OCTOBER 20– COUNTY FUNDS $10.27 MILLION OF 154-UNIT AFFORDABLE HOUSEING AT 90-14 WESTMORELAND AVE

Posted on October 20, 2026 by John Bailey

Westchester County is taking another major step to expand affordable housing with a more than $10.27 million investment that will help bring a new 154-unit affordable housing development to White Plains.

The County will provide up to $8,810,000 to acquire approximately one acre of property at 90-114 Westmoreland Ave., where The Sheffield will be constructed. The County will also provide up to $1,562,500 for infrastructure improvements needed to support the development. Once the property is acquired, it will be transferred to the developer for $1 to allow construction to move forward.

The approximately $114.7 million project will create 154 affordable apartments, including 26 studio units, 92 one-bedroom units and 36 two-bedroom units, along with approximately 5,000 square feet of neighborhood retail space and 238 parking spaces. The apartments will serve households earning between 30% and 80% of the Westchester County Area Median Income and will remain affordable for at least 50 years.

Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins said:

“Affordable housing continues to be one of the biggest challenges facing families across Westchester County. That’s why we’re making strategic investments that help turn plans into real housing opportunities. The Sheffield will provide 154 affordable homes in a transit-accessible community while creating opportunities for working families, young professionals, seniors and others who want to continue building their lives here in Westchester.”

OCTOBER 20– VIEWERS WAIL WHERE’S MY WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER?

Posted on October 20, 2026 by John Bailey

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OCTOBER 20–COMPLETE PERSPECTIVE 26 TRANSCRIPT OF JOHN BAILEY’S WHITE PLAINS WEEK LAST NIGHT

Posted on October 20, 2026 by John Bailey

NOW YOUR ERIC SEVERIED MOMENT MY PERSPECTIVE ‘26

THE BUDGET ANNOUNCEMENT BY KEN JENKINS I FEEL A LOT WAS MISSING. THERE WAS NO BREAKDOWN OF SPECIFIC FACTS ON HOW MUCH COUNTY CAPITAL EXPENDITURES WERE BEING USED TO HANDLE EVERYDAY PROBLEMS: HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS.

THE COUNTY HAS TO MAKE PEOPLE’S NEEDS LIKE EATING A CAPITAL EXPENSE. HOW MANY UNITS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING ARE GOING TO BE BUILT AND WHERE? HOW MANY? HOW SOON? IN THE CITIES OR IN SACRPSANCT TOWNS? AND

ON THE OPERATING BUDGET WE WERE HEADED FOR THE BEST SURPLUS IN SALES TAXES WE’VE EVER HADIN THE COUNTY. ARE WE?

WHAT ARE THOSE BONDS REALLY GOING TO COST US?

THERE WAS NO MENTION OF PLAYLAND CONTINUED EXPENSES.

LOCALLY DEVELOPMENT OF WHITE PLAINS WAS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE PLANNING BOARD AGENDA. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS ARE PILING UP AT THE PLANNING BOARD.

WHAT IS THIS IMPACT GOING TO BE ON NEIGHBORHOODS AND TRAFFIC? AND SPEAKING OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING HOW AFFORDABLE ARE THEY GOING TO BE? SINCE THE AVERAGE COST OF A HOUSE IN WHITE PLAINS IS AROUND 600,000 AND AN APARTMENT IS AROUND 3,000 DOLLARS A MONTH.

AS COMMON COUNCIL CANDIDATE CARUSO SAID IN THE FORUM YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT THE FACTS. THE CIRCUMSTANCES. THE DEMAND. DO MARKET RESEARCH PROFESSIONALLY TO DO DEVELOPMENT RIGHT.AND IF THE CITY DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THE REAL ESTATE SITUATION IS THE PLANNING BOARD HAS TO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS OR BE AWARE OF WHAT THE ANSWERS ARE.

THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION IN THE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF WHITE PLAINS. COMMUNICATIONS HAVE IMPROVED 100% WITH A PROFESSIONAL MEDIA PERSON IN THE CITY BUT THE STATISTICS HAVE BE FOUND OUT ON PROBLEMS.

