NYC NOW - March 11, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: The Adams administration is offering migrants a bus or plane ticket out of the city to make more room in the shelters, but very few adult migrants have taken the offer. Meanwhile, a new directive from Governor Kathy Hochul says the National Guard soldiers deployed into New York City's subways will no longer be allowed to carry long guns anymore. Plus, former Governor Andrew Cuomo is back in the public eye, calling for state lawmakers to cover more of the costs to care for migrants in New York City.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Monday, March 11th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. The Adams administration is offering migrants a bus or plane ticket out of the city to make more room in the shelters. But WNYC's Karen Yee reports very few adult migrants have taken them up on the offer. Adult migrants are limited to just 30 days in shelters. Those who still need a place to stay have to visit a so-called reticketing center in the East Village

to reapply for housing or accept a ticket to another state. But of the average 1,600 adult migrants who show up at the reticiting center daily, fewer than 30 are agreeing to take a bus or plane right elsewhere. That's according to new data obtained by WNYC. The numbers show just 15% receive a new shelter placement, and most are sent to city waiting rooms without any beds to try again the next day. A spokesperson for the mayor says the city is providing case management to help migrants move out of shelter. The National Guard soldiers deployed into New York City subways may not carry long guns anymore.

That's according to a new directive from Governor Kathy Hockel. The governor last week deployed 750 soldiers from the Guard to patrol and help conduct random bag checks in the transit system. She says riders refused to have their bags checked will be denied. The Guard members had been carrying military. assault rifles in the system, but a spokesperson for the governor says Hockel's no-long-gun order started on Thursday. Several writers told WNIC they were concerned to see soldiers in the system wearing military camouflage. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo was back in the public eye, calling for state lawmakers to cover more of the cost to care for migrants in New York City. Quamo spoke

yesterday in the Bronx about the city, shouldering the vast majority of the expense of the migrants in state and said city taxpayers should not have to pay the full cost of the crisis. If I was asking, I would say the state should pay 100% of the cost because New York took care of 100% of the problem. Cuomo is reportedly considering a return to politics through a run for mayor in 2025. He resigned as the governor in 2021 amid sexual harassment allegations, as well as probes into the administrations handling of nursing home deaths during the COVID pandemic. 37 and overcasts right now with a wind advisory tool 11 tonight. Sunny today, a high of 50 with high winds, gusty, real feel as cold as the mid-20s,

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