NYC NOW - Morning Headlines: Andrew Cuomo Leads NYC Mayoral Poll Without Running, NJ Population Growth Surges, and NY Public Library Acquires Jhumpa Lahiri Archive

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: A new poll shows Andrew Cuomo leading the New York City mayoral primary, despite not entering the race. Meanwhile, the U.S. Census Bureau reports New Jersey is outpacing neighboring states in population growth, with significant increases in residents and jobs, WNYC’s Phil Corso reports. Plus, the New York Public Library will host the archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, recently acquiring 31 boxes of her work, including manuscripts from The Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Tuesday, January 14th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. A new poll shows Andrew Cuomo leading the New York City mayor-old primary, even though the former New York governor has not entered the race. Mayor Adams is already trying to play up his differences with Cuomo, including the fact that Cuomo got his start in politics working for his father,

former governor Mario Cuomo. When you look at some of the people who had ran office, they inherited empires. I didn't. I inherited empire. I had to start from the bottom, and now I'm here. The poll of the nonprofit progresses for democracy in America shows 32% of likely Democratic voters picked Cuomo as their favorite candidate. Adams came in at 6%. Cuomo resigned in 2021 amid sexual misconduct allegations. He has denied any wrong. doing, his spokesperson declined to comment. The U.S. Census Bureau says New Jersey is outpacing neighboring state's population growth. W&MIC's Phil Corsal reports new data show a significant climb in residents

and jobs. New Jersey leads the Northeast in year-over-year population growth, adding over 120,000 residents in 2023. The state's population now stands at 9.5 million, its highest ever, with growth ranking 10th nationwide. Federal data also shows New Jersey has a record 4.4 million jobs. New York gained nearly 130,000 residents between 2023 and 2024, mostly from international migration, but the state lost many to domestic migration. The New York Public Library will host the archive of award-winning author Jumpa Lahiri. The library recently acquired 31 boxes of Lahiri's work. She's known for her books such as the Pulitzer Prize winning the interpreter of maladies and the novel The Namesake. Curator Carolyn Vega says she's most impressed by the stories that our 57-year-old Lahiri wrote as a child.

Juneville, Lahiri had a really incredible journey as a writer that started as a child, where she would fill notebooks or partially fill notebooks with stories and other works of fiction. The archive will include manuscripts and drafts of Leahynolds. Here he's published and unpublished work to date, early notebooks showing her interest in translation, and more than 250 letters from fellow writers like Amy Tan and Jennifer Egan. 30 and clear right now, it's chilly out there, sunny today and right at the freezing mark for a high, with the wind chill just above the teens, gusty once again, strong winds, up to 26 miles an hour, tonight, cold once again in the 20s, and then sunny, 33 tomorrow, gusty, but feeling once again as cold as the teens.

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