2,905,611 VISITORS VISIT 8,324,077 TIMES 3 TIMES EVERY DAY IN ONE YEAR. HIGHEST ACTIVITY IN WPCNR HISTORY.White PlainsCitizeNetReporter lifted its worldwide visits from unique visitors to wpcnr.com to 8,324,077,a 1,306,419 increase in visits in one year from 7,017,658 visits to the site last year which covers White Plains and Westchester County. The 8,324,077 visits were made by 2,005,611 unique visitors who visited wpcnr an average of 3 visits a day. ON JULY 20- -2026 visitors have accessed wpcnr and made 3,072 visits an average of 1.6 visits. In the last week 33,495 individual vistors made 54,458 visits, averaging 1.6 visits. In the last month, 152,940 visitors recorded 229,338 visits (1.5 visits)
In recent years there been a number of power outages in our area. Many residents have experienced significant outages for many days after each storm.
After each storm the same thing happens. Con Ed holds daily conference calls with municipal officials and lawmakers. Elected officials always criticize Con Ed. Then there are investigations and hearings. And we are told it won’t happen again.
And, it does -during the next major storm.
The problem- as I see it – is Con Ed is short staffed – doesn’t have adequate crews. It takes days after a major storm for Con Ed to get the crews they need to restore everyone’s power. And usually a week or more to get everyone who lost power back with their service.
We all know that Con Ed was unprepared for this storm. We all know that the problem was that Con Ed did not have adequate crews to quickly restore power.
They should have had outside contractors in place before the storm. They should have hired the crews before the storm. Many of us have seen few Con Ed crews since the storm.
The NYS Legislature should provide the Governor with emergency authority. His office should be given the ability to hire crews to respond to anticipated storms in the event that Con Ed does not –in advance of storms.
Con Ed should be required to provide the Governor with hiring plans prior to any anticipated storm. If the Governor doesn’t approve of the plans he or she should have the ability to override Con Ed and to hire outside contractors –who would be paid by Con Ed.
I asked Con Ed officials if residents will get reimbursed for damaged food. They indicated people should complete a claim form on the Con Ed website. They said that after the last storm and people were denied. I think the State Legislature should mandate that Con Ed reimburse for damaged food after a storm.
OPTIMUM SERVICE TRUCK REPLACING KEY CABLE LINE FRIDAY ON BRYANT AVENUE
WPCNR MEDIA MAYHEM. By John F. Bailey. August 7, 2020:
ALTICE CABLEVISION restored internet, phone and cable programming by Saturday morning to the North Street corridor after marathon repair to a Optimum trunk line on Bryant Avenue yesterday after four days of the neighborhood having no phone, internet, or cable programming from the company, due to a tree falling during Tropical Storm Isaias Tuesday.
Bryant Avenue was the Optimum repair epicenter (between Mamaroneck Avenue and North Street), a utility-vulnerable area with a history of being taken out by trees falling on key wiring during every “bad storm” as utility companies call them.
Optimum repair crews and trucks an tree clearing experts were hard pressed to repair the latest “tree takeout” outages by tropical storm Isaias media and communication services lasting approximately 48 hours , affecting both sides of North Street from I 287 to the southern White Plains border with Harrison, and extending across into Gedney Farms, according to persons WPCNR has talked to.
If you did not have a cellphone you could not call police, fire, or anybody on the North Street Coridor since Tuesday 4 PM when Optimum went down.
The option for residents to communicate with city police and officials and relatives was cellphone, if you had one.
Oddly, electricity was not cut off to some residents along North Street by the Bryant Avenue damage. Sources say the Optimum “Out” extended into Gedney Farms and the Highlands.
Reference to the “media outage” was not mentioned by the City of White Plains in its phone report Wednesday evening. City officials did not respond to WPCNR cellphone calls inquiring about what areas of of the city were affected by the media “Optimum Out,” and what the cause of the blackout was. (Altice Cablevision Optimum is a City of White Plains cable franchise.Fios is also a franchisee, but Optimum has the largest number of subscribers, approximately 14,000. Fios has approximately 6,000.)
WPCNR calls to the Communications Department of Westchester County, asking where in the county Optimum was out of service and the cause of the outage were not responded to. Perhaps they will today after four days. The problem was, if you could not see tv, you could not see any news or news conferences, the county televised, on any channel.
Residents calling Optimum service call numbers were met with recorded prompts and waits for representatives that did not end (blamed on “high volume of calls”), WPCNR spent 45 minutes (twice) waiting for a customer representative. One recorded update by Optimum was heard Wednesday evening by WPCNR, but gave no details on when Optimum service might be restored.