SEWERS.

THE COUNTY COMPLAINING ABOUT GREENBURGH REPAIRING A CHRONIC FLOOD ZONE ON COUNTY LAND

YOU CAN’T MAKE POLITICS UP.

THAT IS RIDICULOUS AND THE COUNTY DEFENDING ITS TURF THEY SHOULD HAVE SENT COUNTY WORKERS IN LONG AGO.

THERE ARE NO SOLUTIONS DETAILED ON THE FLOODING THAT POLLUTED SOUTH SHORE BEACHES AT LEAST 10 TIMES THIS PAST SUMMER. THAT HAS TO BE DONE NOW.

WHY NOT MENTION THAT KEY DETAIL OR START WORK AND PLANNING WITH THOSE TOWNS, MAMARONECK, LARCHMONT RYE NOW FOR THE SPRING. JUST SUGGESTING.

NOW MY 250 YEAR PERSPECTIVE

OUR REVOLUTION THAT BEGAN 250 YEARS AGO CONTINUES TO INSPIRE UKRAINIANS UNDER AS MUCH RUTHLESS BOMBING AS LONDONERS HAD IN THE BLITZ BY THE LUFTWAFFE.

YET THE UKRANIANS HAVE FOUGHT RUSSIA TO A STAND STILL. THAT DESPITE U.S. AID BY WASINGTON SPOTTY STINGY SUPPORT BY U.S. LEADERSHIP .I AM ASHAMED AT AMERICA’S PERFORMANCE AS AN ALLY.

THE COLONISTS WHO FOUGHT ON BATTLE HILL HAD THE SAME SPIRIT UKRANIANS SHOW TODAY. THEY BELIEVED IN DOMOCRACY.

THEY DID NOT TOLERATE REPRESSION UNFAIRNESS AND IRRESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT.

PERSONS WITH OTHER AMBITIONS AND OBJECTIVES IN THIS COUNTRY MAY TRY AND TWIST THE WORDS OF THE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION AND ITS AMENDMENTS.

THE COLONISTS THE FIRST WHITE PLAINS MEN AND WOMEN. THEY BELIEVED EVERY WORD. THEY WERE NOT NUANCISTS. THEY KNEW WHAT WORDS MEANT.

THEY HEARD THE FIRST READING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT THE ARMORY STILL STANDING DOWNTOWN 250 YEARS AGO.

THEY BELIEVED IN IT. THEY WERE EDUCATED. THEY KNEW RIGHT FROM WRONG. THEY DIDN’T MAKE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS WITH A DICTIONARY.

THAT’S WHY THEY DIED SUFFERED AND STOPPED THE BRITISH ARMY THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD

AT THAT TIME. THEY FOUGHT THEM FROM HILL TO HILL—BATTLE HILL TO MILLER HILL. THEY LAY AT REST IN THE RURAL CEMETERY. A WALK IN THAT CEMETERY IS A TEST.

THE GRAVE STONES LOOK UP AT YOU. THEY CHALLENGE YOU TO BE AS GOOD A MAN OR WOMAN AS THEY WERE BECAUSE AFTER 5000 YEARS OF HISTORY OF TYRANNY SLAVERY LOOTING PILLAGING AND STEALING, ONE COUNTRY AFTER ANOTHER CONQUERING AND TAKING SLAVES —-

ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER AND STOPPED IT. THEY THREW OUT THE REDCOATS. FOR A VERY BRIEF 250 YEARS HAS SHONE A BETTER WAY DEMOCRACY, RIGHTS, COMPASSION HELPING. MAY WE RECAPTURE THAT MISSION WITH YOUR VOTE NO MATTER WHAT YOU VOTE YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR VOTE SAYS.

YOUR VOTE COUNTS USE IT.

THIS IS JOHN BAILEY REPORTING FOR WHITE PLAINS WEEK. GOOD NIGHT AND THANK YOU!

