WHITE PLAINS SHOULD LOOK AHEAD CREATE A NEW SENIOR CENTER (MANY MORE SENIORS TO COME)
WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER. February 5, 2022:
Let’s plan ahead for a NEW SENIOR CENTER in White Plains
The lease on the current rented Senior Center, in the basement of the Armory on Mitchell Place and S. Broadway, will expire in about 6 to 7 years. The Center was flooded in 2021, became unusable, and required extensive repairs. Senior activities have been held in the White Plains Public Library, and before that outdoor in a park. Activities will resume in the Armory basement in the spring.
White Plains needs a new Senior Center befitting a City that is encouraging the building of many more apartments, more arts, and more restaurants. It needs a center to provide space for seniors to socialize, exercise, eat together, and learn and practice new skills.
What should a new White Plains Senior Center include?
It should have accessibility; enough large rooms, and one with a stage, so that arranging a lunch time holiday party won’t preempt popular morning exercise classes; places for informal socializing; a walking track; a library; space for a meal program with up-to-date equipment; a computer room; a room for nurse consultation in privacy; a safe area for drop-offs and for parking; offices for personnel. What about placing the Senior Center on an entry-level floor in one of the new residences to be built on the Winbrook campus?
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What would you like a new Senior Center to include? Have you visited other Senior Centers?
Send your ideas to:
Mayor Tom Roach [email protected]
Hon. Justin Brasch [email protected]
Hon. Nadine Hunt-Robinson [email protected]
Hon. John Martin [email protected]
Hon. Rich Payne [email protected]
Hon. Vicki Presser [email protected]
Hon. Jen Puja [email protected]
Many thanks for thinking about this exciting project – A New Senior Center for White Plains.
Renee Cohen
MIKE SPANO MAYOR OF YONKERS EXPLORES PRIMARYING JAMAAL BOWMAN FOR 16TH DISTRICT SEAT IN CONGRESS. TELEPHONE SURVEY PAST WEEK REVEALS MAYOR’S HAND
WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2022. By John F. Bailey. February 5, 2022:
Your reporter was queried by a telephone survey conducted this week comparing Mike Spano, Mayor of Yonkers with various politicians and political candidates, asking specifically whom I would vote for if Mike Spano were running against incumbent Congressman Jamaal Bowman currently representing New York’s 16th Congressional District..
The Survey asked a series multiple choice questions of how favorable or unfavorable I would be towards Mr. Spano compared to other candidates.
I frankly was shocked to think why this survey was being done at all. Mr. Spano is clearly a possibility to run for the County Executive Office when George Latimer, the present Westchester County Executive leaves office in 2025.
A news release from Black Democrats of Westchester made clear Mr. Spano is running for first-time incumbent Bowman’s seat in this news release commenting on Mayor Spano’s appearance:
The Black Democrats of Westchester issued a news release today giving details, appearing to confirm that Mr. Spano has his cap set on ousting Bowman in a recently gerrymandered district.
The Black Democrats of Westchester issued this statement on Mr. Spano’s dipping his toe into the radio waves:
“Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano was a featured guest on a WVOX Radio program with Phil Reisman and Matt Richter on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. On the program, Mayor Spano discussed running for Congress against incumbent Representative Jamaal Bowman.
Mayor Spano said live on air, “They should have arrested him [Bowman] for his no vote on infrastructure. I’m a hardcore moderate in the middle, where most of us are, and end up. But the democratic party over the past two years has been pushed to the left, and the reforms, like bail reform, have gone too far.“
The Black Democrats of Westchester County respects Mayor Spano’s choice to run for Congress but strongly denounces the mayor’s insinuation that Representative Bowman should be placed in jail for how he voted.
