2,905,611 VISITORS VISIT 8,324,077 TIMES 3 TIMES EVERY DAY IN ONE YEAR. HIGHEST ACTIVITY IN WPCNR HISTORY.White PlainsCitizeNetReporter lifted its worldwide visits from unique visitors to wpcnr.com to 8,324,077,a 1,306,419 increase in visits in one year from 7,017,658 visits to the site last year which covers White Plains and Westchester County. The 8,324,077 visits were made by 2,005,611 unique visitors who visited wpcnr an average of 3 visits a day. ON JULY 20- -2026 visitors have accessed wpcnr and made 3,072 visits an average of 1.6 visits. In the last week 33,495 individual vistors made 54,458 visits, averaging 1.6 visits. In the last month, 152,940 visitors recorded 229,338 visits (1.5 visits)
20 YEARS AGO IN WHITE PLAINS NEW YORK USA, WESTCHESTER’S BEST KNOWN REPORTER, ALEX PHILIPPIDIS, WHITE PLAINS SUBURBAN STREET FOUNDER JIM BENEROFE AND WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER, JOHN BAILEY PRESENTED WHITE PLAINS WEEK THE VOICE OF TRUTH JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY AS THE CITY NEWS ROUNDUP SHOW.WHITE PLAINS WEEK HAS BEEN ROUNDING UP THE TRUTH, PREDICTING THE FUTURE, TELLING WHITE PLAINS AND WESTCHESTER WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING FOR 20 YEARSALEX PHILIPPIDISJIM BENEROFEJOHN BAILEYFRED STRAUS, WHITE PLAINS TELEVISION STATION DIRECTOR WHO HELPED CRAFT THE PROGRAM.PETER KATZ DISTINGUISHED NATIONAL ABC CORRESPONDENT, EVENING NEWS EDITOR, AVIATION JOURNALIST JOINED THE PROGRAM IN 2007.
WPCNR GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO COVID NIGHT REPORT. February 11, 2021
Today we are announcing a partnership with the federal government to open two mass vaccination sites in socially vulnerable communities. The two sites will be established at York College in Queens and Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. These two sites will vaccinate approximately 3,000 New Yorkers a day over an eight-week period.
New York is working with FEMA and the CDC to identify additional sites outside of New York City to expand this effort and improve vaccine access to vulnerable New Yorkers across the state.
We’ve already been working to get vaccines in arms, and we’re so thankful to the Biden administration for their partnership to further bolster the State’s efforts, with equity and fairness front and center.
Photo of the Day: A New Yorker receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at the State’s pop-up vaccination site in Mount Vernon, NY.
(Editor’s Note: Mount Vernon, Yonkers and Peekskill are sites of three Temporary Vaccine Centers established by the Governor to innoculate the citizens most at risk in these communties which are the three most covid-infected communities. Yonkers has 2,150 active cases. Mount Vernon, 650, and Peekskill, 212, Here is a WPCNR-compiled ranking of where the most covid-infected communities over the last two weeks:
Here’s what else you need to know tonight:
1. Stadiums and arenas can reopen with limited spectators on February 23rd. Following the success of the Buffalo Bills testing program, sports and entertainment events in major stadiums with a capacity of 10,000 or more will be allowed to reopen with limited attendance.
Venues and events must follow State guidelines, like capacity limitations, testing requirements, mandatory face coverings, socially distancing and more. Under these new reopening guidelines, the Barclays Center will open when the Brooklyn Nets host the Sacramento Kings.
2. COVID hospitalizations dropped to 7,593. Of the 176,750 tests reported yesterday, 7,101, or 4.02 percent, were positive. There were 1,423 patients in ICU yesterday, up 11 from the previous day. 67%Of them, 955, are intubated. Sadly, we lost 136 New Yorkers to the virus.
