NYC NOW - December 14, 2023 : Morning Headlines

Starting point is 00:00:02 Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Thursday, December 14th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. New York public advocate, Jimani Williams, has unveiled 2023's worst landlord list. WNYC's Charles Lane reports the list comes as the city faces steep budget cuts. New York's perennial shaming of landlords has many familiar news. names who have amassed more than 73,000 housing and building violations, a 7% increase over

Starting point is 00:00:38 last year. Williams faulted staff shortages at city agencies for slowdown in responding to non-emergency violations. And I think with some of the budget cuts that have been proposed, it is going to only worse, and we may see more of some of the horrors that we've seen in the past. Lawmakers are hoping pending state legislation requiring that LLCs list their owners could help hold landlords to account. That bill is currently subject to intense lobbying in Albany. The NYPD's agreeing to hand crucial evidence in police misconduct cases over to an oversight agency within 90 days of an incident. That's according to a memorandum of understanding announced yesterday from the Civilian Complaint Review Board. It is a stark shift from the status quo.

Starting point is 00:01:26 Until now, the police department could take as long as it wanted to turn over key evidence in police shootings. But a watchdog official conceded that deadline is not enforceable. New Jersey's minimum wage rises above $15 per hour on New Year's Day after years of phased in increases. The raises started with the bill Governor Phil Murphy signed back in 2019. When he took office in 2018, the wage was $8.60. Speaking on WNIC's Ask Governor Murphy last night, he recalled that critics of the increase had warned that it could hurt small business. Instead, he says, business is thriving. If you pay me more money, I've got more money to, you know, consume, to go out to dinner, maybe put toward a kid's education, et cetera.

Starting point is 00:02:15 Murphy also says he'd be open to raising the minimum wage more, maybe to $18 or $20 an hour, but he hasn't talked about a plan with state lawmakers about that. 34 and mostly clear right now, sunny and 43 for a high today with a slight breeze, tonight mostly clear in mid-30s, but wind from the south will begin to warm things up, Friday, sunny and 53, and for this last weekend of fall, sunny and 53 on Saturday, then on Sunday 53 again. 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.

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NYC NOW - December 14, 2023 : Morning Headlines

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