White Plains

Travelers to and from the Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., grappled with average flight delays of nearly three hours.

“It was a time when the Republican Party was increasingly at the far right, and I wasn’t there, especially on social issues,” he told The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., in 2005.

Kennedy said he was teaching at Pace University School of Law in White Plains, N.Y., in 1996 when he said he first noticed a problem with his voice.

Nearly a decade later, the writer Hilton Als recounted Dean’s life story for The New Yorker: She was the first Black high school valedictorian at White Plains High School in New York, a graduate of both Radcliffe College and Harvard, the first female fact checker at The New Yorker, part of a clique of white gay men she called “the Lavender Brotherhood” and a tough-as-nails bouncer at the nightclub Max’s Kansas City.

Dozens of other school systems just north of the city are closed Tuesday, including several in Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Rye and White Plains.