The newest street in White Plains, not officially finished as of September 2017, this street which goes east from North Street was named for German conductor and humanitarian Kurt Masur (1927-2015) and his wife. Their son went to the German International School, which was the developer of this road.
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Another relatively new street off North Street, where most of the recent development has been. It is south of Maplemoor Lane. The reason for the name is unknown.
This dead end road off Rosedale Avenue was started circa 2007, although, likely due to the collapse of the real estate market, no lots were sold until 2012. It was deeded to the city in 2013. I don't know who Nikki was.
Perhaps the worst street name in White Plains, this is another road named for a real estate development.
In 2007, this road connecting Court Street and Cottage Place was built alongside two high-rise apartment buildings, part of a project of the same name. It is not a square, or even a rectangle, due to a curve in the middle. Built circa 2006, it is a cul-de-sac off Old Mamaroneck Rd. between Bryant and Stratford Aves. It does have a stone gate, although if that or the name came first is unknown. The road was deeded to the city in 2008.
Planned in 1925 but not built until 2006, it is a short dead-end street off Crestview Drive with just one house on it. It was named for the nearby lake which was once known as St. Mary's Lake (now Silver Lake).
In conjunction with the construction of a retail and residential development called City Center, E.J. Conroy Drive between Main Street and Martine Avenue was closed and the City Center built over it. The remaining portion of the road, basically two driveways, was renamed City Place in 2003. This is similar to Westchester Mall Place but City Place does at least have addresses on it.
These roads are part of a golf-themed development near the Maplemoor Golf Course called The Fairways. They were built circa 1998 and were deeded to the city in 2003. The development is an offshoot of another subdivision called The Greens at White Plains, although those streets are not golf-named.
The Westchester, a mall, opened along Westchester Avenue and Bloomingdale Road in 1995. New York State law prohibits putting business names on highway signs, but apparently our Common Council considers it acceptable to violate the spirit of a law as long as one sticks to the letter of it. Thus, in 1997 the Common Council, wishing to accommodate the mall owner, declared a driveway to the mall's parking garage to be a street, whose name now appears on highway signs, to our fair city's everlasting shame.
The first enclosed shopping mall in White Plains was the appropriately-named White Plains Mall, which opened in October 1973 and is now facing demolition. It was followed by the Galleria which was completed in August 1980. Following that was the already-removed Westchester Pavilion on South Broadway and Maple Avenue, and then the Westchester. These roads make up a development called The Greens at White Plains, near the Maplemoor Golf Course. They were laid out circa 1996 on land once occupied by the Maginess family, although why the spelling was changed for the road is unknown. Nancy Maginess became the wife of Henry Kissinger. Walnut Court seems to be named for the tree. The reason for the name of Greene Lane is unknown, except that it sort of goes with the development name.
A dead-end street running north by northwest off Paddock Road, it is named for its proximity to Hillair Circle. It was finished circa 1993-4 and was deeded to the city in 2001.
When the Hillair Circle neighborhood was redeveloped in the mid-199th decade, the western part of Hunting Ridge Road was cut off from the eastern part and was renamed. The reason the new name was chosen is unknown. It was deeded to the city in 2001.
This street has a quirky history. Although it was shown on the developer's plans in 1931 as a road going from the northern to the southern side of Hillair Circle, it hadn't yet been started when it was the subject of a law suit in 1962, when the city wanted to accept the dedication of the road as public. The court ruled the fact that it was on an approved map meant it could be accepted at any time. However, it seemingly wasn't actually accepted until 1966. Various parts of the paper road were discontinued between 1984 and 2014, while the current portion, which goes north-northwest from Paddock Rd. past Rolling Ridge Rd., got houses in 1995, and the bed of the road was deeded to the city in 2001. Its name comes from its location in the middle of Hillair Circle.
Originally known as Mark Lane when built circa 1990 by Dr. Stanley and Audrey Markovits, it was renamed in 1991. The reason for the new name is unknown. It is a dead-end road off North Street, opposite the Westchester Hills golf course.
A dead-end road that goes northeast off North Street south of Haviland Manor, it was built circa 1989. The reason for the name is unknown.
A private, dead-end road that is west of North Street, it was built circa 1988. The reason for the name is unknown, but seems to be one of those made up of two geographic terms.
Built circa 1987, this divided highway goes north by northwest off Bryant Avenue until it curves to the northeast and ends just shy of North Street. The reason for the name is unknown; it is one of two Closes in White Plains. It was deeded to the city in 1996.
These private streets are all in the Peppertree Homeowners Association southeast of Topland Avenue. Built circa 1987, they are all named for trees or plants except Wood Hollow, which connects two sides of Woodbrook Rd.
This road connects Barton Road with Brook Hills Circle, thus it connects Upper and Lower Rosedale. However, there is a gate blocking access to the Brook Hills development. There was an earlier road with this name, a short dead-end road going east off Belmont Road. That is now part of Barton Road, and as a consolation to Audrey, whoever she was, the name was given to this road when it was constructed circa 1987. It was deeded to the city in 1995.
A private dead end road that goes southwest off Brook Hills Drive south of the circle, it was laid out circa 1987. The reason for the name is unknown.
To me not an attractive name, it may be derived from the Mosbacher family that once lived here. It is the only street called a Run in White Plains. This cul-de-sac that goes east off Brook Hills Circle was built circa 1987. This road remains private.
Part of the Brook Hills condominium complex built circa 1987, this road was originally known as Wetherly Circle and was renamed in 1987. It is a private road.
This road, built circa 1987, gets its name from the Mosbacher estate on whose grounds this housing development was built. The Mosbacher family included Robert A. Mosbacher, Sr., who served as Secretary of Commerce under President George H. W. Bush. His house still stands on Rosedale Avenue as part of this neighborhood. Brook Hills Drive is a private street.
These are mainly private roads that are part of the Cobblefield Homeowners Association in between Rosedale Avenue and the Hutchinson River Parkway, built circa 1987. The exception is Cobblefield Road between Rosedale and Carriage Way, which was deeded to the city in 1993. Other than the two named for the development, the road names seem to be geographically based.
These are private roads off Ridgeway opposite the Ridgeway school which were built circa 1986. They are part of the Gedney Commons Homeowners Association. The HOA offered to dedicate the streets to the city in 1991, but the Common Council rejected them, feeling that the gated community would continue to be inaccessible to the general public, but we would be paying to pick up their garbage and plow their streets. The developer, Dorothy Livingston Zeifer, had a grandson named Alexander, and possibly another named Jared.
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AuthorMy name is Cliff Blau. I was born and raised in White Plains, NY, and in 2015 became interested in learning more about the history of this fair city. The pathway I took into White Plains history was to discover the reason for the names of each of the streets. See https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1WvlOinVQnWh4KGDmEN7YPFfg4II for an annotated map of White Plains. Archives
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