Talk:White Plains, New York/Archives/2012

Skyline photo

Who keeps changing this? The latest one is the worst yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dahveed323 (talk • contribs) 15:42, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Poor Lead Structure

Someone better fix this up. The page looks horrible, and the lead takes up more than 1/2. This page should be refactored --Doom777 20:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

someone should change the "most expensive city in the nation." it is not true.the link even says it is 43rd in the world.

about the neighborhood portion, no one really mentions what neighborhood they are from but with all of the current building this is something that is starting to go on. Usually people mention the name of the main street that runs through their neighborhood. They'd say something like "I'm from North Broadway, or I'm from Ferris Avenue". And North Broadway has been a haven for Young professionals since the mid 1990's, especially the part closer towards Westchester Avenue. The part of North Broadway heading towards North White Plains is occupied by mainly high/middle/double incomes. There has always been a good amount of educators living on this part of North Brodway (I don't know how i'd cite this considering its my own personal experience from living in White Plains for over twenty years). Although I've never heard of this "NOBO" designation. - Christopher

I removed "It is also known for it's gay residents." I'm pretty sure that was a troll attempt. -Eric

While the storms White Plains has had recently certainly are worth being recorded for all time, maybe someone should mention something about the battle of White Plains, or stick with the storms, whatever. -- W.D.H.

Well. . if the city has a large gay population, I think it should be included in the article.

I don't know whether or not there's a large gay population, but the portion I removed was hastily added to the end of the first paragraph and didn't cite any sources. It didn't belong there. -Eric

I've just done a major rewrite of the body of the article, adding specifics about economic development and removing some of the puffery about Renaissance Square and prestegious addresses, which reads like it was supplied by the developer of the two downtown projects. I also eliminated the statement about Mexican immigrants, since I could not find any supporting evidence for the assertion that Mexico is their country of origin. (Not to suggest that we have not had an influx people of Latino origin in recent years -- as a resident I am certainly aware of this -- but unless it can be documented specifically, I think it's best to leave it out.)

Also, in a few days I intend to add to (and subtract from) the section on the city's neighborhoods, of which 29 or 30 are recognized by the city's planning department and almost that many actively participate in the local Council of Neighborhood Associations. I don't feel that any detail other than the general size and composition of a neighborhood, and perhaps a brief local history, is appropriate here; certainly not street boundaries or storm damage in 2006. I would invite residents of the individual neighborhoods to add such material.

Finally, I hope I will be forgiven for being just a little bit smarmy about the retail composition of the complex which replaced the Saks Fifth Avenue store. Joel Rudikoff Nov. 28, '06

Missing...

...info about the insane asylum. 68.39.174.238 03:56, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

...perhaps the actor/singer and TV celebrity/talk show host John Davidson should be included in the list of notable residents.Chessophile (talk) 18:50, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

References

I've moved the <references/> section into its own heading per the WP:MoS. The →Education section has several inline external links that appear to be references. They need to be converted to the following style, again per WP:MoS: <ref>[http://www.blah.com Blah] - [http://www.blah.com/stats.html Stats]. Retrieved [[1 January]] [[2000]].</ref> One can also use {{cite}} or one of the many other citation templates available within the <ref></ref> tags. -- drumguy8800 C T 06:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Photo?

That's a computer generated photo! What's doing here?! Jarfingle 08:11, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Where is the computer generated photo?? Rayyung 22:39, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Postal code

Why is ZIP code removed? Rayyung 23:02, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Merging White Plains Historical Society inside this article

The White Plains Historical Society article does not appear to meet notability requirements to have an article of its own. It would be good to merge it inside this article before it gets deleted, so the information is not lost, since it appears to be an important society inside White Plains community --Enric Naval (talk) 15:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I merged it, and I redirected instead of deleting, this way the contributions history is preserved. Same with Jacob Purdy House, which I also merged here --Enric Naval (talk) 02:43, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Purchase College

Maybe I'm nitpicking here, but isn't SUNY Purchase in Purchase, NY and not White Plains? They are near each other, but the college is not within the city itself. I don't think it should be included in this list. Summerhawk (talk) 23:15, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I think there is a law school called something on the lines of this in White Plains. 137.124.9.20 (talk) 23:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I believe the law school you are thinking of is Pace University, which has its law school in White Plains, as indicated on the article page. Purchase does not have a law school, and is its own separate campus in Purchase, not in White Plains. Summerhawk (talk) 01:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Clarity: Use of present vs. past tense

The paragraph describing the high school uses mixed past and present tense. It's not clear at all whether the use of "had", etc actually means that things about the school were once true but are no longer true. If they are no longer true, the article should have more details about what replaced the changed aspects of the schools. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dominicanpapi82 (talk • contribs) 19:15, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Edge City?

White Plains does not seem to match Wikipedia's description of an edge city. The downtown area of White Plains is built on a traditional grid, is fairly pedestrian friendly, and is not really "automobile scale." While it does have a few of the hallmarks of edge cities, such as the juxtaposition of large malls with office space, I am not sure it deserves the moniker. SarahLawrence Scott (talk) 03:08, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Daytime Populaton

Is the daytime population of White Plains really upwards of 200,000. That seems farfetched, that the population would multiply by almost four. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.107.128 (talk) 04:09, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

Believe it, there are far more offices than living spaces in the city proper. Many shops close very early on weekends because there are not enough residents to justify their operation. 206.16.109.32 (talk) 21:26, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Kenneth Chamberlain

I'm kind of surprised not to see any coverage of White Plains police shooting dead Kenneth Chamberlain in this article. Has it been scrubbed from history? Via http://boingboing.net/2012/04/03/black-marine-veteran-68-shot.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.26.154.225 (talk) 17:59, 4 April 2012 (UTC)