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After more than two decades together, Duwayne Baugh, 49, intended to help his wife Kaiisha live out her final days in as much comfort as possible.
She has an aggressive form of cancer and, through it, Baugh was her rock, fetching medicines, cooking, cleaning and taking care of their 14-year-old daughter.
Last year, she was given a year to live and is now on borrowed time.
But Baugh is no longer with her. Since the summer, he has been behind bars in an ICE detention center in Orange County, N.Y., facing deportation to Jamaica, a country he hasn’t so much as visited in three decades.
Read more here about how he ended up there — even though he was previously freed to care for Kaiisha.
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In The Bronx, Wakefield-bound 2 trains will skip 219 Street, 225 Street, 233 Street, and Nereid Avenue from 9:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
The U.N. General Assembly is underway in Manhattan. Expect traffic and heightened security in the area. (And here’s what’s on the agenda.)
Our Other Top Stories
All three casino proposals in Manhattan are now dead on arrival after a key vote yesterday. And it looks quite likely that the casino plan for Coney Island is headed for rejection, too.
A major transformation of the Brooklyn waterfront cleared a task force, paving the way for housing at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal. But there’s a long way to go before the new neighborhood takes shape.
Zohran Mamdani pulled out of a WABC town hall, saying that the decision of the station’s parent company to suspend Jimmy Kimmel was an attack on free speech. Just hours after the mayoral candidate made his announcement, Disney announced the show would return to the air; Mamdani’s campaign said afterwards it would attempt to reschedule the event.
From now until Election Day, the FAQ NYC crew have teamed up with Ben Max of the Max Politics podcast for City Hall Free For All, featuring analyses and interviews with the candidates and others with a lot to say about the future of New York City. Episodes drop every Tuesday — the first one comes out later today.
Reporter’s Notebook
NYPD Under Probe for Deaths in Custody
The city’s police oversight office is launching an investigation into the growing number of people dying while in NYPD custody, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters Michael Gerber told the City Council on Monday.
The disclosure comes five days after THE CITY reported after at least nine people have died in police custody so far this year, including several in courthouse holding cells following arrests on low-level charges.
Forty-three people died in NYPD custody in 2023 and 2024 combined — roughly double the toll of any two-year stretch since at least 2016, according to police data.
Last week, The Legal Aid Society, the city’s largest public defender organization, urged the inspector general for the NYPD to launch an independent probe into every in-custody death, a request first reported by Gothamist.
“While we welcome the Inspector General’s decision to investigate, accountability cannot end there,” Meghna Philip, director of Legal Aid’s Special Litigation Unit, said Monday. “The City must confront the NYPD’s unlawful reliance on custodial arrests for low-level offenses, its failure to provide medical and mental health care, and the unsafe and inhumane conditions in precincts and courthouses.”
— Reuven Blau
Tech Takes Stock of Visas
Tech firms and other companies using the H-1B visa program to employ skilled foreign workers spent Monday the day trying to assess the impact of the Trump administration’s announcement that all new H1-B visas for foreign workers will now require a $100,000 one-time application fee.
The New York metropolitan area boasts the largest number of H-1B visa petition approvals in the country, according to the American Immigration Council, which found that the federal government approved 372,100 H-1B petitions from federal fiscal year 2017 to 2022 — 15% of all visas and about the same number as San Jose and San Francisco combined.
Members of the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents a very small number of employees at the company, held a demonstration Monday outside of the company’s Google’s headquarters in New York, demanding the company defend its employees with the visas. Some experts said the move is illegal and likely to be challenged in court.
The surprise announcement late Friday stunned tech companies because it seemed to apply to all visas, though the administration later said it will affect only new applications.
— Greg David
Things To Do
Here are some free and low-cost things to do around the city this week.
Tuesday, Sept. 23: Watch “IF” under the stars at Evergreen Park. Free, starting at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday Sept. 23 and Wednesday, Sept. 24: Celebrate the Jewish New Year at a shofar blowing in Central Park at E. 72nd St and Fifth Avenue. Free, starting at 5 and 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 24: Join the Urban Park Rangers in Fort Tryon Park to learn about different kinds of clouds and what they mean. Free, from 1 to 2 p.m.
THE KICKER: It's official spooky season. New York City's first horror-themed bookstore has opened in Williamsburg.
Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Tuesday.
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