NYC NOW - November 27, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: Parents and students are writing letters to Mayor Eric Adams, asking him to not cut funding for public schools. New York's highest court says cyclists have the same protections against unlawful searches as drivers. Plus, today is the wake for New York City EMT Frederick D. Whiteside, who recently passed away on the job.

Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Monday, November 27. Here's the morning headlines from Kerry Nolan. Parents and students are writing letters to Mayor Eric Adams asking him not to cut funding for public schools. WNYC's Jessica Gould reports. The letter campaign is in response to Adams' order to make more than $500 million in cuts. The slashed funding will reduce preschool seats, cut hours for older kids at the city's free summer school program, and affect community schools.

Ruby Asbit Willems is a third grader at PS295 in Brooklyn. Dear Mayor Eric Adams, first of all, just stop doing this and think about what this is doing to us. When you cut money from schools, the city will have to pay more money if people can't get jobs or home when they grow up because they didn't get a good education. Adams has said the cuts are necessary because of expiring federal stimulus funding and to cover the costs of migrants. New York's highest court says cyclists have the same protections against unlawful searches as drivers. The new ruling came in a case against a queen cyclist arrested for gun possession in 2014. Police said they noticed a bulge in the cyclists rather waistband and pulled him over, leading to the discovery of a loaded gun.

The state court of appeals ruled the arborrulled. officers did not have a lawful basis for the stop and dismiss the charge. Hannah Khan is a defense attorney who argued the case. No one should be subject to more police interference or less Fourth Amendment protection simply because they travel by bicycle instead of car. Dissenting appeals judges say the decision needlessly limits the ability of police to take guns off the street. The Queens District Attorney didn't respond to an inquiry about the case.

And the wake is today for a New York City EMT who, died on the job several weeks ago. Forty-three-year-old Frederick D. Whiteside went into cardiac arrest while working at a 911 dispatch center in the Bronx. EMT. Whitehead was the first appointed to the FDNY in 2002. He spent his career in emergency services in the Bronx and in Brooklyn, where he lived. The wake will be held at the McManus funeral home in his home borough. The funeral is Wednesday, and Mayor Adams says he joins every New Yorker in mourning the loss of Whiteside who spent his career helping others. As far as your weather picture goes, well, we'll see highs in the lower 50s today under mostly sunny skies. It'll be breezy with gusts up to 30 miles an hour. Forty-five degrees,

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