NYC NOW - May 31, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: May 31, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: Authorities have arrested a 28-year-old Virginia man, linked to the murder of Sayreville, New Jersey Council member Eunice Dwumfour, state Department of Public Health data indicates a continuing decline in New York’s fertility rate, and New York City appoints Maria Torres-Springer as the new Deputy Mayor overseeing housing, economic development, and workforce issues.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Wednesday, May 31st. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. 54 and partly sunny. More haze and smoke today. Sunshine later in a high of 77. A 28-year-old Virginia man is now under arrest

in the murder of Saraville, New Jersey Councilmember Eunice June 4. June 4 had been shot and killed in her car outside. her townhouse in February. Middle Sex County prosecutor Yolanda Chaconi says Virginia resident Rashid Ali Bynum has been charged with first-degree murder and weapons crimes. This was a very complex, extensive case with painstaking police work every single moment. The prosecutor says Bynum was associated with the councilwoman's old church. Chaconi says Bynum's internet search history from before the shooting shows searches for the Sayerville area, June 4's Church, and information on which magazines were compatible with a specific handgun.

Investigators say they use electronic tracking, phone records, and easy pass transponders and cameras to track Bynum coming from and going back to Virginia. Biden is awaiting extradition to New Jersey. An ongoing decline in New York State's fertility rate shows no signs of reversing data from the State Department of Public Health show almost 211,000 babies. were born in New York in 2021. That's a 13% decline from a decade before. Demographer Leslie Reynolds of Cornell University says many are considering their careers when they delay starting a family. You may push it to a point in your career where you feel comfortable taking leave or you have

benefit. You may not want that right out of college job when you're having your baby. You want something more stable. Reynolds adds other big societal factors such as COVID-19 shutdowns can have a major impact on people's choices. With housing and jobs, top of mind from many New Yorkers, the city is introducing a new deputy mayor to tackle these issues, and it's a name that's familiar around City Hall. Maria Torres-Springer will become the Adams administration's deputy mayor for housing, economic development, and workforce. She has been overseeing the city's planning department in the city's economic development corporation since the beginning of last year and has been the commissioner of three other city agencies. Torres Springer

has her experience growing up in Section 8 housing informs her understanding of how important it is to keep housing affordable and safe. 54 and partly sunny out there now today, widespread haze, patchy smoke, sunshine, and 77. Thanks for listening. This is NYC now from WNYC. Be sure to catch us every weekday, three times a day, for your top new headlines and occasional deep dives and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts see you this afternoon