NYC NOW - September 18, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: September 18, 2024

Protesters gathered outside the Sutter Avenue L train station in Brooklyn on Tuesday, days after police opened fire while pursuing an alleged fare evader, injuring four people, including an officer. Meanwhile, the New York Latino Film Festival is underway in Manhattan. Plus, the Buena Vista Social Club album is being adapted into a Broadway musical, set to debut next year.

Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Wednesday, September 18th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. Protesters gathered outside of Brooklyn subway station days after police open fire pursuing an alleged fair evader. Tarry Coleman lives around the corner from the station. Coleman says he usually rides the train around the time Sunday afternoon of violent confrontation. You know, a lot of people traumatized, especially with civilians, you know, that don't want to take the train.

You expect to take a train and go to point B, and then, you know, you could, you know, just lose your life just like that. Just because of somebody that's supposed to be a professional, don't got the proper training, the proper training is negligent with their firearm, so it's not fair. According to authorities, 18 people were arrested after yesterday's protest. The NYPD says 37-year-old Derell Mickles advanced on police with a knife and officers shot at him, wounding him, two bystanders, and one police officer. Police St. Mickels remains in critical but stable condition. The New York Latino Film Festival is underway in Manhattan. WNYC's Amanda Roson has more on one documentary screening tomorrow night.

Vida Nueva is directed by Washington Heights native Eliana Reyes. It follows Reyes and her siblings as they travel to the Dominican Republic to reunite with their father upon his release from a long prison sentence. She says at first she didn't plan to bring her personal story to such a wide audience. But then my brother and I were like, you know what, if we're going to do it, like let's do it. Like, what does it look like if we just document everything that's happening? The film experiments with using artificial intelligence on old family photos. To give them kind of motion, to kind of just create these vignets that take you there

so that you can almost get a feeling of what it was like for a 12-year-old little girl to hear the next. news. The film festival wraps up with a block party in the Heights this Sunday. The Brinovista Social Club is coming to Broadway next year as a musical. The 1997 album of Cuban music that became an unexpected smash hit is the show's inspiration, of course. It tells the story of a group of Cuban musicians in the 1950s and the revolution interrupting their careers. Forty years later, they do reunite to record songs they had not finished. Previews begin next February. 69 and partly cloudy with a high risk of rip currents along ocean beaches.

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