NYC NOW - April 20, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: April 20, 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 20th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. 47 with some clouds out there this morning, mostly sunny and 68 for a high today. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is investigating the collapse of a parking garage Tuesday. It killed the longtime manager of the garage and heard at least five others. WNIC's David Bram.

reports. The city's buildings commissioner says the structure pancaked, meaning the weight of the roof crushed the floors below. Now Manhattan DA Bragg is stepping in to investigate the owners of the four-story complex. Bragg's office confirmed the investigation but declined to share additional information. The structure on Anstreet was built almost a century ago and has capacity for 102 cars. It's owned by a Long Island-based company linked to a carpet installation firm. Company called Little Man Parking runs the garage. The owners and operators have not responded to calls and emails seeking comment. The city of New York will have to pay as much as $53 million to those who were held in isolation at city jails.

WNYC's Matt Katz reports that the payout is a result of settlement from a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by those held in solitary confinement-like conditions at two jails on Rikers Island and one unit at the former Manhattan detention complex. It contended that conditions withholding access to natural light, communal gatherings, and programming violated city regulations and the U.S. Constitution. Attorneys say more than 4,000 detainees are eligible to get an average of $9,000, with attorney fees totaling as much as 25% of the payout. Correction officials have said in the past that solitary confinement does not exist in city jails, but watchdogs and detainees have said it just operates under other names. Rutgers University administrators and three faculty unions are still hammering out the details of a new contract after agreeing to a framework deal and suspending the school's first teacher strike last weekend. But the union representing physicians and medical faculty says the core of their demand for parental leave, tenure protections, and better pay still have not been met.

D. El Satoris is the executive director of the biomedical staff union. It's quite a sad and ironic. would say that, you know, we have OBGYN faculty that are delivering babies, but, you know, they don't get the same support when they have babies themselves. Situres says members are energized coming off the strike and hope they'll settle a contract soon. 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.

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