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April 29, 2024: Midday News
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Apr 29, 2024
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The NYPD is investigating two separate shootings in Brooklyn and Queens that left two men dead over the weekend. In other news, Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says the onetime movie mogul is in the hospital. This happened soon after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction. Also, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is defending his refusal to restore funding to the city’s public libraries despite better-than-expected tax revenues. Plus, WNYC’s Community Partnerships Desk is highlighting community treasures across the five boroughs, like a space in Brooklyn devoted to showcasing Black women and Black non-binary writers. Finally, for National Poetry Month, WNYC is playing poems from our listeners. Here’s one from Stacey Khan in Crown Heights.
Released:
Apr 29, 2024
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Podcast episode
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August 2, 2023: Midday News: Mayor Eric Adams is considering housing migrants in tents in Central Park and other large city parks. Also, approximately 1700 nurses at New Jersey's Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital plan to strike on Friday for better staffing ratios and a cap on insurance premiums. In the wake of Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver's passing at 71, fellow New Jersey Assembly member Shavonda Sumter shares her memories of Oliver with WNYC’s Tiffany Hanssen. by NYC NOW