NYC NOW - April 11, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: April 11, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day.

Welcome to NYC Now, your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Tuesday, April 11th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. Rutgers administrators have agreed not to seek a court injunction to stop striking faculty members so long as they are making progress on negotiations with the unions. That's according to a spokesperson for the school. Three faculty unions went on strike yesterday, and university's first teaching strike, Mitchell Edwards is a teaching assistant who earns $30,000 a year.

Under the union demands, his pay would increase to $37,000. The proposed salary increase would impact me immediately and get me closer to a living wage in Middlesex County, but not quite there, as we know. Researchers at MIT calculate a living wage for a single person with no children in Middlesex County at a bit more than $41,000. Tune in tonight at 7 for Ask Governor Murphy. Our Nancy Solomon is sure to ask the governor about this and several other topics. New data from a civil rights group find that nearly half of the 1,700 people listed on the NASA Police Department's gang database have no criminal history.

Reporter Charles Lane has more. A secret list of suspected gang members in Nassau County is riddled with vague accusations and relies on unlawful stops. according to a newly released analysis by Latino justice. And a quarter of the people listed are on there with no clear rationale. Mina Obrick is a lawyer who authored the report. Her organization got the information through a public records request. This is a practice of criminalizing Latinos and African Americans for their appearance. There's no other way to describe this than racial profiling.

NASA's gang database does not include any white supremacist groups, but does include a hip-hop appreciation group and a religious organization. Police departments in Nassau did not return messages. The Nassau County DA said it does not use the database for prosecution. A beloved butcher and sandwich shopping, Carol Gardens, Brooklyn, has shuttered its doors for good. G. Esposito and Sons had a shop 101 years ago and became a neighborhood staple for its cuts of meat and delicious dishes like rice balls and eggplant farm. But third-generation owners, George and John Esposito, fed their last customers yesterday with plans to retire.

The farewell also included a goodbye to the shop's iconic pig statue adjoining the location for 50 years. 50 and clear right now, mostly sunny and 74 today. And then tomorrow, even warmer up to near 80. 80s on Thursday and Friday, a dry all week and looks like our first chance of showers will come on Saturday. 50 and clear at 607. That was Michael Hill. And this is NYC Now from WNYC. Be sure to catch us every weekday, three times a day for your top news headlines and occasional deep dives.

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