3. As of 11am this morning, 93 percent of first doses allocated to the state have been administered. This represents 1,738,927 first doses administered of the 1,874,975 first dose allocations received from the federal government. So far, 602,328 second doses have been administered out of the 933,850 second doses received. See data by region on the State’s Vaccine Tracker: ny.gov/vaccinetracker.
4. To date, New York has conducted over 34 million tests. New York continues to lead in testing and in less than a week, we’ve conducted one million tests. Getting tested for COVID regularly is a great way to ensure your health and the health of those around you. If you are experiencing symptoms of COVID or believe you may have been exposed to the virus, get tested. Find a testing site near you. You can also call 1-888-364-3065 to make a free appointment at a New York State-run testing location.
Tonight’s “Deep Breath Moment”: A Long Island teenager is using and arts and crafts to promote compassion and kindness. 14-year-old Caroline Faber of Roslyn, Long Island, created the “Craft With Me” program, which provides crafting supplies to children in homeless shelters in the state. She and volunteers then work with the kids over Zoom. While the program is virtual for now, Caroline hopes that one day she’ll be able to host a class in person. If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe to New York State’s Coronavirus Updates here.
Saul Yanofsky, a former long- time superintendent of schools in White Plains, NY, who implemented an ambitious reorganization of its elementary schools, unexpectedly died on Tuesday, February 2, 2021, surrounded by his family.
He was 79. Yanofsky had a long and impactful career in public education reform, beginning with his job in Philadelphia as the Director of Research and Planning at the Pennsylvania Advancement School, from 1968-1972. The following year, Saul was one of a remarkable team of scholars and school reformers assembled to staff the new National Institute of Education in Washington, D.C.
As deputy director of the programs conducting research on school policy and organization, he guided studies resulting in significant new insights into schools’ use of research findings to raise student performance, as well as on teacher quality, school desegregation, higher education policy, legal studies and school organization and leadership.
In 1982, Yanofsky moved to White Plains, where as superintendent he acted on his commitment to educational reform and equity by implementing a nationally recognized model of school choice and racial balance.
He led the district through a challenging transition as the demographics in White Plains shifted; Yanofsky’s aim was to ensure equitable outcomes for students of color.
His plan allowed parents to choose the school their children would attend but also established guidelines so that each grade would be racially integrated.
His work there became a much-invoked example for other districts, while he became a role model for other superintendents, some of whom grew to be not just colleagues, but his dear friends.
( WPCNR wrote in 2001, when Mr. Yanofsky left the district as Superintendent:
“Dean of School District Leaders is Pacesetter for Westchester County School Districts.
Yanofsky is looked to by Westchester School Superintendents as the lead negotiator and pacesetter in education issues. They have looked to Yanofsky for leadership in matters of teacher contract negotiations, school standards, and district management issues. As White Plains District goes, so goes the county, has been the impression.
Dr. Yanofsky has been a very vocal critic of the way in which the Department of Education operates in administering its state standard tests, and has been the lead Westchester spokesman in Albany on that issue.
He has also upgraded and adjusted White Plains school curricula to produce test scores that have improved on state mandated tests since they were instituted four years ago.“
After he left White Plains in 2002, Yanofsky was appointed as an Assistant Dean at Westchester Community College, where he created a program to identify, inspire and train the next generation of public school teachers.
Saul was born in Brookline, MA, on March 20, 1941, to Esther (Silberberg) and Clarence Yanofsky. He graduated with honors from Amherst College in 1962 and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity; his fraternity brothers are among his lifelong friends.
He earned a doctorate degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1968. From his youth in Brookline, MA, through his years at Amherst College, his long career in education, and his post-retirement years, Saul had a gift for collecting friends and admirers.
Throughout his life, his combination of kindness, empathy, insight, and sense of humor drew people to him. He was a truly fine human being who made a real difference in thousands of lives.
While his passion for education ran deep, so did his passion for politics — and he was thrilled with the outcome of the 2020 elections. But nothing could surpass his love of family.
