TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2025
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Dear New Yorkers,
21-year-old Yunseo Chung moved to the U.S. from South Korea with her family when she was seven. A student at Columbia, she became a lawful permanent resident in 2021.
Chung was arrested last month for participating in a protest at Barnard College. Four days later, Department of Homeland Security agents visited her parents’ home. Days after that, they executed a search warrant of Chung’s dorm.
But Chung’s attorneys say the government application for the warrant cited a federal “harboring” statute that makes it illegal to house people who are in the country unlawfully — which Chung is not.
Now, her lawyers are questioning whether the Trump istration “provided incorrect or false information” to a judge.
Read more here about the green card holder questioning the basis of the warrant used to search her dorm.
Weather ☀️
Sunny and breezy, highs in the mid 40s.
MTA 🚇
The Manhattan-bound F train runs express in Brooklyn from Avenue X to 18 Ave from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the rest of the week. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
Alternate side parking 🚙
It’s in effect today, April 8.
By the way…
You can learn Urban Farming 101 for free with The Battery Conservancy — sign up here for one of their workshops this week.
Our Other Top Stories
- In the nearly nine years since off-duty police officer Wayne Isaacs shot and killed 37-year-old Delrawn Small in an alleged road rage incident in Brooklyn, a criminal prosecution, an acquittal, two lawsuits, an appeal and three investigations have unfolded. But so far, there has been no NYPD disciplinary trial for Isaacs. That’s about to change.
- For years, workers at Citywide Mobile Response, a Bronx-based ambulance service, griped about what they described as their absentee union. Whenever medical equipment and safe trucks were in low supply, they said their complaints to management fell on deaf ears — and their union was nowhere to be found. Their frustrations led to a campaign to kick out the union and a new one — but they only had 30 days to make their escape.
Reporter’s Notebook
Health Department its ‘Error’ Undercounting Heat Deaths
Far more New Yorkers have died of heat-related causes than previously announced — with 568 on average each year, not 340, the city health department disclosed last week.
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued corrections to its 2023 and 2024 heat mortality reports, attributing the significant upward swing to “a typo in the estimation of heat-exacerbated deaths.”
“We apologize for the error,” the department said in a memo.
The department also narrowed the timeframe it tracks, measuring averages over a period of five years, down from nine years. That change, implemented in 2023, was to “better identify shorter-term changes in temperature and heat-related mortality trends” as temperatures increase, the department stated.
New York City is poised to become much hotter due to climate change, with heat waves that will also become more frequent and last longer, posing a greater health risk.
The higher fatality figures may get the attention of City Council at a hearing today on the city’s cooling center program, activated during heat waves.
— Samantha Maldonado
Tariffs Shake NYC Businesses
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced last week are rattling New York businesses, according to a flash poll conducted by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.
Ninety percent of the 68 businesses responding to the Chamber said they were “extremely concerned” about the tariffs impact on their companies. The Chamber says it has been “inundated” with questions about how the tariffs will work. The poll showed the biggest areas of concern are rapid cost increases, the loss of customers, reduced consumer spending and whether the tariffs will reduce tourism and international investment in New York.
“Simply put, it could put me out of business. All or most of my costs will increase,” said one respondent.
In addition, local economists are carefully watching the stock market meltdown and its potential impact on Wall Street, which s for more than 20% of all the income in the city and 20% of all the taxes collected by New York State. Mergers and acquisitions, a very lucrative sector for the securities firms, in the first quarter fell to their lowest level since 2020.
— Greg David
Things To Do
Here are some free and low-cost things to do around the city this week.
- Tuesday, April 8: It’s free cone day at Ben & Jerry’s! Get a free ice cream cone at any Ben & Jerry’s locations.
- Tuesday, April 8: Modge podge a flower pot in celebration of Spring. Forest Park, Queens, 3 p.m.
- Wednesday, April 9: Can you still survive as an artist in NYC? The 10th annual Lillian Wald Symposium discusses whether the city can remain a haven for creatives when the cost of living is so high — tickets are free but going fast! Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side, doors at 5:30 p.m.
THE KICKER: Do you have what it takes to be NYC’s best pigeon impersonator?
Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Tuesday.
Love,
THE CITY
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