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New York, our goal is to continue get- The budget would also look to ting as many vaccines in arms as quick- COVID-19 Budget prioritize funding to expand universal ly and equitably as possible,” Cuomo full-day prekindergarten, which is Continued from Page 3A said. Continued from Page 3A now throughout New York City, but Still, New York ranked 21st among scattered elsewhere in New York. Across New York, cases fell in 27 states in share of people receiving at art-Cousins, D-Yonkers, said in a state- counties over the past week, with the least one shot, with 32.3% of its resi- ment last month. best declines in three of its most pop- dents at least partially vaccinated. The Under the proposal being discussed, The budget would also look to prio- ulous ones: the New York City boroughs national rate is 30.7%, a USA TODAY the top personal income tax rate would ritize funding to expand universal full- of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. analysis of CDC data showed. increase from 8.82% to 9.65% and es- day prekindergarten, which is now But the largest increases over the In the week ending Friday, New York tablish two new brackets of 10.30% throughout New York City, but scat- week on a per-capita basis were in Stat- reported administering 1.7 million vac- percent for incomes between $5 million tered elsewhere in New York. en Island and Orange County – where cine doses, compared to nearly 1.2 mil- and $25 million and 10.9% for incomes The money would also put a three- the positivity rate on Saturday was lion the week before that. over $25 million. The Wall Street Jour- year freeze on any tuition increases at 6.7%. In all, New York reported it has ad- nal first outlined the new brackets ear- SUNY and CUNY, as well as bolstering The focus for states is now on vacci- ministered 9.9 million doses since De- lier Sunday. tuition assistance for needy students. nating as many residents as possible in cember. In all, lawmakers hope the tax in- Lawmakers and casino interests a bid to lower the rates, hospitalizations Deaths were up slightly in the state: creases, which are not expected to in- have been pressing to add mobile and deaths. 616 COVID deaths last week compared clude higher estate or capital gains tax- sports betting to the budget deal, and it New York administered 188,000 dos- to 591 the week before. es, and about $500 million in revenue was unclear what the specific details es on Saturday. So far, one in three New In all, 1.9 million New Yorkers have from mobile sports betting would bring would be. Yorkers have received at least one dose, tested positive for the coronavirus since in about $5 billion to fund their spend- Joseph Spector is the Government and one in five have been full vaccinat- the pandemic began, and 50,633 people ing priorities. and Politics Editor for the USA TODAY ed. have died from the disease – second That would include about $2.4 bil- Network's Atlantic Group, overseeing On Tuesday, all New York residents only behind California, Johns Hopkins lion to help tenants and landlords ad- coverage in New York, New Jersey, age 16 and older will be eligible to be University data showed. dress the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic Pennsylvania, Maryland and Dela- vaccinated. Nationwide, nearly 31 million people and a $1.4 billion increase in foundation ware. He can be reached at JSPEC- “As universal eligibility for the vac- have tested COVID positive, and aid for schools — which is the base aid TOR@Gannett.com or followed on cine is set to go into effect this week in 555,001 people have died. that districts receive each year. Twitter: @GannettAlbany

