NYC NOW - May 1, 2024: Morning Headlines
Episode Date: May 1, 2024Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: NYPD officers in riot gear moved onto Columbia University’s campus Tuesday night at the request of University Preside...nt Minouche Shafik. In other news, cameras on MTA buses will soon begin issuing tickets to double-parked cars along bus routes across the city.
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Welcome to NYC Now.
Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC.
It's Wednesday, May 1st.
Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill.
NYPD officers moved on to Columbia University's campus in riot gear last night.
At the request of University President Minister Feeke,
she sent a letter to police seeking an end to the standoff.
Police say they arrested dozens of protesters who had occupied a university
building. The move came just hours after Mayor Adams and top NYPD officials told protesters to leave
the campus and warned that those who stayed would face criminal charges. Shafik has asked officers
to keep a presence on the campus until at least May 17. That's two days after Columbia's
primary graduation ceremony. A group of Columbia faculty members criticized Shafiq's decision to call
in the NYPD. They say it places students at risk. Cameras on MT buses soon will begin issuing
tickets to double-park cars on bus routes across the city. W.N.W.C. Stephen Nasson reports
the change aims to get cars out of the way and speed of service for riders. Right now, roughly
600 of the MTA's buses have cameras that automatically ticket vehicles parked in a bus lane.
But at the end of May, those cameras will also be allowed to issue tickets to any car double
parked on a bus route or illegally parked in front of a bus stop. On Tuesday, the MTA board signed off
on a $141 million contract to equip 2,000 buses with the technology.
That's more than a third of all city buses.
The MTA hasn't said which routes will get the new technology,
but notes bus speeds have increased by 5% on routes that already use it.
54 with clouds out there in the big city right now on their way to a partly sunny day
and a high temperature in the mid-70s and then tomorrow cloudy becoming sunny,
but temperatures back, high temperatures back in the mid-80s.
Then on Friday we cool off to the upper 60s.
Once again, 54 and cloudy.
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