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Titan Air Selected to Sell Advertising at Westchester County Airport

Posted on August 11, 2012 by John Bailey

WPCNR AIR NEWS. From Titan Air. August 9, 2012:

Titan Air has won exclusive rights to represent Westchester County Airport.

The new contract, won competitively, began August 1, 2012. The advertising agreement covers all advertising within the airport, including state-of-the-art digital displays, which will provide news, weather and travel information as well as advertising. Titan will also be marketing new media in the airport, including a Digital Visitor Information Center that will allow passengers to reserve hotels, rent cars and make dinner reservations.

Other new initiatives that Titan will bring to the airport include work spaces designed to provide comfortable seating for passengers and charging stations for multiple electronic devices. These stations will feature high impact advertising and will be distributed throughout the airport.

This partnership marks the return of industry leaders, Michael Riley and Sam Hart, into the Airport advertising business. Messrs. Riley and Hart spent over a decade at the helm of Clear Channel’s Airport division, where they created and managed Airport and advertiser relationships with great results for all involved.

Titan will utilize its full sales team to sell local and national advertising into the airport. Local sales and marketing will be run from Titan’s New York headquarters, as well as from a new office in Westchester County.

“We look forward to working with Titan as it brings its technology savvy and innovative approaches to serving the traveling public at Westchester County Airport,” said County Executive Robert P. Astorino.

“We are delighted to begin our first Airport partnership,” said Don Allman, Titan’s President and CEO. “Titan’s proposition is centered around the ‘People in Transit’ philosophy, and Airports are a logical fit within our core competency. We have the best team in place to make a great success of this partnership.”

“Westchester County Airport delivers high-end consumers and the opportunity for high-end, high-impact media,” said Mike Riley, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Titan Air. “We’re looking forward to growing revenue for the Airport and delivering new ways of reaching consumers for our advertising partners.”

Westchester County Airport is served by seven airlines to 15 destinations in the United States. The airport has approximately 1.5 million passenger arrival and departures per year.

Man Convicted of Assaults on Westchester Community College Grounds Sentenced

Posted on August 9, 2012 by John Bailey

WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. From the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office. August 8, 2012:

Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced Wednesday that Lawrence J. Bottone aka “Dr. Hunter” (DOB 05/21/58) of 64 Howard Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut was sentenced today to 10 years in state prison on his May 2012 guilty plea to:

· six counts of Assault in the Second Degree, class “D” Violent Felonies,

relating to his actions involving six victims.

The assaults occurred on the Westchester Community College campus in Valhalla.

The defendant lured his young victims posing as a professor and claiming to be “Dr. Hunter,” who falsely pretended to work at Westchester Community College (“WCC”) and the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.

He offered his victims the opportunity to join a training program to prepare for employment with international security firms. If successfully completed the defendant promised that they would obtain high paying jobs.

Once they agreed to sign up and joined the program —which required them to sign a multiple-page contract and to give their oath of silence as to what would take place in the program—each of the victims were subjected to physical abuse. Some of the defendant’s methods included whippings and beatings while the victims were naked and covered with vegetable oil, and the painful insertion of pins and in one case a scalpel under fingernails.

In May of 2010 one of the defendant’s victims reported the defendant’s criminal conduct to police and an investigation was commenced by the Westchester County Police Department and the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office.

During the investigation Westchester County Police recovered documents related to the crimes and a duffel bag that contained a scalpel, needles, rope, strapping tape, vegetable oil, and dental instruments among other items.

The defendant admitted to whipping 2 victims with ropes, to placing pins underneath another victim’s fingernails, removing another victim’s fingernail with a cuticle cutter and inserting a scalpel underneath a fingernail of another victim.

The defendant was previously convicted of assault in the State of Connecticut in 1997 and as a result was sentenced as a second felony offender.

Second Deputy District Attorney Audrey Stone, Chief of the Special Prosecutions Division, and Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Borden of the Special Prosecutions Division prosecuted the case.

County: Avoid Contact with Hudson River from Croton to NYC

Posted on August 8, 2012 by John Bailey

FLASH!

The Westchester County Department of Health is advising people who use the Hudson River waters for recreational purposes, namely swimmers, boaters, kayakers and windsurfers to avoid direct contact with the water from Croton Point Park and points south until further notice.

Due to a break in a sewer line in Tarrytown, there is expected to be a controlled discharge of several million gallons of chlorinated raw sewage into the Hudson River at Sleepy Hollow overnight. The treated sewage bypass is needed so that repairs can be made to the sewer line. The sewer line break is also expected to result in chlorinated raw sewage being discharged into the Hudson River at Yonkers.

As a precautionary measure the Health Department is alerting people who use the waters of the Hudson River of the potential that there may be sewage effluent in the river from Croton Point Park and points south during the discharge period. Be advised to curtail your activities, including swimming, boating, kayaking, windsurfing and bathing in these waters until further notice. Notifications are being made to marinas located on the Hudson River as well as to affected municipalities.

Feiner: Upstaters Should Help Pay for TZB, to Lower Toll

Posted on August 8, 2012 by John Bailey

WPCNR TAPPAN ZEE NEWS & COMMENT From Paul Feiner, Greenburgh Town Supervisor. August 9, 2012:

During the past week I have expressed some concern about the projected toll hike on the TZ bridge. Many residents of Greenburgh, especially those on fixed incomes, have complained to me about the possibility of a $14 toll. I believe that the toll hikes will hurt local businesses/ restaurants in Greenburgh (especially the river villages).

I support the construction of a new bridge but think that the toll hike could be reduced if the costs were spread state-wide. Almost $1 billion dollars in capital projects are listed on the NY State Thruway Authority website for the past seven years (under construction/completed) in the 3 upstate divisions—Albany, Syracuse and Buffalo. A few examples are listed below:

If the Thruway Authority is planning to only increase the tolls on the TZ bridge for the TZ bridge work, Westchester and Rockland residents who use the TZ bridge, Yonkers, New Rochelle barriers should not be paying for upstate projects.

Albany;

(1) $1.5 Million: Thruway Bridge over Catskill Creek- Emergency Repairs

(2) $8.9 Million: Bridge Painting- 13 Bridges

(3) $99.7 Million: Exit 23-24- Pavement Repairs & Bridge Painting

Syracuse:

(1) $127.9 Million: I-690 (Exit 39-40) including 4 Bridges- Pavement Reconstruction

(2) $8.3 Million: Thruway Bridge over Mohawk River and over Barge Canal

Buffalo:

(1) $6.0 Million: Grand Island Bridges- Steel Repairs

(2) $91.2 Million: Hamburg to Silver Creek- Pavement Repairs & Rehabilitation of 4 Bridges

(3) $9.3 Million: Pembroke to Depew- Pavement Resurfacing

(4) $3.0 Million: State Police Headquarters

To again emphasize that this only represents the most recent 7 years- the Thruway has been around since the mid 1950’s!

Note that every time residents of Westchester and Rockland Counties go thru the Tappan Zee Bridge, Yonkers and New Rochelle Toll Barriers, we are paying for these upstate projects!