NYC NOW - March 7, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: More than half of Asian New Yorkers in a new survey say they were the victim of a race-related hateful act in 2023. Meanwhile, New York City's public school students could be forced to begin classes at different times on remote learning days after widespread technical problems prevented many from logging on during a snowstorm last month.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Thursday, March 7. Here's the morning headlines from David Furze. More than half of Asian New Yorkers in a new survey say they were the victim of a race-related hateful act in 2023, and most never told anyone. WNYC's Arun Venigapal has more. According to the report from the Asian American Foundation, 20% of Asian New Yorkers say they were physically assaulted or attacked last year, and 30% witnessed an assault of a fellow Asian. Even more suffered insults or harassment linked to their race or ethnicity.

The findings may plain that anti-Asian bias incidents, which peaked during the pandemic, haven't gone away. Experts say many victims are either ashamed of stepping forward or simply don't think law enforcement will take their accusations seriously. A study by the Asian American Bar Association of New York found that only 3% of anti-Asian incidents in the city in 2021 resulted in hate crime convictions. New York City's public school students could be forced to begin classes at different times on remote learning days. WNYC's Julia Hayward reports this comes after widespread technical problems prevented many from logging on during a snowstorm last month. Education officials testified before the city council about the fiasco, which happened the morning. of February 13th. They said classes should have staggered start times on the next remote day, if one is necessary soon. That way, the technology won't be overwhelmed again by people logging on at

once. Emma Vedera, chief operating officer for the city's education department, says they're going to try to learn from what happened. If we have a remote learning day tomorrow, we should be working to stagger start times, which we agree is not ideal from a student and staff perspective, but it's pretty important to us that we get it right. Education leaders, and the city's technology contractor, IBM, traded blame for last month's failure. Currently, 50 degrees. It will be cloudy and breezy today, a chance of rain this morning. And again, a slight chance for showers this afternoon, a high near 55. Thanks for listening. This is NYC now from WNYC.

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