WPCNR CITY ALL CIRCUIT. From The Mayor’s Office. January 27, 2007: The City of White Plains will hold the first public meeting on the future of the Lexington Avenue/ Post Road Corridor on Wednesday February 7, 2007 at 6:30 PM at the Resource Center Community Room at the White Plains Housing Authority, located at 223 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in White Plains.
The topics for this meeting will focus upon:
Parking in the Lexington Avenue/ Post Road Corridor
Infrastructural Upgrades (public and private)
Comprehensive Plan Review Committee Recommendations
White Plains Business Improvement District (BID) Expansion to Lexington Avenue/ Post Road Corridor
Public comment will be solicited and is encouraged. For those unable to attend this meeting, comments can also be forwarded by mail to the Office of Mayor Joseph Delfino:
City Hall
Mayor’s Office
255 Main Street
White Plains, NY 10601
Or via email:
David J. Maloney
Strategic Area Development Officer/ Grants Coordinator
[email protected]
Melissa Lopez
Coordinator of Economic Development and Public Information
[email protected]
For more information please contact David Maloney or Melissa Lopez at 914-422-1411.
Skyliners Need One Great Skate at Synchro 2007 Eastern Championships FRI RESULTS
WPCNR RINKSIDE. January 26, 2007 UPDATED January 27, 2007:: The Skyliners, Westchester, Connecticut and New Jersey’s national synchro skating contender, skate in the Eastern Synchronized Skating Championships this weekend in Providence Rhode Island. The four teams of the Skyliners have been practicing hard to perfect those twizzles, mohawks, spread eagles and footwork to climb the ladder against the east.
In Friday’s Opening Night, in the Preliminary Division, Team Image of Yonkers Figure Skating Club won the Gold Medal, reaching charming heights of technical precision and The Skyliners Preliminaries, finished third, with their expected strong skate. In the Juvenile division, The Colonials took first over the Syncroettes of Essex, New Jersey, the Ice Cubes, and Team Image of Yonkers skating their NASCAR program the best they’ve ever done it finishing fourth. The Skyliner Juvies who had dominated the Juvenile Division finished a close 5th.
The Junior Skyliners in the Junior Division finished 1.09 points behind The Lexettes of Massachussetts in their Proud Mary progam setting the stage for a dramatic finish Saturday evening. The Lexettes two intersections at the close of their dramtic program were the difference, and the finessed their technical work beautifully. The Junior teams skate again this evening in the long free skate which will be close.
Team Image, the Syncroettes and the Skyliners put out great skates in the three divisions.
Skyliners Junior team practicing at Playland for the Big Easterns this weekend under watchful eye of their coach, Josh Babb.
SOHO Comes to WESTCO — Swank Rehearsal Suite Opens
WPCNR STAGE DOOR. By Downtown Johnny. January 26, 2007 UPDATED 1:17 PM: Westco Productions held a cozy llittle swank loft party at the posh Westchester Arts Council “Palace of the Arts” in White Plains funky downtown last night. The “Westies” were celebrating the opening of “The Little Theatre Company that Can”‘s refurbished, spiffy rehearsal space, hosting a little get-together for the new tenants of their floor and their friends.
Susan Katz, Executive Director of Westco Productions, Inc., Bill Ryan, Chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators, and Janet Langsam, Executive Director of the Westchester Arts Council, cut the ribbon to formally open Westco’s new rehearsal studio on the 4th floor of the Arts Exchange Building at 31 Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains at a reception on Thursday evening. Westco is the White Plains-based theater company now in its 27th season of providing family entertainment. Photo, Courtesy, Westco
Surveying Rehearsal Space Fit for a Diva, Janet Langsam, Ms. Katz, artist Marsha Miller and Bill Ryan observe the transformation that Ms. Langsam has given 31 Mamaroneck Ave.
Showing up were Westco’s neighbors, the ubicquitous artist, Marsha Miller, the interior designer, Pamela Bunderman of Organized for Life Making Rooms, and Design Development, architects of the ongoing refurbishing of the Silverman Building on Mamaroneck Avenue, Mark Schulman, Meredith Thompson and design law barrister, Steve Lochner, and Chair of the Westchester County Board of Legislators, Bill Ryan, and the Queen of the Arts in Westchester, Janet Langsam.
