NYC NOW - Morning Headlines: Mayor Adams to Send 1,000 More Officers to Bronx After Recent Shootings, Sharpton Leads Wall Street March for DEI, and Underpaid Precinct Renovation Workers Win $850,000 Settlement

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams says he will deploy 1,000 additional police officers to the Bronx following a series of recent shootings. Meanwhile, the Reverend Al Sharpton led hundreds in a march on Wall Street to protest the Trump administration’s effort to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Plus, nearly two dozen workers who renovated NYPD precincts will share in an $850,000 settlement after Comptroller Brad Lander found they had been severely underpaid.

Welcome to NYC Now, your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Friday, August 29th. Here's the morning headlines. I'm Jene Pierre. New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will deploy 1,000 additional police officers to the Bronx after a number of recent shootings there, some of them deadly. He also says he wants to meet with local gang members. I'm going to see if I could convince some of the gang. members to come and sit down. It could be at Gracie Mansion or it could be here.

Adams made the remarks yesterday at a Bronx Park that was the site of a shooting at a basketball tournament on Saturday. Five people were shot and one of them died. NYPD data shows that the number of people shot in the borough so far this year is down 23 percent compared to the same time last year. The Reverend L. Sharpton says the fight to protect diversity, equity and inclusion is the fight of this generation. The civil rights activists led hundreds in a march on Wall Street yesterday to protest the Trump administration's campaign to roll back DEI initiatives. In a video, Sharpton explained why he chose to march on Wall Street rather than in Washington. Why are you going to Wall Street, Reverend Al? Because the people that have benefited from the

check bouncing on Medicaid with this big, beautiful bill, that took snap from people that need food existence, they're on Wall Street. Sharpton was joined by clergy, Labor and Community Leaders, in a demonstration timed with the anniversary of 1963's March on Washington. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s son and Democratic mayoral candidate Zeramamamani were among the participants. The seventh person has died in Central Harlem's ongoing Legionnaire's disease outbreak. It comes a week after the last reported death tied to the outbreak, which had shown signs of waning. The death total is the city's highest since a 2015 outbreak in the Bronx. that killed 16 people. New York City had 114 confirmed cases of legionnaires and six people

currently hospitalized as of yesterday. Nearly two dozen workers who renovated police precincts across the city are sharing in an $850,000 settlement after the city controller found they'd been severely underpaid. Comptroller Brad Landers says the workers were mostly Spanish-speaking immigrants. These are vulnerable workers who employers are often looking to exploit. The contractor, CLS project solutions, did not respond to questions about the settlement. Lander says his office has recovered $15 million in wages since he became the controller in 2022. 66 degrees, mostly sunny today with the high around 79. There's a slight chance of afternoon rain, clear skies tonight with a low around 58.

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