NYC NOW - November 15, 2023: Morning Headlines
Episode Date: November 15, 2023Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: A Brooklyn man pleads guilty to robbing a pastor, in a case that went viral. Also, Samuel Miele, a former campaign aide... for Representative George Santos, admits he impersonated a high-ranking congressional aide to raise money for his boss. Plus, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander calls for an overhaul of the city's contract for Citi Bike. Amtrak expects service between New York City and Croton-on-Hudson to be fully restored soon.
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It's Wednesday, November 15.
Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill.
A Brooklyn man pleads guilty to robbing a politically connected pastor in a case that went viral.
WNMIC's Samantha Max has details.
Prosecutors say Bishop Lamore Whitehead was preaching in his Canarsie Church
when three men entered with guns drawn and stole experiments.
jewelry. The robbery was captured on a live stream and went viral. Sequin Pollack swiveled in
his chair and occasionally rubbed his face during the proceedings, which lasted about half an hour.
The 25-year-old mostly answered yes or no questions, besides a brief statement admitting that he
participated in a robbery. He was expected to plead guilty earlier this year, but pulled out
of an agreement with prosecutors. Pastor Whitehead has described himself as a mentee of Mayor Adams.
A judge is expected to sentence Pollock in the coming months.
A former campaign aide for Representative George Santos admits he impersonated a high-ranking congressional aid to raise money for his boss.
Samuel Mealy pleaded guilty to fraud yesterday in federal court.
He's the second former Santos campaign staffer convicted of fraud he could spend 20 years in prison.
New York City's controller is calling for an overhaul of the city's contract for City Bike lift management.
is the Ride Hale Company. A review of the popular bike share program by controller Brad
Lander finds riders face more unusable stations and broken bikes since Lyft took over from
City Bike in 2018. The review also finds the problems or worse at stations on the edges of the
network primarily in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. Lander says the city should
set performance standards for City Bike on a neighborhood level and enforce them through fines.
Representatives for Lyft and the City Department of Transportation did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Amtrak says it expects train service between New York City and Coton on Harmon to partially begin rolling again by tomorrow morning and fully restored, it says, by Friday.
The service has not been running since the weekend.
After a parking garage in Hell's Kitchen was deemed structurally unsafe, the railroad tracks run directly under the building.
The city's buildings department says the property owner is making repairs.
41 and clear now, increasing clouds today in a high of 52, then tomorrow's sunny and 60.
Warmer on Friday with a slim chance of rain.
Rain Friday night, very likely into Saturday and then turning sunny in mid-50s.
Sunday, sunny and 50.
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