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Other Developer Wants to Get Into the Act. Gives Council Excuse to Dump Cappelli

Posted on June 4, 2007 by John Bailey

WPCNR COMMON COUNCIL-CHRONICLE EXAMINER. June 4, 2007: Reckson/SL Green campaigned in the press today, urging the Common Council to deny Cappelli Enterprises the Exclusivity Agreement it seeks to develop the White Plains Train Station for Louis Cappelli’s Station Square project. The Journal News reported today it had received a letter Saturday from John Barnes of Reckson/SL Green, a Senior Vice President expressing the desire to develop its plan for the site.

The letter already has according to the Journal News turned Councilman Glen Hockley away from support for the Exclusivity Agreement. Hockley is reported by the paper as being in support now of competition, appearing to assure the dumping of the Exclusivity Agreement in some way, or more discussion. Ironically, the failure of the Common Council to vote the Exclusivity Agreement May 24 as Mr. Cappelli had expressed at the May 10 work session, has given developers a chance to jump on his idea for developing the station — even imitate it.

All members of the Common Council with the exception of Dennis Power, knew details of the plan from Mr. Cappelli for six weeks before May 24, but failed to move to approve the Exclusivity May 24 due to public pressure, when they had expressed no overdue concern on the project or the Exclusivity Agreement for five weeks.

The letter was sent exclusively to The Journal News. It also gives the Common Council reason to reject the Exclusivity Agreement and launch Requests for Proposals to develop the site. Cappelli had hoped to lease out the office components of his project in 2009. Sorting through Requests for Proposals should the city decide to go that route effectively kills this project timetable.

Yorktown Defeats Tigers, 5-1 for Class AA Fastpitch Championship

Posted on June 3, 2007 by John Bailey

WPCNR PRESS BOX. June 3, 2007: Yorktown struck for 3 quick runs in the first and 2 more in the second inning today and withstood White Plains threats in the 3rd and 4th innings, to win the Class AA Section 1 Title today at North Rockland. The Tigers had bases loaded twice and did not capitalize, finishing another great season at 21-7, with their second straight appearance in the Class AA Fastpitch Finals, something WPCNR believes no other school has done.

Growing Accustomed to This Place: Tigers being introduced in the Pregame Class AA cermonies today.

Tigers in Action in North Rockland today.

Lauren Sputo after Yorktown’s quick strikes in the first two innings held the Huskers scoreless the final four innings and will be a dominant force in the circle for many years to come and she and her cohorts will be back. It was the last game for seniors Dena Frederick, who went 2 for 4 setting up Tiger efforts at rallies in the middle innings, Lisa Tompkins, Dani Szabo and Juliana Bailey, who doubled and scored the only Tiger run in the third on Dena Frederick’s single.

After the Yorktown leadoff batter fanned, Kasey O’Connor hit the first pitch over the left field fence some 225 feet in straightaway left for a 1-0, Yorktown lead.

A walk, a single by Olivia Calgagnini, and a single by Tori Matzura, made it 2-0. With 2 out in the first a single to center by Danielle Montesano made it 3-0, but Sputo cut off the throw to the plate and nailed Montesano at second with Dani Szabo taking the throw as Montesano tried to take second on the throw.

In the second, Yorktown added two more, on a walk with 1 out, a single by Larssa Porcelli a single by O;Connor to load the bases, a baseloaded walk made it 4-0 and a groundout by Calgagnini made it 5-0.

The Tigers scored in the third. With 1 out, Juliana Bailey blooped a double on the line in left and made second. Dena Frederick ripped a single to center and Bailey came around to score. Frederick, getting her stroke back was 2 for 3 with a walk in the big game and, of course, the only RBI. Singles by Dani Szabo and Lisa Tompkins loaded the bases, after “Dena the Dreama’s” hit, but Larissa Porcelli ended the bid by inducing a pop up.

The Tigers loaded them again in the fourth, but again could not get the back-in-the-game hit.

Larissa Porcelli settled down after the 4th retiring nine of the last 10 Tiger hitters, allowing 6 hits, fanning 4 and walking one. Porcelli kept the Tigers off balance at the plate with off-speed pitches, painting the corners, throwing off Tiger timing.

The game ended another fine and valiant season by the Tigers who fought back into the final game despite injuries to Dena Frederick which kept the hard-hitting thirdbaser out of the lineup for 20 games and the field for weeks, Dani Szabo also missed a couple of games.

Coach Ted O’Donnell should get Coach of the Year for the job he did with this team by using personnel brilliantly, and instilling players with the confidence and pride that produced comeback wins and outstanding performances against older more experienced teams.

The Tiger roster has 4 Seniors: Szabo, Bailey, Tompkins and Frederick; two 8th Graders, Sputo and Christina Coppola, four sophomores, Kate Smayda, Shannon Nicholson, Laura Demarte, a fleet outfielder, and Sara Lorden, another outfielder, and three Juniors, Jackie Flooks, the rangy centerfielder, Cristina Giansante, the leftfielder, and the best catcher in the county, Sandra Mastrangelo.

Tigers — Cornhuskers Postponed to 11:30 AM Sunday . Hen Hud wins.

