About the Catalogue

Newburgh Gazette is a reference site for Newburgh and Orange County, New York. It holds two kinds of page. The first is data: series that a public body counts and publishes, reproduced here with the year each figure belongs to and a link to the body that issued it. The second is the record index, 127 entries covering what was reported at this address between 2017 and 2020, each kept at the address it was published at.

Where the figures come from

Bridge and crossing counts are published by the New York State Bridge Authority through the New York State open data portal as Traffic Counts for Select Bridges: Beginning 1933. That series runs from 1963 to 2024 — 62 annual figures, plus one row in the same dataset that carries no year and holds the all-years total of 780,179,764 crossings. It is reported separately here rather than counted as a year, because counting it as one would add six decades of traffic to a single line. Sports wagering rules, the tax rate and the licensed operator list come from the New York State Gaming Commission, from its own sports wagering page: 9 operators and a 51 per cent rate on mobile gross gaming revenue.

No figure on this site is estimated or interpolated. Where a series has a gap, the gap is stated. Where a figure would need a source that is not public, it is left out instead of approximated, and where a published figure has since been revised, the revision is what appears.

How the record index is organised

Records are filed in seven drawers by the section they were reported under, and each carries a catalogue reference and the date of the original report. Three records do not sit in a drawer: local matters are listed on the Orange County reference instead, where they are easier to find beside the county material than in a drawer of their own.

The drawers are subject classes rather than departments, so a record appears once, in the drawer it was reported under, and the same story is never filed twice. The index is a record of what was published, not a current news feed: nothing is added to a past year. Where the original text was too damaged to support a claim, the record is shorter rather than filled in.

Reading a figure

Every figure on a data page carries the body that issued it and the year it belongs to, so it can be checked at its source rather than taken on trust. Where a statement depends on a report rather than on an established fact, it is attributed to the report. Series and counts may be reused with the issuing body credited; the credit line to copy sits under the chart it belongs to.