NYC NOW - October 16, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: The parents of a 4-year-old boy who died in his Harlem apartment face charges of criminally negligent homicide and child endangerment. Meanwhile, the family of a New Jersey train operator killed Monday when her train hit a fallen tree plans to sue the state and NJ Transit, WNYC’s Brittany Kriegstein reports.Plus, a museum exhibit opening in January will feature a full-scale re-creation of Anne Frank’s “secret annex,” the rooms where she and her family hid from the Nazis during the occupation of the Netherlands.

NYC now. Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Wednesday, October 16th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. The parents of a four-year-old boy who died after police found him unresponsive in his Harlem apartment on Sunday are facing charges of criminally negligent homicide. and endangering a child. The NYPD says 26-year-old Natavia Ragsdale was taken into custody after officers discovered the boy while responding to a 911 call on Sunday. The boy later died. Police arrested the boy's father, 25-year-old Loran Maudele in Harlem last night. The mother's uncle Rod Ragsdale says he wasn't aware of any major rifts in the household, though she has struggled mentally since both her parents died. She's been very depressed. I think it's safe to say.

say that. She's been very depressed. Attorney information for the boy's parents was not immediately available. Police and the city's child welfare agency are investigating. The family of a New Jersey train operator killed Monday morning when her train hit a down trees planning to sue the state and NNJ Transit. WNIC's Brittany Craigstein has more. Kyla Baldwin is an attorney for the family of 41-year-old Jessica Haley, who is driving a southbound riverline train when it crashed near Robling Station.

Baldwin says train operators have been worried about trees falling on that wooded stretch of track for years, but nothing was ever done about it. The situation was so bad that the conductors suggested having a track car go down the line every morning before the first passenger car went down to make sure there were no trees on the railway. Haley was a single mom with three young boys. A museum exhibit opening in January will feature a full-scale recreation of Anne Frank's Secret Annex. That refers to the rooms where she and her family hid from the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands for two years during World War II. Ronald Leopold is the executive director of the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam. He says this is the first time they are undertaken such a recreation. With ever fewer Holocaust survivors in our communities and with a devastating rise in anti-Semitism and other forms of group hatred,

I feel that the responsibility of the entrant house has never been greater. The exhibit will open at the center for Jewish history in Union Square in late January and run through May. I will be there for that. 46 and clear right now, mostly sunny today with a high of 57. We'll notice the breeze. Then tonight mostly clear, Chile, 44 Chile at City Field for Dodgers Mets game three. And then tomorrow's sunny and New Year 60. Again, 46 and clear.

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