Declan MacManus's blog

Folks are getting out of their cars and riding their bikes like never before - and the city is doing everything it can to stop it! With gasoline over $4 a gallon and the dreadful consequences of global warning begining to manifest, bicycling just makes sense. What does not make sense is the paltry accommodations to bicyclists evident around town.  read more »

In an abundance of caution, county pools were closed today because of a passing early morning shower. With the forecast calling for a high temp near 80 and partly cloudy skies with a chance of an afternoon thundershower, Westchester Park Pools stayed shut.  read more »

Parking in White Plains has reached crisis levels. The city is ticketing, booting and towing cars at records rates - amid a slowdown in business and declining retail revenues. If you're not mad you're not paying attention. Why is our government abusing us?

A few of the disturbing trends of the past year include metermaids and patrolmen writing tickets on the street until 9:00 at night, writing tickets in all municipal parking lots, covered and not, 24 hours a day 7 days a week.  read more »

Routine maintenance at the Cablevision network nodes in Westchester County caused an unplanned outage in Cablevision Optimum Online broadband service for White Plains from 1:17AM to 10:12AM June 18th. When asked to comment on what caused such a long outage and why it took Cablevision Network Operations so long to detect and correct it, a spokesman for Cablevision asked us to unplug Cablevision's modem and recable our premises.

County Center on Google Maps

Looking at White Plains on Google Maps, you might notice that the Westchester County Center, County Office Building and the Metro North train station, bus terminal and parking garages are obfuscated (blurry). I got a good chuckle this morning when I noticed that; it seems fitting that the county has managed to contact Google and have public information removed over self-important terrorism target delusions.   read more »