. Photo by WPCNR News.
Speaking before an attendance that reached 19 persons, Dr. Saul Yanofsky, former Superintendent of Schools in White Plains, now Associate Dean with Westchester Community College reported on Ms. Chang’s progress in the last two weeks. He said at the outset of the meeting that the efforts of the last two months had produced a lot of “appreciation across the city that the White Plains Watch was valuable,” adding that it reported on matters that other media did not, such as school matters, student achievements, neighborhood issues.
He introduced Ms. Chang, whom Jack Harrington later said was looking much better and feeling much better than she had appeared and acted at the previous meeting.
Chang said she had been receiving increasing support from residents giving gift subscriptions, and pledges from persons “extending across the city,” and sums of money in the form of donated subscriptions, which Chang said could be given to any one. She said at the start of the meeting they needed 280 and apparently during the meeting and Friday morning, forty more subscriptions equivalents were received, and now she needs just 240.
Chang announced she had agreed to hire a new person, Toni Cox-Burns, a retired teacher and a Board Member of the White Plains Public Library Foundation Board, to assist her when the paper returns to publication. Gasparas, Chang said, worked with The Herald a community newspaper in Savannah, Georgia and would bring that successful experience there to the Watch, and help work to raise the subscription level.
She said she had also agreed to follow the advice of the Committee and install an Advisory Board consisting of Mitch Alcheron, a direct marketing expert who works with Sports Illustrated (and donated the recent Watch flyer sent to the community asking for subscriptions), Stan Green, Jack Harrington, Alan Hammelstein, Carlos Mahia, Sarena Russell, and Dr. Yanofsky to help her steer the paper direction.
Effort to Balance the new Paper
Chang said she was concerned that The Watch had been perceived as too much of an advocacy paper for certain points of view. She said she could not help that “because it’s sort of like the way I am.”
She said one of the purposes of the Advisory Board was “to make sure I stay on track.”
“There are certain segments (of the community) that don’t feel they participate (in the paper), and I want to make sure that (feeling) goes away.” She said earnestly.
She said one of the new features of the rebirth of The Watch would be a public forum by e-mail on important issues, “to express their points of view.” She said she would include more Point-Counterpoint discussions with advocates on opposite sides of an issue.
Looking for Office Space.
Jack Harrington, former President of the White Plains Historical Society, a new Advisory Board member was introduced by Dr. Yanofsky.
Harrington said he had had a two-hour meeting with Sister Alice Feely of Good Council School, to discuss the possibility of Ms. Chang relocating White Plains Watch offices there. It was not mentioned whether this would be donated office space. He said it looked very good for that to happen.
Harrington reported that a fund was being established to deposit monies sent in by residents for “donated subscriptions.”
He added that the most important thing to do was retain advertisers whom he said appeared supportive, and to get more.
There was suggestion of doing subscription drives during the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade and volunteers were being sought.
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WPCNR Main Street Journal. By John F. Bailey. March 11, 2004, Updated with Pictures 12:30 A.M. E.S.T.: In an interview with WPCNR late Thursday afternoon, an ebullient Louis Cappelli announced “major institutional investors” were lining up to pump $400 Million into new retail outlets in the first floors of his North Citadel Apartments and in his Main Street Cappelli Hotel complex, which he expects to begin construction in June, pending Common Council approval of the project.
He disclosed his friend, Donald Trump, a visitor to the
ALL SYSTEMS GO: The South Condoplex of 34 stories now at 9 stories will resume Wednesday and his pal, Donald Trump is interested. Photo by WPCNR News
In another major thrust to
L.A. FITNESS COMPLEX SITE: Photographed February 18, Louis Cappelli’s health club under construction on top two floors of City Center Garage. Bridge to City Center is in extreme right of photograph. Photo fromWPCNR News Archive.
Mr. Cappelli calls LAF “ultra high end of fitness clubs. Where all the pretty girls go.” He reports the amenities the L.A. Fitness complex will have include a basketball court, two racquet ball courts, two squash courts and an Olympic-size swimming pool. He said the health club plans to start pumping iron and pounding NordicTraks September 1. “We’ve been negotiating for three months,” he said.