OCTOBER 18–FORCE OF INFECTION NORTHEAST FROM DR. CAITLIN RIVERS

Posted on October 18, 2026 by John Bailey

Force of Infection

Northeast

Outbreak Outlook – Northeast – October 18

By Caitlin Rivers • 18 Oct 2026

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Welcome to the fourth annual regional edition of Outbreak Outlook. This year, I’m trying a new format. Regional overviews are at the top, and state-level information is consolidated at the bottom. I rely heavily on reader feedback to shape my coverage, so please leave comments or write to [email protected] with your thoughts.

Influenza-like illness

Flu is rising in the Northeast, though it remains lower than in the South and West. Even so, activity is running well ahead of last season’s pacing. Hospital admissions are already at a level the region didn’t reach last year until late November.

I want to call out one nuance in this week’s data. Outpatient visits for influenza-like illness jumped, with children ages 0-4 making up a bigger share of those visits, but emergency department visits for flu stayed flat. That pattern sometimes suggests that other respiratory viruses are contributing to the outpatient numbers, since that metric relies on symptoms (fever and cough or sore throat) instead of a diagnostic test. For instance, New Jersey, which has the highest rate of flu-like illness in the region, and it also reports elevated parainfluenza and rhinovirus/enterovirus activity.

Bottom line though, the Northeast has a bit more time before flu season kicks in fully.

COVID-19

The Northeast is the only region where Covid-19 still leads flu in both emergency department visits and hospital admissions. Even so, Covid-19 activity is generally steady or declining. Wastewater levels fell from moderate to low this week, and hospital admissions are well below where in October of last year.

This is the time of year when Covid-19 stays elevated compared to the off season; activity never fully declines coming out of the summer season. Indicators may bounce around (up and down) through autumn months before increasing to a second peak around the turn of the new year.

RSV and other respiratory pathogens

RSV activity is very low across most of the Northeast. Wastewater concentration is very low everywhere except New Hampshire, where it is low, and RSV accounts for close to 0% of ED visits throughout the region. Hospital admissions are at or below 0.1 per 100,000 in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. CDC estimates that RSV activity is growing across most of the Northeast, so the weeks ahead will probably bring more activity.

Stomach Bugs

Norovirus test positivity increased to 7.1% from 6.0% the week prior, but levels are modest overall. Rotavirus activity is very low.

In Other News

Health officials in two upstate New York counties say the state’s measles outbreak is larger than reported counts reflect. The state has confirmed 126 cases so far, but contact tracers are learning that family members have recently recovered from a similar rash. On October 5, Governor Hochul declared a disaster emergency that allows paramedics, pharmacists and midwives to give measles vaccines and lets nurses order measles tests.

Pennsylvania has reported 1,260 measles cases this year, including 121 in the past week. So far, 238 people have been hospitalized and the state has reported six measles-associated deaths. Fewer than 1% of cases were fully vaccinated. The CDC said it will send experts to help Pennsylvania control the outbreak. Nationwide, 4,410 cases had been reported as of October 15.

State by State

Connecticut

Flu: Low. Outpatient influenza-like illness is 1.6%, and emergency department visits ticked up to 0.3%. Hospital admissions dipped to 0.5 per 100,000, and wastewater concentration is very low.

Covid-19: Highest Covid-19 wastewater level in the Northeast, though it dipped within the high range this week. ED visits are flat at 0.5%, among the highest in the region, and hospital admissions decreased from 1.8 to 1.5 per 100,000.

RSV: Very low.

Maine

Flu: Low. Outpatient influenza-like illness rose from 0.7% to 0.9%, and ED visits are flat at 0.4%. Hospital admissions ticked up to 1.1 per 100,000, among the highest in the Northeast. Wastewater concentration is very low.

Covid-19: Low. Wastewater concentration is low, and ED visits are about 0.3%. Hospital admissions ticked up to 0.3 per 100,000, or four patients, still the lowest rate in the Northeast.

RSV: Very low.

