NYC NOW - January 11, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: Evictions are surging across New York City, and a WNYC review of city data shows the removal rate is starting to mirror pre-pandemic trends. Meanwhile, the city Health Department is recruiting 10-thousand people for a study on the long-term outcomes of New York City adults who've been infected with COVID.

Welcome to NYC Now, your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Thursday, January 11th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. Evictions are surging across New York City, and a WNMC review of city data shows the removal rate is starting to mirror pre-pandemic trends. WNIC's David Brand reports on the findings. City Marshals carried out roughly 12,000. thousand evictions in 2023, according to city data. That's triple the total from the prior year when pandemic-related tenant protections and landlord relief programs ran out. The number of evictions in

October and November actually surpassed the total from 2019, the year before the pandemic. All told, landlords have filed more than 550,000 eviction cases over the past four years, a number roughly equal to the combined populations of Buffalo and Jersey City. The City Health Department is recruiting 10,000 people for a study on the long-term outcomes of New York City adults who have been infected with COVID. It will then follow up with them over several years. The goal is to have New York City specific data on how COVID-19 affects individuals over time. Policymakers and others can then use the data to create more targeted support services. The CDC says some people can experience fatigue, respiratory problems, and other symptoms from

months or even years after contracting COVID. 42 and mostly clear right now on our way to a sunny day in a high of 47, and then tomorrow, slim chance of early afternoon rain in a high of 50 before we get more rain overnight Friday into Saturday. 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.

See you this afternoon.