Reeling off development coups mortal developers would die for like a seasoned croupier rakes in the investor chips, Cappelli continued, so breathless with excitement, you almost expected him to say, “and that’s not all.”
North Citadel Apartment Models Open this Weekend. Tenants In First of April.
Cappelli proudly announced that furnished models in the North Citadel will be open for view this Saturday, and he said they were “spectacular.” He has also welcomed his first tenant, who has rented one of the top floor units.
NORTH CITADEL OF THE CITY CENTER seen coming East on Main Street. Photo from WPCNR NewsArchive
He described the tenant as a retired couple who sold their home in
Cappelli, perhaps the most optimistic, focused individual you will ever meet told WPCNR, “Some people believe the rental market is soft, Louis Cappelli does not believe that to be so.”
Full Steam Ahead on the
Cappelli put to rest rumors of troubles in
Cappelli said the plex was reconfigured from a design and engineering perspective by Costas Kondylis & Partners Architects, (www.kondylis.com) whom Cappelli said was Donald Trump’s primary architectural designer for Mr. Trump’s residential properties.
Designer of the Trump World Tower Spiffs Up the South Condoplex
Costas Kondylis, according to his website has built 45 highrise buildings around New York City, including the Trump World Tower, the 72-floor, 90-story stunner next to the United Nations. Kondylis in a biography on his website said the World Tower was built in 18 months, and design was done as the building was progressing. Kondylis added that nowadays it is not necessary to spend three years designing a building then building it. Mr. Cappelli, too, is not one to follow a bad idea when he discovers a better way.
Herbert Muschamp of The New York Times describes the Trump World tower this way: “Aggression and desire, violence and sex, put them together and you have Trump Tower,” and goes on to write:
From downtown, the tower also makes a good impression. Its visual appeal derives, first of all, from the contrast between its amplitude of scale and its simplicity of shape. Then, like the Empire State Building, there is an unbalanced ratio of width to depth. Depending on your perspective, the tower shifts from sliveresque to monolithic. After all the frou-frou launched into the skyline for the past generation – the fussy attempts at three-dimensional collage; the ersatz Art Deco confections weighed down by stepped silhouettes and ornate crowns – it is pleasing to see a flat roof raised to the top of the skyline by four flush glass walls. From downtown, the tower also makes a good impression. Its visual appeal derives, first of all, from the contrast between its amplitude of scale and its simplicity of shape. Then, like the Empire State Building, there is an unbalanced ratio of width to depth. Depending on your perspective, the tower shifts from sliveresque to monolithic. After all the frou-frou launched into the skyline for the past generation – the fussy attempts at three-dimensional collage; the ersatz Art Deco confections weighed down by stepped silhouettes and ornate crowns – it is pleasing to see a flat roof raised to the top of the skyline by four flush glass walls.
A Trump Deal?
Asked if Mr. Trump was interested in the
LOUIS CAPPELLI, “THE SUPER DEVELOPER” from an appearance on White Plains Week. Photo by WPCNR News.
DONALD TRUMP Photo by Photo Rozzi
Cappelli said the
Cappelli has promised the design to be revealed shortly.
There is No Place Like White Plains
Mr. Cappelli advised the CitizeNetReporter that “there is no place like
MAJOR PLAYERS SEEK PIECES OF THE CAPPELLI CITY CENTER and his proposed Cappelli Hotel & Office Complex (in green and yellow) File Overhead Model, Courtesy Cappelli Enterprises.
Asked if he would retain control of both
Cappelli updated WPCNR on the status of his 90-day window deal for the Bar Building annex, saying he had forwarded the contracts to the Longhitanos.
Cappelli said that Office Max was taking the last 25,000 square feet next to Filene’s Basement on the second floor of the
He said Legal Seafood is coming along and is 80% finished, saying it should be open in mid-April. Its neighbor on the corner, Zanaro’s, Cappelli said is going to be “the most spectacular restaurant in
Cappelli said all his