NYC NOW - May 9, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: May 9, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: Rockland County officials push back on busing 300+ asylum seekers upstate, Manhattan Court denies Queens voters' redistricting request, and researchers in New York and Rhode Island seek 1,000 participants for a safe injection site study to evaluate overdose prevention effectiveness.

Welcome to NYC Now, your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Tuesday, May 9th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. Officials in Rockland County are pushing back as New York City hopes to bus 300 of more asylum seekers upstate. Rockland County Executive Ed Day says under a state of emergency, any local hotel that accepts asylum seekers will be fined $2,000 per day per person. I've enacted a local state of emergency, effective May 6, 2023, for the next 30 days. That state of emergency will prohibit other municipalities from bringing and housing people in the county and prohibit hotels and motels from housing immigrants without a license.

Day says Rockland lacks the necessary infrastructure to support the asylum seekers. The press secretary from Mayor Adams accuses the Rockland County Executive of meeting the plan with the lack of leadership and quote, racist rhetoric and reprehensible threats. Mayor Adams renewed his criticism of Washington say it needs to do more to help the city in this migrant crisis. A Manhattan state Supreme Court justice is rejecting a request to redraw the city council district lines. Devil NIC's Bridget Bergen reports the decision will keep the calendar for the upcoming primary election in place. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed the case on behalf of a group of

voters in Queens. They argued the city failed to meet the legal standard set by the city charter when it split the Indo-Caribbean and South Asian communities in Richmond Hill and South Ozen Park across three council districts. Lawyers for the city said the maps met the requirements of the Voting Rights Act and argued the case was filed too close to the election. Justice Erica Edwards agreed with the city. Plaintiffs have 30 days to decide whether to file an appeal, so for now the Council primary election can proceed as scheduled with early voting from June 17th through the 25th and primary day on June 27th. Researchers in New York and Rhode Island are looking for a thousand people to participate in a study to measure how effective safe injection sites are at preventing overdoses. At those sites, people can use illegal drugs and medical providers can help them in case they take too much.

New York University and Brown University say they've received a five million. federal grant to conduct the study over the next four years. Researchers will study two sites in New York City, one in Providence, Rhode Island. The study will also look into how much they help to reduce crimes related to drug use. Taking a look at your forecast now, 58 with some clouds out there and some blue sky. Today, partly sunny and 68 for a high. Then tomorrow's sunny in 72 as we begin a warm up. Thanks for listening.

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