Children’s Mural of White Plains Disappears on City Place Former Nook Wall

WPCNR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAY. By the White Plains Roving Photographer. November 13, 2010:


While on daily patrol around White Plains today, WPCNR’s man with a camera was shocked to see the colorful street mural, believed to be created by chid artists twenty years ago during the Del Vecchio administration — a colorful and cheery fixture that gladdened the senses was missing due to construction work on the former Corner Nook building. (The building is being readied for a hamburger restaurant.) It is unknown why the mural wall has been removed or if the mural was preserved to be reinstalled. In the third and fourth pictures below is what the mural looked like, compared to what it looks like this afternoon.


NOW.



GOODBYE  ART OF THE CHILDREN?  The mural painted sometime in the 80s, that livened up Main Street for a quarter of a century is gone. WPCNR is attempting to find out whether structural problems necessitated restoring the wall of the former Corner Nook building, (below) that the mural graced.


 



 


THEN



 



Mural  on the wall of the former Corner Nook is seen in lower left while Trump Tower rises at City Center in 2005.


 

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COHEN: 8,202 Votes to be Counted in Oppenheimer-Cohen Race. Oppenheimer by 504

WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2010. From Candidate Bob Cohen. November 12, 2010:  


Republican Candidate Bob Cohen, contending with incumbent Suzi Oppenheimer for State Senate in


District 37, delivered this report late Friday evening saying 504 votes separate him from Oppenheimer


with 8,202 votes left to be counted. Cohen reports on his website:


We have had many people write in and call looking for more information


 


as to the status of the election.  Here is the latest-



  • The re-canvass of the voting machines was completed this week.

  • The count stands: Oppenheimer 40,527 to 40,023 Cohen.  

  • On a percentage basis: 50.31% Oppenheimer to 49.68% Cohen

  • There are approximately 10,000 votes left to be counted

  • The votes left to be counted are twice as many as any

    other Senate District in the state and more than most


    Congressional races.


 



  • The “Emergency Ballots”, which are a third of the uncounted votes,

 



  • The Emergency Ballots are the first scheduled to be counted next

week.


Of the 8,202 votes, Cohen reports 3,323 are Emergency Ballots (given out to voters at polls where new county voting machines


were not functioning),  3,814 Absentee Ballots, and 1,065 Affidavit Ballots.

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CHANNEL 76 BLACKED OUT IN WHITE PLAINS. CATCH WHITE PLAINS WEEK ON INTERNET AT 9

WPCNR PRESS HANGOUT. By John F. Bailey. November 12, 2010:


White Plains Cable was blacked out in White Plains this evening for reasons unknown at this time.


The blackout resulted in viewers being unable to see the White Plains Week program analyzing the state of Mayor Adam Bradley’s trial on domestic abuse and a military affairs program before the show. Viewers report seeing no community bulletin board notices from 7:28 P.M. on, hearing the audio of the trademark WHITE PLAINS WEEK “roaring presses” theme with no video, and then audio dropped out and nothing but black screen was to be scene. Cable channels 75 (the government access channel) and channel 77 (the White Plains Schools station) were operating normally.


However, viewers with internet access can see this significant program on their computer at www.whiteplainsweek.com beginning approximately 9 P.M. WPCNR will advise when the program is ready and up on its world wide network.


It is unknown whether Verizon FIOS which carries the show across Westchester County also had their Channel 45 programming (duplicating all Channel 76 programming) was black as well.


 

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