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.
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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
March 2024
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