NYC NOW - April 13, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: April 13, 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 Thursday, April 13th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. Rutgers University faculty are canceling class for a fourth day as a strike for better wages and job security. WNYC's Karen Yee report students and teachers say they won't cross the picket line until there's a fair contract. Faculty unions say they're still making progress in negotiations with school officials that are continuing this week under Governor Phil Murphy's watch. But until there's a deal, teachers and their students say they're staying out of the classroom. 19-year-old's Izzy DeFlease is studying costume design and joined her professors on the picket line yesterday.

That's my first year. I would love to learn as much as possible to be able to learn more hands-on in my costuming trade. But she says missing a lesson on how to sew historical vests from the Broadway show Hamilton is worth it. so where teachers can get better pay. Students also led a musical march yesterday to Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway's office, only to find the building locked. New York City's council has voted to ban pet shops

from selling guinea pigs. Overbreeding led to a rise of guinea pig ownership during the pandemic. If you live in the city and have been thinking of getting a guinea pig, you can still adopt a guinea pig at an animal shelter. The bill becomes law if Mayor Eric Adams signs it or if he fails to act on it, within a month of its passage.

Lawyers often say it's so easy to get grand juries to indict someone that they can indict a ham sandwich. Well, in this case, you just might want to. Why? Because that sandwich costs $30 at Eli Zabars on the Upper East Side. WNYC's Catalina Grona reports. A viral post on Reddit has New Yorkers debating whether any ham and cheese sandwich should cost $29. The internet chatter comes as a city's restaurant industry. continues to claw its way back after confronting the pandemic and rising inflation. There's something missing there. There's something odd. It's got to be a joke. Caesar Penault works in the area and pegged Eli Zabar's sandwich at around $11, before learning that it was nearly triple that.

It's a symbol of status. You have something from that store and you carry it right. It display it. Sasha Sabar described it as the eatery's signature sandwich. He says it's actually two sandwiches packed into one wrapper. A single goes for $16. Delay is on four trains in both directions and quartz square bound G trains. The roads appear to be clear at this time. Your forecast, 63 and clear right now, but hot today. Sunny in 87. Tomorrow, mostly sunny in 85.

We cool off for the weekend with our first chances of showers for the week. Thanks for listening. 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. And subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.