sponses from those who must decide ple in my city who would want to have a Albany. But as a municipal leader, he’s Pot over the next nine months. A New York place to buy it. It might as well be avail- more concerned about folks walking Post survey of Long Island officials able in Yonkers.” down the street, smoking a joint, or Continued from Page 1A found four mayors who would seek to But other local officials are less san- hanging around a street corner, passing opt out of marijuana sales. guine about the possibility of a dispen- a pipe around. juana accessible here for decades. New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson sary or consumption lounge in their mu- The state law allows cannabis use “Right now, recreational marijuana is said the final decision will be up to the nicipality. wherever you can smoke tobacco. While totally unregulated,” said Peckham. “It City Council, which he chairs. He said Putnam Valley last year passed a law some municipalities have banned will be a good thing, and lessen the it’s an issue of racial justice: Black and that barred recreational weed sales smoking in public parks, others have yet amount of illicit traffic and provide safer brown New Yorkers for too long were there. Supervisor Sam Oliverio does not to do so. And smoking while walking access for people.” singled out for marijuana arrests while think the Town Board will change its down the sidewalk is not prohibited Etain’s makeover in Manhattan gives whites consumed the potent herb with mind. anywhere in New York. the place a feel of a downtown spa, with impunity. “I’m certain other towns will embrace “Not everybody wants to be exposed the burbling of a waterfall, brightly col- “The criminalization of marijuana it,” he said. “We don’t want to be known to it,” he said. “We need leeway for cities ored pillows on a comfy couch, and T- has fallen disproportionately on com- as the marijuana capital of the world.” and towns to say where it’s not going to shirts that declare “Buy Weed from munities of color,” he said. “The reality happen.” Women.” It’s the interior decor that is that marijuana use is widespread, and What options governments have Etain hopes to use if it gets the approval I think we can integrate it thoughtfully Where to site a dispensary to expand its offerings at its dispensar- into a local commercial establishment.” If a local government board opts out, ies beyond the medical cannabis prod- Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano has an that’s not the end of the community Even if a municipality allows a dis- ucts it has sold since 2016. eye on the revenues from a dispensary. conversation. After an opt-out vote, the pensary, it still has the zoning powers to “We didn’t rush. We wanted to do it Spano was among the municipal offi- local board can set up a local referen- decide where the dispensary would be right,” said Senate Majority Leader An- cials opposed to Cuomo’s original pro- dum on the issue, or it could require res- located. drea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers. “It posal, which sent all local tax revenues idents to gather signatures to force a Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul was a matter of when, not if.” to counties. The bill signed Wednesday permissive referendum. Feiner has no objection to legalization. has a 13% excise tax on annual sales, That process differs between villages It’s just a question as to where a dispen- What officials say with 3% going to the host municipality, and cities and towns. To force a village sary would be located. 1% to the county, and 9% to the state. referendum, residents need to gather “We have to work with the police, A survey of public officials across the “The revenues are real,” said Spano. signatures from 20% of enrolled voters planning department and civic groups Hudson Valley found a range of re- “And I have no doubt that there are peo- in the previous year. to find the best locations,” he said. “We In cities and towns, a referendum are going to be careful, see what other would be triggered by a petition with communities have done, so we can do it signatures from 10% of the voters in the correctly.” most recent gubernatorial election. New Castle has already made that In Dutchess County, Beacon Mayor decision. Last year, the Town Board set Lee Kyriacou said he has yet to see a rea- up guidelines for vape shops and recre- son to oppose it, though the decision ational marijuana dispensaries. 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A storehouse of history

Harold Card donated his historic home to the Town of Wallkill. That’s a fitting gift, because the story of this house and property mirror that of the town itself. PHOTOS BY KELLY MARSH/FOR THE TIMES HERALD-RECORD

Harold Card’s property will become a space for art and performance

Heather Yakin Times Herald-Record | USA TODAY NETWORK

TOWN OF WALLKILL – The property on Van Bu- work with wisdom and skill, I must leave everything renville Road parallels the history of the Town of I have gained to people who haven’t worked for it. Wallkill, so owner Harold Card felt it fitting that the Don’t leave an inheritance: leave a legacy that will place should become a historical and cultural re- continue to enrich the lives of those who follow you.” source. “Live for what matters,” Card titled the passage The artist and entrepreneur already has donated on a slip of paper where he’s memorialized the text. the part of the property that is home to the Pine Hill “I was on that track anyway, so that just turned HORTON HOMESI Cemetery and some older gravesites, and which the key,” he says. “I liked that.” FARM SETTLED —CIRCA 17001. 1 HORTON FAMILY ROMESITE 1872 now serves as the Citizens’ Memorial, a sunny pub- Card is an artist and entrepreneur, the founder of J.M.HORTON FOUNDED lic space that welcomes visits and contemplation. the successful Designwise Advertising and Art Stu- HORTON ICE CREAM And it seems right to Card that his house, built in dio in Middletown and the creator of the “You Inc.” WORLD'S LARGEST—CIRCA 1900 MEMORIALIZED 1990 1792 and expanded over time, should one day be self-improvement program, which he taught for 40 home to the historical society he helped to found. He years. He founded the Town of Wallkill Historical will donate the property and the house to the Town Society, and ultimately his gift will give that organi- of Wallkill for those purposes. zation a permanent home.

1. 4. • The donation His home

Card said it was a religious friend who pulled out The Wallkill Town Board voted at its March 31 a Bible and found a passage that put words to his The historical marker for the Horton reasons: Ecclesiastes 2:18-19: “For though I do my See HISTORIC HOUSE, Page 4A Homestead in Town of Wallkill reflects the property’s storied history.

