NYC NOW - December 1, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

Police are investigating after an off-duty NYPD officer shot a 42-year-old man in the Bronx yesterday during a dispute in a store. Also, New York City is planning to get rid of more parking spots around intersections in an effort to protect pedestrians from drivers using a strategy called “daylighting." Plus, the Harlem Night Market returns on Saturday for its fifth year uptown

Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Friday, December 1st. Here's the morning headlines from Tiffany Hansen. Police are investigating after an off-duty NYPD officer shot a 42-year-old man in the Bronx yesterday during a dispute in a store. That's according to NYPD assistant chief, Benjamin Gurley. During the dispute, the off-d-d-d-duty officer. police officer discharged this weapon one time striking the mail once in the left arm and

subsequently grazing the male's chest. Gurley says the man was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. He says the Department Use of Force Investigation Division is leading that investigation. New York City is planning to get rid of more parking spots around intersections in an effort to protect pedestrians from drivers. The strategy is called daylighting and Mayor Eric Adams says it will make pedestrians safer. It is imperative that we take the right steps in the right directions on how we're going to ensure that this stop. Yesterday losing a three-year-old child to violence is a real reflection and indicated. Mayor Adams is referring to the death of three-year-old Quintus Chen, who was killed

in an apparent hit and run earlier this week in Flushing Queens. The city is also implemented other street safety initiatives, including the expansion of a pilot program, installing speed limit sensors on city vehicles like school buses. The Harlem Night Market returns tomorrow for its fifth year uptown. It's held at the historic La Marquette space under the train tracks on Park Avenue, around 115th Street, east 115th Street. Organizers say the market will feature over 50 different vendors Saturday from now until Christmas. About 90% of those vendors are.

from Harlem, the Bronx, and Washington Heights. Kids activities and Santa sightings begin at three in the afternoon. The market is open from four until eight. 44 degrees currently in the city. It's WNYC. Thanks for listening. This is NYC now from WNYC. Be sure to catch us every weekday, three times a day,

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