NYC NOW - August 31, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: August 31, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: Gov. Kathy Hochul has suspended swimming at three Long Island beaches due to Hurricanes Franklin and Idalia. Meanwhile, nearly 19,000 students in New York City’s temporary housing system enrolled in public schools since last summer, with a majority presumed to be migrants. As the Labor Day Weekend approaches, the MTA is adjusting its schedules, with both the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North adding extra trains.

Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Thursday, August 31st. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. Governor Kathy Hokel has suspended swimming at three Long Island State beaches due to rough surf and rip tides thanks to hurricanes Franklin and Edalia. Neither storm is forecast to come within 500 miles of New York, but they're generating large swells as they pass through the North Atlantic this week.

Rip Current advisories have been posted from Long Island and well south of the Jersey shore, but for those worried about the Labor Day, National Weather Service meteorologist Dominic Rumuny, bring some good tidings. So those storms will exit and remain well offshore, and we will see high pressure move in over the region, and that's going to help calm down, not just the weather above us, but the conditions along the coast as well. And I think that sets us up for almost a beautiful Labor Day weekend. New York City beaches remain open for swimming, though the Parks Department is advising people to only partake where lifeguards are on duty.

New York City is preparing to start the new school year with thousands of new migrant students. Nearly 19,000 students in the city's temporary housing system have enrolled in public schools since last summer. And while the Education Department does not ask about immigration status, it assumes the vast majority are migrants. Ann Williams Isam is the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services. Let me start by saying that every child, regardless of their immigration status, has the right to a good education. The city is looking to hire more educators to assist these students. New York City Schools start next Thursday, September 7th. The MTA is revising schedules to accommodate folks leaving town for the Labor Day weekend.

It's reducing maintenance work on its bridges and tunnels to keep traffic flowing all weekend. The Long Island Railroad is adding two so-called early getaway trains tomorrow, and that's one leaving Penn Station on the Babylon branch at 2.38 in the afternoon, and another leaving on the run, Cockama branch at 255. Metro North is also running extra trains today and tomorrow from Grand Central. 65 and partly cloudy. Today, mostly sunny and 77. We repeat that tomorrow, a near repeat on Saturday as we go up near 80,

and then on Labor Day, sunny and 91, and again on Tuesday, sunshine and 91. Once again, 65 and partly cloudy, rip current concerns along the eastern seaboard, and tonight coastal flood warnings for Staten Island, Hudson, and Essex counties. 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 podcast. See you this afternoon.