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Within New York, the worst weekly Census history, according to the Census New cases outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Congress Bureau. Richmond, Chenango and Erie counties. With 26 congressional members, Continued from Page 3A Adding the most new cases overall were Continued from Page 1A New York’s delegation will be the Kings County, with 5,134 cases; Queens fourth-largest in the country. There are vember. County, with 4,453 cases; and Bronx 2020 population is 20.2 million 435 seats in the House. New York ranked 13th among states in County, with 2,637. Weekly case counts It’s possible for New York to chal- share of people receiving at least one rose in five counties from the previous Overall, New York’s population grew lenge the results of the Census, as New shot, with 45.7% of its residents at least week. The worst increases from the prior to 20.2 million people in the 2020 Cen- York City did following the 2010 count partially vaccinated. The national rate is week’s pace were in Chenango, Greene sus, a 4.2% increase from the 2010 when there was a dispute over the num- 42.2%, a USA TODAY analysis of CDC and Genesee counties. count, according to the Census bureau. ber of New York City housing units. data shows. The Pfizer and Moderna In New York, 424 people were report- But that increase – outpacing the But Wice said a legal challenge would vaccines, which are the most used in the ed dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Census Bureau’s estimates in recent take years to work its way through the United States, require two doses admin- Sunday. In the week before that, 462 years, which had suggested New York court system. And even then, the Su- istered a few weeks apart. people were reported dead. was in danger of losing at least one seat preme Court has traditionally granted In the week ending Sunday, New York A total of 2,031,093 people in New – lagged behind many states in the significant leeway to the Census Bureau reported administering another 1,201,198 York have tested positive for the corona- south and west, making New York one in how it decides to complete the pop- vaccine doses, including 563,475 first virus since the pandemic began, and of seven states to lose a congressional ulation count. doses. In the previous week, the state 52,003 people have died from the dis- seat. The 89-person margin that kept New administered 1,468,889 vaccine doses, ease, Johns Hopkins University data It also allowed Florida to officially York from retaining its 27th seat is also including 794,689 first doses. In all, New shows. In the United States 32,077,178 pass New York in population, which had misleading, Wice said, since it assumes York reported it has administered people have tested positive and 572,200 been estimated by the Census Bureau as all other 49 states would have their Cen- 14,732,987 total doses. people have died. far back as 2014. sus count frozen. Florida’s resident population count “That’s not going to happen,” he said. was 21.5 million in the 2020 Census, da- “But it does show the importance of the ta show. need to count every single person, be- “We do know from our population es- cause had New York counted 89 more timates that the state of New York has people and Minnesota not counted, say, experienced negative net domestic mi- 100 more people, then New York would gration, meaning there were more peo- have kept its 27th district.” ple moving out of New York than mov- Once more granular, neighborhood- ing into New York,” said Karen Battle, by-neighborhood Census data is re- the Census Bureau’s population divi- leased in August, it will be up to New sion chief. York’s newly minted redistricting com- The state’s loss of only one congres- mission to decide where to eliminate a sional seat was an improvement over congressional district and redistribute Census counts dating back to the its population to neighboring districts, mid-20th Century. though the state Legislature still retains New York’s congressional delegation the power to reject anything the com- totaled 45 after the 1940 and 1950 count mission comes up with. before dropping to 43 following the 1960 If the commission opts to reshape a Census. district where a sitting congressperson From there, New York had lost two is not running for reelection, it could put The New York State Fair near Syracuse will reopen this summer after shuttering seats in each Census with the exception Rep. Tom Reed or Rep. Lee Zeldin’s dis- last year due to COVID-19. GEORGIE SILVAROLE/USA TODAY NETWORK NEW YORK of 1980, when it lost five, and 1990, when tricts in jeopardy. it lost three. Reed, a Republican who represents “The good news today is New York, an expansive district that stretches Cuomo said it was important to an- for the first time since World War II, has across much of the western Southern State Fair nounce now that the fair will reopen to stemmed the loss of districts from two Tier and Finger Lakes, has announced allow merchants and local leaders to or more to one,” said Jeffrey Wice, ad- he will not run for office in 2022 after a Continued from Page 3A have time to prepare for it. junct professor and senior fellow with former lobbyist accused him of unhook- The concert area will operate too, New York Law School’s Census and Re- ing her bra during a 2017 networking cial distancing, face coverings and pursuant to the safety guidelines at the districting Institute. “That in itself re- trip. health screening when necessary. time. verses a 70-year downslide.” Zeldin, a Long Island Republican, has But Cuomo the regulations could “We’re going to make some modifi- announced he’s running for governor in change based on the COVID rates at the cations to the planning, but we want Total U.S. population 2022. Another Republican congressper- time. the vendors and public to know that we tops 331 million son, Rep. Elise Stefanik of the North “These are general operating princi- are going to have our State Fair,” Cuomo Country, has not ruled out a gubernato- ples. They will be revised between now said. The total U.S. population was 331.4 rial run, as well. and August, and if things keep going Jon Campbell is the New York State million in the 2020 Census, which Jon Campbell is the New York State the way they’re going, they will be re- Team editor for the USA TODAY Net- tracks where people lived as of April 1, Team editor for the USA TODAY Net- vised up,” he said. work. He can be reached at 2020, according to the data. It marked a work. He can be reached at Admission will be $3, with children [email protected] or on 7.4% increase since 2010, which marked [email protected] or on Twit- under age 12 free. Twitter at @JonCampbellGAN. the second-slowest rate of growth in ter at @JonCampbellGAN.

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