NYC NOW - September 19, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: September 19, 2024

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: The NYPD says it will release body-worn camera footage in the coming days from Sunday's police shooting at the Sutter Avenue L Train station in Brooklyn, which injured four people, including an officer. Meanwhile, New Jersey's Ocean First Bank will deny wrongdoing but pay over $15 million to settle charges of failing to provide mortgage services to predominantly Black, Hispanic, and Asian neighborhoods in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties. Plus, New York City's three library systems will receive a $4 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation to expand services for new Americans.

Welcome to NYC now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Thursday, September 19th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. The NYPD says it will release body-worn camera video in a matter of days from Sunday's police shooting at a Brooklyn subway station. Officers shot and hurt for people while pursuing a man for fair evasion at the Sutter Avenue L train station in Brownsville. Chief of Patrol, John Shell, says the incident unfolded in less than three minutes. The situation is tragic I mentioned earlier, and our prayers go out to the families.

This is fast-moving, fast-paced, and a stressful situation. And we did the best we did the best we could. Officials say officers saw 37-year-old Daryl Mickles enter the station without paying the fare. They say Mickles advanced on the officers with a knife and officers fired shots after their tasers didn't take down Mickels. The family of one bystander shot in the head is calling for an investigation of the shooting. New Jersey's Ocean First Bank will deny any wrongdoing but will pay more than $15 million to settle charges it engaged in discriminatory lending practices.

The U.S. Attorney's Office says between 2018 and at least 2022, Ocean First failed to provide mortgage services to predominantly black, Hispanic, and Asian neighborhoods in Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties. Prosecutors say instead, Ocean First disproportionately focused its business on majority white communities. If a judge approves the settlement, the funds would bolster lending in communities where the alleged redlining occurred. New York City's three library systems are getting an infusion of cash from the Carnegie Corporation. The philanthropic group says the Brooklyn, Queens, and New York Public Libraries will split a $4 million grant to expand services for New Americans.

Mash Hussein is from Bangladesh. He says a Queens library program helped him complete his GED and get into City College to study electrical engineering on a full scholarship. From high school to college, it's a very big jump, especially with the college application essay,

and it's very tiring. Queens Public Library President, Dennis Walcott, says they plan to use the money to expand college readiness program, as well as English language classes where he says 2,000 people are on a wait list right now. 69 and mostly cloudy out there. We have advisories for coastal flooding along Manhattan beaches and on the Jersey Shore for rip currents as well. Today, partly sunny and a high of 80.

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