Massachusetts

Flu: Low but ticking up. Outpatient influenza-like illness rose from 1.4% to 1.7%, ED visits increased to 0.4%, and hospital admissions rose from 0.3 to 0.5 per 100,000. Wastewater concentration fell from low to very low.

Covid-19: Receding. Wastewater concentration fell from high to moderate, and ED visits dipped to 0.4%. Hospital admissions ticked up to 0.9 per 100,000.

RSV: Very low.

New Hampshire

Flu: Very low. Outpatient influenza-like illness dipped to 0.8%, the lowest in the Northeast, and ED visits are flat at 0.4%. Hospital admissions fell from 0.9 to 0.4 per 100,000, though NH’s small population makes some data unstable. Wastewater concentration is very low.

Covid-19: Wastewater concentration rose from very low to low, but ED visits fell from 0.5% to 0.3%, and hospital admissions dropped from 0.9 to 0.5 per 100,000.

RSV: Very low, though wastewater concentration is low.

New Jersey

Flu: Highest outpatient influenza-like illness in the Northeast at 3.2% but stable from last week to this one. Its other flu indicators are lower: ED visits are about 0.4%, hospital admissions are flat at 0.8 per 100,000, and wastewater concentration is very low. Test positivity is elevated for parainfluenza and rhinovirus/enterovirus, which may explain some of the state’s high rate of doctor visits for flu-like illness, according to the New Jersey Department of Health. Flu hospitalizations continue to be mainly among adults 65 and older.

Covid-19: Highest Covid-19 hospital admission rate in the Northeast, flat at 1.8 per 100,000, and about half of those patients were adults 75 and older. Wastewater concentration rose from low to moderate, while ED visits dipped to 0.5%.

RSV: A bit higher than most of the region, at 0.2 per 100,000. Admissions rose from 13 to 20, and 15 of those patients were children under 5.

New York

Flu: Outpatient influenza-like illness rose from 1.5% to 2.0%, but other flu indicators remain low. ED visits ticked up to 0.3%, hospital admissions are about 0.8 per 100,000, and wastewater concentration is very low.

Covid-19: Easing. Hospital admissions decreased from 1.8 to 1.6 per 100,000, ED visits dipped to 0.4%, and wastewater concentration is very low, the lowest in the Northeast.

RSV: A bit higher than most of the region, at 0.2 per 100,000. Of hospitalized patients, most were under age 5.

Pennsylvania

Flu: Low by most measures. Outpatient influenza-like illness ticked up to 1.3%, ED visits rose slightly to 0.3%, and wastewater concentration is very low. The state reported flu hospital admissions of 1.8 per 100,000, the highest in the Northeast, but Pennsylvania’s reported flu admissions have run unusually high all year, even through the summer, so they should be interpreted cautiously.

Covid-19: Wastewater concentration rose from very low to low. ED visits are flat at 0.2%, among the lowest in the region, and hospital admissions ticked up to 1.2 per 100,000.

RSV: Highest rate in the region, at 0.3 per 100,000, but unlike its neighbors, its highest rate is among adults 75 and older rather than young children. I’m wondering whether this is a reporting error or quirk.

Rhode Island

Flu: Very low. Outpatient influenza-like illness dipped to 1.3%, and ED visits are 0.2%, among the lowest in the Northeast. Hospital admissions fell to 0.3 per 100,000, or three patients. Wastewater concentration is very low.

Covid-19: Wastewater concentration jumped from very low to moderate. Hospital admissions decreased from 1.7 to 1.5 per 100,000, and ED visits are about 0.4%.

RSV: Very low.

Vermont

Flu: Wastewater concentration rose from very low to low. Hospital admissions jumped from 0.3 to 1.1 per 100,000, though that reflects only seven patients. Outpatient influenza-like illness is 1.0%, and ED visits ticked up to 0.2%.

Covid-19: Very low. Wastewater concentration fell from low to very low, and ED visits dropped from 0.3% to 0.1%. Hospital admissions rose to 0.5 per 100,000, but that reflects only three patients.

RSV: Very low.