NYC NOW - Morning Headlines: City Boosts Immigration Legal Aid, Hoboken Mayor Slams PATH Shutdown, and Yankees and Mets Head to MLB All-Star Break

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

New York City is set to spend $120 million on immigration legal services in its new budget, nearly doubling last year’s funding and marking a record investment. Meanwhile, Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla is criticizing PATH after equipment failures forced nearly all train service in and out of his city to shut down Saturday night. Plus, the MLB All-Star festivities begin in Atlanta with the Home Run Derby, where Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm will compete for a $1 million prize and a custom chain. Tomorrow’s midsummer classic will see Mets stars Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor join Yankees standouts Aaron Judge and Carlos Rodón.

Welcome to NYC now, your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Monday, July 14th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. New York City is set to spend $120 million on immigration legal services in the new city budget. That's nearly double what is spent on the issue last year. The City Council says that's the most money the city has ever spent on immigration legal services. About $25 million will be spent on a program to help low-income detained immigrants. Another $17 million will go to programs helping unaccompanied migrant children who arrived in the U.S.

without a parent or legal guardian. Hoboken Mayor Ravi Abala is sounding off after nearly all of paths service in and out of his city was suspended Saturday night due to equipment failures. Cruise halted service between Hoboken and Manhattan as well as Journal Square for emergency switch repairs, Mayor Bala says PATH needs to turn things around and immediately. We're seeing a lot of chaos and a lot of mismanagement and dysfunction in the operation of the path. I mean, this is a fundamental artery for people to get to and from one place to another. Bala also blames the problems with PATH on decades of underfunding.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey launched a plan this year to invest 400, million dollars to upgrade the system's aging infrastructure. Yesterday morning, Sunday morning crews also performed emergency track work at Hoboken. The Yankees and Mets may be off until Friday for the Major League Baseball All-Star break, but WNYC Sean Carlson explains how you can still root, root, root for the home teams. The All-Star festivities kick off tonight in Atlanta, Georgia with the MLB home run derby. It is what it sounds like. Sluggers try to out-homeer each other. And this year Yankee's second baseman jazz Chisholm will be going for the prize. There's a million in cash online and a custom design chain. Tomorrow night is the traditional midsummer classic, where the best

of the American League and National League face off. Pete Alonzo, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, and David Peterson will be representing the Mets. Chisholm, Carlos Rodon, and Aaron Judge will be representing the Yankees. Here's our forecast. We're at 75 now. The showers have stopped for now some spots. Cloudy right now. We also have a flood watch in Manhattan from two this afternoon until midnight. Otherwise, patchy drizzle and thunderstorms by late morning, then a chance of mid-afternoon and thunderstorms 84-4 high. Thanks for listening. This is NYC now from WMYC. Catch us every weekday three times a day for your top news headlines and occasional deep dives and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. More soon.

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