He and his wife Nancy met in Hebrew school at the age of 10 and began dating at the age of 16, the beginning of a lifelong partnership between two strong-willed people with a zest for social involvement, a love of adventure, and a gift for drawing friends into their orbit.
They passed their enthusiasms and idealism along to their three children and their spouses, Carole (David Anderson), David (Julianne Ugo), and Jon (Margaret Crisostomo), who survive him, along with his six beloved grandchildren – Julia, Zachary, Giovanna, Luca, Stella and Quincy.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to El Centro Hispano in White Plains, where a scholarship has been established in his name, and/or to the Friends of White Plains Youth Bureau. A virtual memorial service to celebrate his life is planned for Sunday, February 14. Contact the Riverside Memorial Chapel www.dignitymemorial.com
WPCNR GOVERNOR CUOMO CORONA VIRUS EVENING REPORT. February 9, 2021;
The White House announced a 5 percent increase in vaccine allocations to the states for the next three weeks, which is welcome news. The 5 percent increase doesn’t sound like much but it’s on top of previous increases that were announced earlier—so it adds up.
That being said, supply is still extremely limited. It is frustrating, I know, when so many New Yorkers are chasing a relatively small number of doses and appointments, but unless supply rapidly increases, I urge New Yorkers who are eligible to be patient.
It’s all about supply, supply, supply—and there still isn’t enough. With the 7-day average positivity rate at its lowest since December 1, it’s critically important we stay united and keep the momentum on our side—especially as new variants of the virus threaten to upend the progress we have made. Let’s keep it up, New York.
Photo of the Day: A vaccine worker at a community vaccination site at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem (Photo by Don Pollard)
Here’s what else you need to know tonight:
1. COVID hospitalizations rose to 7,875. Of the 153,648 tests reported yesterday, 7,866, or 5.12 percent, were positive. The 7-day average positivity rate is 4.38 percent, the lowest 7-day average since December 1.
There were 1,412 patients in the ICU yesterday, down 42 from the previous day. (EDITOR’S NOTE:of those 1,412 , 69% OF THOSE PATIENTS (971) are intubated.) Sadly, we lost 138 New Yorkers to the virus.
2. Long Island has the highest percentage of positive test results on a 7-day average of any region of the state, at 5.36 percent. Following Long Island, the Mid-Hudson Region is at 5.34 percent,
(EDITOR’S NOTE: WESTCHESTER COUNTY HAS THE LEADING POSITIVE RATE OF NEW CASES 5.56% FOR THE LAST 7 DAYS ( Feb 2 through Feb 8) IN THE MID-HUDSON REGION, 61,716 PERSONS WERE TESTED, 3,601 WERE FOUND POSITIVE, 5.56%.)
( New York City is at 5.13 percent, the North Country is at 4.79 percent, Western New York is at 4.16 percent, the Capital Region is at 3.40 percent, the Mohawk Valley is at 3.15 percent, the Finger Lakes is at 2.91 percent, Central New York is at 1.87 percent and the Southern Tier is at 1.22 percent.
3. Eleven community-based pop-up vaccination sites are coming online this week to provide first doses to more than 3,100 New Yorkers.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: THREE OF THOSE POP-UP VACCINATION SITES ARE IN MOUNT VERNON, PEEKSKILL IN YONKERS, TO COMBAT THE THREE HIGHEST DAILY INFECTION RATES IN THE DENSEST AREAS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. YONKERS AVERAGES AS OF LAST FRIDAY AVERAGED 1,182 NEW INFECTIONS A WEEK; MOUNT VERNON, 365 NEW CASES A WEEK AND PEEKSKILL, 134 A WEEK,)
Community vaccination kits will be deployed to NYCHA senior housing developments, public housing sites and community centers. Vaccination will be by appointment only and scheduling will be conducted directly through the host site or partner provider, who will work with community leaders and organizers to identify eligible New Yorkers in each specific community. The community pop-up vaccination program is part of our effort to ensure equity and remove barriers to access in underserved communities.
