NYC NOW - June 26, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: *Updated* Westchester County Executive George Latimer is poised to represent Southern Westchester and parts of the North Bronx in Congress after defeating incumbent Jamaal Bowman in Tuesday night’s Democratic primary. Meanwhile, a new City Council measure requires the Adams administration to disclose how often it removes homeless people from the streets and the cost to taxpayers. But WNYC’s Karen Yi reports the city hasn’t released the data that was due last month. In other news, New Jersey lawmakers are nearing a deal for the state budget. Multiple sources say the budget will include a 2.5% tax surcharge on the state’s largest companies. Plus, hundreds of Long Island City residents attended a contentious town hall meeting Monday night on a proposed rezoning of the Queens neighborhood.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Wednesday, June 26th. Here's the morning headlines from David First. Westchester County Executive George Latimer is poised to represent Southern Westchester and parts of the North Bronx in Congress after defeating incumbent Jamal Bowman in last night's Democratic primary. The race was largely shaped by the candidate's diverging views on the war

in Gaza. In his victory speech, Latimer stuck to many of the centrist themes that defined his campaign against Bowman. There are good men and women in Washington who feel the same way we do, and we have to find each other and link with each other. We have to look at the arguments of the far right and the far left and say, you cannot destroy this country. Jamal Bowman has been a major critic of Israel's conduct in the war. Latimer faces former Scarsdale mayor Miriam Levitt Flissor in November's election. A new New York City Council measure requires the Adams administration to disclose how often it's removing homeless people from the street and how much that costs taxpayers. But WNYC's Karen Yee reports the city hasn't released the data that was due last month.

The administration is supposed to detail how many times officials are clearing out homeless encampments, what sort of services people are being offered, if any, and what that costs. The council adopted the measure earlier this year after Mayor Adam, ramped up police-involved sweeps. His administration says it's conducted more than 11,000 cleanups and placed 300 people in housing. But critics say the sweeps traumatized people who have nowhere to go. City Hall says it's an unprecedented and comprehensive collection of data that takes time to collect and that the city will comply with the law. It's not clear when the first quarterly report will be released. Hundreds of Long Island City residents turned out last night for a contentious town hall

meeting on a proposed rezoning of the Queen's neighborhood. Christina Chase was there with her young child in a stroller. Chase lives in Ravenswood Public Housing nearby and booed a presentation of the neighborhood plan. She says the proposal will ultimately result in more luxury high rises. This plan is not a plan for housing for the people of New York. It's going to end up pushing out the last vestige of a people who call New York home who live here, who were born and raised here, like myself as well as my baby. The pitch was presented by the city planning department and local council member Julie Wan. City planning director Dan Garadnik says the plan will deliver much-needed housing, including affordable apartments, as well as open spaces and waterfront access.

76 degrees, it will be partly sunny and hot today with a high of 91 to night. Shows and thunderstorms likely with a low around 70. 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.