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In all series, the White Plains vicinity still has a large corporate presence including, Pepsico, Starwood, General Foods, Kraft Foods, Mastercard, IBM, New York Power Authority, and Gannett Newspapers, as well as the post 09.11 back-offices for the banking and financial services industry.

Also, Olivers is no longer Olivers, and Macy's has been replaced with a 35 story (or something like that), shopping, commercial, and residential building that has reshaped the skyline and Mamaroneck Ave. "The Westchester Mall" has replaced the "Galleria" as the shopping mall of choice. A new Federal Court House opened a few years ago replacing the dump on East Post Road, and the corner of East Post Road and Mamaroneck Ave. has become a haven for upscale Irish Pubs and other eating and drinking establishments, which has drawn people to the area after work and in the evening for the first time in years.

According to DEBKA:

(SNIP)..."However, when President George W. Bush arrived in France to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the allied landing in Normandy, he came armed with fresh intelligence data. After the success of their vanishing trick, the Iranians felt they could safely resume the full-scale production of enriched uranium. They were confident enough to announce publicly the activation of their new heavy water plant at Arak.

Tehran’s cockiness may have been its undoing.

DEBKAfile’s sources reveal that before he left Europe, Bush conducted a hasty consultation with Germany Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, French president Jacques Chirac and British premier Tony Blair. They decided to wait no longer and the next day, the E-3 circulated its draft ready for submission.

DEBKAfile’s Tehran sources predict that the Islamic republic will not take this reversal lying down. It is likely to lash out at the nearest objects of its ire, American interests in Iraq and the Israeli-Lebanese border. Iran has been holding a large force of guerilla and suicide fighters in Iraq ready to punish the Americans in case they let the world body loose on its nuclear program – which explains why the three European powers are sponsoring the draft rather than the United States.

The Iranians have also been keeping the Hizballah on the ready to stir up big trouble against Israel on a scale much broader than the exchange of fire Tuesday...." (SNIP)

I believe all of GF is gone; the North Street office closed and so did the "Taj Mahal" in Rye Brook. I have not been to WP in years, I did know about the new mall. My Bloomingdale’s closed I know that. I was in that store everyday. We would not hang in WP late into the night unless we were with a large crowd the area is the pits. Are you saying it has gotten better after dark?