Posted on June 2, 2007 by John Bailey

WPCNR PRESS BOX. June 2, 2007: An hour of thunder and impressive cloud to ground lightning resulted in an hour and a half delay today at North Rockland High School, forcing postponement of the White Plains-Yorktown Class AA Section I Fastpitch Final Championship Game. The game will be played at 11:30 A.M. at North Rockland

Tigers in Action in last year’s Fastpitch Section I Final in North Rockland. Coach O’Donnell’s team is back in the Finals Again with another fantastic fastpitch finish.

That old Hudson River Bandit feeling. The former Bandit infield of Nikki Tamburri on the mound finishing off Tappan Zee in the 7th Saturday afternoon. Jill Gallagher at first and Heather Claussen at third lean in.

After resumption of their game with Tappan Zee, Hen Hud, trailing 3-1; strung together 8 hits in the 4th inning to score 6 runs and defeat Tappan Zee for the Class A Section I Championship, 7-4. Jill Gallagher drove in the winning runs. Nicki Tamburri went all the way for the win, shutting Tappan Zee down from the 4th to the 7th.

In the stunning rally, Nikki Tamburri walked. Heather Claussen battling on a 1-2 count ripped a single up the middle to put runners and first and second. Meghan Kiernan singled to make it 3-2. Katie Joblon singled up the middle to tie it 3-3. After Nicole Martin struck out, Jill Gallagher blasted a scorcher again over the middle to put the Sailors ahead 4-3. Jackie Gallagher hit into a force at third for one out. Then came the hits that give you nightmares. Shannon Brown dunked into center and took second on the throw to the plate for a 5-3 lead. Kirby Wright tenth hitter up in the inning smacked a Baltimore Chop off the sunbaked infield that the shortstop could not handle, to make it 6-3. Nicki Tamburri did the exact same thing again chopping the ball high to the mound to get in the 7th run. It was a top to bottom team rally. In the fifth Jackie Gallagher with a TZ-er on at first and `1 out, cheating towards second backhanded a bullet at second, stepped on the bag and blazed a throw to first for a 6-6-3 DP.

Hen Hud — Class A Section I Champions.

It was the culmination of a team that had played together as the travel team, the Hudson River Bandits, six years ago and played with and against each other over years of travel fastpitch softball. It was good to see them together at the top.

Power: “Decisive Action” by Council on Exclusivity Agreement Monday.

Posted on June 1, 2007 by John Bailey

WPCNR Common Council-Chronicle Examiner. By John F. Bailey. June 1, 2007: Councilman Dennis Power promised WPCNR decisive action by the Common Council Monday evening on the Exclusivity Agreement resolution on the Common Council Calendar that was tabled last week until June 4, by the Common Council.

Power said the paperwork he received, better known among the news media who attempt to cover the city as the “backup material,” had not indicated there had been any revisions in the Exclusivity Agreement made public May 22. Usually, Power said, if there is a revised resolution in the backup material it is indicated upfront in the backup material. However, WPCNR has known surprise revisions of resolutions to appear miraculously on late Monday afternoon before Council Meetings.

If passed, the resolution as it stands, would grant Cappelli Enterprises exclusive rights to negotiate for key pieces of land the city owns adjacent the White Plains Railroad Station; automatically extend the exclusivity “freeze out” of other developing interests until the council decides to approve or deny Mr. Cappelli’s plans; and has the Council agreeing that “the Proposed Project (Station Square)…is a fundamentally sound concept for the redevelopment of the Redevelopment Site and an appropriate and acceptable basis and framework for the formulation of a Redevelopment Plan, and the Common Council and the Agency agree that they shall in good faith consider the Redevelopment Plan.” The Exclusivity Agreement essentially prohibits the city for entertaining other proposals for the land, if Cappelli Enterprises does not cowtow to Council demands. It locks the council in to the plan.

Power told WPCNR that the item on the calendar would be moved up so citizens could speak on the Exclusivity Agreement concept.

Asked if he held any animosity towards Council President Malmud, Councilman Benjamin Boykin, and Councilman Thomas Roach for not telling him about the plan when all three knew about the plan weeks before the May 10 “introduction” of the plan, Mr. Power said he was not going to address that.

Last night, a White Plains “CitizeNetReporter” who attended the Highlands Neighborhood Association Meeting where Rita Malmud was the guest, reports that when pressed by a hostile audience of 35 people who strongly criticized the Exclusivity Agreement and asked if she was going to vote down the Exclusivity Agreement, Mrs. Malmud repeatedly equivocated and refused to answer the question. “She just outlined the Cappelli position and the Council position, but would not say one way or another what she was going to do,” our source says.

The Four Members of the council who are undecided: Roach, Malmud, Boykin and Power are under intense pressure to vote down the exclusivity agreement, including a published letter to The Journal News by Paul Schwarz, “kingmaker” of the Democratic City Committee Nominating Committee, that described Station Square as a “monstrous proposal.”

What is interesting is that the three Councilpersons (Boykin, Roach and Malmud) who knew beforehand of the Exclusivity Agreement, apparently felt the concept of the exclusivity agreement was O.K. before May 10, and did not immediately balk when the Cappelli organization first proposed it in private schmooze sessions with them before May 10. They even did not protest strongly at the May 10 meeting. It was only after their prior knowledge was disclosed by this reporter that they have been ruminating against the Exclusivity Agreement.