Newspapers and media appeared to ignore reporting the widespread Optimum outage which covered New Jersey, NY, Connecticut.
Optimum blamed the service outage restoration delay on streets needing to be cleared in their lone recorded taped direct reference.
Isaias coastal flooding in Mrytle Beach, South Carolina Last night. A car plows through flooded standing water. Avoid hitting standing water at high speed. The hurricane from space lashing the South Carolina North Carolinas last night.
Isiah Tropical storm conditions likely in White Plains and Westchester County today. . Becoming windy with thunderstorms likely. Rainfall will be heavy at times. High 77F. SE winds at 10 to 20 mph, increasing to 25 to 40 mph. Chance of rain 100%. 1 to 2 inches of rain expected. WPCNR advises stowing lawn deck and balcony furniture in expectation of wind gusts towards evening.
The Westchester Business Journal in an article by reporter Peter Katz, announced this morning another proposed apartment project aimed for White Plains New York USA, joining a lineup of approximate 6 already approved but not built projects.
BRP Companies is about to submit a proposal for a 7 story 296 apartment complex to be built on a lot bordered by Haarlem Ave., Glenn St., and Holland Ave opposite the Metro North North White Plains Railroad Station The price of the property was shown as having been $10.5 million in county records.
Representatives of BRP plan to submit a site plan and begin construction in the spring of 2021.
The site was acquired for the price of $10.5 Million according to County records, the Business Journal said. The property was marketed by CB Richard Ellis.
BRP has 16 completed residential projects in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Philadelphia, West Baltimore and Newark in the Business Journal profile of the company, and is involved in 8 others, including two in New Rochelle.
Many voters complained during the June primary that they did not receive absentee ballots in a timely manner after they submitted the requests. And, other voters worry that the postal service may lose the absentee ballots in the mail -depriving voters of their right to vote. Or, that the ballots arrive after the deadline passed. Our postal service is not very reliable – many letters are lost, sent to the wrong address.
Inasmuch as we can’t count on the Postal Service to send ballots to the right address in time and since voting by mail is important and we want to encourage maximum participation, I have a suggestion: The Board of Elections should place a secure and safe box (similar to a mail box) at each Town, Village and City Hall. If voters don’t trust the post office- voters could drop off their ballots at the municipal building. If people apply for a ballot and do not receive one before the primary each municipal building should have extra ballots that the voter can obtain and send in.
During the recent primary contest the Board of Elections assumed the cost of the postage. The cost of my suggestion would be offset by reduced postage costs. In addition, most municipal buildings have video camera’s for security purposes so these boxes would be placed at safe locations- unlikely to be tampered with.
This recommendation, if followed, will increase voter participation and help make sure that everyone who wants to vote actually does vote. In June – in one legislative district in Brooklyn, about 20% of the ballots cast by absentee ballot were thrown out. Other states that have mail in ballots also don’t count ballots that arrive too late.
PHOTOGRAPH OF THE NIGHT: JUPITER, KING OF THE PLANETS MADE ITS ANNUAL APPEARANCE IN THE SUMMER SKIES AT THE RISING OF THE FULL MOON. HIS MAJESTY JUPITER IS THE LUMINUS BRIGHT BECKONING LIGHT ABOVE THE FULL MOON.
The White Plains School District filed its proposed 91-page reopening of schools plan Friday with the Governor’s Office as required, ontime, comprehensive and staggering in its breadth and detail. The plan was based on a complex 80 question survey of parents and stakeholders, and was hammered out in a month of intensive meetings of staff administration and community stake holders, in a decision making process that is unprecedented. As in the School District response to the Governor’s requirement to conduct classes on line when the schools were closed at the outset of the Covid-19 epidemic, when the district devised an online learning process in 48 hours, the district has once again come through with an efficiency and team effort that is evident in the report.
The plan was posted on the school district website, and you may review it here:
The plan as previously described to WPCNR last week by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joseph Ricca follows the plan ourline Dr. Ricca described in this interview:
Dr. Joseph Ricca’s interview describing basically how the plan will work. Previously recorded two weeks ago for WPCNR
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York State and Northwell Health will deploy at least 30 healthcare personnel to Utah to support Intermountain Healthcare – the state’s largest healthcare provider. Intermountain Healthcare previously sent dozens of healthcare workers to New York to support Northwell and other hospitals. New York State will provide PPE and equipment as needed, and the first group of healthcare workers will travel to Utah this Sunday.