Mark Schulman, left and Steve Lochner of Design Development, new neighbors and architects on the floor who are handling the Silverman Building retail renovation and work on the Trump Building in New Rochelle.
Guests Rehearsing “Opening Party” in the new Rehearsal Space and Doing Well Last Night
Now Here’s a Place you can Really create in. Design Development’s new offices on the Westco Floor a sample of the Arts Council Building “arts ambience” created by Ms. Langsam.
Your repawta of the stars and the shakas has to congratulate Ms. Langsam on an absolutely fab transformation of the her building, which has turned into a thriving home to the creative arts. The offices are clean, the rehearsal studio beats most Manhattan space because it’s heated and clean. The “Palace of the Arts” at 31 Mamaroneck has come a long way under Ms. Langsam’s hand. It’s a real showbiz, artbiz, kind of place, and you expected to see Truman Capote or Andy Warhol drop by if they could make it — if only it featured an “Art’s Bar?”
Council Acceprts FEIS of North St Community. Units Sliced to 335, Height Max 65
WPCNR COMMON COUNCIL CHRONICLE-EXAMINER. By John F. Bailey. January 25, 2007: The North Street Community senior condominium and assisted living project received acceptance of its Final Environmental Impact Statement tonight by a vote of 4-1 from the Common Council, with Dennis Power the lone “No” vote on the basis that the project was still too dense.
Steve Kass presented the FEIS unvieling that the developers, C. J. Follini, Alfred Caiola and Andrew Green had agreed to cut the number of condominium units from 390 to 335 and limit the height of the condos to 65 feet. Kass said the FEIS had been shipped to Menelaos Rizoulis, presently in Florida,who heads the Wyndham Close Association, the adjacent condominium project that has been extracting concession after concession from the developer.
Kass said they had not hard Mr. Rizoulis’ reaction yet to the units and height concession. C.J. Follini, one of the principals, was asked by WPCNR if they could not afford to any more units from the project, and Follini said “absolutely.” Follini also told WPCNR the price of the units would remain in the $400,000 to $900,000 range. The FEIS is scheduled to be available to the public on the White Plains website next Tuesday.
The council nitpicked the FEIS for an hour and a half, then accepted the FEIS and zoning resolution creating a Senior Living District, and scheduling a public hearing for February 5, while extending the comment period for the public until February 20.
Condos Live!
In other news, The Bobker Group sought and received an extension of their site plan for their condominium project on Maple Avenue, and also reported they had secured financing for the project and planned a spring start. Mark Weingarten, representing the Metropolitan, the condominium project planned for up the street from Mr. Bobker’s project, requested and received a site plan renewal, because Mr. Weingarten, the Metropolitan had not arranged their financing as yet.
Commissioner of Public Works Joseph Nicoletti explained the need for a replacement generator at the city’s main pump station because of the pump age. He also explained the need for security devices such as cameras and surveillance and alarm equipment. The cost of generator and security equipment was $750,000, and would be bonded for and paid out of the Water Fund.
“Nicoletti Bypass,” Sewer for the Rich and Famous, delayed by Cold Weather
In response to a question by Benjamin Boykin about the progress of the “Nicoletti Bypass,” the exclusive sewer being created for the Ritz-Carlton Westchester at 221 Main, to take the load off the Main Street Sewer, Mr. Nicoletti said work has stopped due to cold weather. Mr. Nicoletti gave rosy news that now that the sewer has moved down Main Street and is ready to “turn in” and down William Street, going would be easier. He said the sewer pipe had be laid deeper than thought on Main Street on the way to the William Street turnoff and was a little bit of a problem. He said the project is on schedule and going along fine.
Mayor Mayoring with the other Mayors in Washington, D.C.
Mayor Joseph Delfino was spared the FEIS review because he was attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C. Councilman Benjamin Boykin chaired the Work Session. Ms. Malmud was not present.