NYC NOW - August 5, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

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 Monday, August 5th. Here's the morning headlines from Carrie Nolan. A 90-year-old Brooklyn man who says he's a victim of deed theft could soon face eviction from the home he purchased in 1969. Ray Cortez says a convicted felon duped him into transferring the deed nearly two decades ago, Another buyer purchased the property at a foreclosure auction and wants Cortez out. Cortez says he's fighting to recover the home.

I want to recuperate my house. It's the only I don't pio more nothing more to recover my house. Cortez has an eviction trial scheduled for Thursday. He's hoping for an appeals court that will give him the chance to prove he's the rightful owner of the three-story row house. An attorney and an agent of the company trying to evict him did not respond to requests for comment. You can read more about this case and deed theft in the five boroughs on our new site, Gothamist. Fans of Lobster and Panda Express are in luck a food festival called Chain Fest, where chefs put a fancy spin on chain restaurant food.

It's coming to Randall's Island in September. WNYC's Ryan Calith has more. Tim Hollingsworth was Chef de Cuisine at the French Laundry, Thomas Keller's three Michelin-Star Restaurant in Northern California. At Keller's other starred restaurant today, per se in Columbus Circle, Hollingsworth said making caviar onion rings a la Red Robin or fancy KFC tenders was just as worthwhile. I think it's equivalent to what I did when I was a chef of the French laundry. You're trying to make these memories based off of other memories.

I remember sitting in Pizza Hut when I was six years old. I can smell that buttery crust. It transforms you back into this moment. Hollingsworth is elevating foods from nearly a dozen restaurants at the Randall's Island Food Festival this September. Tickets are on sale Friday. Service changes are coming to the B and Q lines. Construction work started last night affecting the Brighton Beach-bound B and Coney Island-bound Q lines, which will be skipping the BQ Church Avenue station.

The MTA is installing two new elevators there through early next year as part of accessibility and safety improvements at the station. There will also be two new stairways and platform edges. And the MTA says the pace, its awarding contracts for accessibility projects, is five times what it was before 2020. We'll see sunny skies today after some patchy fog burns off with a slight chance of showers this afternoon and highs in the upper 80s. Thanks for listening. This is NYC now from WNYC.

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