“We’re taking new steps in New York State’s continuing effort to repay the gratitude that we’ve been shown by people all across the country, and also on a practical level to keep us safe–an outbreak anywhere is an outbreak everywhere,” Governor Cuomo said. “We will be sending health staff to Utah to the Intermountain Healthcare Hospital System, Utah’s largest hospital system. Utah and that hospital system were very generous to New York when we needed help, sending dozens of staff to the Northwell Hospital System which was a major provider for us during COVID. So, we are going to be sending primarily Northwell personnel and Department of Health personnel, about 30 people, as well as any PPE, and equipment that is needed. I thank Governor Herbert and all the people of Utah, and as I’ve said on behalf of New Yorkers, we won’t forget and we will do for them what they did for us, because that’s the American way.”
“During the height of the pandemic here in New York, we were grateful for the extraordinary support provided by the Intermountain Health System who sent us over 60 front-line staff including physicians and nurses,” said Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care provider which treated the most coronavirus patients in the US. “We are now delighted to be able to reciprocate by sending staff to assist them in their current battle against this disease.”
New York’s Commitment to Helping Cities and States Fight COVID-19
During the fight against COVID-19, New York State has provided PPE and equipment to Florida, Georgia and Texas. In addition, the state has provided the following resources:
On July 29, Governor Cuomo announced that New York State will establish a testing site in St. Petersburg, Florida.
On July 20, Governor Cuomo announced that New York State will establish two church testing sites in COVID-19 Hotspots in Savannah, Georgia.
On July 16, Governor Cuomo announced that New York State has established two church testing sites in COVID-19 hotspots in Houston, Texas.
On July 13, Governor Cuomo announced New York State will send testing and contract tracing teams to Atlanta, Georgia.
On July 10, Governor Cuomo announced New York State would send the COVID-19 medication Remdesivir to Florida as the state struggles with a resurgence of cases.
he governor also announced that the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force yesterday visited and observed 835 establishments across New York City and Long Island, and found violations at 41 establishments, or 5 percent.
Today’s data is summarized briefly below:
Patient Hospitalization – 586 (-33)
Patients Newly Admitted – 83
Hospital Counties – 29
Number ICU – 142 (-12)
Number ICU with Intubation – 72 (-4)
Total Discharges – 72,973 (+73)
Deaths – 13
Total Deaths – 25,145
Of the 73,546 test results reported to New York State yesterday, 777, or 1.06 percent, were positive. Each region’s percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:
REGION
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Capital Region
1.2%
1.8%
2.1%
Central New York
0.9%
0.8%
1.1%
Finger Lakes
0.4%
0.6%
0.6%
Long Island
1.1%
1.1%
1.2%
Mid-Hudson
1.1%
1.3%
1.3%
Mohawk Valley
2.0%
1.8%
0.9%
New York City
0.9%
1.1%
1.0%
North Country
0.6%
0.3%
0.3%
Southern Tier
0.6%
1.3%
0.7%
Western New York
0.9%
1.6%
0.5%
The Governor also confirmed 777 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 414,370 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 414,370 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:
County
Total Positive
New Positive
Albany
2,493
13
Allegany
74
0
Broome
1,029
14
Cattaraugus
157
0
Cayuga
141
0
Chautauqua
224
1
Chemung
162
1
Chenango
206
1
Clinton
125
2
Columbia
513
3
Cortland
90
0
Delaware
101
0
Dutchess
4,468
15
Erie
8,434
24
Essex
55
0
Franklin
48
0
Fulton
275
5
Genesee
270
3
Greene
287
2
Hamilton
7
0
Herkimer
239
3
Jefferson
128
0
Lewis
34
0
Livingston
164
1
Madison
396
3
Monroe
4,677
21
Montgomery
152
0
Nassau
43,158
58
Niagara
1,434
4
NYC
224,863
312
Oneida
2,062
9
Onondaga
3,459
22
Ontario
349
2
Orange
11,072
38
Orleans
291
0
Oswego
240
1
Otsego
107
0
Putnam
1,418
2
Rensselaer
718
24
Rockland
13,860
8
Saratoga
709
8
Schenectady
1,018
8
Schoharie
68
0
Schuyler
20
0
Seneca
84
0
St. Lawrence
260
1
Steuben
290
0
Suffolk
43,170
86
Sullivan
1,479
3
Tioga
184
1
Tompkins
227
2
Ulster
2,010
37
Warren
298
0
Washington
254
0
Wayne
243
0
Westchester
35,913
39
Wyoming
111
0
Yates
52
0
Yesterday, there were 13 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,145. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:
