NYC NOW - May 11, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: May 11, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: Mayor Eric Adams temporarily suspends plan to relocate migrants to northern suburbs, understaffed police watchdog unit may cease case investigations and Metro North and LIRR see highest ridership increase since pandemic shutdown.

Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Thursday, May 11th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. 57 and sunny right now, a warm one today up to 84 with sunshine. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is pausing his plan to send migrants to the northern suburbs at least four a day. Adams' office had been planning to bus about 60 asylum seekers from New York City to a hotel. in the Orange County town of Newburgh yesterday, but late in the day, the mayor's office said the bus would not be arriving. A spokesperson for Adam says the mayor remains committed to the plan, but is temporarily pausing it as his office works out some legal issues with the state. On Tuesday, Orange Town in Rockland County went a temporary order to block a bus from arriving there.

Both the Rockland and Orange County executives issue states of emergency blocking hotels from the housing migrants in their communities. Governor Hokel says her office is examining whether those bans are constitutional. A new police watchdog unit designed to make it easier for New Yorkers to hold officers accountable for racial discrimination might have to stop investigating cases. The Civilian Complaint Review Board investigates allegations of officer misconduct. Board Chair Arva Rice says a team launched last year to investigate complaints of racial profiling is too short staff too. do its job. She says the CCRB will ask police to review those complaints in-house if it doesn't get

more funding from the city. This is not a decision made in haste, but this agency owes the people of the city an honest assessment of our ability to do the work. When the police department was investigating its own officers for racial profiling complaints, it only found evidence of wrongdoing in about 0.1% of those cases. The NYPD did not immediately respond. The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Metro North and L.I. Double R riders are trickling back aboard. The MTA's commuter railroads carried more riders on Tuesday than any day since the pandemic shut down the region. Officials say Metro North clocked more than 200,000 rides for the first time since March 6th of 2020, and the Long Island Railroad carried 221,000 riders, also a pandemic-era high.

But those numbers are still way short of levels from 4,000. years ago, the MTA says ridership on the commuter lines as well as the subway is still down 30% from pre-pandemic levels. Your forecast now. 57 and sunny right now in the city, sunny and warm today up to 84-88 tomorrow and cool off a little bit over the weekend. 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.