Westchester County Center
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| The main entrance to the Westchester County Center in December 2013 | |
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| place | 198 Central Avenue White Plains , New York 10606
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| Coordinates | 41 ° 2 '13.8 " N , 73 ° 46' 44" W |
| opening | May 22, 1930 |
| Renovations | 1988 |
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Concrete parquet artificial turf |
| costs | $ 785,000 (1930) $ 16 million (1988) |
| architect | Walker & Gillette |
| capacity | 5000 seats (basketball) 3500 seats (arena football) 5000 seats (concerts) |
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The Westchester County Center is a multi-purpose hall in the US city of White Plains , Westchester County , in the southeast of the state of New York . The event hall is used for concerts and sporting events as well as local trade fairs , exhibitions , meetings , seminars , theater performances , conventions and public and community events. The hall offers a maximum of 5000 seats.
history
The center was designed in 1924 by the Westchester Recreation Commission as a versatile recreational facility. The architecture firm Walker & Gillette designed the building in the Art Deco style . A local construction company won the contract to build the Westchester County Center at a cost of $ 785,000 . On May 22, 1930, the center was inaugurated with an opening gala. The pianist Percy Grainger , the tenor Edward Johnson , the organist Palmer Christian and more than 1,500 choristers performed. There were also many other artists and bands such as The Beach Boys , Glenn Miller and His Orchestra , Ray Charles , Bob Dylan , Bo Diddley , Judy Garland , Liza Minnelli , James Brown , Kenny Rogers , John Sebastian , The Temptations Review feat. Dennis Edwards , Rosa Ponselle , Marian Anderson , The Soul Survivors , Paul Robeson , The Highwaymen , Robert Merrill , WC Handy and Sopwith Camel have given concerts at the Westchester County Center over the years. There were also events such as B. the Royal Hanneford Circus or games of the basketball show troupe Harlem Globetrotters . The County Center reopened in 1988 after a major $ 16 million renovation . In the following, the event arena will be kept up to date with the latest technology through modernizations and improvements.
The Westchester County Center regularly hosts boxing events. The BoxRec website hosts nearly 500 fight nights in the White Plains arena. Before the renovation, the Westchester Golden Apples basketball team from the United States Basketball League (USBL) played their home games at Westchester County Center in 1985. The women's volleyball team the New York Liberties from the Major League Volleyball (MLV) was established from 1987 to 1989 in White Plains. The Westchester Knicks , a farm team of the New York Knicks , from the NBA G-League have been playing their home games at the center since 2014 . In February 2018, the women's basketball team of New York Liberty , Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), announced the move from the large Madison Square Garden with around 20,000 seats to the smaller arena of White Plains. You will only return to the Garden for selected games . In 2019 they left the Westchester County Center and moved to the Barclays Center . The arena football team of New York Streets from the National Arena League (NAL) to unsubscribe from the season 2019 their home games in the hall in White Plains.
Web links
- Westchester County Center Official Website ( January 14, 2018 memento on the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Westchester County Center concert schedule. In: setlist.fm. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
- ^ History of the Westchester County Center ( February 10, 2018 memento on the Internet Archive )
- ^ Westchester County Center - USA, New York, White Plains. In: boxrec.com. BoxRec , accessed March 6, 2019 .
- ^ New York Liberty To Play At Westchester County Center For 2018 Season. In: wnba.com. WNBA , February 8, 2018, accessed March 6, 2019 .
- ^ Peter Schwartz: The Streets' Home in Westchester is historical, intimate and loud. In: nystreetsfootball.com. New York Streets, February 20, 2019, accessed March 6, 2019 .